How Much Is The Most Expensive Gym In Australia
I joined the most expensive gym and here is my review.
TLDR
Gym and Wellness Centre
$165 weekly membership (that’s my tier)
In Newstead
Instagram @totalfusionplatinum
The Basics
Total Fusion is a $75 million dollar complex with two huge levels dedicated to a gym and the third floor a rooftop wellness centre. It also has a wellness wing downstairs that costs you a gentle $250 per week to be a member of.
It’s membership only and they do offer tours of the facility before joining. You can join for 3 or 6 months or have an ongoing membership. Parking is available in a public lot next door and members get three hours free.
My Experience
Is it the most expensive in Australia, I don’t know for sure but c’mon surely there isn’t another gym more than $250 a week?
Firstly I want to say I’m on a $165 weekly membership and have been a member since November 2023. I am aware that for a gym that’s a fucking huge amount of money. At first I was like ‘who would pay this?’. This is so stupid, for a gym? No way i’ll ever do that.
Then I started seeing tiktok tours and hot models post about this place. I decided to have a tour just because I was curious as to why this was so talked about. Firstly they told me there was a co-working space which meant I could work from here thus justifying this membership as a business expense. WINNER! I work for myself and want the ATO to know that I use this gym as my office. I’m literally here everyday.
The tour made me froth for this place, the gym was good but it was all about level 3, the rooftop.
The gym floors are huge and even have a rock climbing wall and an altitude room. I usually skip the gym and go straight to the rooftop wellness centre. It is AMAZING, It’s like a resort. A large pool surrounded by padded deck chairs sourced from something out of Architectures Digest, umbrellas and a cafe. You head inside and down to the change rooms and pop your stuff in a locker. Then you head up to the roof where you can jump in one of four warm magnesium spas, three cold plunges, salt room, snow room, steam room, dry sauna and 8 inferred saunas.
There is a women’s only section with four saunas and a cold and warm plunge, which I think is a great idea. THere is no ‘mens only’ and I put that down to the fact it would likely become a sex venue if that was the case. The gays of Newstead are always so thirsty.
What the fuck is a snow room? It’s a room about the size of an ensuite bathroom with a swing in it. There is a nozzle on the roof which I guess sprays a mist and snow builds up on all the surfaces in the room.
Proper snow you can pick up and throw. However this place is so fancy you are just supposed to sit on the swing in the cold and reap the benefits. SO BORING I KNOW! However you can make a snow angel if you want to but I dont think I’d be getting on the floor.
What is a Salt Room? When you order your vegan cabbage fries from the cafe you head to the salt room and hold them up in front of a vent that adds some himalayan rock salt. Obviously that’s not what it’s for! Salt rooms are a place you sit for about 20 minutes and fine salt particles are pumped into the air and you breathe them in. BEFORE YOU CALL BULLSHIT its to increase immunity and help aid in cleaning and sanitizing your sinuses. As a big hayfever sufferer I live in this room. After about 15 minutes your nose starts to get runny and you know its doing the trick.
I have been coming here often. I’m lucky I don’t have a 9-5 job and so I show up in the middle of the day and it’s relatively quiet. I sit in the salt room for about 30 minutes, then sit in the steam room for 12 minutes then jump in the 4 degree cold pool for as long as I can handle and into the warm magnesium spas.
I try to do this a few times a week and because my body is so fucked this routine has been such a privilege. I have seen people pay $175 for a 2 hour visit to a spa. The weekly expense isn’t lost on me and I’m so lucky that I earn enough to justify this cost. I don’t smoke or drink so money I’d be spending on that goes to paying for this.
I still get the odd look of ‘I cannot believe you pay that much’ but for me it works itself out to $33 per visit if I go 5 times a week. That’s the price of a cocktail!
P.S If you decided to order off their menu they do an insane Vietnamese Chicken Salad. Also you can be a member and let a friend experience what it’s like but it will cost you……
