Best Gyms in Ho Chi Minh City (2026)

The question behind “gym in Ho Chi Minh City” is almost always the same one: what does it cost? The short answer is 400,000–900,000₫ a month at a local gym, 1,000,000–1,800,000₫ at a mid-tier chain, and around 2,200,000₫ at a premium chain like California Fitness. Boutique studios sit above that again.

Eleven places below, checked as trading in September 2026, with addresses and what each is actually for. Eight of them give Saigon Scene members a discount — at Hustle Gym that’s worth up to 1,350,000₫ on your first month, which on its own more than covers a membership.

Gyms and studios

1. Hustle Gym

26b Thao Dien Street, Thao Dien, Thu Duc (also Go Vap)

The straightforward answer if what you want is a gym rather than an experience: weights, machines, space, no concept. Two locations, which matters if you live on the wrong side of the river.

The member offer here is the biggest on this list — up to 1,350,000₫ off your first month, which is more than a year of Saigon Scene membership costs.

Best for: lifting, without paying boutique prices for it.

Saigon Scene members save up to 1,350,000₫ at Hustle Gym.

2. Train With Primal

13 Nguyen Duy Hieu, Thao Dien, Thu Duc

Three disciplines under one roof — strength, combat and movement — built around Animal Flow techniques rather than a machine circuit. Coached sessions, small groups, and a community that turns up for each other, which is the actual reason people stick with it.

If you have moved to Saigon alone and want training and a social life from the same purchase, this is the one.

Best for: coached group training, boxing and Muay Thai.

Members get 10% off at Train With Primal.

3. MOVE Vietnam

27E Vo Truong Toan, An Phu, Thu Duc

A boutique gym running specialised classes — RIDE, Hybrid and Reformer among them — rather than open-floor training. Book a class, do the class, leave. That structure suits people who won’t programme their own sessions, which is most people.

Best for: class-based training with a timetable.

Members get 10% off at MOVE Vietnam.

4. Birr Pilates

231 Nguyen Van Huong, Thao Dien, Thu Duc

Reformer pilates, done properly, in a studio that isn’t trying to also be a gym. The right call if you’re rehabbing something, or if years of desk work have caught up with you.

Best for: reformer pilates and posture work.

Members get 10% off at Birr Pilates.

5. Yoga Pod

28 Thao Dien Street, Thao Dien, Thu Duc

A dedicated yoga studio in the middle of Thao Dien, walkable from most of the neighbourhood. Yoga at the big chains is a room they also use for spin; here it isn’t.

Best for: yoga as the main event, not an add-on.

Members get 10% off at Yoga Pod.

6. Saigon Sports Club

514B Huynh Tan Phat, Tan Thuan Dong, District 7

The best option in District 7 and the most complete facility on this list — Muay Thai, boxing and Brazilian jiu-jitsu alongside yoga, group classes and a pool. If you want to train combat sports seriously in Saigon, this and Primal are the two conversations to have.

Best for: martial arts, and swimming.

7. California Fitness & Yoga

Branches across the city

The premium international chain, and the most expensive way to do this — around 2,200,000₫ a month, roughly 5,500,000₫ for three months or 17,000,000₫ for a year. What you get for it is equipment, scale, air conditioning that works, and a branch near wherever you happen to be.

Read the contract before you sign. Annual lock-ins are the norm and the monthly rate is deliberately the worst value on the sheet.

Best for: people who move around the city and want one card that works everywhere.

8. Fit24

Branches across the city

The mid-tier chain, generally 1,000,000–1,800,000₫ a month, with EMS training as the differentiator — one-to-one sessions using electrical muscle stimulation, which is either the future or a gimmick depending on who you ask. The standard gym floors are solid and considerably cheaper than California.

Best for: chain convenience without the premium price.

Not a gym, but worth knowing

9. PadelHub

90 Song Hanh Street, Thu Duc

Padel is the fastest-growing sport in Saigon and PadelHub is where it’s being played. Easier to pick up than tennis, more sociable than a gym, and the first trial class is free — which makes trying it a decision with no downside.

Members get 10% off at PadelHub. More courts in our guide to racket sports in Saigon.

10. BodyPep

93 Nguyen Hoang, An Phu, Thu Duc

Sports stretching and recovery, which is the half of training everybody skips. If you’ve come back to lifting after a few years off, an hour here will tell you more about your body than a month in the gym will.

20% off for members — the largest discount in the Saigon Scene network.

Members get 20% off at BodyPep.

11. Fox Football

28 Thao Dien, Thao Dien, Thu Duc

Football coaching for children, in Thao Dien, in English. On this list because “gym in Ho Chi Minh City” is a question a lot of newly-arrived parents are really asking on behalf of someone shorter than them.

Members get 10% off at Fox Football.

What a gym costs in Ho Chi Minh City

• Local and neighbourhood gyms — 400,000–900,000₫ a month. Weights, cardio, minimal English, excellent value.
• Mid-tier chains — 1,000,000–1,800,000₫. Fit24, Citigym and similar. Multiple branches, English spoken.
• Premium chains — around 2,200,000₫, or roughly 17,000,000₫ on an annual contract. California Fitness and equivalents.
• Boutique studios — usually class packs rather than memberships, which works out higher per session but lower if you only train twice a week.

Most expats end up spending somewhere between 800,000₫ and 4,500,000₫ a month across gym and wellness combined. Prices checked September 2026.

Choosing one, and what to check first

• Walk in at the time you’d actually train. A gym at 3pm and the same gym at 7pm are different places. Saigon’s after-work crunch is real.
• Ask about the contract, not the monthly rate. The chains discount heavily on annual and price the monthly option to push you there. Know which one you’re signing.
• Check the air conditioning. This is not a joke. Some floors are cooled and some are not, and in April that is the whole difference.
• Take the free trial. Almost everywhere offers one, including PadelHub. Use it before you pay.
• Factor in the commute. A gym twenty minutes away in Saigon traffic is a gym you will stop going to. Pick the one nearest home, not the best one.

How we picked these

Saigon Scene is based in Ho Chi Minh City. Every gym here was checked as trading in September 2026 and addresses were verified. Four venues from the previous version of this guide have been removed because their current status could not be confirmed — sending someone to a gym that has closed is worse than a shorter list.

Saigon Scene partner venues are listed first within each section and identified as such. A gym only makes the list if it earns the place.