Best Priced Leisure Centre Gym for Annual+Long Term Memberships in Cork City area

alltacht wrote: »

Hmm I'm not sure you'll find anything cheaper than what the new Montenotte rates are.. like 300 a year is 25 a month for gym pool sauna etc its really not bad, seems like any other place would be the same price if not more expensive? Understand youd be annoyed after being a long term member though yeah. You'd be looking pretty much at hotels to get the gym pool sauna combo in cork city. Or maybe Churchfield leisure centre/ Mayfield complex? All you can do is ring and ask about 24 month contracts/ group rates in the various places. Hope you find something suitable! It's definitely a good point that health facilities should be accessible to people of all incomes.

Thanks for your valuable input.

Your views are more or less exactly what was going through my own mind already but I just thought I would throw my tuppence worth out there just to see if any other ideas came back which I had not considered as Gyms/Leisure Centres can often come and go.

I would accept that Montenotte Leisure Club is not the most expensive club in the leisure centre market in Cork after they reviewed their membership rates of late - it was just the way they came looking for me to renew my membership as I had not been there for several months and they said if you get in there early you will be able to obtain a Discount rate but when I followed up 2-3 weeks later they forgot to say that the so called Discount they were referring would effectively result in a 50% Rate Increase from the membership fee I had already been on and I was very disappointed as I felt somewhat misled by their initial approach. How else would an existing member react when their Gym is calling them about renewal at the Discount rate before it's too late. An existing member is unlikely to regard a 50% Rate Increase "as a Discount" at the end of the day even if it is still marginally cheaper than the new Full Published Rate Card. If other factors like inflation and/or wages had risen by as much as 50% across the board they would have better grounds but the much needed investment after several years of neglect in the Leisure Club is not exactly the way to retain a high level of existing memberships one would have thought. Perhaps they would have achieved more success if they adopted a more modest rise in rates such as a 10% rate increase from Existing Members on their outgoing membership rates for each of the next five contracts - I think this would have been a more wise approach rather than seeking a 50% rate hike from one contract to the next. Now, they will need to recruit a lot more New members from scratch at a higher rate to cover their costs and investment.

With the whole Brexit effect, it's hard to know how much discretionary spending there will be in the Irish economy over the next 5 Years and this will probably have a negative impact on things like Gyms/Leisure Centres in due course. I certainly do not think we have anything like the apparent high growth as reported in the Irish economy and costs have been rising significantly in a number of areas which means people have less money in their pockets.

I think I will just put the whole Leisure Club Membership on the back burner altogether as I would much prefer a membership rather than the PAYG option at Leisureworld right now.