24 Hour Fitness

After the new remodeling effort, I gove this gym 5 solid stars. Glad they invested in this high traffic location. They should periodically monitor the equipment for wear and tear to keep us paying subscribers happy.

One of the nice things about 24 Hour Fitness is that they have gyms all over town. Recently I decided I would try attending this gym early in the morning before work. Makes my morning commute a bit easier.
When I first walked in I was immediately impressed. It is way better than the gym I have been attending. There is plenty of room and equipment. The crowd early in the morning is great. Mix of all types folks and ages.
Most of the cardio is downstairs. Weights and machines upstairs. My only complaint is a typical one in any gym in that the patrons don’t re-​rack their weights or worse, leave a ton of plates on the machines. I wish that was policed a little better. Its easier to get through a workout if you don’t have to hunt for the right set of dumb bells.
The locker room, pool and steam room are great. My only complaint, and one that is common with my home town 24 hr Fitness is that maintenance sucks. Seriously, there has been a sink clogged with hair etc. for weeks! I also wish they would make a little more effort in cleaning the facility.

I have been here for about a little over a year. I really never had problems with anything besides Kids Club. They go far and beyond to get every contact thing from you email, cell, home number, work number etc. but when they close the Kids Club they do not notify you. Okay I get it about renovation, I was extremely upset I go one week and the next week its closed? Today, I walk in and they said it was closed obviously I was pissed off. I calmed down drove home and then decided to call the club and speak to the manager. She said one of the child who cam in on Monday had lice so it was an emergency as they were cleaning. I asked again how come no one notified me? & she goes to say we can’t notify ALL the parents. Of course not but notify the ones that were there the day that child brought lice! I am very concerned, luckily I have a BOY and hair is short but what about the girls with long hair, were their parents notified? Like they can be spreading it all over if they are at school or day care. I will be going in tomorrow and see if I can make an official complain. When my debit card was lost/​stolen, every single person contacted me on home number, cell number, e-​mail, work number to notify me that the transaction was not processed. I KNOW! Yet for something regarding our kids health and well being, you CANT? I’m furious!!!

This is probably the worst facility I have been to. Like seriously who manages this place? Does management put themselves in a members shoes and look around or even try working out at this location. With broken and clogged sinks for weeks broken tiles, broken machines, and homeless folding clothes in the restrooms! Regional needs to stop by for a visit and see if this gym is up to there standards. Only reason I use this place is because it’s down the st from my apartment. The locations in Orange, Garden Grove and Fountain Valley are well kept and look «managed».

I LOVE this place– EXCEPT for the fact that the basketball gym is the ONLY reason I signed up 7 months ago. The basketball gym has been closed for over 3 months. This is ridiculous. Before that, you couldn’t play full court because of a 3×3 foot bad spot on the floor that prompted the renovation. And before THAT– they shut the entire gym down for 2 weeks without even telling anyone. I just don’t understand the delay. EVERYTIME I have asked– they change the date… I’ve heard 8 different dates. At least stop lying to me. I don’t have the means to go to other 24’s– this is VERY disappointing. I created a Unilocal account SOLELY for this review. Because the people at this facility could care less. So I have paid for 7 months of membership and only been able to use it for 2 and a half months… Wow. If they told people this crap– I would’ve waited until now to sign up– but they kept stringing me along.
UPDATE:gym is reopened– floor is horrible– everyone is slipping every time you try to stop or plant.

1. they need more dumbells
2. they need to rerack the weights when it is not busy (night worker is always playing computer game)
3. they need to clean!!(i saw one blue towel hang it on the leg press machine for three days)

Equipment everywhere and humid as hell. You would think there’s some sort of circulation since it’s two stories, but I thought wrong.
Saturday, one of the slowest days of the week (especially at night), haven’t seen one employee come up to do their job for the past two hours. At least walk around and pretend you’re looking out for the place you work at. You work at a gym, at least lead by example.
Gym go-​ers here suck at re-​racking their weights.
The gym is a second home to some people. You don’t go to someone’s house, make a mess and not clean up after yourself. If you’re at the gym, the least you could do is stop being lazy and pick shit up after you use it.
Laziest 24 I’ve ever been to and hard to believe it was newly renovated. I’m so sad that this is my new home gym :-(

