SPORTSCO

The gym is ok, although after 6months I still cannot find some stuff in there. Swimming pool supposed to be the best in Dublin… Really? I don’t want to see the worst one… Common, the opening hours are really weird, why they need those gaps? Also, every time I’m going there the swimming pool is ether full of kinds (or the area designated for kids — 3lines with 4 screaming ones) or there are some school/​college exercises and they are closing another two lines. The steam room is stemless, and cold. But I like the cold water bucked thing :-)

I have been a member here since 4 years. I used everything. Tennis and squash courts are good quality. No problem with the gym, steam room and sauna. Five-​a-​side pitches, showers are all good. but the management. No flexibility whatsoever. They would not try to develop a relationship with the members. Management is there to make sure that the machines are working and that’s OK for them.

This is a review for Metro Golf:
Staff was hardly ever present. Simulator interface was easy to use but it was so inaccurate. The yardages we’re very wrong but that’s to be expected. The ball flights were all I cared about being accurate and they were anything but.
What I mean by that: shots that should’ve cut would go out 100 yards and then banana left as well as the opposite. I’m a decent golfer and I could tell when the simulator was was off.
Disappointing really.

some exercise in a good place is great considering the summer is coming even with some rainy days

Ah Sportsco is great! I really love it! What I enjoy the most are the classes, they have a good variety of classes like TRX, zumba, yoga, pilates, spinning, basket, volleyball, swimming, and more…
If you are not a member you can pay € 10 per class or gym.
I found the membership expensive, and didn’t like that they don’t have student rates. but well…
The staff are very helpful and super friendly.
They help you and are interested in that you are doing things right and that is good for you. I consider the space very very clean, spacious, comfortable and modern.

After a year, place was pretty damn corporate after all. Membership scheme very inflexible if you live outside of Dublin for part of the year. Switched to Club Vitae, Maldron, Grand Canal Dock, and was much happier. Your mileage may vary.

I hate the personal attention you get here, I wasn’t allow to check the gym before joining so you pretty much do the blind decision, the gym area is super small, pool can be super crowded in peak hours.
But I do have to admits it is one of the most decent gyms in Dublin, still very pricey and below international standards by far!

I bring my wee lad to Rugby Tots here once a week, the facilities are great, in perfect condition and the staff are hugely friendly.
I haven’t used the place for myself yet, would love to try the pool but have yet to learn how to swim!

I can only talk about the Café and astro as I’m not a member here, just a footballer. Really nice pitches, well maintained and easy to book. Changing rooms are good, I’ve never not had hot water for a shower and the staff are, as everyone mentioned, really nice. It’s a bit far for me to join as a gym but perfect for a game of ball once a week!

Me and Sportsco go back a long while. Back to 1982 and the regular trips to the swimming pool with my parents and my orange armbands in my pursuit of learning how to swim. 3 – 4 on a Sunday was always reserved for the ESB family swimming club and the swimming pool is etched in my memory.
Wind the clock on about 20 years and I am now living back in Dublin and looking for a gym and pool to go to. This is my first port of call and back in 2002 I started using the pool and gym regularly (not that you would know) and go to know the friendly staff well. When the astro pitches were built I organised football here amongst a group of friends on Wednesday on Friday. The staff where always friendly and very helpfull if we forgot any footballs etc.
Unfortuntely in 2008 I suffered a serious knee injury whilst playing football here one Friday.
As a result I had not seen the newly renovatged ESB Sportsco Gym until tonight.
Annie is right, its one of the nicest gyms and swimming areas that you will see. The whole changing and swimming area has under floor heating which really adds to the whole experience and means that wet floors and big pools of water are a thing of the past. The staff are still as friendly as ever and steam room and sauna are large and spotlesslly clean.
The gym area has tonnes of machines and could cope with any after work spike in users. The astro pitches are excellent, although I cant use them anymore and I have heard that the tennis courts are top notch. All in all a top notch sporting facilty with staff who know their stuff and have a smile to go with it too.

Why have I not known about this gym since I moved to Dublin? Easily the most beautiful, well kept facility that I have seen in Ireland actually even on my travels and time spent abroad I never saw a gym like this.
They have a lovely café too and the spa area is fantastic… Oh and I saw a bar when I left or was I hallucinating the remnants of the previous nights hangover. There is astro turf pitches too for 5 aside games.
I did a quick walk through and I have to save up the pennies to join but I need somewhere for the winter months (ugh the darkness is coming). They also have a tonne of classes going on and very professional courtesy staff.

BAM! 5 STARS!
I’ve been a swimmer on and off since I was about 5 years old (ON for most of my teenage years, OFF when I discovered beer and women, ON again when I took up triathlon to set myself a new challenge), so I have a good idea what makes a good swimming pool, and a fair idea what makes a good gym.
Let’s start at the start — this is a private members gym; you can’t walk in off the street unless you’re signed in by a member. You can sign up for some classes by themselves (spin, pilates, etc) as a non-​member, but most of the people here are fully paying members. That being said, the membership packages are very flexible — it’s basically € 230 for an individual for a year of a basic membership, plus either pay-​as-​you-​go, or whatever package you want to put on top for gym/​swim/​etc.
I’ve been a member since February and I could not be more impressed to be honest. The place is always spotless, the staff are always friendly, the other patrons are always grand (no steroid junkies here!), and the classes are very good; particularly the spin classes which come as part of your full membership. Every facility you could want is here as well: gym, pool, football pitches, tennis and badminton courts, sauna, leisure suite… you name it, it’s there!
Now onto the pool itself. It’s a standard 25 meter pool with a small viewing gallery. The ‘adult swim’ sessions are the best to go to if you want to go for a proper swim — three lanes will be marked out and most people stick to the slow, medium & fast lanes (it’s a pet peeve of mine when they don’t!).
All in all, a great job in a handy location, and you can customise your own package or pay-​as-​you-​go after the initial membership fee. Only negative is that you have to pay up-​front rather than by Direct Debit, but it’s not enough of a grievance to deter me from awarding the big 5!

i can’t believe there are no reviews of this gym! i’ve been a member for about a year, mainly due to the fact that a dear friend works for them and my husband used to run (participate in?) triathalons. somehow between the two of them, and the fact that i’ve gained something along the lines of 20 lbs since moving to ireland, i gave in and joined up.
as far as gyms go, i’ve never been to a cooler, weirder gym. in addition to the normal stuff, they have not only a day spa, but a BAR! wtf? isn’t the point of going to the gym to sweat your a$$ off on the hamster wheel with the hope of eventually losing the slabs o’ flab attached to all the bits of you that bulge out of your jeans? i didn’t realize it also meant going in for a pint and a seaweed wrap.
as for the actual gym, it’s nice — they have lots of machines (of torture) and TV’s you can watch (let’s hear it for bad daytime television!!!), and a nice brick wall you can stare at while rowing or jogging to nowhere…
before you can inflict the torture devices on yourself, you get a free session with a nice trainer person who will ask you your goals (to fit back into my US size 0 jeans please), take you around to all the machines (this one here helps keep the underneath of your arms from flapping around when you wave!), and give you a personalized fitness plan (do this one 15 times at this painful setting…)
aside from the torture machines, hamster wheels, massages, pedicures and the much needed pint; there are also many fitness classes to choose from. i personally love their yoga instructor Helen, and spin class guy Brian. oh and they also have an award-​winning swimming pool that is apparently the best thing since sliced bread.
the best part of all of this is… they’re about 60euro per month! ya really can’t beat that.
(i swear they’re not paying me for this review)