Charlotte Whitehall Planet Fitness
Written: Jan 08 '09 (Updated Jan 09 '09)
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Pros: 1. $10/month
2. Clean
3. New equipment
4. Convenient
Cons: 1. Piped in music - LOUD
2. Permanent (?) locker usage by some
The Bottom Line: Good place for cheap, close and new equipment. Recommend noise dampening ear buds.
Seem to be needing more members, so ask for a deal.
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| thisuldo's Full Review: Planet Fitness |
1. Great facility and ok staff. Staff only checks you in and answers questions. Can show you around and explain equipment use. Have seen some I think are staff providing personal fitness services, but think they are off the clock.
2. Facility kept clean... both floor and locker room. Could use more staff cleaning of equipment. They seem to rely on members who clean after use. Members are really good about wiping down equipment. I use another gym also, different brand, and the other one actually has someone cleaning equipment all the time, even during heavy usage. Planet Fitness doesn't do that.
3. They do let folks keep locks on lockers WAY too long. Few men show up, but quite a few lockers are locked with the same locks as the day's before. Notified staff and was told the locks would be cut off. Hasn't happened yet. Follow-up is not a staff strength.
4. Piped in Planet Fitness "music". Not all that great and LOUD. Using iPod or using headset for TV's (yes, it does have multiple TV's available with cable and controls on the equipment) difficult because of the blaring music. I go with in-ear noise canceling buds, turn up my iPod and listen to dual sources.... mine and theirs.
5. Not friendly to feedback. I went on line and left feedback about the sound level of music. Wasn't being sneaky, just my way to notify them. Manager called and let me know I should have said something to him first. Probably should have... but.... didn't. He was more worried about poor feedback to the owners on his performance. Said he was measured partly on feedback..... impact a bonus maybe?
6. Great dress code. No stocking caps, no do-rags, no boots (that one floors me..... working out at a gym in boots. I tend to wear them chopping wood or hunting.).
7. They opened with all new equipment. Machines are new and up-to-date LifeCycle treadmills, almost recumbent (?) bikes, and two types of eliptical (again..? for spelling) stair machines. They have two sets of each stationary strength machines, free weight stations and dumbells.
8. I go at lunchtime and there has never been even half the machines in use. There are about 24 treadmills, about the same number of each kind of stair machine.
9. Customer base a mixture of old (me)/young, toned/flabby, slim/obese, male/female, African American/European American/Hispanic American/Asian American.
10. Few serious body building types... both male and female, but mostly just those of us trying to live longer.
11. Section of gym segregated with set of exercise stations for a 30 minute circuit workout. Seems to be a number of people who use this. Maybe a Curves-like thing?
12. No classes.
13. Good, basic, no-frills type workout for those who do not need or want fellowship nor child-care nor instruction.
14. I got in on pre-opening membership.... nothing down and $10 month. They still offer $10/month, but with joining fee of $39. They have offered for short periods the same deal I got. For $20/month I could visit any Planet Fitness gym and have unlimited use of tanning beds.
15. Yes, they have tanning beds.
16. May need membership or something. The individual from Planet Fitness that was in charge during construction is now back on a regular basis. He did live in NE and traveled to start-ups, so I wonder why he is back.
17. Open 24/7 except on weekends.
Recommended:
Yes
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