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24 Hour Fitness
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19 reviews for 24 Hour Fitness
signed up to use while back home for the summer. prices were decent, 30 a month, first and last to start.. no idea if it was a promo or not but for a dollar a day, who cares? the protein supplements are overpriced, but the apex went on sale so i copped.. muscle milk in the fridge behind the cashier is 4 bones a pop? hells nah
the equipment is in decent shape, not too old. simply stated: its clean enough for a public gym. i havent seen too many of the machines out of order, theres bathrooms and lockers available with soap dispensers that actually dispense. for a dollar a day, i'm happy.
i usually go around midnight after i get off work, and its not too crowded. theres usually a decent pickup hoop game running also. no drama, people are chill.. whatevs.
-1 star because the few times that i have gone during the daytime, it was ridiculous. place gets too crowded, but the best hoop games run during the day though, IMO. cant even work out during the day, i dont understand why people even go between 9am-5pm..
plenty friends say that the strippers come work out after they get off.. i havent seen anything memorable though ;)
def. keep my eyes open in the future!
Used to go here EVERY TIME I was in Hawaii for vacation. I worked out there during the day and then the FUN PART was playing pick up basketball games during the night.
The guys are always fun to play with over there.
We had an interesting encounter w/Damon Wayans one year, when he and his sons and bodyguard played 4 on 4 vs This one military blonde guy(played point forward), this large samoan guy(who we had play center) this super quick japanese guy (who played point), and me (I did nothing...hehe). Our military guy ran all over the Wayans family. White guys CAN jump!
My claim to fame was doing an up and under on Damon Wayans and scoring my only point.
I think this 24 hour is starting to show some age, but it's still a great place to get fit and then go to the beach right after!
This location will be dethroned as the largest 24 Hour in Hawaii when Pearl City opens, but its always been pretty solid. The top floor is the women's floor and juice bar. 2nd floor is the main floor, most of the free weights, ab and streching room, kid's club and the basketball court. You can get some pretty decent runs over here, but is not a full size court. Lastly the first floor, which has been expanded, is all cardio and the studio for classes.
They validate parking ++.
When I first signed up for 24 Hour, I was going almost everyday. Lately, I've been going 3-4 times/week...still enough to get my money's worth.
The gym itself is ok although it's kinda dirty and old looking. They need more ventilation because it gets stuffy and hot and the air is stale. Yuck. And sometimes the smell in the women's locker room makes me throw up in my mouth.
The eye candy is good if you're a guy and you like guys...or you're a guy and you like older asian women who try to look young, hot, and sexy with face lifts, botox, nose jobs, boob jobs and wearing what only we girls in our 20s can get away with. It's not my ideal place to work out but at least there are no hot men to distract me.
When I got here, this was the closest gym to me, so I signed up for the all-gym membership on the day I was tryin to use my 'wk long trial pass'. The deal @ the time allowed me to access any location for the price of a single gym membership and without a contract commitment, I couldn't pass it up.
I spend most of my time in the cardio room downstairs. Rows upon rows of treadmills, ellipticals, and a few rowing machines in the corner. The studio is also downstairs, where they host spinning, aerobics, & hip hop dance class.
The only downside is that you have to pay $1 to park in the structure. In Feb, I averaged 15 visits, which added $15 to my $30 membership cost--boo!
24 Hour is making bucks off of me...I have membership and rarely go. It just takes so much guts to go there alone...er*
I went there for the first time in over half a year...and noticed that they totally revamped the upstairs area. Pretty nice...but it looks like they just did that so the trainers could CLAIM a spot. blah*
The thing that I like about this 24 hour is the pull up machine. It makes me feel good to do a pull up...even though I'm being assisted...LoL.
24 hr fitness sucks. They are such a scam business.
They will try to get you to pay $100 a month or something crazy, but if you say 'hell no' they'll give you a membership for $30, $15 if you add yourself to a friend's account. Initiation fees are stupid, just another way for them to make a quick buck.
I used to be a member here in spite of all this, but quit because of the god awful - health violation - bad indoor air quality. Oh yeah, and the fact that I could never *Ever* get a bench press. The place was always packed when I was there (evenings after pau hana), and parking is neither free nor convenient. The parking garage is tiny - people have told me their cars got damaged in there, probably because the garage is too small to safely navigate.
WHAT is with this place. I've been going pretty much every day for the past 2 weeks now and the staff-- ALL of them-- all act like they are being held prisoner.
NEVER a smile, never any swiftness in checking in the hoard of people always crowded around the front counter, even STINK EYE from a staff member in the female locker room.
Do you guys hate your job or what?!?
Don't take that shit out on me, damn it. I'm just here to get hot.
Thank god you have tanning. And you're two blocks from my office. Or else I'd be storming the place with carbs and shoving them down your throat.
I think its kind of lame to review a gym, but there are so many bad reviews for this 24, its totally inspired me ... So here's my review!
