I love the gym here in Bangor. Super friendly, helpful staff. Excellent equipment that is really new, clean and layed out well. Weight machines that I have not used before like the hack machine for weighted squats and the standing adductor machine. Highly motivated people too.

The trouble with this gym it has quite a monopoly in Bangor as there is really no competition - yet. Therefore what you get is mouldy shower rooms with lovely rust everywhere. Poor Cleaning regime - none at weekends? How many years have the left hand side soap dispenser not worked in showers? And the soap racks?? 3-4 years I reckon. If cleanliness isn’t a concern, then you’ll love the kids running through to the swimming pool leaving a trail of water everywhere. Getting changing and leaving puddles everywhere Nice. No one cleans up these puddles so you’ll have to wait for evaporation. If you love germs then the Split padding on machines will ensure a healthy collection of bacteria, on your back and if that does float your boat you will love and I mean love the machines in front of the treadmills- the heavy breathing of the runners on your neck is a real delight. Oh and the best bit, you can’t sit and wait for anyone without buying food or drink. Yes a no waiting policy - unless you part with hard cash.

I’ve been going to this gym for about 2 years now. I wouldn’t swap for any gym. The staff are very welcoming and always up for a chat. Machines are very good too and there are many choices for free weights. I’ve attended a few classes and all are suitable for any ability. Some that I found hard, they differentiate so it is suitable for anyone. Very good gym, highly recommend.

I have been a member at this gym now for the better half of 2 years, i enjoyed my first year so much that i convinced my 70year old father to come and join as there are many machines and classes for his ability. By far, the BEST thing about this gym is the EZ Bar Cafe, this cafe is clean, reasonably priced with knowlegdeable staff and often some great banter to be had. They only ask a small favour of buying a small item which is a reasonable request if you are socialising with friends and using their tables, this is a small local business after all. Being able to go to the café after my workout sessions has been the main reason my father and I have kept our memberships as we can rest, rehydrate and get our protein in! The owner of the café always gives a warm welcome, he knows all there is to know about supplements and recovery after training, which you cannot find in any other gym nearby. I would also like to give a special thankyou to the cafe owner (Gavin) and the manager (Jen) for being so helpful and understanding towards my father who struggles with mobility, they have helped come up with excersises and suggest classes that benefit his health greatly. This is what makes Fitness First Bangor a Gym that is a step above all the rest. A Café, fantastic facilities and extremely helpful staff, what more could you want in a gym?

Great gym, everything you need to train and a great spa to relax in after with a jacuzzi thats actually hot unlike most places. Makes a massive difference to my recovery. Staff are also great, always greeted with a smile, especially Adelle who also an amazing PT if ever your looking for one. Her physique says it all :)

Friendly staff, always clean. Paul, is really nice and helpful. The cafe is lovely and cosy. My little girl also has one to one swimming lessons here and she has gained so much confidence in the water from when she first started! Highly recommended.

Usually find it hard to get myself to go to the gym, but since I’ve joined fitness first I’ve stuck to my New Years resolution to get myself to the gym! Staff are so welcoming, now more like my friends. Plus Always good classes on too!

An amazing gym! I drive an hour every morning to this gym because it is so good, the facilities and equipment are great and all the staff are really friendly and helpful :) Jennifer helped me sign up and gave me a tour when I first joined, she is always really helpful! Highly recommend this place!

I've trained regularly at fitness first for 7 years. I have used the gym to train for a few competitions during that time. It has everything needed to fit most people's fitness & strength training goals. The facilities are of good standard. There is a great variety of machine's & equipment (also lots of classes, PT's available & a swimming pool too) I do feel very comfortable training here, it has plenty of space & is also very friendly. Highly recommended.

Fitness First Bangor is known to be the best gym in town. I have been training in there for a long time and I can only say good things about that place. Very good equipment, all the facilities are on a high quality level, the members of staff are very kind, helpful and friendly to the gym members. The place itself is a very welcoming environment

Couldn’t ask for a better gym so near to me. Fitness first has always had such a welcoming team and helpful at all times. The equipment Is up to date and the pool facilities are brilliant, but most of all always clean, id suggest fitness first to anyone.

I’ve been coming here for the last three months. Staff are really nice, always welcoming with a lovely smile. All the equipments are good and well maintained, always neat and clean. I am also taking lesson from Olympia Swimming. I must say Olivia and Jessica they are great swimming teacher. Both are so calm, patience and help you with every step. Only because of them I am able to get into pool on my own. A big thanks to them Thanks to Fitness First 👍👍

I have trained here since it reopened as Fitness First in April 2021 and cannot fault the place. The gym facilities are really good, it has a great atmosphere, great classes and instructors.there are 2 studios 1 is a dedicated spin studio. There is a lovely swimming pool,2 spas and a steam room. The Staff are welcoming, friendly and helpful.The gym also has lots of great members and I have made a lot of friends. Thanks Fitness First Bangor!