I’ve been an on/​off member of 24 Hour Fitness since the 1990’s (when it bought out Family Fitness). Over the years, I have seen my share of great gyms, mediocre gyms, and downright skanky gyms. After being with another gym for awhile, I re-​signed with 24 Hour after seeing the beauty of the new Super Sport in Yorba Linda. The 24 Hour Super Sport in YL could be considered the sweet, pretty, clean and popular sister in the family. But there’s always a dark member of the family, isn’t there? And this is exactly what the 24 Hour in Anaheim is; a dark, dirty, sad, and malnourished member of the 24 Hour family. I say all of this AFTER the «grand» re-​opening in the end of 2015. What exactly did they do to refurbish it? My god, what was it like before?
I remember this gym from way back in the early 2000’s and it wasn’t too bad. It has great freeway access, easy parking, and a cool 2 story layout with lots of amenities for members (ie, bball court, pool, cycling, classes, etc). The 1^st floor looks good– TRX frames; sweet training area, some new machines, and soon to be completely renovated, bball court.
In the renovation, I think the powers that be completely forgot the 2^nd floor! Whoopsie! Venture upstairs and you enter some sort of dimensional warp. First, your eyes need to adjust to the lair-​like lighting (maybe it’s only skylights?). You can head to the class room, which overlooks the parking lot. It is filthy: hair tumbleweeds on the floor; handprints and sweat drops splattered on the mirrors and large windows (at least I hope that’s sweat); hair in the water fountain. To make it all worse, there are no free weights and the equipment is so sad, that it’s laughable.
If you bypass the classroom and head to weights, you encounter the same filth, but it’s so dark, you can pretend you don’t see it. You won’t find any dumbbells below 50 lbs, so you’re either Hulk and able to curl 50’s on each arm, or you’re SOL. I literally walk with my eyes down to avoid the accident waiting to happen– plates are everywhere, stacked on each other, against equipment, etc. But good news! I found a set of 10 lb dbells under the chest press.
I won’t even go into the clientele here– because really, the cleanliness of this establishment is on the management. There can be the biggest pigs here (I see you lady, who walked out of the bathroom without washing your hands) — but it is up to the MANAGEMENT to get their act together and clean this joint. Frankly, the Corporate head honchos needs to come here unannounced and do a workout in the weight room, followed by a round of planks in the hair infested classroom.

