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The Spot fitness classes in London 2026, worth it?
6am is fine, the office crowd doesn't hit until 7:30 so u get a decent window. free weights are holding up ok, bit worn but they added racks last year. i prefer the old kent road one over the bermondsey branch, less queue for benches.
tuesday & thursday are dead, everyone does mon/wed
Good to know about the bench queues. I've only been in the evening, when the rack area gets tight but the dumbbell side stays quiet. Is the changing room still a bottleneck at that hour?
honestly the racks are fine but the mats upstairs are grim now, nobody wipes them down.
How's the shower situation at that hour? I've only been in the evening, and half the cubicles were out of order last time. Wondering if mornings are any better before I commit to a membership.
mornings are better, most cubicles work before 7 but the hot water takes a min to kick in. bring flip flops tho, floor gets grim by the end of the rush
just check the board first, half the broken ones have signs up.
yeah the 7:30 cutoff is real, but by 8 it's chaos near the benches so get in early. the old kent road one also has better parking if u drive, bermondsey is a nightmare on match days. worth the extra tenner imo
Bermondsey's fine if u avoid millwall home games
the racks they added are squat racks only, no benches, so press days still mean waiting
The Late Owl in London 2026: still worth it?
id say look at the streets off queens road instead, mcvicker or consort. quieter, still walkable to the good bits & you dodge the friday night racket near the bars. tbh the area hasnt lost it, it just got dearer & louder. if you want scruffy old peckham youre about five years late
yeah consort's the shout, though parking round there is a nightmare now with the permit zones
Fair point on the racket, though McVicker Road backs onto the estate so it's not exactly silent either. Consort's the calmer pick of the two. Five years late is generous, mind, I'd say more like ten.
ten years is closer to it, i remember when the whole strip past the library was pound shops & a laundrette
Five years is about right for the bars but the housing drift started earlier, the Oglander Road side was already shifting by 2019. One thing nobody's said: the 12 and 171 night buses are the real reason that stretch still works, whatever the rent.
The Peckham Rye station rebuild finally finished and the Overground's way more reliable now, so commuting's honestly fine. Weeknights can get loud near the arches though. I'd still take it over somewhere with zero going on.
Blenheim Grove side, quieter after 11.
night buses beat the overground after midnight tbh
Depends which side of Late Owl you mean, the Bellenden Road end still feels local but the Rye Lane strip's gone proper chainy.
Bellenden's side kept the good stuff, but Choumert Road's greasy spoon turning into a sourdough place tells you which way it's drifting.