CLM The Bays

Fantastic experience: Best place in Auckland to work out. Awesome friendly staff. Amazing coffee. Highly recommend. Cheers Barrington

Negative experience: Will probably stop coming. Came exclusively for the pool, as it was a good pool at a good price. However, despite publishing a pool availability timetable on their website, it's never available during the times advertised. It will close for Swim School even when it's listed as available -- and you don't know till you arrive. Staff don't care. If you can't do swimming between 9 am and 3 pm, the pool is not available for you (and even that's not guaranteed). Otherwise, the rest of the equipment is average to cheap. Nothing special and quite glitchy.

Fantastic experience: Love the baby swimming lessons they do

Fantastic experience: Great gym, flexible schedule and membership, good variety of classes, friendly instructors and staff.

Positive experience: The gym meets my needs for now. Would like to see some more modern workout equipment including an abductor/adductor machine, probably my only bugbear. Otherwise, friendly and receptive gym.

Positive experience: Great gym if you like attending group sessions, as there are plenty. Some equipment is rusted and not in great shape for the price/membership. As a consumer for more than 2 years, the expectation is to improve quality and upgrade equipment if not fit for purpose. The plus point for me is that the gym doesn't get crowded as much as city fitness.

Fantastic experience: Really enjoying the advanced swim training with Laura.

Negative experience: We queried about a room to rent/ lease for my friend who is a practitioner. CLM was highly recommended by one of their members who is a pharmacy owner in East Auckland that there are 3 available rooms. We were told CLM never rent rooms to anybody and the lady we spoke to was very snobbish and rude. There are polite ways to say “No”and they are in customer service industry. Is it because we are Asian? Looks like the way she showed her attitude towards us.

Fantastic experience: Awesome teachers ! My son is improving every week he goes. Made the mistake of joining swim gym at Lloyd Elsmore because it was closer to home but worth the travel to go to St Johns for great teaching.

Fantastic experience: Nice big facility with plenty of equipment and a good selection of classes.

Positive experience: This gym has all the facilities you could ask for at a reasonable price on a flexible contract. They do have quite strict health and safety rules or at least they are one of the few gyms that actually enforces them when it comes to lifting without shoes on so if you like lifting barefoot this probably isn’t the gym for you. Also if you attend the gym during hours when they have classes don’t expect to have any access to the squat racks, assault bikes and sleds. Other than that the gyms pretty good and you can get past those minor issues to be perfectly fair. I’ve been a member on and off here for a year and I’d recommend it to others. The staff are friendly and I do agree with the comment below about music being average but you can’t please everyone.

Fantastic experience: Great teaching their from instructors

Fantastic experience: Reasonable price and profession staff, comfortable environment

Fantastic experience: Can usually get a park easily and swim teachers are good

Fantastic experience: the staff always have a gorgeous smile on their face and make this place so wonderful and inviting! shoutout to arwyn, she never fails to make me actually happy to go to the gym LOL !!!

Fantastic experience: Thanks so much for the perfect birthday event set-up and for warmly accommodating our party.  Everything was smooth and straightforward, from play, mascot, games, food, swimming. Just wanna give a special shout-out to Ethan and Ella for professionally facilitating the program -- they're both fantastic and super helpful! CLM The Bays, you rock!

Fantastic experience: This is one of the best swimming schools that you may find in whole Auckland. Professional and friendly instructors and staffs, safe and tidy environment, convenient and flexible hours, Reasonable prices...super happy with their serives

Fantastic experience: Good experienced swim teachers. Consistent teaching.

Fantastic experience: Love the classes and the staff. Just a shame you can't use the pool really as its mainly used by school kids

Fantastic experience: Excellent to be back, good for the body, heart and soul ❤

Positive experience: Not bad, not bad at all

Fantastic experience: Swim magic is a good place to host a birthday party. My kid and her friends had so much fun. They got to play with the bouncy castle in the swimming pool, swim in the pools. They can cater the foods and fun activities at the same time. No need to fuss about organizing a birthday party.

Fantastic experience: Great work out, love it spacing for wheelchair user.

Fantastic experience: Great as usual

Fantastic experience: Two nice pools, super friendly staff! The little kids pool is quite short for tall people to take their kids in (6’3”h anyway) so ended up with sore muscles afterwards haha.

Fantastic experience: If you want one on one i recommend Ra... Awesome young Woman will have u up and moving in no time....she's such a motivator....

Fantastic experience: Superb swimming instructors - my kids always look forward to their swimming lessons. I like the swim school's progression criteria. My kids have benefited tremendously from it.

