Doherty's Gym City

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: 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 Gym in city.

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: 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: Great gym to got to, friendly trainers

Fantastic experience: Great gym. Good pricing.

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

Fantastic experience: Good atmosphere and chilled staff members !

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

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.

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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: 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.

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: i got big mussels

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

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

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

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

Fantastic experience: Great gym to workout seriously

Fantastic experience: Great gym Great equipment Great rates

Fantastic experience: Great gym for serious workout

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.

Negative experience: I went to see the CBD Location on last Saturday and the guy on the reception asked me to discover the gym by myself which i think was not good going in alone. Also, after I did the tour by myself and told him I'd like to join but he didn't realise that cuz something was more important on his phone then customer service

Positive experience: Serious professional bodybuilding gym for serious lifters I gave only 3 stars because its extremely dirty and the building is kind of outdated. The place is actually getting more and more nasty but it's only 10 dollars a day so worth it.

Fantastic experience: I love this gym! In a unique space of 4 connecting tunnels; it's hot, dirty, stinky and trashy. You could not ask for a better or real place to work out. Come here for a real workout. Just dirt and sweat!

Fantastic experience: Very well equipped, doesn't cost the earth. If you want a place for a decent workout you can't go past it.

Fantastic experience: Special gym ever!

Fantastic experience: Great Gym. $10 Casual make this the cheapest in Melbourne. Friendly staff, clean toilets, heaps of equipment, hot as hell and a giant 3D mural of Arnie on the wall, a nasty $3 double shot of Pod Coffee and it's PB time- what more can you ask for, a real gym

Fantastic experience: Melbournes number 1 hardcore gym exact words from bodybuilder greats like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ronnie Coleman, Jay Cutler, Kai Greene the list goes on :D!! Its 4 long bunkers under the railway line, 1 is a boxing bunker, 1 is cardio, reception, mens & womens change/restrooms & the last 2 is for weights :). Majority of the equipment is fairly up to date apart from some dumbells & the boxing section :). While your training if your not wearing your head phones you'll hear people walking by & the train from time to time passing over you :). Interior of the gym like mirrors walls & layout are pretty basic & equipment is lined up and not in a jumble like most gyms :)!! They got a huge apparel range from shirts & shorts, to caps & belts & to many other accesories to list. I'm not a member myself but when i do train here i just pay the casual visit fee which is only $10 which is super cheap for what the majority of gyms would charge for a casual visit!! Upon the Entry they have a hair dresser to the left & a healthy cafe to your right for all your smoothies, coffees & meals. Also have a variety of Frozen meals for sale at Dohertys reception. Also the 2 best parts about this place is that it's practically in the heart of the city & its open 24/7 no excuses :)!!!

Positive experience: Best equipment and staff

Fantastic experience: YOU WANT A REAL GYM? THIS IS FOR YOU! THIS PLACE WILL MAKE A MAN OF BOYS AND MAKE GROWN MEN SQUEAL. I GAINED 5LB OF MUSCLE JUST LOOKING AT THIS PLACE. SO STOP THE EXCUSES, MAN UP AND GIVE THIS PLACE A SHOT, YOU JUST MIGHT STOP BEING A LITTLE B*TCH FOR ONCE

Positive experience: Large, hardcore gym, a lot of hardcore bodies, really well equipped. Air a bit stifled and quite warm (it was a warm day). Opened 24h and not expensive for Australia. Day pass = A$10

Positive experience: Dohertys Gym is Best Mecca in australia and biggest bodybuilding gym in melbourne around but the second one in Brunswick is the biggest of all !!! In middle town its just a underground mood and hardcore under the metro rail and hes not have a lot of apparel...

Fantastic experience: Exactly what a gym should be like.

Fantastic experience: YOU WANT A REAL GYM? THIS IS FOR YOU! THIS PLACE WILL MAKE A MAN OF BOYS AND MAKE GROWN MEN SQUEAL. I GAINED 5LB OF MUSCLE JUST LOOKING AT THIS PLACE. SO STOP THE EXCUSES, MAN UP AND GIVE THIS PLACE A SHOT, YOU JUST MIGHT STOP BEING A LITTLE B*TCH FOR ONCE

Positive experience: Cool gym, bit old-school but all the equipment that you will need. Clean and good locker-rooms and really friendly staff. A big plus is that they are always open, have been to better ones but this one is pretty good as well.