Ben Dunne Gym Blanchardstown

Information about Ben Dunne Gym Blanchardstown
D15 X624, Dublin
Opening hours
- Monday: 6:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Tuesday: 6:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Wednesday: 6:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Thursday: 6:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Friday: 6:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Saturday: 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
- Sunday: 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Our comment from FitFit Ireland about Ben Dunne Gym Blanchardstown:
Ben Dunne Gym Blanchardstown is a popular fitness center located in Dublin, Ireland, offering excellent value for money with a wide range of equipment and facilities.
Highlights of the gym include:
- Affordable Membership: Many users praise the gym for being one of the most economical options in the area.
- Spacious and Well-Equipped: The gym features an extensive selection of cardio and weightlifting equipment, with spacious layouts and well-organized areas.
- Cleanliness and Maintenance: The gym is noted for its cleanliness and regular upkeep, providing a pleasant workout environment.
- Friendly Staff: Users appreciate the helpfulness and friendliness of the staff, enhancing the overall experience.
- Variety of Amenities: Although the swimming pool has been removed, the gym still offers alternatives like steam rooms, jacuzzis, and a barber shop on premises.
- Classes Included: Membership provides access to a variety of fitness classes, which many members enjoy.
- COVID-19 Safety: The gym is recognized for its air quality and safety measures, providing a secure environment for workouts.
While some users miss the swimming pool and expressed concerns about peak hour crowds, the majority of reviews reflect a strong satisfaction with the gym's offerings and environment. Overall, Ben Dunne Gym Blanchardstown is highly regarded as a fantastic fitness facility for both new and experienced gym-goers.
Ben Dunne Gym Blanchardstown: Opinions
Fantastic experience: Very clean beautiful spot staff all friendly
Negative experience: The gym does not have enough ventilation, on hot days it is unbearable to stay inside.
Positive experience: I am planning to join this gym tomorrow. It is not nearby but that is the only gym commutable from my place. They don't charge for joining fees plus on some weekdays they give classes as well. Let see how it turns out.
Positive experience: Ok so the gym has no air conditioning which means that you will probably die with no water at peak summer heat, to make it worse they also installed ventilation that brings air from outside so if its 25 degrees outside that air will only make it worse, but atleast there's new machines even though the old ones were fine. In general the gym is good though most of the staff is also friendly.
Negative experience: I find it unacceptable that a gym has neither air conditioning nor even a window to allow fresh air in — the heat is unbearable. Inside, it feels like 35 degrees, and the showers are uncomfortably hot even in the summer. We pay a monthly fee, yet we’re only allowed to use the gym once a day. If you’re running late and decide to come back later for cardio, you’re simply not allowed.
Positive experience: Good Gym, Lack of AC, gets really warm especially on hot days. would like to see this improved
Fantastic experience: Amazing gym, huge space, nice facilities
Positive experience: Good gym just too dark for my taste, more like a nightclub.
Positive experience: Great gym with great equipment always enjoy my workouts here. Only downfall is opening times Saturday and Sunday are a bit late.
Positive experience: Good range of equipment, needs more mat areas and some old equipment could be replaced. Very busy on Mondays but rest of the week is grand.
Fantastic experience: Добрый день! Сколько стоит посещение в зал?
Fantastic experience: Let's get to the point beautiful free time sitting or thinking and join today the active Irish Sports Community now and enjoy every moment spent here. BD GYMS is your investment in self development.
Fantastic experience: Great selection of gym equipment. You can still manage to get a good workout even after 17:00.
Thanks for this positive review Roland.
Negative experience: No ventilation inside the gym in plenty summer, no windows nothing
Hi Guilherme, we absolutely have ventilation in the gym - there is an air handling system in place that is fully operational.
Fantastic experience: They have everything what you need. Moreover there are clean showers and toilets
Thanks for taking the time to post this review Dawid
Positive experience: Better are around
Fantastic experience: This gym is ideal for people like me who just want to workout. The equipment is in great condition and there are a lot of the same so you can workout even if there's a lot of people. The price is the lowest among all the gyms I could find when I moved in. If you are a person who just want to workout this gym is perfect.
