Pamela Langley

Review of LA Fitness - Corporate Office

Worst gym I've ever joined. My husband insisted an...

Worst gym I've ever joined. My husband insisted and I went along with it to my detriment. The women's locker room is almost always filthy. I mean, it reminds me of high school or the bathroom at a fairground. Many of the machines are in desperate need of oil and maintenance. The TVs are always tuned to Fox News, MMA fighting and golf, as if women don't get on a treadmill. When I called corporate to ask about this, the response was "no one is forcing you to watch TV while you work out." When we joined, I was asked for the names of my "permanent guests" and I didn't have anyone in mind. They INSISTED and when I asked if my friends would be called, they assured me they wouldn't. My poor friends were HOUNDED with phone calls.

The manager stands up front and has open, partisan political conversations with patrons while I wait to ask him to change the channel, and then am told they can only be changed by corporate--corporate claims the channel is determined by a "demographic" but I was never told how the demographic is determined, and does it matter what the demographic is if ONE customer doesn't want to watch politics or someone getting bloody on a mat?

I don't know what will happen when we try to leave, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be a nightmare judging from the comments on here.