Best Gyms in Siem Reap: 8 Ranked for 2026

The best gym in Siem Reap depends on what you want to train, and for beginners the strongest all-round pick is Kun Khmer Club: a daily 5:00 PM class with all gear included from a $9 day pass, under head coaches Kon Phanet and Ramon, who have 50+ professional Kun Khmer fights in Cambodia between them. This guide ranks eight gyms — Kun Khmer Club, Mr Ly Gym and Boxing, Kingdom Fight Gym, Angkor Fight Club, Ground Zero, KIRI Jiu Jitsu, The Temple Kun Khmer, and Meru Gym — against five published criteria, using each gym's own reviews and listings as the evidence. We run the gym at #1, so the criteria are written down first and applied to us exactly as to everyone else — check our work.

How Did We Rank the Best Gyms in Siem Reap?

Every gym was scored on the same five published criteria, and nothing on this page comes from claims we cannot show you — each fact links to the review, listing, or official site it came from. Where a gym publishes no prices or timetable we say "ask the gym" rather than guess, and you should do the same before paying for anything longer than a day pass. One full disclosure: we operate Kun Khmer Club, so read the criteria and then hold our entry to them harder than the rest.

1. Beginner handling — clear evidence that newcomers are coached from stance and pads, not thrown into contact
2. Coach credibility — named coaches with fighting records you can verify
3. Price transparency — published, gear-inclusive pricing and a cheap single-class way to try
4. Verified reviews — ratings on public review platforms, with the real review counts stated
5. Practical schedule — class times a short visit can actually hit

These are the same checks we recommend applying to any school, set out fully in how to know if a martial arts gym is good — and if you are still mapping the whole scene first, where to train martial arts in Siem Reap covers every discipline and gym type in town.

1. Kun Khmer Club — Cambodia's Art, Beginner-First

Ranked #1 for beginners: a group class runs at 5:00 PM every day of the year at Kun Khmer Club, with gloves, hand wraps, and pads provided at every price tier. Head coaches Kon Phanet and Ramon have 50+ professional Kun Khmer fights in Cambodia between them, and every tier is published flat: $9 day pass, $69 weekly, $129 monthly, $25-per-hour private lessons, and a $299 six-week fight camp. Our Google Maps listing shows a 5.0 rating from 8 reviews (checked October 2026) — the smallest review sample among the top gyms on this list, so read it alongside the others and hold us to the same standard.

Best for: first-timers and travelers who want Cambodia's own striking art in one coached evening class — see our published pricing, or the criteria applied to us in depth in which Kun Khmer club in Siem Reap is best.

2. Mr Ly Gym and Boxing — the Deepest Review Base in Town

Mr Ly Gym and Boxing holds a 4.9 rating from 52 Tripadvisor reviews — by far the largest verified review base of any fight gym in this ranking. Boxing is in the name, community threads point travelers to the gym for fight-night schedules, and reviewers single out the one-to-one coaching.

Great classes and had 2 excellent 1:1 sessions. Welcoming to all levels, and there's some impressive fighters training there. Good coaching & reliable schedule.

Best for: boxing-first training with the strongest public review record in Siem Reap — our checklist for spotting a good boxing gym and the wider boxing gym in Siem Reap guide apply to it directly.

3. Kingdom Fight Gym — Kun Khmer Mixed with K1

Kingdom Fight Gym started in Siem Reap in 2018 and expanded to Phnom Penh in 2021, and its own site describes the program as Kun Khmer mixed with K1 kickboxing, taught by active and retired fighters from Cambodia and abroad. Group classes and private training are both on offer, and one Tripadvisor reviewer describes a one-month bootcamp with classes twice daily, six days a week.

• Founded in Siem Reap in 2018; a Phnom Penh branch followed in 2021 (per the gym's site)
• Kun Khmer blended with K1 kickboxing techniques, per the gym's site
• Group classes plus private training, with coaches who are active and retired fighters
• A reviewer reports a 1-month bootcamp format: classes twice daily, six days a week

Best for: travelers who want Thai-style kickboxing volume on a bootcamp rhythm — see how the local art compares in best place to train Muay Thai in Siem Reap and Muay Thai in Siem Reap.

4. Angkor Fight Club — Four Disciplines, One Roof

Angkor Fight Club's Tripadvisor listing describes a gym specializing in boxing, Khmer kickboxing, MMA, and CrossFit, and its reviewers call it the best place in Siem Reap to train boxing, kickboxing, and jiu-jitsu. That spread makes it one of the few gyms in town where a striking session and a grappling-influenced session can sit in the same week.

We are a gym specializing in Boxing, Khmer Kickboxing, MMA and Crossfit.

Best for: cross-trainers who want several disciplines without changing gyms — the striking half is covered in kickboxing in Siem Reap and the grappling-influenced half in MMA in Siem Reap.

5. Ground Zero — BJJ, MMA, and Yoga in One School

Ground Zero Martial Arts And Yoga Cafe is, per its Tripadvisor listing, a martial arts and yoga school offering expert-led training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Kun Khmer, MMA, boxing, and yoga — with a 5.0 rating from 14 reviews. It is the widest lineup in town: the fighter's arts and a recovery practice under one name.

• Disciplines per its listing: BJJ, Kun Khmer (Muay Thai), MMA, boxing, and yoga
• 5.0 from 14 Tripadvisor reviews
• The yoga half makes it a training-plus-recovery option, not only a fight gym

Best for: grapplers and MMA-curious visitors — what Kun Khmer specifically adds to an MMA plan is in can Kun Khmer help MMA fighters.

