FLYEfit Portobello

Positive experience: Went mainly to portobello and found it a nice gym, went up a notch when they got new equipment and staff are very friendly

Positive experience: Good gym with a lot of space and a different variety of machines. But not all cardio machines are working. From 3 stairsteppers usually works only one or two, but never all of them.

Negative experience: thanks to the terrible machines in this gym, I’ve developed anger issues , Not gonna say anything else , my first and my last month

Positive experience: Too small place and missing a lot of machines

Positive experience: I’ve seen this gym get upgrades through-out the years and it’s fantastic. But the new equipment installed in 2025 isn’t friendly to short people. Example: the leg curl machines are awkward and can easily fold / break my legs backwards from the knees. The sitting back pulldown machine can’t be easily reached. The sitting calves machine sits too low you can’t raise the weights when you stretch your calves. You can’t adjust the height for many of the new equipment.

Negative experience: Despite say that it opens at 5.30am this Monday morning 3 /4 people was outside until 6pm and the gym was still not opened. A real inconvenience.

Fantastic experience: I really love training at Flyefit Portobello. The classes are fun and varied, and the instructors are fantastic, they actually pay attention to your progress/technique and make sure you’re doing things right. I’ve found mornings and weekends to be the best times to go since the gym is super tidy and easy to get around. For the price, location, and the amount of classes you get, it’s honestly such good value. Definitely worth checking out if you’re looking for a great place to train!

Positive experience: There are no good machines for abs.

Negative experience: The classes are good but I can never use a machine they are always busy because they are few for the number of people who go to this gym, besides I have read comments about robberies that scary! Please do something about it!

Negative experience: Lowering rating - Tired of lack of privacy when you do exercise and when you mention it to team members, they told you there is plenty of spaces…at 6pm? Yeah right, at home maybe. Same with changing rooms, people goes to do content, not exercise and somehow that is allowed by management

Fantastic experience: Great gym , has everything I need and instructors are friendly and helpful.

Negative experience: During a recent visit, I encountered a staff member, Cathy Mc Manus, who was unexpectedly rude and cynical without any clear reason. I found her attitude unprofessional and it genuinely affected the quality of my visit. A gym should be a welcoming and respectful environment, and unfortunately, this interaction left a negative impression.

Positive experience: Limited quantity of equipment, but works

Negative experience: Tomem cuidado que arrombaram o cadeado que estava no locker da minha namorada e roubaram o MacBook, cartões e documentos dela que estavam TRANCADOS no espaço da academia. Essa academia virou um perigo evitem.

Negative experience: I wish there was a way to give this hell a negative number of stars. Horrible gym experience. Went to the class on time. Got lost in the gym because of poor signs. Class was within some fire exit doors. Reached 7 minutes late and the instructor denied me entry. I explained her the situation, but she felt the need to humiliate me in front of everyone, probably because I’m someone of colour. Very disrespectful and inconsiderate people. She could very well check my entry time in the gym or talk to the people on the front desk (I asked them for directions twice and was confused as hell so they knew I was actually lost; front desk people were nice though). Don’t know where the rudeness and the terrible attitude in the instructor came from. Will be cancelling my membership. Boxing instructor isn’t interested in teaching boxing. Bro does a boxing dance step and expects people to learn boxing that way. Doesn’t pair people properly. I was paired with someone really strong on my first day and almost broke my wrist. Gave no proper guidance. My two cents, invest in a better gym if you want to learn. The service is just like the price — cheap.

Negative experience: Old machines and too small

Negative experience: This gym sucks. Only one quadriceps extension machine. The cables on the rowing pulleys on the main floor are so short that you can't use them or if you put any weight on them you get injured trying to grab them. All the new main floor equipment has a totally irritating seat locking system that slips out of position. The staff are not able to set you up with a routine or correct you if you are doing an exercise wrong. -10 Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Positive experience: Would give it 5 stars but one of the female staff gave me a bit of lip earlier this year.

