The Gym Group publishes its London price on the page you land on: £20.99 a month, no contract, open 24 hours. Third Space does not publish a price at all.
Its membership page carries an enquiry form asking for your name, email, telephone number and preferred club. Its own list of frequently asked questions includes the question “How much is a Third Space Membership?”, which tells you how often it is asked and how rarely it is answered before you hand over a phone number.
This is the thing nobody writes about London gyms. The equipment is not the variable. The variable is whether the club will tell you the price before it has your details, and at the top of the market the answer is usually no.
Who publishes and who does not
Checked against each operator’s own website on 28 September 2026.
| Club | Price published? | What you can actually read |
|---|---|---|
| The Gym Group | Yes, in full | From £20.99 a month, £10 one off joining fee, £30.99 to start, no contract, open 24/7 |
| BXR | Partly | Twelve tiers listed, two of them priced, and neither is the main one |
| Third Space | No | Enquiry form only for membership, though lockers and training are priced |
The gap between the top and bottom of that table is not really about money. It is about whether you are allowed to compare before you are contacted, and the clubs charging most are the ones making comparison hardest.
BXR, and the eleven tiers
BXR is the boxing club in Marylebone, with a second site in the City, and it is the clearest case study on this page because it is neither secretive nor transparent. It is somewhere worse: it now lists twelve different memberships and puts a price on two of them.
The tiers named on its own membership page are Gym Membership, Gym Membership with Sweat Unlimited, Student, Corporate, Three Month, Off Peak, WFH, Weekend, Overseas, the Transformation Pack, a Summer Membership and, added since the last check, a Flex Membership. Two of the twelve carry a price.
The two carrying a published price are the restricted ones.
The WFH membership is £140 a month for eight visits. Read that as a unit price and it is £17.50 every time you walk in, which is a useful number to hold in your head for the rest of this page.
The Weekend membership is £95 a month and gives unlimited access Friday to Sunday, at the City site only.
The one most people want, plain Gym Membership with unlimited access, carries no figure at all.
Read the off peak definition before you assume it is a saving. BXR defines off peak as Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, and weekends and bank holidays from 2pm. For anybody with an office job that is not a cheaper membership. It is no membership.
Third Space, and the question it asks itself
Third Space runs the largest group of premium clubs in central London and is the name Google returns first for this search. Its membership page is built around two words, Enquire and Join, and displays no membership price.
The detail worth noticing is its own FAQ. Among the questions it chooses to list is “How much is a Third Space Membership?”. A business only writes that question down because it is the question everybody arrives with.
The only figures visible on that page attach to extras rather than to joining: an £85, a £40 and an £80 against add ons and a separate recovery membership. None of them tells you what the membership itself costs.
This is not unusual at that level and it is not dishonest. It is a sales model: the price is set in a conversation, it varies by club and by what they think you will pay, and publishing one number would undercut all of that. Knowing that is the point. You are not failing to find the price. There is no price to find.
The bottom of the market, which is the honest end
The Gym Group states it plainly on its London page: from £20.99 a month, with a one off £10 joining fee, so £30.99 to walk in today, on no contract, in gyms open around the clock.
Whatever you think of the rooms, that is a complete answer to a simple question, given before you have handed over anything. The budget operators compete on price, so they publish it. The premium clubs compete on everything else, so they do not.
Now put the two together. BXR’s cheapest published membership is £140 a month for eight visits. The Gym Group is £20.99 a month for unlimited access, twenty four hours a day. That is roughly seven times the money for eight visits instead of thirty, and the difference you are buying is the room, the classes and who else is in it.
That can be worth it. It is a different proposition from a gym and it should be judged as one. But it should be judged with the arithmetic visible, which is the part the sector prefers you skip.
What to ask before you join anything
Ask for the monthly figure and the joining fee separately. They are different numbers and the second one is frequently waived if you ask at the right moment, which tells you what it was for.
Ask what the minimum term is. No contract, as The Gym Group offers, and a twelve month commitment are completely different products at similar headline prices.
Ask what off peak actually means at that club. BXR’s version ends at 5pm on a weekday. Others end at four, or at noon. The word is not standardised and it is where the real saving is hidden or removed.
Ask what the classes cost on top. Unlimited classes and member classes are not the same phrase, and BXR distinguishes between its own member classes and its Sweat classes in the tier names.
Ask for a day pass or a trial before committing to a year. At the premium end this is normal and rarely refused. If it is refused, that is information too.
Everything here was taken from each operator’s own published pages on 28 September 2026. Premium club pricing is set individually and changes without notice, which is precisely why so little of it is printed. Confirm before you join.
Where to go next
Fun things to do in London, priced applies the same test to everything else in the city, and the pattern repeats: the things that publish their prices are usually the cheaper ones.
Spa days in London and the private spas cover the recovery end of this, where the pricing is generally clearer, and padel covers the sport where no club in London publishes an hourly court price at all.
The best barbers covers the other standing appointment worth getting right.
Questions we get asked
How much does a gym membership cost in London?
It depends entirely which end of the market you are in, and the gap is enormous. The Gym Group publishes from 20.99 pounds a month with a 10 pound joining fee and no contract. At the premium end BXR's cheapest published membership is 140 pounds a month for eight visits, which is 17.50 a visit, and Third Space does not publish a membership price at all. Roughly seven times the money for a quarter of the visits, and what you are buying is the room rather than the equipment.
Why do London gyms not show their prices?
Because at the premium end the price is set in a conversation rather than on a page. It varies by club, by tier and by what the salesperson judges you will pay, and publishing a single figure would undermine that. Third Space's membership page carries an enquiry form and no price, and its own list of frequently asked questions includes How much is a Third Space Membership. It will price the add ons quite happily, 40 pounds a month for a private locker and 80 for an executive one, and personal training from 85 an hour. You are not failing to find the membership number. There is not one to find.
How much is BXR membership?
BXR lists eleven membership tiers on its own site and publishes a price for two of them, neither of which is the standard one. The WFH membership is 140 pounds a month for eight visits. The Weekend membership is 95 pounds a month for unlimited Friday to Sunday access at the City site only. Plain Gym Membership, the unlimited one most people want, carries no published figure.
What does off peak mean at a London gym?
It is not standardised and it is worth checking before you assume it saves you anything. BXR defines off peak as Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, plus weekends and bank holidays from 2pm onwards. For anyone working ordinary office hours that is not a cheaper membership, it is an unusable one. Other clubs end off peak at four, or at noon, so read the definition rather than the discount.
Is a premium gym in London worth it?
It is a different product rather than a better gym, and it should be judged that way. For roughly seven times the price of a budget chain you are buying the room, the classes, the recovery facilities and who else trains there, not better weights. If what you want is to lift things at six in the morning on no contract, the budget operators publish exactly that and cost about 21 pounds a month. If the club is part of how you want to spend your time, that is a legitimate reason to pay more, but do the arithmetic with the numbers visible.
Do London gyms charge a joining fee?
Most do, and it is frequently negotiable, which tells you what it is for. The Gym Group publishes a one off 10 pound joining fee on top of its monthly price, so 30.99 to start. At the premium end joining fees are part of the conversation rather than the website, and asking for the monthly figure and the joining fee as two separate numbers is the single most useful thing you can do on a first call.
Written by Robert J Wills, no. 162 in the guide.
Last checked 28 September 2026 against the venues' own published information. Nobody pays to appear here and we take no bookings.
