Minerals Sports Club — Attraction in Vernon Township

Been coming to the gym here for a little over a year now before and after the construction and all I can say is I’m only coming due to the convenience. Since before and after renovation, not much has changed other than a glamorized new gym room. A lot of the equipment is the same with not many new options not to mention many things go missing or are unkept with. Broken, worn out, loud and squeaky, and missing equipment all the time.

Was expecting a lot more with the renovation considering how expensive it is to attend this place and get our moneys worth but this place makes planet fitness look better. I get you get the pools too but not even the lockers work in the changing room so gotta carry your stuff around so it doesn’t get stolen. Oh and speaking of high prices, the gaming center and arcade area are absolute ripoffs. Overpriced time to use the game consoles and arcade full of used old arcade games that look like they were picked out at an auction.

What really set me to write this review though and let out my opinions on this place is how they decided to require my friend to pay a “holiday weekend surcharge” of 10$ even when I had a guest pass. I pay a lot of money to go here and had my guest pass I earn yet they still try to squeeze that last bit out of me? The gym was basically empty too yet we gotta pay a surcharge on a Sunday. Hopefully they use that money to Atleast go towards something useful here like new equipment. Only giving two stars for the nice staff and convenience, but sorry until things change I’ll keep...

The customer service here is awful. I had a day pass which they wouldn’t let me use because I wasn’t with the member who gave it to me, they wouldn’t let me buy a day pass, completely unhelpful woman at the desk. The gym here is not worthy of the gate keeping, the sauna/steam rooms are overrun with fat hotel guests and all the pools with their obnoxious children. I don’t buy a membership because it isn’t worth what they charge. Better off at the YMCA.

Response to customer service: as a former member for many years I can attest to how subpar my experience with this sports club has consistently been. I seem to have missed the very fine print on the complimentary guest passes — which are supposedly given as a perk of a very expensive membership which I paid for many years only to frequently be disappointed by closed facilities, lack of staff, lack of cleaning services, the removal of towels and amenities as inclusions for members, the constant crowds and unchecked tourists who drunkenly ruin the facilities for paying members - those guest passes are marketing for minerals designed as a perk, it’s not a perk if they can’t actually be used.

Your sales person offered to give me a tour, not to let me use the gym. Really, I just wanted to sit in the sauna for 15min. After thousands of dollars in paid membership fees over the years I figured my guest pass world be honored but your staff was not willing to do this at off peak hours on a Wednesday. So yea, my review for your sports club is not positive....

My review is only about the gym equipment.

(8/2025) Top notch weight lifting equipment from Life fitness, Legend, hammer strength and arsenal strength. Its a mixture of plate loaded and weight stack pieces to go around. However, Dumbells only go up to 100lb. I prefer all gyms to have 200lb. Dumbell minimum, but hey, it is what it is.

My favorite piece is the Legend Westside Barbell Belt Squat station designed by Louie Simmons. Not alot of gyms carry this. In addition, the arsenal strength standing press station, incline chest fly and row stations.

Summary of my pros, cons and nit picks:

Pros: top notch equipment and mix of weight stack and plate loaded.

Cons: dumbells only go up to 100lb.

Nit picks: missing a weight stack chest press station, and could use a lying leg press station with a weight stack. Preferrably from Prime Fitness Manufacturer.

Overall, its a solid gym that'll cater to every level of fitness. I follow a high intensity/heavy duty protocol with my weight training. The equipment satisfies what I need to do in the...