10 Best Fitness Clubs in Phuket

Possibly one of the best-equipped gyms in Phuket, the Health Club at Royal Phuket Marina has multiple floors of first-class equipment, including an entire floor of just weight training and strength equipment. There are also excellent tennis courts on-site and classes available in Body Combat, spinning, body balance and yoga. Such high-quality facilities cannot be used by drop-in customers and the minimum membership period is 1 month, costing around 6,000 baht, although week-long retreats are also available.

A modern and well-equipped facility, Nai Harn Gym boasts a full selection of cardio equipment featuring mostly Stex brand machines, as well as a complete weights area and an Olympic bench area. There are generally multiple machines of each type (ensuring that you’re not constantly waiting for other people to finish), all of them kept clean and well-maintained so that the cool, air-conditioned space positively glistens.

You can buy a 1-day membership that gives you full access to all of this as well as the free towel service, free bananas and free lockers in the changing rooms with showers.

At 23 hectares, Thanyapura is one of the biggest sports training facility on Phuket. It features 2 world-class hotels, an award-winning organic restaurant, Olympic-standard swimming pools, a large and experienced staff and facilities for tennis, football, rugby, cycling, track-and-field, as well as Jacuzzis, saunas, steam rooms, a full selection of gym equipment, group classes and much more. They even have an on-site medical centre and a unique mind training centre.

Thanyapura’s outstanding facilities have attracted world champion athletes such as Maria Sharapova, Jenson Button and the national swimming teams of Australia, Great Britain and The Netherlands, among others. Many of the facilities can be used with a day pass.

Despite being apparently a hotel fitness room for Royal Phuket City Hotel, Club Asia Fitness is actually one of the top fitness clubs in Phuket, offering 1,000 sq m of Star Trac cardio machines – including Concept 2 rowers – as well as Body Solid and TechnoGym weight machines and a spacious free weights section.

Unlike most hotel fitness rooms, Club Asia has a full range of classes available, changing rooms and steam rooms. Naturally, this sort of high quality comes with a cost, and the gym is not open to non-members and walk-ins. There's a joining fee, but also a considerable range of perks that come with being a member, including free water, coffee and shower gel, as well as introductory training sessions, spa treatments and drinks.

A custom-built fitness, weight loss and conditioning centre, Unit 27 was the first official CrossFit-affiliated gym in Phuket. It specialises in seriously intensive training, with the motto of “go hard or go home”. To that end, it has an excellent range of state-of-the-art equipment, including Olympic-standard weightlifting, a wide choice of workout machines and more specialised CrossFit equipment. They also have a high-quality Swedish sauna, ice baths, advanced body composition measurement machines and an on-site physiotherapist among an experienced, dedicated team. Walk-in sessions (with a mandatory 2-hour advanced booking) cost about 400 baht.

Located in The Future Plaza, near Patong Beach, Maximum Fitness offers extensive world-class facilities as well as MMA and Muay Thai training with a world-class team. The weight training facilities alone look almost endless, with the addition of brand new boxing rings, a cage, a grappling area and a full selection of cardio machines, with more than 1 of most machines so you can always find somewhere to work out. Day passes for just the fitness facilities start from around 400 baht, or 550 baht to add yoga.

There are 2 SmartGym facilities in Phuket, with the best of them being the Chana Charoen Road branch in Phuket Town. It boasts good-quality Star Trac and Body Solid equipment, with 8 treadmills, 6 exercise bikes, 3 striders and 2 steppers, among other machines. At 180 baht per day, it's one of the cheaper gyms of this level of quality in Phuket, but it's also more modest, with no air conditioning (plenty of wall fans, though) and a smaller weight training area. There are separate changing rooms with showers and steam rooms.

FX Fitness is a clean and modern gym with a large, well-equipped studio, located on the main road just to the north of Rawai. They specialise in cross-training and high-intensity interval training (HIIT). The gym is fitted out with modern and well-maintained equipment, supervised by friendly and experienced trainers. Classes start from just 99 baht each.