Fantastic experience: Great pool facility for a birthday party. Had a lovely instructor Evit who kept an eye on our son and gave him confidence to float. If this was closer to where we live we would have definitely started his swimming classes here. Thanks again for your great attitude!

Fantastic experience: My favourite gym and pool in Auckland so far. Super friendly and helpful staff, always clean facilities and equipment. Pool instructors are professional and just lovely. The membership price is more than only worth it for the services you get. I spend most of the time in the power house, and I love it. People are friendly and mindful, Olympic bars and weights are all in excellent condition, and there's enough space for both individuals and groups training.

Fantastic experience: Great place to burn some energy. Very friendly helpful staff. Good class variety. Highly recommend this fitness center.

Fantastic experience: Great community atmosphere

Fantastic experience: Such an epic gym!!! Awesome staff and amazing value for money! Would recommend the powerhouse classes - really aerate this gym from others! Have been a member for over 2 years!

Fantastic experience: Fantastic facility, fantastic staff.

Fantastic experience: Professional swimming lessons from caring teachers, my kids love it! We've had lessons for a few years now and have had a range of good quality instructors at different levels.

Fantastic experience: Great gym, equipment and awesome staff!

Positive experience: Very easy to find, easy to get in and out, good parking on and off site. Long opening hours. Just a bit too far from central.

Negative experience: OK, If I was gonna describe this gym in just one word, that word's gonna be 'FANTASTIC'. 'FANTASTIC'..... said it twice because it was important to say......or mention....or to write. Plenty of spaces to workout with and excellent staff members who are friendly to support you. Various machines to work out with, with an aspect of an environment to concentrate and focue with your workout. Sounds like a decent place to obtain your ideal body.....................right? But always keep in your mind, that nothing can be perfect. In this case, the aspect that makes me write a 2 star review is the people. When I'm saying people, I simply mean 'the gym members'. Just gonna involve my personal experience here after attending the gym for nearly 5 months, but they aren't friendly at all. Not all of the members, please don't misunderstand this, but some of the members certainly do have bad attitude and manners. Like.....let's say I was on the lat pull-down. 4 reps, with 20 times of lat pull-down, sounds like a tough workout....doesn't it? Anyways back to the story, after every reps there's always a concept known as the 'resting time'. When I was on my resting time of a minute, one of the gym members somehow sneaked behind me and tapped my shoulders. I turned around, wondering what he wanted. Then out of his mouth came the words of 'Are you using this, coz everyone is waiting'. With an imaginary question mark on top of my head, I was completely lost. The gym was completely empty and quiet, with a few members working out, and there was literally no one except for him in our area......actually, there was one or two of the members working out in our area. I told him ' Does it look like I'm not', and his reply was 'No, coz you're on your phone'. Honestly, I was about to burst into laughter, and I'm not joking. If you look around, you can see everyone on their phone, but he decides to pick on the only 'Asian' kid in the gym, and not everyone else who was 'bigger' than him. To be honest, I never knew elders liked to pick on those who smaller than them until this moment. No wonder why I'm feeling uncomfortable and unsatisfied now. This is not the only case, but if I was to mention everything, this would end up as a novel. So what I would say is that if you're under 20, DO NOT GO TO THIS GYM!!!!!

Fantastic experience: Fantastic gym. Great facilities

Fantastic experience: Great gym...staff are fantastic...especially Jay

Fantastic experience: What a hidden Gem! This facility caters for a great range of workout styles, has a pool on offer, Awesome quality of Les Mills classes, functional training area And a Ladies only section. Not to mention the super friendly & helpful staff - Highly recommend!

Fantastic experience: best gym so far! very safety for after hours visit! good staff with wide knowledge for my injury. Thanks Rachel.

Fantastic experience: Awesome place to teach your child to swim. Professional trainers who love children and do their work perfectly well. Great coffee at reception and a good selection of swim gear in the shop. Parking can be an issue in the morning on weekends though.

Fantastic experience: I love this gym! Recently I took part in a CLM 28 day challenge. It made me try new things at the gym that I hadn't had the confidence to have a go at. It was really social, meeting both new gym members and CLM staff, and feeling inspired and encouraged by everyone in the group. It helped me change some of my habits and think about my body and mind in new (healthier!) ways. It was great to get advice not just on exercise but also nutrition, sleep and other healthy tips. And of course, it got me results!! It was exciting to see and feel the difference in my body after 28 days. Plus it gave me the motivation and tools to keep on progressing with my health and well being after the challenge. I'd totally do it again, as I enjoyed being part of the challenge so much, and I know I'd get something different from it every time!"

Fantastic experience: Great equipment & class variety. 24 hour access.

