Doherty's Gym City

Fantastic experience: Wonderful gym with probably the best casual rate in the area, considering most gyms now won't even offer a day pass without badgering you about a "free" trial or begging for your card details on the spot. As someone not usually in the area it was incredibly refreshing to walk in, pay for a single pass, and walk out without any exhaustive attempt to get me to lock a contract. All the equipment was well maintained and clean as well. Overall a great experience :)

Fantastic experience: Visiting from interstate, really impressed with this gym. Great power lifting area, ample cardio, heaps of machines. The best thing was how easy it was as a casual visitor. $20 straight in, no tedious and unnecessary forms. $20 no fuss, straight in, show you around and you're off. If you're after a serious gym to get a lift in, highly recommend it.

Fantastic experience: Best gym for the experienced. Very unique utilising the old train tunnel space. So much history, the best athletes in the World have been here. They have great rates, friendly staff, so much variety of equipment and all your supplemental needs like Pre Workouts and Protein Shakes. Highly recommend this gym! (I’ve worked in the Fitness Industry for over 20 years)

Fantastic experience: The receptionists here are the most inviting and lovely people ever. Especially Chloe makes the best choc smash protein smoothies in the game. Love Dohertys gym, highly recommend.

Fantastic experience: Something for everyone. Everything you need for bodybuilding, powerlifting, general fitness. Both Old school machines, and newer equipment. Dumbbells are not limited, and weight not a concern even for heavier lifters. Powerlifting section has rogue plates, both the Olympic lifting kind and thinner powerlifting kind. Would definitely come again next time I’m in town.

Negative experience: had a very disappointing experience at this gym when getting a day pass/looking into membership. The staff come across as rude and unwelcoming, particularly one young woman at the front desk with black hair who at first completely ignored me as she was playing on her phone, she was also extremely dismissive, rude and unhelpful. Rather than making members feel comfortable, the attitude feels snobby and unprofessional. On top of that, the gym has terrible airflow and constantly smells bad, which makes working out unpleasant. A gym should be a supportive, positive, and clean environment, but unfortunately this place fails badly in all those areas.

Fantastic experience: Great gym pls open in syd I miss Doherty’s

Positive experience: Gym is generally good with lots of different equipment. Rarely have to wait for someone to finish (especially if youre training legs), but sometimes can be a short wait for barbell bench press. Crowd can be a bit annoying during certain hours with meathead roided bros trying to draw attention to themselves or kids vaping when you're puffing in your workout. My main complaint is with hygiene. There's never soap in the toilets. Ive brought it up a few times with reception but it seems to be an ongoing issue. Also if you workout on the equipment next to the toilets it smells pretty gross. Otherwise it's a fine gym, convenient and 24/7.

Fantastic experience: A really great gym, in the middle of the city. A great variety of equipment. Ibalways get a great workout here!

Negative experience: I been to many gyms but this one was definitely one of the dirtiest. So much dust everywhere and general dirty with old broken equipment standing in corners collecting dust.. Half broken machines that just should have been replaced long time ago. For some reason they where point out I needed a towel... I'm wondering whyyy?? it's already so dirty so it won't make any difference. Not coming back and for 20$ entry there are pretty much any other gym cleaner and better for sure. mold on walls ehh what let's paint it over omg it's bad.

Fantastic experience: vibes innit

Fantastic experience: the supplement store is 10/10 educated advice and affordable supplements.

Fantastic experience: Awesome no-frills gym if you need a place to do your weightlifting routine. It's got a really large selection of free weights and machines and the four times I went at different times of day it wasn't busy at all. Also smart positioning of the machines - the gym is under the train tracks and consists of four different long corridors with vaulted ceilings. One is especially for deadlifting, one is the main entrance and has some cardio equipment, one has the free weights, squat racks, and various push/pull machines, and one is mostly leg machines with another squat rack and some additional chest/back/shoulder machines. Quite a large selection! I never had to wait to get on a machine I wanted to use. And it was nice being able to use some more niche machines that you often don't find in other gyms. They are also spaced out enough so you don't feel cramped at all. Anyway, as a digital nomad I've worked out at gyms all over the world and can honestly say this gym ranks at the top. No wonder Schwarzenegger and Ronnie Coleman trained here. Day pass was $20 AUD, week pass $80 AUD in December of 2024. Energy drinks and packaged meals are available as well as a variety of freshly made protein shakes. If I'm ever back in Melbourne (unlikely but who knows) I'll definitely be back!