Negative experience: Edit: Pls we don’t need more neon lights just functional water fountains. I have so many bones to pick with this gym. Only one leg extension machine, Roman chair, hip thrust machine, no jump ropes, and it’s clearly catered towards men/upper body machines making it very difficult to hit lower body when it is more busy. The layout is extremely confusing and the water fountains are constantly breaking and leaking and when they work they’re very slow. Overall it has an odd combination of very quality upper body machines and machines that are barely functional. frustratingly busy and cramped most days

Negative experience: First off there is only one leg extension machine that i can find. There is always a freaking queue like what gym has only one leg extension machine?? Also the free weight area benches are all non standard like who was these benches built for? Midgets? Overall pretty big and spacious but some equipments are just so bad I never knew I would be this pissed off about a gym. Edit: lowered the rating to 2 because I just cant stand these benches. Get a standard one not these freaking dogshit

Negative experience: Better gyms in India

Positive experience: Great classes and trainers! Can get a bit full during peak times, though. Also, I wished the dance classes would not be at the same time as the pump/strong classes… they can get quite noisy.

Negative experience: Cuidado, me sacaron 50 euros del locker no se como, estaba asegurado , no lo reporte porque en esa área de lockers no tienen cámaras que clase de gente entra al gym Espero que a esa necesitada, le ayude, porque debe estar muerta de hambre para abrir lockers y sacar las pertenencias de uno

Negative experience: Techno music is insanely loud in the mornings in the astro area (outside class times) — you can’t even hear your own music.

Negative experience: Calling this place a gym is an insult to gyms. Machines are old broken and disgusting. Nothing is organized with dumbbells in the most random order. All the machines are so close to each other you have no space to move. The layout of this gym is like a maze. And the worst part is NO ONE USES TOWELS OR CLEANS AFTER THEMSELVES. The only reason it gets one star is because Google doesn’t allow for zero stars.

Negative experience: What is the deal with the water fountains in this building? It’s been 1 year since I came here and it’s embarrassing to get water in this place. This week there’s just 2 “working”. Please fix that. Come on

Negative experience: Rude staff and no ability to have a quick guide through the gym before attending, also online self service only.

Positive experience: The gym's only leg extension machine has been broken for two weeks now.

Negative experience: Equipment is always broken or in poor condition. The gym is big, but it lacks essential machines. Worst gym I've ever trained at.

Negative experience: The fountain is never working, never!

Negative experience: I've never seen such nonsense. They locked the locker rooms to clean them before the gym even closed. We've been waiting outside for half an hour with a bunch of people, just hoping they'll open the door so we can grab our stuff and leave. As far as I know, cleaning is done after people are gone. Making people wait outside for half an hour—what kind of rudeness is this?!

Positive experience: Very handy as very cheap but definitely lack of hygiene/ care of the location/ material. Very basic but I guess this is why we chose Flyefit.

Negative experience: Another price raise hidden in a "Exciting Updates at FLYEfit" email. How many price raises in the past 2 years? The portobello gym has mould on the ceilings and loads of machines with problems, the extra money just seems to be for profit.

Positive experience: The gym could be cleaner and have more equipment. There are many machines for exercises I don’t do and very few for the ones I use the most.

Fantastic experience: Lovely gym with great staff. I go for classes and it’s amazing ‍♀️

Positive experience: Great gym and great staff……….but at the moment they have 10 treadmills and 4 are out of order. Some of the 4 out of order for a while. Any chance of these been fixed soon?

Fantastic experience: expanded and very clean

Positive experience: Witnessed a horrible scene today at the dance class (which is amazing, super fun and the participants all like, a lot of us come every wednesday). The PT Franciska came in nearly at the end of the class and started being extremely rude with Priscilla (dance teacher), calling her out for not turning the volume down.. IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CLASS.. so humiliating. The class tried to defend Priscilla and Franciska started arguing with the gym clients too!!! SO UNPROFESSIONAL. Yes, other teachers complained about the volume of the music before, and Priscilla did turn it down a little every time, but apparently it was still too loud outside. but it’s doesn’t justify being that rude with both your colleague and the clients like that... Horrible attitude. they could’ve talked about it some other time, after the class ended, or even just ask her out in the hallway to talk. There are better ways to solve conflicts Franciska was way more unprofessional and she made the whole class feel disrespected.

Positive experience: I really can't understand how a gym of this size is not adequately equipped and the equipment is poorly positioned. Why don't they put equipment for the same muscle groups in the same space?

Negative experience: Very very filthy gym , never seen anyone cleaning , zero ventilation. Absolutely wont renew .