6. KIRI Jiu Jitsu — Dedicated Grappling, Published Prices

KIRI Jiu Jitsu is a BJJ, MMA, and kickboxing academy whose site lists a Siem Reap branch under head coach Michael Chastine alongside its Phnom Penh headquarters and a Battambang branch. It is the only gym on this list besides ours with prices we could verify as published, and its site details the facility too: spring floor tatami mats with wall padding, changing rooms with showers, and air-conditioning.

Best for: committed jiu-jitsu training in Siem Reap — map it against every other discipline in martial arts in Siem Reap.

7. The Temple Kun Khmer — Founded by a World Champion

The Temple Kun Khmer was founded by Chey Albert Veerak, described by The Map Cambodia as a three-time former Kun Khmer world champion, and the Siem Reap gym is the second Temple location after the original in Bordeaux, France. Its listing covers group classes for all levels, private training, an advanced fight camp, and kids' classes for ages 4 to 14 — the broadest kids' offer of any gym in this ranking. A named champion founder is exactly the kind of verifiable credential the ranking criteria ask for.

• Founded by Chey Albert Veerak, a three-time former Kun Khmer world champion (per The Map Cambodia)
• Second Temple location after Bordeaux, France
• Group classes (all levels), private training, an advanced fight camp, and kids' classes for ages 4-14

Best for: families and anyone who wants champion-lineage Kun Khmer — what the sport's famous names look like is in famous Kun Khmer fighters, and the kids' question in full is martial arts for kids in Siem Reap.

8. Meru Gym — Resort-Scale Fitness Near Angkor Wat

Meru Gym sits near Angkor Wat at the Angkor Grace resort, and its site advertises more than 45 weekly group classes, personal training, an air-conditioned Technogym floor, and doors open from 5:30 a.m. on weekdays. Its martial arts page lists Kun Khmer and boxing among the programs, which makes it the closest thing on this list to a conventional hotel-grade fitness club with a martial-arts wing. It is ranked last here only because it is a fitness club first — for many travelers that will be exactly right.

Balance and Strength near Angkor Wat

Best for: fitness-first visitors and resort guests who want classes and a gym floor alongside their martial arts — the wider options are set in context in fitness classes in Siem Reap, and one-to-one coaching in personal trainers in Siem Reap.

The Eight Best Gyms in Siem Reap at a Glance

The table below is the whole ranking in one view, built only from the verified facts above — where a gym's entry terms are not published, the entry column says so rather than guessing. Use it to shortlist two gyms by discipline, then confirm the details with each gym before you travel. The scene is small enough that you can genuinely try more than one in a week.

For the same scene approached by discipline rather than by gym, the gym-by-gym guide to training in Siem Reap and what martial arts you can train in Siem Reap cover every option — and if the local art is the one pulling you, Khmer boxing training for beginners starts from zero.

How Much Do the Best Gyms in Siem Reap Cost?

Only two gyms in this ranking had text-verifiable published prices when we checked (Kingdom Fight Gym posts its price table only as an image) — Kun Khmer Club and KIRI Jiu Jitsu — so for the rest the honest budget answer is "message the gym", with community threads putting general fitness-gym memberships at around $33 per month for context. Day passes are the cheapest way to compare gyms, and ours is $9 with gear included.

• Kun Khmer Club: $9 day pass, $69 weekly, $129 monthly, $25/hour privates, $299 six-week fight camp (published)
• KIRI Jiu Jitsu: $12 day pass, $95 monthly, $35-$60 privates (published on its site)
• Mr Ly, Kingdom Fight Gym, Angkor Fight Club, Ground Zero, The Temple, Meru: no published prices verified for this guide — ask before you travel
• General fitness gyms (not in this ranking): community-reported around $33 per month, e.g. Angkor Fitness

Every one of our tiers is broken down in how much a Kun Khmer class costs in Siem Reap, the budget view is in affordable martial arts training in Siem Reap, and the single-visit option is in Siem Reap gym day passes.

How Do You Verify a Gym Before You Commit?

Four checks, all finished before you have paid for more than one class, will tell you more than any ranking — including this one.

1. Shortlist by the art you actually want, not by a gym's general reputation
2. Read the most recent reviews on Google or Tripadvisor specifically for how beginners describe their first sessions
3. Ask for the coach's name and fighting record, and check the answer against the gym's own listings
4. Take one paid day pass before buying any weekly, monthly, or camp package

The full gym-evaluation checklist with its red-flag list lives in our guide to judging a martial arts gym, and step four needs nothing but sports clothes — the complete first-class packing list is in what to bring to your first class.

What Red Flags Should Make You Walk Away?

Walk away when a gym cannot answer simple questions in plain terms — every gym on this list has a public listing you can message before you travel, so there is no reason to arrive unbriefed.

• "Who is teaching?" met with vagueness instead of a name and a record
• No single-class option, or pressure toward a long package on day one
• Prices that appear only after you are already on the mats
• Beginners pushed into hard sparring before they have asked for it

The sparring question deserves a direct answer before you book anything: what sparring actually involves is in sparring in Kun Khmer, and if your worry is contact itself, is Kun Khmer a contact workout separates pad work from fighting.

Can You Drop In for a Single Class in Siem Reap?

Yes — the day pass exists precisely for this: at Kun Khmer Club a $9 pass covers one full 5:00 PM class with all gear, no membership and no advance booking, and women train in the same mixed class alongside everyone else. Only private lessons and arranged groups need a message ahead, so a same-week comparison of two or three gyms costs a few day passes, not a contract. The one thing to respect is the heat — hydrate before the session, not just during it.

The mechanics of the single visit are in drop-in martial arts classes, and the longer-run question — whether your body will thank you — is in can older beginners try Kun Khmer.