24 Hour Fitness — Local services in Portland

Average 24-hour fitness with a smoothie bar. Outside of the 1st world issues like parking, it has everything I need for training. Some of the cardio stuff is upstairs...where heat tends to hang out with its high ceiling especially during the summer. Demographically speaking, this place attracts younger professionals. There's not a lot of teenagers who go here compared to more suburban 24hrFitness like in the Beaverton and Mall 205 locations. The other "downtown" 24HF on SW 4th is essentially in a basement that has a more older tame crowd who tend to be in the legal, government and financial fields. This place makes me think more of folks in the restaurant and/or service industries, sales or web site developer-types and administrative fields. Also, there's a lot of gays. Not that this is important to the average person, but if you're uncomfortable with that, you've got choices. But it may be important for someone who is gay to feel safe in that kind of environment. I'd say this place attracts a greater amount of body-builder types than perhaps other 24 hour fitness. Maybe it's the same distribution and this place is just smaller? I don't know. I realize the "athletic club" consumer is probably going to roll their eyes at the meatheads who tend to frequent here, you know, pre-set motivational grunts and the grunting/hissing/whistling during the reps, the slamming of the weight plates and the copious amount of chalk...on everything. I certainly roll my eyes at some of the conversations by dudes who say things like "women like big shoulders, it's why you gotta get those guys really big!" Yeah. Likewise, it's equally annoying to retrieve those 45 pound weight plates all leaned up and stacked next to the legs of one bench from the crew who were there previously. But I get it. To me that's better than the pedestrian member who never racks their weights and doesn't understand gym etiquette by taking your bench when you get up to drink water even though your towel is still laying on the bench, the guy who takes the weights off the rack on the bench you were working on without asking if you'd be using it, because taking 2 more steps to another rack no one is working on is too far; the same guys who are busy gawking at the women in between looking at themselves in the mirror and messing with their iPhones. Some of these guys are all geared out, but got nothing to show for. I digress. I like the industrial look of this place. It makes it feel like it isn't a spa, you're here to sweat. It reminds me of old school gyms except with more up-to-date (albeit not always maintained) equipment or gyms at deployment sites, but with way better equipment and AC. A plus to this place is the smoothie bar. I honestly don't know of any other 24 hour fitness sport in the are that offers that. I don't use it, but there are times where I forgot my post workout stuff and wish the gym I was at had a smoothie bar to get my protein drink on. Based on all that I give it a 3-star, because it's not a place I go out of my to go nor\ is it even exceptional, but it does offer all the things I need for my workouts....and restaurants...

Awful. The equipment is decent and a few people who worked there were polite and friendly but overall I had a horrible experience there. I saw a trainer and he was very late for our first appointment then proceeded to be late for a second one, (I know I should have dropped him then but wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt and the actual training was decent) He then slept through another appointment for which he promised a free session for, I was very annoyed at this and should have dropped the trianing then, but nope...I showed up for a regularly scheduling appointment that we had agreed on and I had calendared. He was with another client. I was so embarassed I walked out of the club. And relaly overall I was not comfortable there, many of the trainers and staff were rude and the overall atmosphere of the club is not very hospitable. And at one point I had asked front desk staff what type of yoga classes were offered and they had no idea. There are many different types of yoga, they did not even know if it was gentle or not. I cancelled my membership and requested a refund for my personal training, which I had to call back about a number of time as people kept giving me incorrect information and telling me I would have my money soon, when in fact it had not been put through. This has lasted almost a month. If I had the choice between being fat for the rest of my life or going to 24 hour fitness ever again I would choose fatness. Fortunately there are a number of small gyms out there, one of which I will join when I finally get my...

The stars are ONLY for the staff. I really didn't want to make this review because the staff are great, especially Ken! ;) But man this place is FILTHY and something always seems broken (hand drier, scale etc.) I soak and want to start swimming but I'm high key afraid of getting pink eye, athlete's foot, staph or something else. The hot tub has things floating in it, and the bubbles weren't working because the filter is broken (I was told). The sauna is stinky (could just be because some people are funky), and the floors in the women's swim locker look like they never get clean. Ever. Caked on grime, trash and enough hair on the floor to remind me of that movie The Grudge. Every time I forget my slippers--instant regrets. I'm hobbling like a goblin on curled feet willing myself to magically levitate off the floor because it's that nasty. This place NEEDS to hire either more cleaners or better ones. And this SHOULD NOT fall back on the staff. I'm probably ending my membership this month and moving to LA Fitness or Movement. I'd rather pay 300% more and have the peace of mind that I won't end up with treatment-resistant bacteria. I guarantee you it's cheaper to higher cleaners than to pay out a very expensive class-action lawsuit to everyone who ends up catching something. The photos can't quite capture it and I wasn't willing to get close to the hairballs.

But love the staff,...