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Kaylie Clark -
a year ago
It is a nice large gym with many options which could earn it a great rating. During my membership I saw it fall somewhat into neglect. It seemed there were not enough employees and they were overburdened with the workload. The bathrooms would not be cleaned, machines ran out of battery, etc... My trainer was very nice and the other employees tried to provide good service but I think their work environment was very stressful, causing many of them to leave.
The administration is very difficult to communicate with. The employees at the gym have no control over contract termination and I've heard there is a small office of five people in charge of contracts and payments for the entire country. The only way to contact someone is to send a message in a poorly-designed online portal and hope you get a response. There is no way to reply to a response, you have to send a new message in your portal. The information in the portal is poorly organized and it is very confusing to use. They show your recent payments and credits but it is hard to distinguish them from one another. The whole thing needs a redesign.
When you contact the finance office, they seem to give you as little information as possible. When I asked to cancel my contract, I expected it to be 3 months later according to what is stated in the contract. They responded that my contract would end 7 months later, and didn't make a single attempt to explain why they were deviating from the contract. Naturally alarmed, I went back to the portal to send another separate message and they sent a condescending explanation about how a court has ruled this could be done to make up for closures during coronavirus (without price for the customer). This is a reasonable explanation, and I don't know why they didn't make any attempt to me aware of it to begin with. I don't know why they didn't understand why it would be alarming for the customer.
Sadly, contrary to the arrangement that the extension would come at no cost to the customer, I have been charged the monthly fee the entire 7 months I have been waiting for the contract to end. Back to the portal to eek any information I can from them and to attempt to finish this frustrating experience off.
Customer service is nonexistent. Employees at the local level are disempowered to help you; corporate employees probably have too many tasks to care at all about handling your situation correctly. I have wasted so much money in fees that should not have been charged waiting to get this contract cancelled. Any thoughts I previously had about signing up again in the future are gone.