This club costs $22k to join, there’s still a waiting list
It could be Australia’s most exclusive club. It’s got green smoothies, steam rooms and cabanas on the pool deck. Just don’t ask about the waiting list.
It’s a touch before 10am on a Wednesday but inside the Sporting Club of Sydney, it feels more like the weekend.
A weights room smelling of fresh paint is buzzing with the clatter of dumbbells and kettlebells and a thudding dance track. Around the corner off a sunny atrium, a low hum comes from a cafe overlooking a pool deck where women in Lululemon lycra wait for smoothies while suits with still-wet hair sit at tables downing scrambled eggs. Beyond the cafe, an outdoor pool glints beside stone-coloured banana-lounges.
Samantha HutchinsonNational reporterSamantha Hutchinson is the AFR's National Reporter. Most recently, she was CBD columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Before that, she covered Victorian and NSW politics and business for The Australian, the AFR and BRW Magazine. Connect with Samantha on Twitter. Email Samantha at samantha.hutchinson@afr.com.au