Fantastic experience: Awesome no-frills gym if you need a place to do your weightlifting routine. It's got a really large selection of free weights and machines and the four times I went at different times of day it wasn't busy at all. Also smart positioning of the machines - the gym is under the train tracks and consists of four different long corridors with vaulted ceilings. One is especially for deadlifting, one is the main entrance and has some cardio equipment, one has the free weights, squat racks, and various push/pull machines, and one is mostly leg machines with another squat rack and some additional chest/back/shoulder machines. Quite a large selection! I never had to wait to get on a machine I wanted to use. And it was nice being able to use some more niche machines that you often don't find in other gyms. They are also spaced out enough so you don't feel cramped at all. Anyway, as a digital nomad I've worked out at gyms all over the world and can honestly say this gym ranks at the top. No wonder Schwarzenegger and Ronnie Coleman trained here. Day pass was $20 AUD, week pass $80 AUD in December of 2024. Energy drinks and packaged meals are available as well as a variety of freshly made protein shakes. If I'm ever back in Melbourne (unlikely but who knows) I'll definitely be back!

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym, love the vibe and the atmosphere here. The staff is super friendly too, especially Chloe at the front desk she’s always welcoming and helpful. Definitely a great way to start the day having a workout here. Highly recommend!!

Fantastic experience: Absolute mint gym right in the middle of Melbourne.Dohertys do nothing by halves..5 bucks for a casual visit? Come on!!!

Fantastic experience: Great thankx

Fantastic experience: Great classic bodybuilding gym with fantastic equipment, good atmosphere and friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Doherty Gym is an outstanding fitness center! The equipment is top-notch and the space is always clean and well-maintained. The staff is friendly and knowledgeable, always ready to help. It’s a great place to work out and achieve your fitness goals. Highly recommend!

Positive experience: been going there occasionally for years. Not sure if there were any changes in management, but observed a few things, not improvements from my point of view: - gentleman staff at the reception could be more friendly ( no information about the price but present the payment device first, need to ask myself about the fees being charged) then asked abruptly if I have a towel. I appreciate the towel policy, but 80% of customers didn't use towels i on the machines. So why implementing rules not to be followed. - gym appeared more welcoming in the past with the graffiti/paintings all over the walls, now it's blank and sad. - equipment is still good, old school, weights are placed back which is a huge plus. But many customers sit there for ages playing with their phones. I don't mind the price increase, but what used to be an amazing old school gym seems to have lost its appeal.

Fantastic experience: A gym with pictures of Olympians plastered around the walls is always a good gym. 9/10

Fantastic experience: Great old school bodybuilding gym. Cool staff, good prices, great equipment. Also lots of machines and cables that you can't see in the photos.

Fantastic experience: Outstanding old school gym. Heaps of equipment and absolutely unique setting. Best gym I've seen in a long long time

Positive experience: Just wish it was 24/7 again

Fantastic experience: Over the last 15 years I've visited/been a member of more gyms than I can count. This gym is by far and away the best for people who are more serious about their goals. It has all the equipment a person could possibly want, and I've never seen it so packed that finding something to do is difficult.

Fantastic experience: Great gym! I just signed up as a new member! Love the variety of equipment and the staff are amazing! So friendly and welcoming. A very clean gym with new equipment

Fantastic experience: one hell of an amazing gym! plenty of machines to use for diff body parts (the amount of machines for legs is amazing) an area to do olympic weightlifting and powerlifting. place is also open super early and staff are very friendly.

Fantastic experience: Sick, clean gym with a chill interior in an accessible location. Shout out to the beautiful receptionist Chloe who was super helpful and friendly, excellent representative of this organisation . She makes a mean choc smash . Will defs be doing my morning reps here!

Positive experience: Very good gym at decent prices! I'd sign up if I was living in Melbourne. Highly recommend.

Positive experience: Ein Gym der ganz alten Schule. Wer trainieren möchte wie Schwarzenegger und Co der sollte hier trainieren. Die Geräte sind solide und sicher auch so alt wie Schwarzenegger. Es gibt alles was das Herz begehrt. Das Gym ist sehr groß, Kurzhanteln gehen bis 55kg und die Geräte halten jeder größeren (bis sehr großen) Belastung leicht stand. Das Personal ist freundlich und hilfsbereit. Es besteht aus 3 großen Röhren in welchen die Geräte nach Muskelgruppen aufgeteilt sind. Die Tageskarte kostet 20AUS, es gibt auch Monats und Jahreskarten.

Fantastic experience: Has everything you need plus old school bodybuilding vibes, love the atmosphere

Fantastic experience: Excellent staff. I can't complain. Some barbell should be changed because are broken, tough.

Fantastic experience: There is nothing fancy about this massive old-school bodybuilding gym. Having said that, it's clean and tidy and, more importantly, has everything you could possibly need. It's 20$aud for a day pass - and they actually bother to staff the place so you can get one outside office hours and at the weekend. It's a great place to train.

Fantastic experience: Je suis allé tout les jours durant mon passage à Melbourne. Prix très raisonnable et Accueil super agréable.

Fantastic experience: Great well equipped gym with friendly staff and lots of space. Doesn't have luxuries as sauna or pool, but very accommodating for casual visitors, not crowded and good selection of machines and weights.

