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- From: dks@sr.com (Dave K. Sprow)
- Subject: Re: Bally's Health Club SUCKS Read this...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.154143.29157@sr.com>
- Reply-To: dks@srhqla.UUCP (Dave K. Sprow)
- Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles
- References: <1992Nov13.170515.8890@walter.cray.com> <19921116151229CSMSETS@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:41:43 GMT
- Lines: 51
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- In article <19921116151229CSMSETS@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> CSMSETS@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU writes:
- >In article <1992Nov13.170515.8890@walter.cray.com>,
- >Ken.J.Taylor@cray.com (Ken J. Taylor - Huntington Beach) writes:
- >
- >>I was a member of Holiday Spa, Bally, for three years. I did not renew
- >>the membership this year (although at $96, very cheap) because:
- >>
- >> 1. The facilities were unsanitary (I have seen people urinating
- >> in showers, spitting into pools, hot baths and onto carpeted
- >> exercise areas. Sweaty exercise machies were not cleaned.)
- >>
- >> 2. Other clients were rude (hogging circuit training stations,
- >> becoming beligerent when asked let others take their turns on
- >> stations, ignoring request to stop urinating in showers)
- >>
- >> 3. Service nonexistant and rude (complaining to the staff about
- >> unsanitary conditions and wasted waiting time caused by station
- >> hogs were met with "nothing we can do" or "you should have done
- >> this, you should have done that (and not we could have done
- >> this)" or "we don't want your kind as a member")
- >>
- >> 4. Overcrowded facilities.
- >>
- >>In summary, at Bally facilities, quality of service is secondary to
- >>offering memberships dues that are cheaper than the competition's.
- >>Money would be better spent investing in your own health equipment.
- >>You probably can avoid some of the above problems by joining more
- >>expensive quality-oriented clubs but not the inconvenience of sharing
- >>equipment and of not getting your money's worth when you cannot use the
- >>facility (sick, vacation, business travel, busy.)
- >
- >This is strange since I haven't had these problems at my gym (Holiday
- >Spa, Bally - in Canoga Park). I think one of the reasons I haven't
- >had such problems is because there are several other gyms within
- >six miles of the one I go to and they can't get away with it (two
- >of which are also Holiday Spa's, two are Nautilus Plus, now owned
- >by Bally, and a World's Gym, and three other large facilities). This
- >Holiday has been very good about rude clients (to the point of calling
- >the police to have them bodily removed and canceling their memberships).
- >
- >I think alot has to do with the local management.
- >
- > --Ed
-
- I have to agree. I belong to the same club and I like it a lot. However,
- I did not care for thee West LA club on Bundy primarily because it took
- so *long* to find parking. But the Canoga Park club I really enjoy.
-
- David
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