It's like Benidorm! Fury as upmarket David Lloyd lures 'undesirables' who 'make ... trends now

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It trades on its squeaky-clean image as the upmarket predecessor to the many newer gyms on the high street.

But members of David Lloyd clubs are up in arms after the chain began to admit ‘undesirables’ on cheap temporary memberships who act like ‘it’s Benidorm’ inside the premises, it was reported yesterday.

David Lloyd, which runs more than 100 health clubs across the UK that can cost more than £200 a month in membership fees, is facing the backlash over a two-week trial promotion, which can be had for as little as £14.

Some ‘two-weekers’ signing up allegedly make the clubs look ‘more like a council-run leisure centre’, with threats, thefts and damage to cars among the negative behaviour said to have occurred.

David Crutchlow, 45, told The Times that he was too scared to return to his local branch in Rugby after complaining about a gang of men making too much noise in the Jacuzzi. The men then ‘pushed [him] in the changing room where there is no CCTV’, he claimed.