Fantastic experience: Hardcore

Fantastic experience: Best gym in the city

Negative experience: It used to be $10 casual 24hour access .Not affordable any longer for $20 closed at 11 pm

Negative experience: Unfriendly unpolite staff I emailed to cancel my membership, but I didn't get an answer for 10 days and incompetent and unkind staff just asked me to wait for an email or talk to my manager

Fantastic experience: Great gym. Great equipment. Great staff. Absolutely love this place

Negative experience: i canceled membership with this gym because it's no longer a good gym, not what it used to be and the recent new "upgrade" of cardio equipment is poorly chosen, it was better before..

Positive experience: Great gym! Definitely put the Brunswick and Dandenong branches above this one in terms of equipment and space but it does the job...

Fantastic experience: The Staff are amazingly helpful and kind. Dylan is the gentleman who helped me today and I can’t say enough nice things about his customer service. 10/10 would recommend getting a pump and a smoothly while you’re in Melbourne CBD!!

Negative experience: Awesome gym, lots of facilities, friendly staff. Definitely recommend it. However, I had to leave as its no longer 24 hours. The reason for the review though is that the cancellation process is a borderline scam. Please only cancel the day after your payment or you will be charged for a full month but still lose access. The third party company, Debit Success, also has some of the rudest customer service providers out there and insane wait times. Kinda wild.

Fantastic experience: The best gym in Melbourne if you are serious about training. No other gym has history like this one. No other gym in Melbourne has had so many world champions visit and train at. The staff their are the best. Next to the yarra river with beautiful Southbank views. What more can one ask for

Fantastic experience: Best gym I have ever been. Great atmosphere, old school but efficient equipment, no fancy stuff, no TV. Best place if you want to train seriously.

Fantastic experience: Great, great gym in Melbourne CBD. I dropped in on a Friday morning to get some training done during my long weekend visit. I got a casual pass, which was easy to do. Staff were friendly, helpful, and approachable. Amenities were clean, spacious, and bright. The equipment and space throughout were all top notch. As a powerlifter I was impressed by the specialised equipment on hand- rogue and eleiko bars and plates, plenty of excellent racks, benches, and platforms. Body builders would be happy here too though with plenty of dbs, lots of equipment, and reminders of visits from Coleman and Schwarzenegger. Super interesting architecture also being in the banana alley vaults/ viaduct buildings with trains going overhead. 10/10 would recommend and I'll be visiting again when I'm next in town

Fantastic experience: Great place to be and Katie is a superstar! Going to be doing PT with her from next week. :)

Positive experience: If you are looking for casual session, not the place to go. It’s too expensive. It was $10, price has doubled ($20) Friendly staff - equipment is in good shape.

Negative experience: $20 casual visit is a rip off. Good range of dumbbells but the machines are terrible. The gym smells quite bad, poor air circulation, water tap tastes like bleach is put through it regularly. Would give it a miss if you want quality machines in a nice environment.

Fantastic experience: Nice, clean gym. Plenty of space and equipment. Staff are friendly. $65 per month membership on debit is a bargain as far as I'm concerned for 24 hour access.

Fantastic experience: Great Gym in city.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic gem to find in the city! (Visiting from QLD brisbane) The lady at the front was amazing and helpful! Was in the powerlifting section and has great equipment and the people there friendly also! Went for a casual visit will be back when I'm back in Melbourne for sure! Thank you!!

Fantastic experience: Great bunch of clients and staff. Love being a part of the community down there.

Positive experience: If you are looking for casual cession, not the place to go. It’s too expensive. It was $10, price has doubled ($20) Friendly staff - equipment is in good shape.

Positive experience: Great range of equipment. Staff friendly and helpful

Positive experience: Great vibe, good equipment, showers being renovated.

Positive experience: Good gym in great location

Fantastic experience: The only gym that really motivated me in my life and brought me there how i wanna to be miss you so much

Fantastic experience: Good gym with everything you need. Cool place as well under the trains. Cheap membership and open 24/7

Fantastic experience: With PTC closed down this is the best alternative in the area

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym. Great atmosphere, excellent range of machines. Comfortable environment for women with other patrons focused on their workout (I’m yet to encounter any leery guys at Dohertys). Staffed 24/7. Very reasonable rates. Women’s bathrooms are recently renovated and consistently lovely and clean.

Positive experience: A convenient gym in the CBD especially for casal go-ers between work or university breaks. Only bad thing is they upped their casual rates from $10-$20 :(

Fantastic experience: Such a great amount of equipment. 1 of the best body building style gyms I've been to in Australia

Fantastic experience: Good atmosphere and chilled staff members !

Fantastic experience: been Going Here for the last 6 years since I moved to Melbourne and still my go to Gym when Times Are tough .

