Gold’s Gym

A lot of pluses BUT a huge minus too —
First off, the gym itself is very lovely. Truly a great place to spend time in. I could stay here 2 – 4 hours easily, and I am usually not a «gym person.» It has a pool, sauna, massage room, tanning, a woman’s gym if you can’t stand looking at the hot buff men anymore, a theater room, and a lot of treadmills and other machines to go around. Very new and pretty too. Actual gym gets 5 stars from me.
Here is what I did not like:
I had a guess pass from a friend who wanted me to go to the gym with her. It should have been a fast process, right? Wrong. It took like, 20 – 30 minutes and I had to put my credit card into on file for some weird reason in case I wanted to join. Right, you taking my credit card info before I even decide if I want to join or not will convince me. Not.
Two I don’t like their payment structure. Either a contract or month to month, but their month to month is *auto renewal* for some reason, and to quit you need to pay for an extra month before you do for some reason. Why can’t you truly do it month to month without auto pay? «Because then you would need to renew your membership every month” — uh, don’t you already have all of my info on file?
If I can do the month to month no commitment thing with my phone, why can’t I do it at the GYM? Makes no sense. I’ve been torn about this in general, but I think that since I had this experience with them, even though I truly love the gym itself, I just can’t do a membership.
Couple that with things that I read online that it’s very hard to get out of a contract or even month to month and that you need to either close your bank account or change countries to stop them from billing you, I think I will pass.

I got the one week free pass a few months ago and wanted to try it out. The sales guy made me put money down and kept on asking me «are you really going to join or just using this to get a free week of gym?» I thought that was very disrespectful… After him repeating a few times I ended up trying and joining another gym in the area.

Went to try it out, and they make you join and put money down to get the «trial membership.» When we decided to join American Family Fitness instead, they didn’t refund the enrollment fee like they said they would if we canceled within 7 days. Still trying to get reimbursed and having to go through credit card company now to make it happen. Gym was ok, but service was awful.

HUGE gym in Westchester Commons! LOTS of machines! LOTS of space to move and breathe without bumping into people. HUGE cardio cinema. Three-​lane pool that could easily be six narrow lanes (no lifeguard on duty). Half-​court basketball court. Several tanning beds, even a standup.
This Gold’s is in my membership network. I think I’ll have to go there to use the pool so I can get in some cross-​training.