Virgin Active Gym Century City

4 Juan Louw - 5 months ago

Bathrooms are clean, has a steam room and sauna
Free weights are very modern
They have all the equipment and machines you can think of. Plenty of squat racks, smith machines and benches.
This gym is just unbearably hot inside. Would crack up an instant sweat compared to other gyms that’s why the review is 4/5
And a bonus is the music is never too loud thank goodness

5 Pranav Ramkilawan - 6 months ago

One of the best gyms in the city, spacious and well maintained with a wide variety of equipment / machines.
Multiple seperate rooms for classes and a yoga studio.
Busy but not too choked, especially if you train in the mornings (after work gets a bit crowded as expected).
Friendly and helpful staff, many classes and alternative workout sessions offered too.

3 Leyre Paniagua - 4 months ago

I love this gym. The staff are very friendly, including the ladies at Kauai. However, for some reason the sauna is always off lately. They started switching it off 15 min before, but it got to a point when it was off one day 3 or 4 hours before closure. The sauna should be on until the gym closes.

1 Joshua Lategan - 3 months ago

In a country where three things are inevitable, Death, Tax and Loadshedding. I would have thought that one of the highest rate charging fitness brands in the country would have put together some of our fees and supplied one of their Flagship Gyms a generator.

This isn't just Century City but rather majority of Virgin Active gyms.

If not a generator, even just charging backup lights to full, providing gym goers with some extra time before you "kindly" ask them to leave the premises that they pay to use the services of.

I'm sure this wouldn't contribute towards profits however as less use, means less maintaining of equipment, means more money.

This is not a review of the staff who continue to be great but rather a review of an international brand that chooses to ignore its local market.

Kindest Regards.

2 Michael Vosloo - 3 months ago

Please note that if you want to sign up at this gym, they are closed between 6 am and 8 am if there is loadshedding. You cannot gym between these hours and if you are inside they will ask you to leave the building. Very difficult for people who can only gym before work. It is disheartening because inverters are not that expensive, so they can easily afford to keep the lights on.

4 Nasen Govender - 5 months ago

Nice and spacious gym, hardly ever need to wait for equipment. Rated only 4 because I feel equipment and facility can be updated i.e more Smith machines, glute bridges, UV light in sauna.

4 Sid Peimer - a month ago

Staff are great. If any thought has gone into purchasing the equipment, someone wasn’t thinking (80% of upstairs equip is not used). But then I’ve never seen a time and motion study. To compound the problem, people ‘book’ machines - I.E. they work on 2-3 machines - leave a water bottle, towel or even cellphone on the machines. Soooo frustrating (especially when it’s done with a personal trainer). And then there’s those who sit on the machine reading their phone. But once again - superb staff.