Great gym, staff are helpful and welcoming. Facilities are good, variety of machines and free weights available and a good gym environment! Also enjoyed the challenges provided by the club and engaging with the leaderboard with other gym users! All round excellent gym⭐️

This is my personal story and personal experience of Fitness First Bangor , I work in the NHS , my husband is a Doctor @ the local very busy hospital , I work in a different Health Board from my husband . I live and work about three hours away from Bangor . My husband has been a member of Fitness First Bangor since about two years .My work like everyone else's in NHS in the past two years has been tough , relentless and of course rewarding . Due to work pressure I had not taken any leave since a while , so I had accumulated leave which I took in a block of about six weeks since February 2023 and joined my husband in Bangor , He convinced me to join Fitness First so I joined for one month . This has been one of the best decisions I have taken in my Life . From the day I joined each and every member of staff at the reception has been fantastic , each one is so friendly , courteous , professional , very civil , respectful , welcoming and always look Happy . Surely as an employer Fitness First must be doing something perfectly right . The manager Jane is absolutely fantastic ,very approachable and helpful ,hence perhaps the entire team appear so happy always . Each and every instructor is absolutely top class . Each instructor is so highly skilled, knowledgeable , pleasant, professional , experienced and adaptable to individual's ability and needs in the most non threatening ways. Even in a large class of 20/30 the instructor knows what is going on with each participant and willing to help . There is a large variety of equipment for training , quite spacious and every one trains well with respect for each other . The cleaning regime seems to be running to the perfection . The impact of my experience at Fitness First has been Life changing and everlasting . I am quite an active person generally but the skills I have learnt in the last one month have definitely increased my physical ability my techniques and my general fitness . This has been such a perfect way for my to spend my leave time after the prolonged work pressure . It has certainly added to my happiness of Mind . It is so Wonderful to have a place like this , surely this contributes massively to physical and mental well being and health of so many individuals . Works like a back bone for NHS It is unbelievable that this experience @ Fitness First is tempting me to relocate my house and my job which I have done for twenty years for the same health board . I have to say a massive Thank you to Jane as a manager and all the staff and instructors and some students who work there part time hours and also look happy and rewarded. Further to add , its wonderful to have Swimming Pool , and Spa facilities attached .

Our daughter has been going to Olympia swimming lessons with Alan and his team. The quality of the lessons are really high. The team are really focused and work really hard with each child. Very impressive to watch. Our daughter loves it and her swimming is improving all the time. Thanks everyone!

We have been sending our daughter to swimming classes with Olympia swimming for 18 months now and the service and attention she has received has been brilliant. She has become a confident swimmer and the girls have worked really hard to help her with her confidence issues. So much so we have just switched to private lessons with Emily because even though she’s struggling with separation anxiety at the moment, our daughter has become really comfortable and happy working with Emily. We would highly recommend this team.

Friendly staff and great facilities. Lost 20lb in 2 months with the help and advice of my personal trainer, Nathan Jeavons, ( he works from here), and I can't wait to carry on my fitness journey in 2024 . Get a personal trainer because you deserve it!

My son has been going to Olympia swimming now for nearly a year, the improvement in him is out standing. He first started with one to ones with Olivia his confidence grew very quickly with her as she was kind, patient and understood George and his worries from the word go. They then put him in to a group which I was worried about as previously he has found this difficult, this is where he met Emily again Emily was so patient, caring, encouraging and knew exactly how to be with him. He has gone from being so nervous and crying to actually enjoying his lesson’s looking forward and saying to me that he is proud of himself as he is now swimming and putting his face in the water. The whole team are so lovely and I would highly recommend them to anyone especially if you have a little one who is a nervous swimmer. I can’t thank the girls enough for the hard work and the understanding that everyone has a different pace, there is no pressure put on the children, what a fab wonderful team.

I have been coming to the gym for the past couple of years on and off. I highly recommend Simon as a personal trainer, you’ll enjoy working out with him and benefit of his training and nutrition knowledge . I also love Cat and Heidi’s classes, a lot of fun and sweat. All staff members are very attentive and respectful, always there to help if you have any questions and always welcome you with a smile .

Great facility, Well kept, all new equipment & really friendly staff. Needed a spot for working sets and Arron was happy to help with my set alongside offering advice on shoulder rehab and seemed very knowledgeable on all fitness subjects that came to topic. Top staff! 10/10 would recommend

I only joined at Bangor this week after a life time away from Gyms ( I am 67). When I went for the first time on Thursday I was gobsmacked how friendly and helpful everyone were, nothing too much trouble, smiling staff everywhere. Had my second session today and it was just the same atmosphere, like a big family. I absolutely love it will be going a lot ( if my body stands up).

I’ve been using FF since last November and found the all facilities well maintained, clean and very useful. The staff are particularly very helpful, professional, pleasant, warm and welcoming. The swimming instructor demonstrate sensitivity, considerate and passionate about her role. Cannot ask for anymore.