Positive experience: Closes late which I really appreciate but the gyms layout is all over the place.

Positive experience: Good gym, please fix the lat pulldown machine (plates) on the ground floor it’s broken for over 3 weeks! Edit1: 3 more weeks, still broken.

Positive experience: UPDATE: They fixed most of the issues I mentioned since this review. They installed a Pendulum Squat and a few other machines. They installed a bunch of new cable racks and added two more lat Pulldowns. They put a Dumbell rack downstairs so the stairs issue is no longer there. Great job! Just get a standing calve raise and maybe a second Leg Extension and we’re sorted. FLYEfit Portabello is relatively affordable and has a decent variety of equipment. The staff is very friendly and will always give out great advice when asked. However, I do have a few issues with FLYEfit in general and the Portabello location. Firstly, having two flights of stairs between the two weight lifting sections is a little frustrating. I understand that the structure of the building is awkward but maybe it could be laid out more effectively. The main issue is with the equipment. I can’t stand that the standard of equipment varies so greatly across FLYEfit gyms. Each gym will have different machines and manufacturers to the other. For example, most Flyfits have a Pendulum Squat and the nice Matrix Hack Squat with shoulder pads, this one doesn’t for some reason. FLYEfit Jervis just feels like a different experience altogether than Portabello. Some Gyms have nice Hammerstrength machines but others don’t. It’s confusing. That’s really the main issue. I’d prefer if the equipment was consistent across all gyms.

Fantastic experience: Very nice and knowledgeable staff, Ian was very kind and helpful in the gym introduction. Good vibes in general, and this is one of the cheapest gyms in Dublin I believe (for sure the cheapest of the ones I was a member of in the past six years or so)

Fantastic experience: Good gym.

Fantastic experience: Great gym, full of all types of equipment

Fantastic experience: Really good gym.

Fantastic experience: Great place good gym plenty of weight.

Fantastic experience: You can't beat this gym,get fit with a smile.

Fantastic experience: Large gym with good selection of weights and machines, covid measures are still in place with no issues

Fantastic experience: A gym I fell in love with.

Positive experience: Decent gym for the price you pay. After covid they have blocked off the mezzanine floor. Battle ropes and prowler are no longer available. Space is very limited to do your workout. Few of the machines like treadmill and rows are not working and haven't been fixed. Staff are friendly.

Fantastic experience: Amazing stay! Melyssa is the best host, very informative and willing to help. The level of cleanliness is great! The decor and styling is beautiful! And the beds are hotel-quality!

Fantastic experience: Much bigger than I expected, loads of space. All the equipment/machines one could desire ☺️

Fantastic experience: The gym is great, they have all the equipment that i need, very compliant under covid, and love that the classes are built into the gym fees

Fantastic experience: I've been attending this gym for about two years. They've done a fantastic job of dealing with the pandemic and it feels really good going back.

Fantastic experience: Love coming here. And staff are so helpful

Positive experience: I would say that is good enough to exercise in. There's a lot of amenities over there besides that the price is the the best one.

Fantastic experience: Love coming here. And staff are so helpful

Fantastic experience: Amazing Gym.... 24 hours, 7 days a week... If you really want to increase your health it`s definitely the right place. Sometimes it's a little bit full, but no problem. I really love it!! Thank you very much for the experience <3

Fantastic experience: For me this is one of the best FLYEfit gyms in Dublin. Really interesting building. It’s an old townhouse that’s been renovated as a full gym. Each floor of the “house “ has a different area of the gym. It’s cool, funky but still a no-nonsense gym where serious training can be done

Fantastic experience: 24 hour. Great Value Lovely gim

Fantastic experience: Stuff great,great gym quality

Fantastic experience: I go to gym. Usually it's packed in evening.But pretty good place with all equipment

Fantastic experience: Crowded but well maintained gym.

Fantastic experience: Great gym with plenty of free weights. 24/7. Even for 1 time enterance you will need a credit card with a magnetic stripe.

Fantastic experience: Good place to lift weights, big and full equipments, a lot of dumbells, banchs, machines and etc. The place is full between 6pm and 9pm, but it is normal in any gym that time of the day. Good change room, but the showers could be hotter.

