Melbourne City Baths

What a beautiful and historic inner city leisure centre. Beautiful architecture, unique and light filled Lap swimming pool. Pool a little warm… but not too warm and it was summer and warm-whilst I last visited.. FANTASTIC locker and change room facilities with iron and hairdryers. Step back into the city looking and feeling great. Toni and ALL her staff that morning were very professional and accommodating and helped make it perfect end to my city stay… too marks to all the staff

Read all the reviews but still expected it would be different. But I had to wait for like 20mins just to talk to the staffs about details of classes and membership. After 20 mins finally got chance to talk, but not fully attending on me 😥 so I ended up getting not much information and wasted my time. they seem busy and need more staffs. That long waiting time made me that I don't want to join here 😮‍💨

I visited in Dec 2023, and if you're wanting to know the contents of the gym, it is the following: - Strength Room, with 3 power rack/deadlift combo areas, one bench press, one incline bench, one reverse hyper, dumbbell sets - Gym Machines Room, with cable machine, row machine, pec deck, lat pulldown, also dumbbell sets. (All the machines are pretty new TechnoGym gear). - Cardio Area, heaps of rowers, bikes, and treadmills. Also appears to be cross trainers, and rope treadmills. Only critique is the single bench press, which I'd imagine would become a bottleneck during peak periods.

I was reluctant to write this review as I was very embarrassed by my experience. I had decided to come to the bath house on my day off with my friend for a relaxing and enjoyable experience which had been recommended to me. In the bath house I was approached by a staff member accusing me of being inappropriate in front of other guest, stating that i was wearing nothing under my towel. I was wearing a bathing suit, shorts while also being wrapped by my towel. The staff member shouted at me saying “are you wearing bathers underneath your towel?!” In front of male and female guests. The female staff should of pulled me aside and asked discretely. This left me feeling embarrassed and unable to enjoy the experience i had paid for, as i felt judged for doing nothing wrong which i felt like would not of happened if i was a caucasian woman in the same scenario which there were many other women with towels wrapped around them. I hope for future everyone is treated in the same standard and no other minority females will be singled out and shamed within this establishment.