This gym is worthy of no star and i sincere feel sorry for innocent public who walk into this establishment seeking to live a healthy life. After after almost 2years of harrowing experience at the hands of the staff and management of this gym, i have decided to come out and warn unsuspecting gym goers to seek elsewhere for healthy living because World Gym is not that place.
First of all, then Gym is dirty, cramped and stinks. But that is not all.
They have a system of making sure that you can never cancel your gym membership with them even if you move city, country or die. These guys are very heartless in their pursuit of money.
I joined the Gym in October 2023 and after a few weeks of regular attendance, i got too busy with work and could no longer attend the gym. But i continued to pay biweekly and did not mind that, as i was hoping to get back to my routine someday, as long as i still leaved in the city of Niagara Falls. Fast forward to August 2024, i moved from Niagara Falls to Burlington. It is only sensible that i cancel the member at a gym that i will no longer be able to attend. So one fine Saturday afternoon, i went to the gym to declared that i had moved home with proof of this move. A young lady at the front desk told me that only the manager can authorize my cancellation and he does not work on weekends or evenings. Apparently, the manager only works 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday, so for a busy family physician like myself, i must close my clinic on a weekday in order to meet the mighty manager of World gym and beg for their permission to cancel my gym membership. Of course i could not do this as i work 6days a week in a different city and live in an even farther city. After this experience, i continued to pay the gym membership from that August up until November of 2024. At this time, my bank started to charge me $45dollars every month for no sufficient funds in the account. I called the gym again and again, and they told me the same thing each time i.e. i must come during working hours or they wont cancel my membership and wont stop taking money from my account. Eventually, i had to close this bank account because the NSF fee was beginning to pinch. Then they started sending me threatening emails, threatening me with all sorts of retribution, threatening fire and brimstone and recently, threatening to report me to a collector. Since the beginning of 2025, my wife has called the gym so many times, the had even sent them the lease agreement for her new home to show that we no longer live in Niagara falls. Now they have sent me a list of outstanding fee that i must pay or else they pass me on to a collector. And at this point, i will be involving a lawyer for these guys and making everyone know that cares to listen, that World gym is not a gym, it is a scam, a trap and racket for luring the unsuspecting public into a perpetual membership payment that never ends. They have no care in the world what you suffer in the process. Isn't this modern slavery? to make a hardworking individual continue to pay you for services you are not rendering? read more