Fairtex bangplee. Short review.
I stayed here for 4 days. Firstly anyone staying, just get a metered taxi. 250b from airport. Don't bother to use their transfer service.
Training starts at 7-9, 3-5. With breakfast, dinner at 9 and 5. So in reality you will train 7-8.30 and 3-4.30 to shower/dress etc before eating. All staff were friendly. Which ever trainer you have on day one will stay with you. 5 rings, 12 or so different style bags, some in better condition than others. There is a swimming pool and a weights gym that I didn't use. Imo everything, the gym, rooms were dirty. I can imagine the place being really nice when it was new, but the place isn't well maintained at all. The first room they put me in had a leaking AC so I had to switch to a room with bad wifi connection. I'm pretty sure the swimming pool attracts more mosquitoes. I must have ended up with 30+bites. This is after spening 20 mins each night mosquito hunting before sleeping. The rooms are gloomy, dark, no tv just beds, fridge, shower toliet and everything looks run down and dirty. On to the training. Before I start, other people staying told me how much they love it there and one guy said he's staying for 3 months cause he like it so much. Training for me was, run (sometimes) which is up and down the car park by myself. Skipping. 5 pad rounds. Then my trainer said its up to me what I want to do next and normally left. Once I told him I wanted to spar he looked annoyed. He gave me one pad round and told me to spar with one of the other people training but he wanted to do his pad rounds, so my trainer reluctantly spared 2 rounds and told me to do bags. As my trainer was a champion, he just spent the time we spared showboating, don't think I learned anything. I was fucked off at this point as he cut out my pad rounds to one. On my second last day, I gave him a small tip, not cause I was happy with him but cause I mostly always tip. I think it humbled him and he gave me a really good session on my last day. Which just shows to me how lazy he was rest of the week. He corrected me twice in 4 days, and helped me with my low kicks. So I guess it wasn't complete waste of time. I'm glad to be out of there tbh. More of a relief. 15% off at the shop for fairtex members. The shop wasn't well stocked at the time. Really nothing in medium. If the training was better, I could have lived with the dirt, mosquitos. I guess it just depends which trainer you get. I wouldn't go back. Especaily tthe prices they charge.
I can definatly see how some people would like it though, I highly recommend staying 1-2 days before committing.
which I really appreciated. Sessions for me started with 10-15 mins skipping, stretching, wrap hands, then normally on to pads. I did shadow boxing rarely. After pad bag drills then situps. Sometimes bags, chinups, pressups. Basically structure for me at least was lacking but I didn't mind as 30-40 mins on pads mostly tired me out. My other friends said they had a lot of structure with their trainers. For the most part I was mostky with the same trainer but occationally when he was busy and another trainer caught me doing something wrong or looking a bit lost, they would call me over and help. If you are looking for group work, you're not getting it here, at least we didn't, maybe for bigger groups. The gym itself is quite small but it's big enough. 1 ring 8 bags. Lots of fans and mirrors. All bags are same type. The rooms are 3 mins away. The owner bow hand picked all the trainers there from PBG.