After convincing my friends to join, we’d visited a few other facilities without incident. Since we work close by, we decided to go to this one on Lemon. It’s the one that I normally go to alone and the one that, since moving to Anaheim from Hawaii, I would’ve called my home gym. Since I gave it my approval my friends decided to go, regardless of the reviews and word of mouth grades it had garnered. We actually started out having a great workout session and we navigated our way around desired workouts because it was so full at the time. So after training together upstairs, we decide to finish up downstairs on the TRX bands with some abs. Since my friends weren’t so familiar with the exercise and the bands are easy to get tangled up in I showed them the movement first. Apparently, this trainer (Kenny F.) had been «watching» (or so he says. Later we found out that he was lying about a lot of the facts he used in our conversation) and he started be belligerent and rude to my friends and I because he said I was «training» them. I was absolutely appalled, so after doing as he instructed and working with my friends rep for rep, I walked over to Kenny to see what his problem was. He then expressed how what he saw was what looked like me training my friends. I’m assuming it’s because I’m in decent shape and they weren’t in the same shape as I was, that he could make such a gross misdiagnosis. After explaining that I wasn’t, instead of just apologizing and shaking hands, he proceeded to threaten our (though really just my) membership. So after making sure that he knew that his approach and demeanor was not appreciated, I decided to walk away. Shortly there after, my other friend (who I just got to sign up not even two months prior) wanted to go over and get all of Kennys info so hat he could file a formal complaint! After wading through Kennys rudeness, he got the information he was seeking. As he decided to leave Kenny tried to peddle his string of lies and excuses. Calling me a repeat offender (in regards to training. When I’m normally at the gym myself), tying to hand out backhanded compliments saying about my friends, «I know what it’s like trying to get back in to fitness and I commend you for that.» (One of whom works out regularly) and saying that he’d seen one of my girlfriends in the club before, when in fact it was her very first time at the Lemon location (once again, because I told her it’d be fine). Needless to say that my friends don’t want to EVER go back to that gym again. One of them even upgraded to a SuperSport membership just so he had better options. I am so embarrassed, having pleased to my friends trust of me to take them somewhere safe and nice to work out only to get treated like this. Kenny has no fact and little to know ability to treat members who pay a monthly fee (and I’ve been a member of 24 for more than 5 years now and have used my membership tons of different places across America and never has ANYTHING like this EVER happened). I highly doubt that management will take the proper steps to reprimand him accordingly (and yes, I did talk to a manager who was cordial but in our conversation, I’m not sure on how sincere he was about following up with him. But I could be wrong) but the ball is definitely in their court. But for now, a huge disappointment that jeopardized the membership of a long time member and two brand new ones that I brought aboard. Very disappointing. And please don’t mistake this as a chance at slandering someone. I will write a lengthy, more articulate letter to their corporate offices regarding this incident. His disregard for guest service and the courtesy that members that pay a monthly fee are due was blatant and will NOT go unnoticed and be addressed. If not, it will at least be publicized. If you accuse people of something, you better have good reason and you better have damning support for it. And if you were wrong, maybe next time just apologize and maybe the problem won’t fester and become agitated as it is now.

This isn’t my home gym but I’ve been coming here with the bestie once a week to get our sweat on! I like the way the gym is setup. When you walk in first floor has cardio machines such as, step masters, thread mills, ellipticals, etc. there is a basketball court that looks like it’s getting work done to it and a pool. There is also a kids club for child care with a small fitness shop.
On the second floor you have weights and strength training machines. There is a class workout room that has windows all along one side so you can view the street. The place has never been too busy and you don’t need to wait around for machines.
However, the gym is pretty dirty and machines are worn and old. Either people aren’t cleaning up after themselves or janitorial service is lacking. Machines are left with trash. The mirrors are full of handprints. Dusty floors with pieces of trash. Sometimes the machines don’t have pins to hold weights. I have to snag one from other machines to use. It gets the job done but a little more cleanliness wouldn’t hurt the place!

Ever since the remodel of this gym, I enjoy coming here very much! The locker rooms are super clean and new! The area of the gym below is well organized and upstairs as well. Some of the machines upstairs are a little old so I try to avoid those. Other than that, the gym is pretty clean.
Even the pool, I enjoy going to. It’s clean and the sauna is awesome too. It is very well lit, not like the gym on Orangewood. I cannot wait until the basketball court is opened again so I can shoot some hoops!

I’m going to have to disagree with the bad reviews below. Being a resident at this gym for over 7 years, there has been some problems in the past, but it is finally undergoing renovation. The gym is new outside with freshly painted asphalt for parking aesthetics but the inside as well. The swimming pool and sauna have been redone with new floors and walls. The 1^st floor has more equipment especially in the training area including but not limited to: kettle balls, medicine balls, sand bags, sand balls, dumbbells, and a TRX system. 2^nd floor added an additional cross fit style exercise area with squat stations, monkey bars, and special 45 lb plates with an iron core for the typical lunkers. The basketball court is in the process of being renovated as well.
I’ve also signed up for training and it is well worth the price. I had a severe case of runners knee 3 years ago and walking downstairs was occasionally painful. After about 6 months of rehab and stability readjusting, I was able to run a half marathon in November 2015 and was able to do 3 sets of 10 reps on the incline leg press with six 45 lb plates. By the way, I’m only 130 lbs.

This place legit might be the worst smelling indoor establishment I ever walked into. Weight room smells like a piece of poop went for a jog and got very sweaty wearing no deodorant. No joke that’s the most accurate description I could come up with.

