Go read EmilyM’s rant on quitting the Park Slope Sports Club, which opened in April 2000 and is bursting at the seams:
“I’ve got to face facts: this gym sucks. As the neighborhood has grown, they’ve recruited more and more members without much expanding their facilities. They keep buying more treadmills even though everyone wants the elliptical machines. The weight room and stretching area are too small, but they put in a juice bar for some reason. They play their canned soundtrack too loud for people to comfortably listen to their iPods, even though 85% of members are using them. Most annoying of all, there aren’t enough lockers…” Read the rest…
EmilyM also started this thread in the Daily Heights forum:
LINK: Park Slope Sport Club
There’s one part of that rant that I may have to recant, which is the bit you highlighted about the locker prices. I think they might not have changed; it’s possible that I only paid for part of a year before and they just forgot to bill me again for a long time. I’m not sure anymore.
It’s still too croweded and noisy, so I really am quitting.
recanted.
Has anyone EVER seen ANYONE buy ANYTHING from the juice bar?
NO, definitely not! Don’t they sell food and stuff? But who would go to lunch at their gym?
I’m moving to Park Slope. Guessing that you wouldn’t recommend joining here – any alternatives?
I have my gripes about the place, just like I would about any other gym, such as adding newer machines and the new ellipticals falling apart after about a year of use but, really, PSSC is a great gym. I live a block and a half away, have been going for four years, and I don’t see myself switching gyms unless they start hurling babies onto Flatbush Ave on a regular basis. Classes are great, the space is huge, and you never really wait more than 10-15 minutes for a machine, absolutely worse case scenario, during peak time. I suppose blogs are for complaining, though, so complain away.
EmilyM, you are too tough on the PSSC. It does what it’s supposed to do which is:
– provide classes
-provide weight machines
– provide machines (which I have never had more than a 5 minute wait for)
– provide clean showers
– has a nice dry sauna
– AND it has a coffee bar.
– AND a kind & friendly staff.
– PLUS a lowkey non-competitive atmosphere.
Look on the bright side, geesh. I hear the Eastern Athletic Club is nicer – go there.