Millberry Fitness & Recreation Center at UCSF Parnassus — Attraction in San Francisco

This facility is probably one of the better options in Inner Sunset for its price point. However, the size of the gym and the variety of equipment can't accommodate the number of people flocking to it from 5 pm to 7 pm on weekdays. The gym closes at 7 pm, so I suspect many people try to make it before closing since it's difficult to work out in the middle of the day when you have a 9-5 job. It's impossible to use anything else besides a treadmill during that time (unless you're okay standing in line closely watching someone using equipment you want to use). Had to cancel for that reason + the fact that the pool isn't available at this time.

It is exceptionally clean. Spotless.

The locker room has a pretty weird system with most lockers already being locked. So I guess you need to pay for it. However, they also have unlocked ones (just very little).

Also, if you decide to cancel and your payment day isn't the first of the month, they will charge you for a full month and cancel it on the first of the next month. No prorating.

Had high hopes for this one. Unfortunately,...

This place is decent. The front staff is very friendly but one particular personal trainer (I won't say any names) red had the audacity to come up and harass me about my water bottle. It is a glass water bottle but the way she went by it was wrong especially because she has seen me bring it to the gym for a whole month and never said anything. Mind you there is NO signs on the wall about no glass bottles. She interrupted me while I was on the tread mill in the middle of my work out with the bottle on the side of the tread mill out of harm's way. I told her red that I will remove it when I was done running and that wasn't good enough. She had one of the front staff come take it from me and moved it behind the front counter. It was very embarrassing. She also tried to sell me one of their aluminum canisters. Very...

Great community gym, and the only gym in my area that has a sauna which is a huge plus. Yoga instructor Natalya is amazing and a class I look forward to every week— she really facilitates a community feel to her class and she never does the same class twice which keeps things interesting.

I also enjoy the Les mills classes, a workout program which I had previously never heard of before coming to UCSF gym. Body pump in particular is a great beginner weightlifting class for someone like me who I was intimidated by lifting weights.

Due to most members being students or staff at UCSF, the gym culture is such that everyone is very considerate about wiping down equipment, which...