This is not my main gym I come to so I’m not here a lot. However, since my bestie and I get one day to work out together on our lunch break we have been heading over here. It is a very crowded location on a busy street, but we have not had a problem finding parking. It’s right next to the McDonalds in case you get hungry after your workout. Haha.
The service has been friendly. The ladies there always greet us and tell us to have a great workout. I was very curious as to why the reviews were so low since the first time I came I didn’t feel it was a 2 star gym. Then we paid more attention. There was trash in some ellipticals, the mirrors were dirty, some parts of the wall was peeled back, the machines seem to be a little outdated too. Not all of them though. It seemed like it just isn’t taken care of properly.
I do like they have encouraging quotes on the walls and the set up of the gym. It’s different from mine. I like the the cardio is downstairs and the weights are upstairs. There is a cycling room downstairs which I liked too. The workout room upstairs over looks the outside and is large.
I think with the help of the employees, just by cleaning up (like they should, there is so much sweat everywhere) this gym could be a great one!

This gym isn’t that bad especially with the new renovations and new equipment upstairs. They installed three new machines for arm workouts but don’t expect to be free unless you are there before 3pm.
The one thing I don’t like is the fact that they don’t have the pins to set the weight you want on the machines. It seems like they’re always missing or stolen. Although there are new machines, it also means not much room to walk around — as if they’re stuffing as much as they can on small spaces.
I love using their mirrored room, people do NOT clean after themselves — leaving their mats and weights all over the place. Tsk tsk. But overall, pretty good gym.

Couldn’t stand that CASH sales guy !!!
He looked so desperate for his commission…
he was so eager to get me a plan it was CREEPY …
he creeped my wife out she wanted to leave…

This gym has done a great job with the remodel with new equipment, including rig! 24Hr Fitness reps are friendly and helpful. Come check it out, if you haven’t been. And if you have, come back… I’m sure you’ll be pleased with its makeover!

I’m not a fan of this location because it’s usually crowded and the equipment is broken and rarely gets repaired and if it does it’s broken a day later. Being that it’s a popular and crowded location it’s not the cleanest either. I recently stopped in because I was about to get on the 91 fwy. to meet my swole sister but then she cancelled. I thought to myself, «I don’t go to this location but it makes sense to go here since it’s right by the freeway.» I went in, then headed to the restroom and it was taped off. I asked the front desk where can I go to change and he said, «There’s a porta-​potty outside. The bathrooms are closed until August 31^st.» So I headed to L.A. Fitness in Orange instead. Maybe once the re-​model is done I’ll give it another chance, but I prefer the Garden Walk location over this one. The equipment works there and it’s just less crowded and cleaner.

I should have reviewed this gym a lot sooner. I have not been going here for a long time
I absolutely 100% hate this place, and believe it or not I wish I didn’t, this is the closest 24 hr fitness to me. I will never go here ever again. Service is horrendous. If you ask staff a question they talk down to you and treat you like an idiot. If you call to talk to a manager they treat you like an idiot.
This place needs to be shut down permanently. Poor management.
Not to mention crumby gym equipment and poor layout. Also the online class list is not correct, and if you ask about it they treat you like an idiot.
Do not go here. Brea and La Mirada are better.

I decided to come to this location since I had an extended break from work nearby. Out of all of the locations I have been to, this one has to be the worst.
First, it is very dirty. I started over at the cardio machines, specifically the ellipticals, and several of the machines had dirty and used paper towels on them. In addition, I went to the restrooms and it looked like the floor hadn’t been mopped in weeks. To go along with the urine on the restroom floors, there was caked on crud on the tiles and used toilet papers on the floor.
Second, I wanted to purchase a bottle of water from the vending machine. The machine did work, but apparently the refrigeration didn’t. I paid $ 2.00 for a warm bottle of water.
Lastly, I went up to the strength training area. The machines were not the most updated and they were not the cleanest, but they should have been able to do the job — that is if I would have been able to adjust the weights. Several of the machines were missing pins, keeping me from being able to lift with them.
Overall, this is worst 24 Hour location I have ever visited; I won’t be returning.