Thanks for the great feedback Juanmi
Positive experience: After recent upgrades, gym feels so much better. Cleanliness is top notch. Pavel does a very good job
Fantastic experience: Great gym , was using this week with bd Northwood closed for upgrades, staff very friendly and helpful highly recommended
Thanks so much for this feedback Denis. Just wait until you see Northwood on Saturday :O !!
Positive experience: Well run
Thanks Laura.
Fantastic experience: This gym is absolutely outstanding! The recent upgrades have taken it to a whole new level, making it one of the best fitness facilities around. The equipment is top-class, with an extensive range of machines and free weights to suit every workout need. I was a member in 2009, and it’s incredible to see how they have consistently improved and expanded over the years. Training here in the afternoons is always a pleasure—the atmosphere is great, and the staff are incredibly friendly, welcoming, and always ready to help. BD has truly set a new standard for gyms, and I couldn’t recommend it more highly!
Hi Michael, Thanks so much for this amazing review, it's much appreciated.
Fantastic experience: Best budget gym by far! The equipment is high quality and prices are cheaper.
Thanks Ana Carolina for this great review
Positive experience: Great gym. Some of the newer machines have an unusual range of motion. Particularly the ab twisting machine. Otherwise, all good Sound system issues seem to have been resolved which is great.
Thanks for your review and feedback Kevin. We compared all available kit at the premium level in the market including the latest version of the brands we had in our clubs. Equipment design changes in line with enhanced ergonomics and each manufacturer's research and development departments findings. We are sorry to hear you don't like this element of the upgrade. Music level is monitored and consistent within the club and it's impossible to get this to everyones's personal preference unfortunately. That said, we appreciate you taking the time to give us your great rating and constructive feedback and I will share this with the management team.
Fantastic experience: Been a member for many years and it has only improved over the years and the recent transition is another step up. Great gym and amazing value. Always busy so has a good buzz about the place but so much equipment so never an issue.
Thanks Stephen for your positive feedback. We do strive to keep improving the facilities while continuing to offer great value gym memberships!
Fantastic experience: Always thought must be up there as a top gym in Dublin - even just for sheer size and breadth of equipment, friendly staff and the free reserved car parking. Im blown away by the new refurb and layout, lots great new technogym cardio and machines but for me its the new central sled station and that still plenty barbell racks, kettlebells and plates around. Love the whole sound and ligbting vibe i find perfect for zoning out from outside world and getting some good work in.
Hi Paul, Thanks for taking the time to give such a positive review of our club. We are delighted to hear you love the new refurb, we put a lot of thought, effort and investment into these changes!
Positive experience: Pretty big gym and the value is really hard to beat - but the music is way too loud. 90% of everyone at a gym is wearing headphones anyways, so what's the point of blaring music? It's so loud that you can't even hear your own music. Other than that, it's a solid deal.
Thanks David for taking the time to post your feedback, we really appreciate it. Music levels are constantly monitored in the clubs but it's impossible to get this just right for every member's preference unfortunately.
Positive experience: As much as I enjoy working out with the new equipment that has been installed, I wish they brought back the previous leg curl and leg extension machines, the new ones don’t serve them justice.
Thanks for the feedback, we appreciate you taking the time to post this. New equipment is from industry leading brands and the designs are in line with enhanced ergonomics based on extensive manufacturers research and development.
Fantastic experience: Great gym, but you need to open for longer periods on weekends (sorry!)
Hi Nicola, thanks for your feedback. Our opening hours are based on a number of factors including usage and staff rostering.
Positive experience: Yeah been going there for a few months now ,it’s grand for getting your workout in and can’t really fault it They did the pace up and it looks good The new Technogym machines kinda suck compared to old machines doh
Hi Brian, Thanks for your feedback. We spent a long time in the market reviewing equipment and we selected best in class products from a range of industry leading brands to deliver an exceptional experience for members.
