What your monthly Vitality fee covers

Y Your monthly Vitality fee is R429 for the main member, plus R85 per dependant for the first two dependants on a Vitality Premium membership. Vitality Active costs R159 per adult.

When you join, you get Vitality free for the month you join plus the next two months, so your full fee only applies from your fourth month onward. The fee opens the full benefit set: health assessments, HealthyFood rewards, gym and padel discounts, Vitality Active Rewards, Ðiscovery Miles and Vitality Travel.

If you're deciding between plans, Vitality Active at R159 a month gives you 75% off gym membership, half-price movies, HealthyFood rewards and Vitality Active Rewards on a single-member basis, while Vitality Premium at R429 a month adds personal care rewards, fitness device funding, and travel discounts.

Your membership also activates Vitality Active Rewards, which set you weekly goals across exercise, driving and spending, with a weekly gameboard play or instant reward for hitting them. Vitality Travel rounds out the set with member discounts on flights, accommodation and car hire.

How your monthly fee comes back on the grocery bill

HealthyFood pays you back in Ðiscovery Miles at Checkers, Checkers Sixty60, Woolworths in-store and online, the Woolies app and Woolies Dash. You get 10% back on activation, up to 25% back after completing your Vitality Age assessment and Vitality Health Check every 12 months, and up to 75% with a qualifying Discovery Bank product and Vitality Money.

You can set your HealthyFood partners and activate the benefit in the Discovery app.

What the family gets for the same monthly fee

Vitality carries additional programmes at no extra cost beyond your monthly fee, built around the life stage your family is in.

For pregnant members and those with a baby under two, Vitality Baby, a 1000-day programme, doubles your Vitality points on qualifying HealthyFood purchases and physical activity, adds 500 points per vaccination and 2,500 points for a Well Baby Clinic visit at Clicks or Dis-Chem, and includes a free Vitality Baby gift pack from Babies R Us or Toys R Us.

Vitality Kids between the ages of 2 and 18, on a Vitality membership, watch 2D and 3D movies free before 7pm at selected Ster-Kinekor cinemas, once an online Kids Vitality Health Review has been completed and renewed every 12 months.

For members 65 and older, Vitality 65+ adds an enhanced Vitality Health Check that includes a clinically verified falls risk assessment, adjusted healthy ranges for blood pressure and weight-related measures, and referral pathways to a GP, optometrist or audiologist where risks are identified.

The same membership supports a newborn, a teenager and a grandparent, each with benefits suited to where they are in life, without a separate charge for any of them.

Gym, padel and fitness costs against the monthly fee

Gym discounts land in the same monthly budget as your membership fee. You get 75% off a single-gym membership every month on a local club membership at Virgin Active or Planet Fitness, provided you train at least 36 times every 12 months. Fall short of that, and the discount decreases to 50% rather than disappearing, then returns to 75% once you've rebuilt your session count.

Where the main Vitality member already holds a gym membership, a child dependant under 18 gets 30% off, and a young adult 18 or older gets 50% off. Vitality also extends fitness rewards to padel, with up to 20% off court bookings in the Discovery Vitality Padel network through the Playtomic app, plus advance booking access up to four weeks ahead.

Beyond a single gym, the Vitality Fitness platform gives you 2 free workouts a month across more than 500 fitness facilities across South Africa, from boxing and CrossFit to Pilates and yoga, with 75% off any further bookings beyond those.

What do you pay for outside the monthly fee?

Some Vitality services carry their own cost beside your monthly membership fee. HealthyWeight, Vitality's personalised weight management programme, now includes an obligation-free independent assessment and, where appropriate, GLP-1 medical support, alongside daily dietitian coaching and personalised meal plans. The Vitality Fitness Access Pass runs from R75 a visit, for members who'd rather pay per session than join a gym, and requires a qualifying Discovery Bank account.

Neither service is required to get value from your membership. The core benefits, from HealthyFood rewards to your gym discount, come from the monthly fee alone, and you choose whether to add these optional extras.