Excellent gym with spa and sauna. Equipment and staff are excellent. My swimming coach Olivia and Jess are always helpful. Sad that they don't offer membership to less than 16 year old and hence my son can't join.

Very kind and supportive staff, always smiles as you come to entrances. I believe this gym got all modern facilities to enjoy the full benefits. Also the plan is not bad in that price. We also being fully supported by the team and management for a community charity we are running for BAME members who don’t know the swimming. Well done to the team and their manager.

After being a part of this gym for a while now I can say that the staff are the friendliest people and always helpful. There is a great range of machines for each type of workout and there are plenty of classes to take part in. The gym is always kept tidy thanks to the fantastic cleaners.

As a regular here, I find the staff to be very personable, approachable, and interested in your progress. When I got injured earlier this year, and when I began cautiously returning to Fitness First the whole team were truly supportive in their care and attention throughout and continue to learn how I'm recovering and managing my injury. The gym has become an integral part of what I do and having a secure, inclusive, sociable and friendly atmosphere certainly makes working out a significantly easier. Great facility with a variety of equipment to use; I would strongly encourage people to join. It's great to see/hear the welsh language being used as well.

I've been a member here at Fitness First Bangor for about ten years. It was called DW Fitness back then and it closed for months, like everything else did, during the lockdown. It was called Everlast for a while after reopening, and then Fitness First after that. New equipment was installed and it was much better and more reliable than the old stuff, which seemed to be out of order half the time. The layout of the gym floor was improved as well. When things do break down now, they seem to get fixed pretty quickly and that's a very good thing. Soon after Jennifer became manager, they had major work done on the pool area and the drains and ever since, the spas and the steam room have been working well. I enjoy nothing more than relaxing after a decent workout and being able to chill out and having a nice chat with my friends. And I've made a lot of friends in the club. It's a lovely atmosphere there. I've got to say that there's always a welcoming attitude from the staff when I go through reception. They're always friendly with me, whoever they are. Some people I know from a while back, and there are quite a few new staff there now as well. I've got to give a special mention to Adele, who always encourages me and shows genuine interest in my fitness routine. A kind word really means a lot and helps with mental health, which is just as important as physical fitness. Gavin and Mel run the restaurant impeccably. It's so clean and the food smells so good. That makes it very hard for me not to order a massive lunch every time. I'm trying to lose weight, though, and I need to lose a bit more before I start eating out again. The people who eat there recommend it highly to me. In fact, the cleanliness of the entire building is top notch most of the time. The maintenance staff are working very hard to keep the place clean which is not easy to do. Some gym members don't really care too much about tidiness and leave things on the floor or they track water from the showers all over the locker room tiles. In my experience, though, the vast majority of people who use the facilities here are careful, considerate, and polite to other members. As I say, I've made a lot of friends here, with fellow members and with staff as well. I'm sure I've spent hours upon hours talking with Adam, the general assistant. He's hard at work nearly all the time when he's on the job, but even when he's scrubbing the tiles, he's got time to say a few words and he's taught me more about football than anyone else in my entire life. He's a very valuable member of the team at Fitness First, Bangor and he's helped make a lot of people feel they belong here, in my opinion. So there you have it - some of my feelings about a club I've belonged to for a good chunk of time. Just so that nobody thinks that I've been told to post a good review or else I'll be beaten up next time, I will say that the locker room and pool area could do with a lick of paint, and please, please, can somebody put some new music on the player in the steam room? We've been listening to the same song in there for six years at least and I can hear it in my dreams sometimes. Having said that, these are very minor criticisms and don't mean that I'll give anything less than 5/5. Thankyou, everybody!

Very welcoming! Great classes with great instructors. Instructors are super friendly and supportive and motivate you through even when your not feeling up to the workout! Always leave feeling better than I did arriving. Shoutout to Kim, Yaz, Jen, Ben, Jake, Mike and Bari! The only downfall is there is no TraX on a Friday morning or evening! Facilities all great here and always appear clean and in order!

Great facility, very friendly staff both on reception and at the EZ bar 👍 Very knowledgeable and professional personal trainers. Highly recommended if your looking to get into shape. I also highly recommend Jack Jones(@jack_apachefitness)

Gym is well equipped. Staff are really friendly and helpful. Changing room and facilities clean. I have PT sessions with Jack Jones who is great. Really knowledgeable and encourages without being OTT. Veen a member of this club since 2002. So I must like it!

Not normally one for the gym, however when I had first hand experience of Fitness First as a new member I was converted. The staff were outstanding, friendly, supportive of goals and motivational. If you going to join a club then this is definitely the one for you..

I love going. The staff are very friendly and helpful. The swimming is perfect for me. The pool is never overcrowded and even when the lessons for the children are on I still find it relatively peaceful. I fully intend to take part in some of the sessions such as Aquarobics and something in the gym. Not sure what yet. So glad I joined.

Fantastic gym! They offer a wide range of classes and high quality equipment if you prefer individual workouts. The staff are very friendly and encouraging, always making sure you get the most of your time there. Would highly recommend!