I went here tonight out of sheer convenience: its walking distance from where I'm staying in Waikiki.
I liked that this place was warmer than all the gyms I've been to. I don't like having to do warm-ups in a fridge. I'm like Dibo. I'm ice cold.
I came at 6-ish on a Sunday night and it was a SAUSAGE fest. Which is good for me. Unless I'm in lesbian mode. Which, on this particular occasion I was not. But its a gym, not a nightclub, right?
The machines are a little outdated and rusty, but well lubed. They had those new elipticals with the yellow trim. You like ... actually have to work on those things so you burn calories quicker. Or at least it tells you you burn quicker.
The gym is pretty large. The work out facilities are spread out over two floors. Cardio and the activity room are street level and everything else is on the second floor. They also have small basketball courts and one (?) raquetball court, tanning, a juice bar, and a happy ending massage parlor. jk about the last part. But isn't that a great idea? If I ever made a utopia, it would have a massage parlor. Yippee.
The interior is pretty illogical. Like when you check in, you have to go through a turnstile. When you exit you have to go through retail (opportunity to five-finger discount some stuff, though). The men's and women's locker rooms are on different floors. I was so confused when I first got there. They should give out maps.
In every 24-Hour I've been to, there seems to be all this wasted mystery space. Like there's panic rooms everywhere or something.
The location is is kind of suspect. When I was leaving some girl was giving a police report for stolen items and/ or a break in. Hawaiian Brian's is located in the same ghetto building. They are shady.
Parking is dumb, too. I think its retarded that they make you pay a buck for validation. That should be like, built into your membership cost. They should pay me for even going because parking is a bitch. There are pillars next to every stall. Architecture must be archaic there if you need concrete pillars EVERYWHERE in order to keep the upper floor from falling down. Having you ever heard of flying buttresses? GOSH.
I bought membership one summer for $150; Chris the 24 Hour Fitness employee told me he was giving me a "deal." I just found out there's a college student discount--$100 for 3 months. I feel like dropping a 50-pound dumbbell on his foot now. It's definitely not cool to trick a poor college student.
I hate this gym for other reasons, though. The machines are outdated. Not everyone wipes them. The girls come with makeup. The guys come with pick-up lines. There's never parking on the level with Hawaiian Brian's. Pulling into and pulling out of stalls are a terror. I could make a list to fill an encyclopedia.
There are better ways to get in shape. With gas prices predicted to hit $4 this summer, why not drive less and walk more?
You know the main thing I look for in a gym is... Do they have the equipment I need to get a good workout in. This place has it. Squat racks, bench presses, cardio room. All I need baby. I don't care if the guy at the front desk gives me the meanest stink eye in the world. As long as he lets me in we are good.
This place would be BETTER if :
- It had a swimming pool
- The AC worked all the time
- Wasn't conveniently located next to a late night Taco Bell
- Didn't have $1 Parking
and come on... the staff is pretty nice. The old guy that works late nights even let me have a poster of Wanderlei Silva they had on the wall. Sure it was an expired advertisement of his seminar, but he let me have it nonetheless. What a nice guy!
left my cellphone on the elliptical the other night,
didn't realize it til i got home!!!
called my phone & no one answered. :(
called 24... no phone turned in yet.
then someone calls my house phone back
"HEY WE HAVE YOUR PHONE. IT'LL BE AT THE FRONT DESK."
thank you kind people! :)
more about this location:
*it's big compared to HI kai (the only other location i've been to)
*yeah it'd be nice if your parking wasn't so junk & $1 everytime!
*i like the turbo kickboxing class
*bball & racquetball courts are decent
I used to be such a gym rat!! I went to this gym religiously. It's pretty big and I liked that they had a separate weights area for women. On the days I didn't feel like getting gawked at by short bodybuilders, I would weight train in the women's room upstairs. I also liked the fact that the cardio room was downstairs. I loved taking the step and kickboxing classes there! Parking was never an issue for me: I had a moped. hehe. Plus, I just parked at Daiei (I mean Don Quixote. I will forever remember this place as Daiei though). I never got caught even when I went with my workout clothes on.
Crowded parking lot with too many big trucks and SUVs taking up lots of space. You take a parking ticket, go inside 24-Hour, pay a dollar to get validated. There's a $10 fee if you try to leave the parking lot without your ticket.
There are the usual gym thugs or thug wannabes working out. Lots of normal people too, though. I like to do stair master or cycle, though sometimes it does smell really musky down in that room. I always seem to be able to get the machines I want. I think I'll try a yoga class soon.
I hate it when I'm looking for my workout buddy in the weight room and all the guys look at me as if they think I'm checking them out. Whatever. I avoid eye contact.