Negative experience: I’ve been a member here for 2.5 years and have always appreciated the consistent updates and great machine selection. However, this latest update has been disappointing. The gym replaced all equipment with Technogym machines, compromising functionality for a uniform aesthetic. Many of the best and most-used machines, including the bicep curl machine, ab crunch machine, leg extension/hamstring curl machines, and pec deck machine, have been removed or replaced with less effective alternatives. These changes have reduced the effectiveness of workouts and feel like a downgrade for regular users.
Hi Owen, we are sorry to hear you are not happy with our significant investment in the club but we understand that everyone will have their own preferences and opinion on this. It is important to say that we did not choose Technogym for a "uniform aesthetic" as you suggest, we are in this game far to long to be wowed with style over function. Rather we spent a lot of time researching the latest equipment in the market and after extensive evaluation we chose to include Technogym's selectorised strength and cardio lines along with other best in class brands of equipment, such as Booty Builder, to deliver a premium experience to members. Technogym is a brand used in many top facilities globally and is the preferred supplier to many sporting teams, sports stars and of course the Olympic Training Village, all of whom could not afford to compromise on functionality. So, while we understand you don't like it, it's really not a downgrade!
Fantastic experience: Brillant gym , what a job they have done, all brand new equipment, the painting and lighting is great now thats it’s finished, plenty of everything no waiting around for machines, Great job well done to all involved. 10/10
Thanks so much for the positive review Stephen - we are delighted you are happy with the upgrades!
Fantastic experience: Great place friendly staff, loads of space and never waiting, in house barbers is an added bonus
Thanks for this positive feedback Enda
Fantastic experience: New refurb is awsome. Top of the range equipment going in finally. Its on the way now to best gym in dublin for sure.
Thanks Anthony, there's even more to come!! Stay tuned.
Positive experience: Academia completa, ambiente descontraído. Ótimo custo X benefício.
Fantastic experience: He estado entrenando en este gimnasio durante el último año y, en general, estoy bastante satisfecho. El gimnasio es grande y tiene todo lo necesario para un entrenamiento completo. Las áreas de pesas y cardio están bien equipadas, con una buena variedad de máquinas y suficiente espacio para entrenar cómodamente, incluso durante las horas punta. El ambiente es agradable, y el personal siempre está dispuesto a ayudar o a darte algún consejo si lo necesitas. Aprecio que el gimnasio esté bien organizado y limpio; esto crea un entorno de entrenamiento positivo. Es cierto que no dispone de sauna, piscina u otras instalaciones adicionales que algunos gimnasios más caros pueden ofrecer, pero si lo que buscas es un lugar donde entrenar con lo esencial, este gimnasio cumple perfectamente con ese propósito. Uno de los puntos más fuertes es el precio. Al pagar por todo el año, se obtiene una buena relación calidad-precio. Si no necesitas extras como spa o piscina, es una opción realmente económica. Aunque podría haber más servicios, el costo accesible lo compensa. En resumen, este gimnasio es una opción sólida para quienes buscan un lugar amplio, bien equipado y asequible para entrenar. No tiene lujos adicionales, pero cumple muy bien con su propósito y es ideal para mantener una rutina de ejercicio sin gastar de más.
Fantastic experience: Highly recommend this gym. Lovely attention, good equipment and nice staff.
Positive experience: Decent gym, lots of equipment, drinking water fountain. Be careful with the showers as the water is so ridiculously hot that it will burn you, there is no way to adjust it but there is one cold shower.
Fantastic experience: Nice gym. Not expensive. Nice and helpful staff.
Positive experience: All good but no swimming pool there
Fantastic experience: Nice gym, plenty of machines and its not really crowded
Fantastic experience: One of the best gyms in the area and certainly the largest
Negative experience: I was due to renew my membership and was asking for some discount. Unfortunately Bendunne Gym Blanchardstown treats all members the same, no discount doesn't matter if you are new or existing member.Pity!!!
