Planet Fitness
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Please send someone to audit Huntington Beach planet fitness. They have not clean guys bathroom for months. The stain around the urinal and the smell are just unbearable. It was not like this under the previous management. Yet, their slogan is be cleansiderate. Share a clean club. So ironic!

My location (Athens, GA) will not replace the bulbs. Over 2/3 of them have been out for over 3 months. The tanning bed bulbs are awful. They need to be replaced also. I called the Manager and tell staff members every morning I am there that these things need to be taken care of and replaced. That is why I pay for a Black Card.

No date or orders for new bulbs have even been made.

Not being able to cancel online or over the phone is ridiculous and unnecessary. Forcing people to go in to cancel in person or write a letter is just a sneaky way to keep people's accounts open longer. You are counting on people being too busy to do cancel your way so you can keep charging them. During the pandemic, it is irresponsible to make people go in. Writing a letter is antiquated and not secure. Anyone could write a letter and say they are me. Any identifiers put into the letter would be an identify theft risk. This is an unethical business practice and should be changed so that your company can join the rest of us in the 21st century.

Sirs,
I joined PF after my CF box was forced to close in September 2020.
I joined PF NSB and had several friends follow suit.
I go with my notebook of workouts todo and record results of my efforts to continue to train while getting into a new routine.
For almost 6 months now I have my workout routine.
All of my routines include single unders that are incorporated with my workout of the day.
This week, 4/13/21 as I had finished my mile on the elliptical and set up my workout of 5 rounds of Cleans, KB squats and SU.
I got through one round and was on round 2. I saw an attendant walking briskly down the center of the room waiving her arms in the air like someone was hurt. She was coming right at me. I stopped as the entire population of gym members starred at ME!
She said, " you can't jump rope in here!"
I was shocked and embarrassed! I've been doing this for months! She said where? I pointed out all of my locations that I do my workouts and showed her my book. She said not here.
Two people next to me tried to make me feel better by saying that they always see me jump. Even gave me complements that I was awesome especially for a 56 year old.
Sick to my stomach and pissed off by the grace and lack of professionalism. I packed up and left.
I will not be returning to this facility and ask that my membership be canceled as well as refunded to me in full.

Respectfully
Kathi Powers Holthaus
Account 01149
09/24/2020

We both signed a 24 months contract on 2018/06/13 we have been paying r299 + r299 = r598pm since the month that we signed the contract. It has been longer than 24 months we did not renew our membership contract but they keep deducting the money every month. We've gone to see them and they refuse to stop deducting money even though our contract has been expired since 2020/06. The only way they say they will stop deducting the money is if we pay them r2000 to cancel our expired contracts. When we refuse to pay or reverse the money they want to sue us but they did not ask our permission to renew our contract. The day we talked about the contract and went through everything we we're told thad we have an option when the contract ends if we want to renew the contract or stop the contract but we we're never contacted when the contract ended.

Quick question. I know masks are mandatory. I was on the treadmill with my mask under my nose and an employee came up to me and told me to pull my mask up. I did and I looked around to see how other people were wearing masks. There were a few that had there mask under there mouth but nothing was said to them. This has happened to me twice. I am not happy that this is only being said to me.

I went to planet fitness in Fairfield CT for a workout on March 10, 2021. After I finished my workout I decided to take a shower. I went to the locker room got undressed and entered the shower stall. It was the first stall and had a seat in it. I decided to pull the seat down and relax a bit. I turned on shower it was just warm. When I turned it up higher. It was extremely hot and my back got scalded. I could not get out of the way of the shower head because the seat was down and the shower stall was very small. It took a few seconds more to turn the shower off and I banged my knee very badly on the seat. My back was all red and hot and I sustained first and second degree burns. I went to the front desk and asked for a manager. There wasn't one. 70 people were using the gym and not even a supervisor. I informed the attendant that I was just scalded in the shower. (in a shower head there is an impediment device that only let it go to a certain degree so you don't get scalded. This shower had none. I explained this to the attendant. He said well you're the only person that has complained about it. I said you better get in there and shut it down before somebody really gets burnt. He said ok I will. He then said you can leave your number and the manager will call you tomorrow. I did this. I never heard from the manager the next day or since. As I was leaving the attendant made no effort to do anything about the faulty shower. I went home and spent a sleepless night burnt and in pain. The next morning I got up and went to first an urgent care facility. That was unable to prescribe anything to quell the pain or burn. Then I went to Bridgeport Hospital and was given a prescription and my knee was x-rayed as well. I finally took some pain pills and the prescription cream and was able to rest. The next day I called Planet Fitness Corporate Office and registered a formal complaint against the Fairfield Planet Fitness. I never heard from either the Manager of planet Fitness or Corporate Headquarters again. It has been 20 days since and I have $1500.00 in bills for my 2 visits. I am appalled with the lack of concern and follow-up on a corporate and local level.