Fantastic experience: I go to gym. Usually it's packed in evening.But pretty good place with all equipment

Fantastic experience: Nice gym, some great free classes and friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Love this gym! However, it must be rough for the people living upstairs (over the gym) when i gym is in full swing at 1am - 9am. Maybe we could all be more considerate and not use the steep incline ramp or deadlift at 3am? Its only small but it's something. We cab be amazing together.

Fantastic experience: Joined up about three weeks ago very impressed So far. Great gym plenty of free classes for various levels of fitness at various times of the day (afternoon and evening) 7 days a week. the equipment top notch just what I need and it's quite cheap to join too.

Fantastic experience: All of The flyefit gym are the dogs bollox

Fantastic experience: Everything you need from a gym, 24 hour opening is massive plus, no excuse not to train now!

Fantastic experience: Great gym and very big. Plenty of classes are available to book online.Would love to see a hipabduction machine but am happy with the variety of equipment.Just make sure to avoid peak time. Like with all gyms you will end up waiting in a line for equipment for a while.

Fantastic experience: For a 24 hour gym it has everything you require to train in...after 9pm the music go off so bring your headphones.

Fantastic experience: The 24 hour gym! (you'll hear that approximately every 5 minutes on their radio if you join). Good price but quite crowded during the week

Fantastic experience: Great variety of classes. I’ve tried most of the classes at this point, and 90% of the instructors are really good at keeping up the energy and motivation. Classes can get crowded at peak times. Plenty of equipment, and it is generally well maintained. They are quick to respond to email feedback and suggestions. The locker room is a bit tight, but that’s the case with most gyms. In general, this gym is excellent value for money.

Fantastic experience: Go here most days of the week. Good space. Not too busy off peak

Fantastic experience: Good price for a gym in Dublin. A little bit overcrowded at certain hours.

Fantastic experience: Far and above the best of the flyefit locations. I walk well out of my way to go to this gym. Both the trainers and general gym goers are warm and friendly. There are plenty of squat racks and a huge free weight section. Their cardio section could be better and it can get very very busy at peak hours, but they have done what they can with the space available and have made it a great environment to work out in.

Fantastic experience: Great Gym just love it

Fantastic experience: Good tidy gym, great staff and there is quality in the equipments and the machines.

Fantastic experience: A great gym open 24-hours. It has a lot of classes available throughout the day and evening along with several floors with weights, machines, and workout equipment. The gym also has several personal trainers.

Fantastic experience: Nice gym, with lots of machines. It is open 24 hours.

Fantastic experience: This gym is perfect; 24 h open so u can do your cardio on your one time, is better if u have knolage about free weight lifting otherwise u don't get that much advice without paying an personal trainer. good location, nice staff , alway clean and bright!

Fantastic experience: A gym with all equipments you will need to full fill your goals(cardio and weights). So many squats racks, loads of machines, a single Smith machine, alot of open space for stretching. Very spacious even when it's fully busy at 6 pm. Opens 24h and cheap. Perfect 5 stars goes for every flyefit

Fantastic experience: Great gym. Really spacious. Exceptionally cheap. It is quite no frills in approach though, but if you know what you're doing and just want to get it done, it's great. All in, my favourite gym in Dublin -- I have been to quite a few. Amazing value.

Fantastic experience: Good gym! Too gray but still a good gym.

Fantastic experience: Lots of space. Lots of weights and room to stretch etc. A nice environment overall.

Fantastic experience: one of the best gyms in the city

Fantastic experience: Excellent 24 hour gym with lots of space and great equipment

Fantastic experience: One of the best low cost gyms I've ever been. It opens 24h. Very well equiped.

Fantastic experience: Thanks to this place. Just started working out under the vigilance of Mr. Sisco. Professional trainers and free classes. Looking forward to a great time ahead..

Fantastic experience: New equipments, tidy and clean, one of the best flyefit in Dublin in my opinion.

Fantastic experience: Great gym. It's got platforms and squat racks. Free weights go up to 55kg and the changing rooms are good too.

Fantastic experience: Clean gym with loads of facilities and it's 24hrs. It's got heavy bags!

Fantastic experience: Has everything you needs - no frills for an affodable price. Perfect for before work if you work in Charlemont / Camden St area in particular.