Planet Fitness — Attraction in Fairfield

Planet fitness is kind of a joke as a gym. It's geared entirely toward people who don't understand fitness or maybe are self-conscious and afraid to go to a real gym. That's understandable, gyms can be intimidating, but lost of the time the people are friendly and happy to help if you need it.

PF does not have a single squat rack and a bare minimum of free weights. It has a billion cardio machines of every kind, tho. And Smith machines that no one should use unless you want a back injury because of the unnatural position it forced you to squat in. Also, you have your choice of cute 20 year old "trainers" who are glad to give you their professional opinion and guidance on how to do every exercise incorrectly. They also have a giant bowl of tootsie rolls on the front desk and they even have pizza night. Oh, also massage chairs, because that helps everyone get in shape.

While PF is a joke as a gym, it's quite brilliant as a money making scam. You can get a membership for $10 per month. Then, you can do endless hours of cardio while not building muscle. After that you can enjoy a reward of carbs and sugar with pizza and tootsie rolls while you hang out and get a chair massage. You can also drive around with one of those soo cool PF stickers on your car so everyone knows how serious you are about fitness. They even have a room where you can sit in front of some kind of magical light for "therapy," as well, which is actually what you need if this seems like a viable plan of fitness.

The best part is, if you're the kind of person who doesn't stick with a fitness program (and you might become one, even if you're not now once you try cardio-ing for a thousand miles and eating candy and then wonder, discouraged, why you're not seeing results), well, chances are you might not notice those 10 little dollars coming out of your bank account every month for who knows how long. Or you might think, "It's just $10. I won't cancel my membership because I'll eventually start going back. Next time I'll stick with it and it will work."

Some people may have health problems or physical limitations on what they can safely do, or an extremely limited budget who might find this place useful. Other than that you should probably go to just about any other gym...

For the FIRST time in my life I was treated super poorly as a customer.. I went to tan after my workout for the first time as it was only my 2nd time today using my membership at the Fairfield location which I was hoping to make my home gym.. I just purchased my membership last week.. The lady did not walk me back to show me how to work the bed or tell me anything about the beds buttons/controls soooo of course I could not get the bed to power on.. I then had to get up out of the bed and call the front desk for help.. She came back and watched me press the power button and the bed still didn't power on.. She then proceeded to tell me it was showing up in their system that I had indeed tanned in that bed for the full 12 minutes.. It was VERY clear that the bed had NOT been laid in by anybody for 12 minutes recently because it was VERY COLD on the acrylic!! The lady then went back to the desk and scanned her own barcode and came back to the room I was in and she got the bed to power on right away!! She then told me that since SOMEHOW it was showing up on their computer that I tanned in that bed for 12 minutes I was NOT allowed to try and power the bed back on and tan. I expressed to both ladies working that I in fact NEVER got the bed to power on and they continued to make me feel like a LIAR because their system was showing false information somehow which I didn't know could even happen! They told me I was back in the room for a while and they continued to make me feel super uncomfortable and that I was just trying to get a 2nd session back to back in the tanning bed or something crazy! It was absolutely UNFAIR and I felt like they DID NOT care about my satisfaction or first experience AT ALL! 😔😔 I then called a DIFFERENT location nearby and informed them of the situation I had just gone through and the individual was very polite and offered to have me come to their location and they said they would manually set a 12 minute timer in one of their tanning beds for me so that I could tan today which is LITERALLY so nice and it actually showed me that these individuals cared about their customers experiences. I WILL NOT return to the Fairfield...

If I could leave no stars, I would. I have been coming to this location for 10+ years yet my past two experiences have been horrible. Not only do the 12 employees standing at the desk no longer greet you, there has been no paper towels/solution at stations to wipe off your equipment before/after use. The last time I went, I attempted to use a tanning bed, after getting undressed and into the tanning bed, the tanning bed never turned on so I was unable to tan. Then today, after my workout, I attempted to tan again, the staff didn’t say a single word to me as I stood there waiting for an OPEN bed for 10 minutes. I watched multiple people walk out of the tanning beds & the 5 employees standing there gossiping about the people inside of the gym & their frustration with people not answering calls when they try to contact them calling people “stupid”. After standing there for 10 minutes with zero acknowledgment, I walked out, not a word said to me. My sister was accompanying me & was able to tan but after getting into her room and undressing, she realized the tanning bed was disgusting, had milky residue left all over it, including no towel/goggles inside the room and no bottle on bed indicating it had been cleaned. She then re-dressed and came out to ask if she could clean the bed because it hadn’t been cleaned. This location used to be my absolute FAVORITE but it has went down hill in the worst way. I will not be returning to this location and was really close to canceling my membership after this second AWFUL visit. I know this is NOT the planet...