Negative experience: It's a good gym with wide variety of equipment but Way too busy, in my opinion. Need to come in with a group of 5 and swap equipment between each other like most people there do in order to get anything done
Negative experience: Why does the music need to be so loud? I can't ever listen to my own things in my headphones...
Fantastic experience: State of the art weight lifting gym in Dublin. I paid 10€ for a daily pass, more than worth it, the receptionist was welcoming and the gym has got basically everything you need for any kind of workout. Will be back anytime I’m in Dublin. There is lockers but padlocks are not provided/sold, so you gotta bring your own.
Fantastic experience: Clean and nice spot for workout
Fantastic experience: Quite simply the largest and best equipped gym I've ever been to (and I'm a regular traveller and gym-goer). Excellent quality equipment, well used but in great condition; multiple types of every conceivable rack, bar, bench, plate loaded and cable machines. Friendly staff, day passes available, excellent. One side note, I'm not a fan of the number or tone of the member behaviour signs, they seem really over the top. It's not enough to deter or detract from an otherwise excellent gym, but it did seem a bit overbearing. I understand gyms need rules and I gladly follow them, but there are better ways of getting people to come along with you.
Positive experience: Good place
Fantastic experience: Great gym for the price, alot of space after removing the swimming pool reducing the crowding from before. Staff are generally friendly and helpful, not as well equipped as Westside or Fyre but does the job.
Positive experience: One of the best...am missing the sauna n the pool though
Negative experience: No more Spa and the nice swimming pool! It is very bad and sad. No point anymore to go there.
Fantastic experience: Popped in for a guest visit recently and it was a very positive experience. Huge private car park reserved for clients so no issues parking. Don't know if I've ever seen a bigger gym inside - hundreds of machines (cardio and weights), free weights, smaller rooms for classes etc. For the rowers reading this, there were about 10 concept2 in decent condition. Staff were very helpful and kind. Equipment well maintained and clean. For info you need a padlock for the lockers, though on my visit the staff were kind enough to lend me one. Warm powerful showers. Happy to return on next visit to Dublin or recommend to others.
Fantastic experience: Easily one of the most spacious gyms with lot of diverse equipment. Even during the busiest times, never have to wait for more than 5 mins.
Fantastic experience: Great space for training.
Fantastic experience: Good
Positive experience: I've been an annual member here for a few years. It was one of the best gyms I've ever been to. It had a sauna, steam room and swimming pool. but then they removed everything to get more members. Now ??? It's just the ordinary place so I canceled my membership.
Fantastic experience: For five incredible years, I've been a dedicated regular at this gym, and the transformation has been astounding. Going from skinny to muscular, I've built nearly every muscle in my body here. With just the right amount of essential equipment, it cuts through the fluff found in other overpriced, gimmicky gyms that prey on those who don't understand muscle gain. I've proudly recommended this gym to over 10 people, including my girlfriend, and they all love it too. The camaraderie and support found here is simply unmatched. The only thing that could make this gym even more amazing would be to bring back the pool and jacuzzi. Those were truly the golden days, and their return would complete this already outstanding fitness experience.
Fantastic experience: Amazing Gym! It pretty much has all the workout equipments you need to stay fit. Great location, and facilities.
Fantastic experience: Nice gym
Fantastic experience: Great place! So reasonably priced, too. It's pretty unbeatable! Except for just one thing.... Most people who go to the gym bring their own ear buds or ear phones to listen to their own music as they work out. So WHY is the music in the gym played so loudly? I went and bought really expensive noise cancelling ear buds, for this very reason, yet a lot of the time I can STILL hear the gym's music in the background??? Turn it down a bit please, guys!
Hi Colin, thanks for taking the time to give us this feedback. The loud music is definitely part of our vibe but I will pass this onto our management team in the club for consideration!
Negative experience: They made a new promotional video showing tons of new equipment and machines, so I join and then less than 3 days later the entirety of the fleet of new machines completely disappears. Staff are none the wiser and don’t know why they have all gone, can’t even give any reason or explanation for it and don’t seem to know if they’ll even be coming back. Very shoddy business tactics, very strange how a new promotional video gets posted and the social media coverage says there is new machines and then all of a sudden everything gets removed. Tried cancelling membership but they will not issue any refunds over the matter.
