PureGym London Holloway Road

Positive experience: This is a great gym and it has everything you'd need in terms of equipment. It can get quite busy at peak times. The one downside and reason why I'm only giving 4 stars are the opening hours. During the week it's 7am and on the weekend 9am. There's often a queue outside already especially on the weekend and personally I'd love the option to get my workout in early.

Positive experience: Equipment is decent, but the smells aren't great - women's changing rooms always smell like there's a drainage issue at all times of the day and the free weights section is poorly ventilated so smells heavily of sweat during peak times. Aircon I think is worse upstairs as it's always rather warm. It's a fairly small gym in comparison to other PureGyms, but as I said alright for equipment. Wish they would sort out ventilation issue. Once the free weights section also smelled of drainage/toilet and there was a leak from the ceiling so that might have been why.

Positive experience: If you're looking for a gym that's close to public transport, PureGym London Holloway Road might not be the best option. It's about a 20-minute walk to Caledonian Road tube station and a 10-minute walk to upper holloway station. However, if you don't mind the commute, this gym is definitely worth checking out. There are two floors at PureGym London Holloway Road – the ground floor with treadmill and free weight training areas, and the first floor with cardio and cable machines. The gym is a good fit for the space and has everything you need for a great workout. One thing to note – it can be confusing when you use the gym for the first time to find the lockers. They are mainly on the first floor, so just be aware of that. The free weight training areas at PureGym London Holloway Road are usually quite busy, even though there are four smith machines and two squad racks. However, it's still a great place to work out and you're sure to find a machine that's available.

Positive experience: PureGym Holloway is an excellent gym, objectively better than 3 other close gyms I've used. Clean equipment, spacious, changing rooms are checked regularly and importantly, the manager is friendly, efficient and on top of things. Not true for some other staff but it's a gym. Top value.

Fantastic experience: I recently joined the gym again after a very long break. I was hesitant to start up again as getting back to the gym has never been so easy for me (due to working in the construction industry and my personal lifestyle). PureGym being open 24hrs (certain branches, not all) has made it an easy option for me to choose them. I like the fact that some branches have massage chairs and also do sports water for their members. I have the higher tier membership which gives me the option to jump around branches to see which one suits me for what I do and what times I go too. This is not my home branch, but I find it less busy than my home branch at the times I come here, so I use this like my home branch.