I joined Planet Fitness on 21 October 2020. I had issues with my membership and done numerous follow-ups with the consultant Joseph who was the service consultant I initially signed up. I had an issue with my Sanlam Reality and I was busy sorting that out. I went to the gym a week later to go to the gym only to be told that my membership was cancelled. I managed to sort out my Sanlam Reality in October and done a follow-up with Joseph on the 23 October regarding my contract. At that point I was advised that my membership is still not active that was on 2 November. On the 5th of November I requested an update from Joseph who advised me that my contract was still not updated.

On the 6th November I was asked to send my Sanlam Reality details which I did. On the 10 November still no response from the consultant and I have done another follow up. Joseph then advised me that his manager will check the next day, needless to say no feedback was received. Only on the 24th November he responded to say that their Head Office still can't find my details under Sanlam Reality. I found that strange because a debit order was deducted by Sanlam Reality that month. The same day I requested that everything be put on hold until I could get proper feedback and no debit order was to be deducted. This was on an already cancelled membership which Planet Fitness cancelled.

This was a month after I initially requested to join. He further advised that my membership can't be put on hold which I found weird because this was a cancelled membership which I requested to be put on hold. I was unable to go in and see them because I fell ill and being in the midst of COVID-19 one should surely understand that. But they did not.

On the 29th November I sent in the requested information which was my active Sanlam Reality. Joseph advised that he will be sending my information to the manager to assist. The same day I requested for the black tag to be cancelled and was told that they can't because it has already been sent. Again I find unacceptable because the membership was not active so how can they not cancel it. I never heard from him again. I was never informed that the membership was active and to me, it was still cancelled. On the same day I requested for it to be cancelled it - meaning my membership.

On the 14 December I called the customer line to do a follow-up, only to be told that the membership was active. I was shocked because I requested for it to be put on hold and to be informed on any updates. My last communication received from Joseph was on the 1st December and I was still advised that my membership is being sorted out. So I ask if my membership was activated by Planet Fitness on the 30 November how did Joseph not see on the 1 December when I'm done another follow up. Lack of interest in the customer which is me.

I called on the 14 December and spoke to Rowan and I was informed that the membership is active and I asked how this could be because I was never notified. I requested for the membership to be cancelled and was advised that they will cancel it but with a cancellation fee. Had I been informed that the membership was active I would have cancelled the membership within the 5 day cooling-off period? I again requested for the membership to be cancelled and then only I was told that my membership was in arrears of a month. I asked how this was possible that I am in arrears of a month when I was never informed that it is active in the first place. I disputed the fact that I have to pay a cancellation fee when I was not even informed that the membership was active. I was advised that I missed the cooling-off period of 5 days. How could I have missed something when I was not informed on the progress? I was advised by Rowan that my request would be sent to the escalation department for resolute.

On the 18 December I received no feedback and done yet another follow up with the customer service department and spoke to Mpho who advised me that they are still awaiting feedback. I confirmed that no debit order was to be deducted because the membership was cancelled.

On the 29 December I sent through another email requesting feedback and needless to say no feedback was received.
To me this membership was cancelled and the only thing in dispute was the cancellation fee.

On the 11 January 2021 three months later I requested feedback and again none was received.

On the 25 February 2021 a debit order was deducted from my account. How could this be when I requested for the membership to be terminated and advised that it was on the 14 December? I called Planet Fitness on the 26 February and spoke to Rudi and explained my problem and sent all the communication between myself and Joseph as well as the emails which I sent and did not receive a response to. He advised that he would sit with his team and provide feedback. On the 5 March I received feedback in a one line response from Rudi stating that I did not make the cooling-off period of 5 days.

I responded to Rudi the same day asking to stipulate the dates which I had for the cooling-off period and asked if they had read all my communication.