Fantastic experience: Great gym, excellent selection of cardio and strength and conditioning equipment available.
Fantastic experience: Nice place
Fantastic experience: Top class gym.
Fantastic experience: Just bought my 8th or something membership today, best gym in Blanch. So much equipment, right next to the center and the year membership is such good value. Will always recommend
Positive experience: No swimming pool. Otherwise good value for money.
Fantastic experience: Gimnasio muy recomendable, muy barato y gran variedad de máquinas.
Fantastic experience: This is a big gym.they removed the swimming pool san sauna. So plenty of space to train.great to clear the head.and the music is not to loud.
Positive experience: A good gym if you just want to do your own thing. Busy at peck time and classes fill fast. The equipment is well maintained.
Negative experience: The gym itself is great however the direct debit system is terrible it tried to take payment yesterday when it couldn’t they cancelled my membership instantly without a retry or anything just an email saying membership cancelled and only thing you can do is sign up all over again which is a hassle and also means paying the sign up fee I’ve been a member for 5 months but after this I’m not joining again
Fantastic experience: May be best one with varities machines.
Fantastic experience: Great gym...so many different machines and benches to suit all training needs...plus super cheap 249 for a year!!
Negative experience: Huge gym, but way too much people. Any day from 5 - 9 pm it's crazy. Your looking at 20 - 30 minutes to get to one machine
Fantastic experience: Top gym, I don't mind the monthly membership fees of €29 but having to pay €20 also as a joining fee is ridiculous.
Fantastic experience: Nice gym, some people are sleeping on the machines when it's busy but other than that the gym it's nice
Fantastic experience: Great Gym with a lot of machines to exercise and also for the best price in Dublin
Negative experience: The gym itself is not bad, however, we missed a dd and even tho I have wrote an email to see how can we pay for the gym since it seemed like dd will not represent, automatic answer said will get an answer in the next 3-5 working days, and two days after I got an email from Ben Dunne our membership is canceled because dd was not paid. No second try in dd, no answer, wrote another email after, still haven't gotten an answer back. We have paid again like we are joining for the first time which is ridiculous and there should be a better way to manage non contract plans. If dd was missed there should be a link on the website where you can go an manually pay cause there could be million of reasons dd could be missed.
Fantastic experience: Love being back in gym
Fantastic experience: Nice and wonderfull place for gym. Many space many everthing. Just wonderfull
Positive experience: Good gym and lots of machines so you don't need to wait for ages to use it... But I would give 5 stars if they had the "curved assault treadmill" and the climbing machine like flyefit Blanchardstown... is the only thing missing in this gym.
Fantastic experience: Huge gym , good equipments but too crowded
Positive experience: A lot of space, if you can go at the right time of the day, will be almost empty, if you can't, you will struggle (too much people at peek hours)
Fantastic experience: Great gym, very clean and nice people
Negative experience: I go there almost everyday and most of the time it’s always crowded. You just have to know when to come in. Plus there’s no swimming pool which they once had… another star gone sadly
Fantastic experience: Good money/value gym
Fantastic experience: Hi Ben it’s been awhile. Rick the bar men
Positive experience: Good staff pavel is first class instructor
Fantastic experience: Clean . Organised. Renovated recently. I like it.
Fantastic experience: Staff are great, plenty of machines and floor space, just hope they bring back the classes soon
Fantastic experience: Excellent hair cut!
Fantastic experience: GREAT GYM ,GREAT EQUIPMENT
Fantastic experience: Good gym, nice new look!
Positive experience: Good quality but packed after 3pm.
Fantastic experience: Well equipped and neat place
Fantastic experience: Great gym!
Fantastic experience: Cheap with everything you need to do a work out and kept Clean
Fantastic experience: I love this gym! Very big, loads of equipment and very clean.
Fantastic experience: Much better gym now the pool is gone
Fantastic experience: Nice gym
Fantastic experience: Nice gym
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