The guy who signed me up, Christian, with was really nice and not pushy at all. He's super perky like a good salesman should be. His supervisor was irritatingly pushy, so much so that I almost decided not to sign up for membership just to spite him. I ended up signing up for the cheapest plan that allows gym visits 4 days a week for $25 a month. There was a sign up fee, but they gave me a $20 discount on that when I asked if there were any discounts or promotions. Better to ask than not.
So far the workouts have been OK. Trying not to obsess about food so much. One reason I haven't been Yelping so often as of late. Sad. I will just have to find other things besides restaurants to Yelp about.
I sometimes go to the 24 hour gyms in Waikiki, Downtown and Millville, but the Kapiolani location is my base. Mostly because I live close to it and most of my friends work out there.
While this location may not be the best, it definitely has it's advantages:
1. It's BIG
2. It has a full size basketball court and the weights and cardio and etc are spread out in different areas and floors, unlike other locations which try to cram them all in the same area.
3. There are minimal creepy old guys with Asian fetishes hanging about the place (see the Waikiki location for those creeps)
4. Due to its close proximity, this location seems to serve as the gym for everyone who graduated UH and no longer get the free gym from there. [This can be both good and bad - good because you can see your friends from school, bad if you are a recluse or are just trying to get your work out done and are avoiding people]
5. Since the place is so huge, after the peak hours you will never have to wait for a machine.
6. The people who frequent this gym are generally pretty chill, unlike some douche bags who frequent the Downtown locations or the creepos in the Waikiki location.
7. It's also a pretty centralized location for anyone living in town
8. The front desk staff is usually pretty cool
However, there are also some negatives:
1. Some of the equipment is a bit on the older side and occasionally there will be something out of order
2. The locker rooms can get a little gross but the place tries to keep them clean
3. The parking here SUCKS
4. It can get very, very crowded during the peak hours
Overall, it's a pretty good place to go. I go because it is close, has everything I need and the place hasn't really done anything to piss me off - so I will continue.
I used to think the parking sucks, but now I just drive right up to the second floor and pull into one of the big wide slots in the sun.
The staff is hot and cold. There are some genuinely friendly members of the staff(Carlos), but not many. They used to always say "Have a good workout." when you checked in, even if they did it robotically. They don't even do that anymore.
They just doubled the size of the cardio room and put in a lot of new machines and TVs. They also refinished the floor of the group room.
Yoga at 10:30 MWF is taught by Dawn and she's very good.
The locker room is not the cleanest. It needs to be power washed. The ventilation in there could use some help too. Especially since the toilets are right there.
I've been going to this gym for a few months now. I like it. The guy who set me up, Jarrett, is SUPER nice. He always smiles and greets me when he sees me. I'm always impressed when he remembers my name- it's weird and most people forget weird names. There can be a meat-market feel to this place, depending on when you are there. I keep to myself and no one really bothers me. Even though the machines there are not the newest, I think that they have been maintained nicely. And I am SO glad that someone mentioned the temperature. I swear, one time I was there, it felt like I was exercising in the pits of hell. When it's hot like that, you can tell... b/c the cardio room's aroma will let you know. But as someone else already mentioned, it's probably better than working out in a room that feels like a fridge! The locker room (well, women's at least- I can't speak for the men) is in decent shape, although, I just grab my crap and go home to shower. Sometimes it creeps me out to see other women just walk to and fro in the buff. Wrap up in a towel ladies! Modesty is a plus. Otherwise, the staff seems to all be somewhat nice, with the exception of one or two. They have a lot of machines, basketball courts and a racquetball court. My two biggest complaints however:
1.) as many of you have mentioned- parking SUCKS. My tiny car barely fits into the slots. If you drive anything bigger than a tic-tac you will agree.
2.) Is no one else bothered by the little daycare place? IT SMELLS LIKE PEE!!! In fact, the whole HALLWAY smells like pee! My stomach cringes every time I walk through that hall. I'm assuming that when the kids wet their pants, as kids do, the staff does not change them, and they get to sit there and marinate in it. YUCK.
Plus:
-Basketball court
-Raquetball court
-convenient class schedule
-separate room for spinning
-women's only work out space
Minus:
-It's way too hot in here. It's like doing cardio in a sauna.. I don't really like breathing in a steam of other people's sweat.. the group x room gets so steamy at times
-like most locker rooms, it kind of smells like mildew in here
-they charge $1 for parking
all in all, a typical, you get what you pay for 24 hour fitness location
This is my daily gym, so I have a bit of experience with it. In my years of working out here, there are so many things lacking. Yes there are plenty of plates to put on a barbell. That is probably the only good thing. All the machines are past their prime, the ab mats are staph infections waiting to happen. At one time the hallway drinking fountain smelled like piss, glad I didn't drink from it. The sales reps are sleaze ball car salesmen type. There have been a couple of days when the place is just shut down, with no prior notice. Needless to say when one wakes up at 5 in the morning to go workout, and finds a sign saying not open, I was steamed and could have used some weights to throw around.
