Tried really hard for a long time to keep any gripes about this gym under wraps, as it's not so easy to find a 24/7 gym these days. However, the quality of the environment/vibe and the level of service goes down as the gym expanded to occupy the entire building.
The lat pull-down and the high-row machines have been needing attention for several months. Several cardio machines have been out of order for months - one even has a "will be repaired by 04-11-2022" (two weeks ago!) sign on it.
Mirrors were installed to only be cracked and broken almost immediately, mostly by people be careless with weights. To which, member NOT re-racking weights is a HUGE problem. 45 lbs weights leaned up against most anything, waiting to fall over and cause an injury.
There seems to be a marketing to local high school sports players. So... you get kids w/out supervision behaving like kids w/out supervision. Going from area to area in gangs, running other members away from their own workout. Not wiping down machines. Increase of these types go together with increase in things becoming broken.
Within the past 6 months, they stopped having an overnight staff there after hours. Then someone literally ripped the "night access" door off the hinges, so the key fob access hasn't worked in months and the door is just propped open overnight for "whoever" to go on it. There are ladies that claim they are going somewhere else from not feeling safe about that.
There are two saunas that may or may not be turned on. If they are, knuckleheads don't use towels and the wood is thoroughly sweat-stained and nasty.
Aside from the music being vulgar, excessively profane, sexist, and racist, it is so loud that it's not a safe gym environment. And you almost have to listen to it, as the building and the insulation made the entire place a big Faraday cage that doesn't allow cellular signals to listen to your own podcast or streaming music. They keep promising wi-fi for members, but keep moving the date back again and again and again.
Locker rooms should be quarantined. Floor and showers covered in funk. Locker doors ripped off the hinges. Men's locker room door ripped off the auto-closing mechanism. People going in open-setting locker rooms and setting up cameras for posing while others are getting out of showers with no dedicated changing rooms. People posing in locker room mirrors with the locker room lights turned out... creepy vibe to go drop a deuce and someone is in there posing with the lights off.
Catering to kids and Neanderthals led to signs going up all over the place. Things like "re-rack your weights". "don't flush paper towels" and saying they will cancel memberships if people continue to use the out-of-order stalls that are marked "out of order"
People that bring this up all say they get different answers from different gym employees. But the result is generally saying a solution is this week. or next week. or the week after. And it doesn't come. They ask again, and the same answer of moving goal posts.
The owner spams the internet with videos of how much of a businessman and entrepreneur he is while flexing photos of the vanity vehicles that he parks in the handicap spots at the front entrance, then giving business plan lessons using his 6-figure monthly profit as an example. Sorry, but it'd be truly impressive if there were photos of him in the gym with a toolbox or a plunger or a mop, fixing broken door and unclogging the plumbing and keeping the place clean. Can't find overnight staff? A real business owner would cover that shift himself until the position was filled. Otherwise, all these never-ending resolutions simply show no real mind for running an operation. Why waste money on gates for the roll-up doors so the blowing wind can bring in dirt and dust and more stuff that won't be cleaned up?
So if you're looking at Absolute Recomp, go in with your eyes open to know what you're getting. It's OK that things break, but man-up and don't feed paying members a line about when things will be fixed or upgraded read more