Affinity Badminton Club

This is the worst experience I’ve ever had: first of all, the training center is too dark and it’s hot in summer and cold in the winter; Secondly, there is NO pre-​set schedule for each class, it could be 1 hour or 1.5 hours. It all depends on the attendees that day. Lastly, they don’t have professional coaches to teach class! One coach teaches all levels! As a downside, the owner is also very rude. She always says: ‘I’m the owner. I make the rules here.’; this gives her an unwanted superior feel. I will definitely not recommend this to anyone who wants a more professional training.

Came here to shoot photos for US Adult Nationals Badminton Championships, basically the ranking tournament for USA for badminton players. I Love the facility and the courts. Only downside is the ventilation is a bit stuffy due to the large amount of people there and the parking situation was a bit hectic due to the large amount of people there. I came the next day just to play on the courts and see how it felt. This is a better than average court.

came here for a work lunch to play some badminton. lots of courts. clean. sells racquets of high quality. can fix racquets. bathrooms are clean. just fun to play. a lil warm inside though. it is a warehouse. maybe get some AC or fans. theres a parking lot. shares with the rockin jump place. overall clean. a lil dark inside.

Good place to play badminton except not as big as the BBC that closed in Burlingame. There are only 7 courts, and if you go when they are having lessons, there are only 4 or 5 available courts. It’s been fine most of the time but if it gets more crowded then there could be long waits. They do have a computer to reserve a court or put your name on a waiting list for a specific court. Good ample parking with parking lot. Drop in fee of $ 9 at night… not sure if cheaper daytime.

This place is unorganized, small, dark and old. It’s expensive. I paid $ 14 per person for ranker rental. Millbrae court is a lot better.
I first came in to play at court #6. Three kids stepped in and kicked us out. So I went to court #1 and was super dark at the corner. Somebody came in and said they reserved the court. So we went back to reserve court #6 by putting down my name only. Those three kids put in three of their names and kicked us out again. It was so rude.
I went to the registrar and told him the situation. He removed everyone at court 6 because they cannot just drop me and move me to court 5. He dropped everyone and added me and my Fd to court 5. We finally got to play after 40mins of hassle. The racket is super bad. Hard to play and I play so much worse compared to last time I played in Millbrae. This is a bad court.
We paid $ 28 and had a bad experience.

Facility: Fair
Management: Poor
Locations: Fair
The facility has a 2-​stall men’s restroom, and two individual restrooms for women one with shower for employee. Did not see a line outside the men’s restroom much, but often times a line outside the women’s restroom. It happened twice that one of the women’s rooms was out of order — broken vanity sink, and malfunction toilet — average wait time to get changed before or after game over 15 minutes. Lighting is average, quite some blind spots during games. Flooring is cheap, no padding and often times wrinkled or parted.
A small badminton club with only 7 courts, don’t see management around much. It took management very long time to response to repairs and emergencies, i.e. took months to replace broken vanity, malfunction toilet, and broken lights. Poor training schedules, for a club that have a mere 7 courts, reserving 4 courts for training at any time during peak hours is just lack of savvy planning. Saw lots of disappointed players clustered on court side waiting for hours to get on courts.
More about management. Unlike other badminton clubs that have clear membership fee schedules and policies, ABC management dictates their own on case by case basis and don’t respect their posted information on website. Ran into disappointed players few times in a row who were confused by management’s membership enrollment policies. For badminton enthusiasts who just want to work out and have fun, it makes no sense to deal with unreasonable and dominant management.
While Bintang and BBC operates multiple locations in the Peninsula and south bay, ABC only has one location in San Carlos. If membership fees are comparable at all three clubs, players should do their math and consider all the pros and cons before joining the club.

90% of the time you can get a whole court to yourself at any time of the day. A good place for coming with a bunch of people so you don’t have to wait for courts at other places. They also have a workout station next to the courts.

This is actually a pretty good facility. Right here is less crowded than GGBC & BBC, courts are always available when I come. Because of that, it may be a problem to get other players to play a game here.
Floor: Good. Better than BBC. Some courts in BBC have cracks.
Lighting: Some spots are hard to see.
Service: Good
Ceiling: High enough for badminton courts
There is no shower rooms in Affinity. It may be a problem if you have some places to go afterwards. Bascially, this is the place you play and go home.

Been to Affinity once a little after it opened. This is the newest Badminton Club to open up in the bayarea. The lighting here is actually really nice. I prefer it over BBCs lighting system. As someone else mentioned, they don’t have shower facility, so that is a bummer if you want to shower and do something right after playing. BBC and GGBC both have pretty clean shower facilities… maybe Affinity can find some way to incorporate that into the club. I am new to this style of flooring because it is just a sheet over the wood floor. It sometimes makes a sticking/​tapping noise when you move around the court. maybe it needs some adhesive to help out with this. When coming from SF, Affinilty is a little closer than going to GGBC since it’s by the 92 and is a good place to go if you don’t want to wait to be able to play.

Brand New facility!!! Nice lights with 7 courts. It is badmintons new best kept secret underground new place to play. Go and play now before EVERYONE finds out about this place!!!

Excellent brand new badminton club — highly recommendable! Very friendly staff, 7 courts and very high ceilings make this club a perfect place to sweat off some calories.
The place has no showers, though. If you don’t plan to take a shower at the facility after your game — this is the place to go!
Also, the place is still pretty empty which makes it nice for an $ 8 drop-​in game.

New dedicated badminton facility. Excellent lighting and soft floors. Very friendly owners. No wait for courts! Until people start to find out about it, that is… This is a good place to go if you think Bay Badminton is a bit crowded.