When your gym membership rivals your rent or mortgage, it’s crucial that the place feels like a second home. A feeling which London’s most high-ends gyms definitely deliver on – and then some, with features such as adjoining sauna and steam rooms and lighting curated by French interior designers. The Lanserhof at The Arts Club even offers treatments including medical-grade full-body MRIs.
To some it may seem extreme to splash out close to £1,000 on a place you only go to once a day (or once a week, or never), but Hollie Grant, owner of Pilates PT in Fulham, explains why the market for exclusive gyms remains strong in spite of a cost of living crisis. “People want a level of privacy. They don’t want to have people taking photos of them while exercising or to feel that people might come up and speak to them,” she says.