I received no response from Rudi but received a call from Lungi Mbatha telling me that this has landed on his desk again. As if I was an inconvenience and being unreasonable with my request. I took him through all the communication and explained again what had transpired and the fact that this membership was activated without my knowledge is not acceptable. And also asked how a debit order could be deducted without my knowledge. Lungi advised that he will sit with the management team and give me feedback. Again needless to say I received none.

On the 11 March a week later I sent another follow-up email to Lungi and no feedback was received.

On the 19 March I sent another follow-up email to Lungi requesting feedback I also asked for an email address of the CEO to further escalate my dispute. I received a response from Lungi the same day and he said to me that quote "You have been duly advised and have refuted what you were informed on there is nothing we can do for you. The feedback that was given was not only from me but from management level as well. Unfortunately not at liberty to provide you with CEO details."

I did not "refute" I am disputing the fact that I was not informed that my membership was active, the lack of feedback and the fact that a debit order was deducted without my knowledge. On the 29 November I requested for the membership to be cancelled after I requested that the black tag be cancelled. Yet the membership was activated on the 30 November without informing me. How can something be activated after requesting cancellation.

There was clearly a service failure from Planet Fitness in the manner that my dispute was dealt with. I find it extremely unprofessional on how this dispute of mine was and still is being dealt with. I am exhausted from all this back and forth.
I need someone higher up the chain of command to please look at this and provide me to contact me.

So their maintenance employee does absolutely nothing. He rudely blows dirt in people's faces, such as myself. He is very rude and disrespectful . The property looks dreadful. He never picks up any trash. He just bows it around the parking lot
into the corners. He blew dirt in my food when I was eating outside, and told me I don't belong here. I don't feel that he should be employed or representing such an awesome business such Planet Fitness. I've been a faithful customer at planet fitness here for about 2 years 2 and a half years now, I don't believe he should be employed here with this company .Hes got such a nasty attitude.I feel like I don't have a membership here to be disrespected.

I called to update my billing information and was made aware that I could no longer use the facility until I paid off old accounts that accumulated a bill of over 600.00. When I spoke with the manager he said I had multiple accounts that were open caused from when I took a break and signed back up to the facility. Instead of them continuing my old account they reopened another multiple times so I was charged annual fees and membership fees on multiple accounts for the same person! Why should I be charged because they do not have the capability to sign me up under one account!

Today at PF I went to the locker room to take a shower. I found the lock gone and the locker empty. I went to the front desk to inquire and was informed PF did not allow things to be left in lockers overnight. I was not informed of this when I signed up and only this week was able to utilize my membership. There was nothing posted in the locker room to inform members of this rule. I didn't know. Upon examination of my belongings, I found the lock I had just purchased had been cut in two so now I can not return it to the store or use it for anything else and 2 of my belongings were missing. A brand new towel and bath puff. I don't understand why I was not told about this rule and asked to remove my things before the extreme measure of breaking my lock and misplacing my personal belongings. I'm also concerned about COVID as someone else physically removed my things instead of allowing me to do so. It feels like a violation.

Having a policy that borders on absurd and makes a mockery out of the Covid health threat is one thing. After all, it's private property.

Having employees that enforce those policies in an unprofessional and selective way is another.

The Sierra Vista location requires masks only be worn when moving from one machine to another or moving anywhere else in the gym. People on machines are not required to wear a mask.

So when I walk eight feet from one machine to another I have to have my mask on, but not when I'm on a machine. OK, excuse me, but that's plain nonsensical.

Plus, at this location, there is an employee that enforces this policy selectively and in a discourteous manner.

I am seriously considering cancelling membership over this.

Nobody counts how many people gets in and out of the gym at door. Most of the time staff members chilling at front desk with no social distancing. As a professional company the behaviour of the staff is not acceptable. While sanitizing they only use one paper towel and just rub it on all the surfaces. So poor management at King George, Surrey, Bc canada location. I am thinking of changing the gyms if there will be no Proper care of customers at this gym.

You have a manager Octavio (he works early mornings on weekdays) at your Planet Fitness location who was heard telling another member of the gym that he was going to get a black member who he does not like "I am gonna get that [censored] thrown out of here."
I believe that is pretty racist and feel that should not be acceptable in any location. Based on some complaints that I have read on your site and others that racism is in your clubs and response is very slow.
I want to know what you are going to do to address this without media involvement?