LA Fitness - IMO not worth the fee (LA Fitness in general)

Member Name: MissTierney

Product:	LA Fitness in general
Date:	06/02/09 (189 review reads)
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Advantages: lots of rooms so you dont have to look at the apes

Disadvantages: something is always broken.

I have mixed views on LA Fitness.
I joined in May last year 2008.

The deal i was given was £34 per month but £78 on my first month of which half (£34) would be refunded if i went twice a week for the first 8 weeks of my membership.
I did go more than the required amount of times apart from the second to last week when i came down with an illness. That was my £34 out of the window.
Having spoken to many other members in the gym, i have found that generally the membership costs are all over the place. Everyone i have spoken are paying differing monthly membership fees, and some are as low as £20. So i will be bringing this point up when it comes to my renewal!

The reason i joined LA was because i felt it offered more variety of equipment than my previous local city council gym.
My old gym was also open-plan and i much prefer to keep myself to myself and found that the layout of LA fitness suited my needs more.
Although my local branch is relatively small in comparison to the other LA Fitness branches i have seen pictures of, there are more of each machine than my local council gym and more rooms.
You don't feel quite as self-conscious in a number of small rooms, as you do in a large room full of those awful buffed up pin-heads in leotards. "That place" is away from all the cardio equipment so you don't have to look at them. (Unless you're into weights of course)

If you go before 5pm in the week, you can pretty much get on any machine you like as its rarely busy. But after 5pm you might have to wait for machines because of it being busy at peak times. This January has been really busy, full of people with new years resolutions no doubt.

The swimming pool is fairly small in comparison to other places but its dimly lit and generally quiet in the daytime - which i like.
Unfortunately from around 5pm onwards its gets busy and they have water-aerobics classes which take up all of the pool except one small lane which is not sufficient enough for the amount of people wanting to have a swim!
There is a steam room, sauna and jacuzzi with easy access to the pool.
If they are all working at the same time you will be lucky, they always have a problem at LA fitness with either the jacuzzi, sauna, steam room, or sometimes the showers are cold! :(

If i do renew my membership this year, it won't be for £34 a month.

Summary: Price does not equate to value here!