Located on the fifth floor inside the JW Marriott Edmonton ICE District.
Archetype is a privately owned gym that has partnered with this local Marriott to give all hotel guests complimentary access to the facility during their stay.
This is a full-service multi-level gym with tons of cardio equipment, weight machines, pool and spa, café bar, locker rooms, and group instruction classes like HIIT and Yoga.
If you are not a hotel guest at the JW Marriott you can buy a one-day pass for $40. If you'd like to get a membership it'll run you $220 a month.
The employees are very friendly and offered me a quick tour of the facility before getting the one day pass.
Overall my experience was mid. The equipment is a bit dated. The locker rooms were not dirty but they were unkept in comparison to Lifetime Fitness or Equinox. The towel service was also a bit of a joke. You're given one full-size beach towel to use around the gym, there were no small towels like most gyms have to wipe sweat off yourself. I thought that was odd.
Also if you're a one-day pass visitor they give you a keycard to navigate around the facility but in order to get the keycard you need to turn something in as collateral like a Government-ID. If you choose not to take the keycard then you will have to get a staff member to let you into all the different parts of the gym. read more