Fantastic experience: There for a kids birthday party, a great venue, well priced and the kids loved it. It totally wore the kids out for a great nights sleep as a bonus!

Fantastic experience: Has everything you need

Fantastic experience: Helpful friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Staff are awesome and friendly

Fantastic experience: Nice coffee & muffin

Positive experience: This is a cool place to exercise, stretch, think, get hit catch up with friends

Positive experience: Swimming pool is good and gym also instructer are polite and of helping nature

Fantastic experience: The people are so lovely and warm, you would push yourself even harder because everyone is just so hardcore! Good job team!

Fantastic experience: What a hidden Gem! This facility caters for a great range of workout styles, has a pool on offer, Awesome quality of Les Mills classes, functional training area And a Ladies only section. Not to mention the super friendly & helpful staff - Highly recommend!

Fantastic experience: The people are so lovely and warm, you would push yourself even harder because everyone is just so hardcore! Good job team!

Fantastic experience: Great gym. Classes and a well equipped gym space. Crossfit ready, cardio equipment galore

Fantastic experience: Great club and facilities

Fantastic experience: Best swimming club in town!

Fantastic experience: Awesome Facilities and Staff. Swimming squad training is a highlight every week.

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym designed for all sorts of people no matter what type of training you’re into. The staff are great and it’s never outrageously busy even in the evenings.

Fantastic experience: This is a great gym. The counter staff are lovely and always make you feel at home. The group classes have excellent instructors. There is a lap pool and free access to the Parnell Baths is included in the membership.

Fantastic experience: Good Showers , nice pool and lady's only area

Fantastic experience: Good gym with Les Mills classes and aquatic centre. My kids go here for swimming lessons which are great.

Fantastic experience: I am a lifelong gym goer & have lived in many cities & subsequently been members of many gyms. I cannot rate my experience of CLM any higher, the variety of Les Mills classes, the reception staff, the overall atmosphere & all class instructors I have encountered have been excellent. Special mention to Elmer & Laura. Thank you CLM - I should have moved years ago.

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym. As an adult I have been learning swimming here for over 2 years now. It’s got great support staff who are very patient, encouraging and supportive. I have made tremendous improvement in my swimming in the two years. Highly recommended.

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym, everything is new and staff friendly

Fantastic experience: CLM rocks

Positive experience: Great place for kids to learn swiming

Positive experience: Swimming pool is really nice for going with kids

Positive experience: Great set up, loads of equipment, nice bright area to train hard!

Positive experience: I've been a member for 7months only had 1 problem the hole time and it was sorted quick. The music they have playing is the only thing that lets it down

Fantastic experience: I am a lifelong gym goer & have lived in many cities & subsequently been members of many gyms. I cannot rate my experience of CLM any higher, the variety of Les Mills classes, the reception staff, the overall atmosphere & all class instructors I have encountered have been excellent. Special mention to Elmer & Laura. Thank you CLM - I should have moved years ago.

Fantastic experience: Good coaching staff and fresh clean facilities.

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym. Community focus. Not for posers.

Fantastic experience: Such a cool place to go, I'm not a member, don't think it would be worth if for me to join just wish they charged less for casuals, even just to do the classes, I love all of Jamie's classes, he is Awesome

Fantastic experience: Grate place good staff nice workout areas .The pools are the bests,and the kids will love it as well

Fantastic experience: Great gym.Good facilities. Friendly staff. 24 hour access.

Fantastic experience: Great facility, especially the pool. Friendly and helpful staff

Fantastic experience: We're every Saturday morning for the kids swimming and have been going for the last 3 years or so. We travel from west Auckland to here because of the facility and the trainers are great. They only have 2 pools but it's for lessons use only so it's not crowded and loud like in a public swimming pool. Toilets are also very clean. They have a gym and cafe/shop so it's very convenient. The swim shop is well stocked as we have left togs before so purchasing one is easy, expensive but easy. It's a half hour to 40 mins drive for us so it's more convenient to buy than drive back. They also do parties in their hall where they do classes. They have an inflatable bouncy castle and they do the catering. Highly recommend especially for kids swimming lessons

Fantastic experience: Great swimming classes here, and also great for kids parties

Fantastic experience: Great facilities. Clean. Great kids swimming classes. Gym has good equipment

Fantastic experience: Great Staff

Positive experience: Awesome swimming lessons. Jackie is a great instructor.

Positive experience: I like this pool facility - only if it can be a little bigger!

Fantastic experience: Fantastic teachers that give our children confidence to swim and the skills they need to survive

Fantastic experience: Awesome swim coaching

Fantastic experience: Best gym ever! Great staff, great facilities and so many Les Mills classes to choose from