Fantastic experience: Went here for two months while working in Melbourne. I absolutely love this gym and the price is excellent value.

Fantastic experience: Great gym. Good pricing.

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Fantastic experience: Great gym to got to, friendly trainers

Fantastic experience: Good atmosphere and chilled staff members !

Fantastic experience: Love this place. What an amazing f#$_king gym in the heart of the city. The branding and image seems exclusive but the staff are awesome and accept anyone. Get on it. This gym has what you need to stay fit / get fit.

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym, open 24/7, good $ and plenty of equipment. only con would be the open showers.

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym... Very very friendly trainer... Love this place a lot...

Negative experience: The treadmill are really too old, making lots of noises, it’s really annoying people, and most of them are out of order too, didn’t see any replacement or repairs recently few months time.Running a business are not like this.very disappointed.

Positive experience: History History - this old style Gym oozes it - with the bunker style long rooms, the art on walls and a cast of characters passing though the doors all hours.... they don't make them like this anymore.

Positive experience: UNIQUE LOCATION WITHIN THE BANANA ALLEY VAULTS The gym is actually one of the vaults (with the characteristic arch ceiling. It is always popular and has an "al fresco" feel with the front of the gym open to Flinders Street.

Fantastic experience: Amazing old school gym Lots of free weights and equipments If you thebone who like old school gym, there you go

Fantastic experience: i got big mussels

Fantastic experience: CafeLeon across from the gym 350 flinders street. Open 7 days a week. Coffee on your way to the gym we will discount your coffee 50 cents hows that guys Smoothie bowls$ 10.00

Fantastic experience: Excellente salle de musculation située sous les rails juste avant Flinders station. Le matériel est old school mais de bonne qualité , très large choix d haltères , beaucoup de bancs et pas un crossfiteur a l'horizon. 10$ la séance en walkin. Le seul point négatif est la propreté de la salle c'est passable .

Fantastic experience: Great inspirational environment Supportive crew The original 24 hr gym Where beasts are made

Fantastic experience: I attended Doherty's gym from October 2016 to March 2018. During that time, I used a monthly membership and attended the gym for about an hour and a half every weekday, and sometimes weekends. The staff were pleasant and conversational, the gym offered a wide selection of machines and freeweights, and the gym was always open. Sometimes it's hard to find equipment at peak-hour but it goes part and parcel with being a gym in the city. I had to cancel my membership because travelling to the city takes too long for me, and I'm in the Eastern suburbs. If anyone is on the fence about attending - take the plunge. You won't regret it - you'll get in better shape, make friends, and have a great time like I did.

Positive experience: They finally fixed that awful smell in the women's toilets. That was going on for months. Now it's actually a pleasant experience going to this gym for the $10 casual visits.

Positive experience: $10 for a one time workout. Good old gym with pretty much every machine. No AC but you'll get a good workout. You pay for what you get.

Positive experience: Most staff are rude and uninterested. Gym space is small, smells mouldy and there aren't ample amounts of machines. Hard to have a good workout when it's busy. On the plus side, a good range of machines, always open (even Christmas day) and relatively cheap monthly rates. Wasn't enjoyable to visit but did the job for a month.

Positive experience: Proper no frills gym. Always open, great staff.

Positive experience: Cheap $10 casual entry. Has everything you need, in an unusual environment (old banana vaults under a train line.) If you’re not a fan of dirt, grime, sweat and smells, I suggest you go elsewhere. This place is the real deal. No matter your level of skill, there’s something for everyone here.

Fantastic experience: $10 per visit and everyone is more ripped than I am, so this gym must be doing something correct.

Fantastic experience: Great gym to workout seriously

Fantastic experience: amazing gym. old school but everything what you need. no joining fee and the monthly contract very cheap

Fantastic experience: Great gym for serious workout

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym, great selection of apparatus to suit bodybuilding training. The Melbourne Mecca.

Fantastic experience: great customer service and friendly staff. They always have time to have a chat and make you feel like home. Best gym ever ... Cheap $10 casual visit ..Highly recommended

Fantastic experience: Awesome vibe and top quality equipment. This gym has everything to cater for all training levels.

Fantastic experience: Great gym Great equipment Great rates

Positive experience: Classic no nonsense gym, in a very unique building.

Negative experience: A man lifted me over his head and spun me around, causing me to lose control of my butt. It shut him up, and he ran to the showers like a baby. I calmly returned to finishing my Tae-Bo sesh.

Negative experience: Cooler outside the gym than inside! No air flow! Place stinks! When I politely asked reception whether some fans could be used or similar: no, bad luck! We are hardcore and don't care how hot it is! How rude!

Negative experience: First and last ever visit. Boxing Day 2016. Rude female and male staff at front desk. Zero aircon and ventilation. The place was boiling hot! Did I mention super rude staff at front desk? Nice way to win repeat business!!! Do not waste your time or money.