1 /5 Christian Balka: I was sick of how crowded LA fitness was and decided to cancel. I had always walked by Hollywood gym and it looked like a nice little older gym with very few people working out in it. I decided to give it a try and paid the $20 to work out for the day and my experience wasn’t great. It was about 75° outside at 8 PM and walking into the gym It was noticeably hotter, at least 80° plus which I started sweating before I even started the workout. I paid the money and asked the front desk attendant if there was Wi-Fi access in the gym and he said there was not. The Wi-Fi access isn’t a dealbreaker, but I use my really old iPhone SE (with no Sim card)as kind of a iPod so it was just something I noted. I then went into the locker room to change and noticed that the entire locker room smelled like marijuana. I started working out, which was uncomfortable because of the heat and kind of eerie because there was hardly anybody there and asked a couple of people if they ever turn on the AC. The people I asked informed me that the gym either does not have AC or it’s never turned on. Then when I was leaving, I walked up to the front desk to ask, a couple of questions where two people were waiting with no front desk attendant to be found… maybe we were smoking pot in the locker room…? I then left with the clear impression that I would have to continue my search for a new gym. Honestly if they turned on the air conditioning and lowered their price to $35 a month for just the weights with no BS corporate money shenanigans, I think a lot more people would join. As it stands right now it’s too expensive for what it is and too hot to comfortably workout.
