Anytime Fitness — Local services in Punta Gorda

This gym is gross. And I mean truly filthy and disgusting. It’s never been to the crispy level of other corporate gyms, but this might be the worst I’ve ever been to. Sure for a long time they have had issues with many folk on the regular who never wipe down equipment and refuse to put back weights and the like. Those people have never been policed, though we all know who they are. That is a fixable cultural problem though. I hope new management can take care of such as easy problem to remedy. No one has tried in years, but it’s time.

Now though, new leadership has taken away sanitary wipes. It was replaced with a clear spray no more effective than plain water. It did nothing. As you can imagine, the gym quickly grew smelly and rank. Weights and equipment became slimy to the touch. Having my own sanitary wipe on hand you can see the dramatic side by side of effectiveness (pics included). We began living in our bacteria and fungus. Complaints took forever for replies and fixes. They did replace the spray liquid with something slightly better, but still without the effectiveness from before. The district manager me assured me this liquid is effective and industry standard. Gaslighting that my eyes were lying to me and results I see from wiping aren’t really happening. Also a logical fallacy in comparison. It does not matter where it’s used, what matters is actual effectiveness and the pictures don’t lie.

I wish they were truthful and said these paper towels and new liquid were simply just cheaper. You know, a simple, “we don’t care about your cleanliness and health. It’s a just a money decision”. Real talk would be appreciated. This is a small, but rapidly growing town and it won’t be long before another gym comes in. The town will surely remember how we were treated and disregarded and then leave. Then we can see this boneheaded financial decision in action.

I will finish this review to drive home that this place still smells, it’s still slimy, the district manager blames it on the staff (I can share the email) but it starts from the top. Enjoy the array of pictures I took today and...

This is one of the worst anytime fitness I've been to. The worst part is the bathrooms there's only two showers and they are absolutely filthy it's evident that they haven't been cleaned in months there's caked on dust on the toilet paper holders the shower itself was so gross I don't recommend going in there barefoot there was blood and mucus on the walls and shower curtain. It makes no sense that the showers are like this because it's a pretty big gym it even has a fancy studio, tanning bed, 15 tvs on the wall and about 25 treadmills I would hope they invested their money instead on one of the most important parts of the gym which is the bathroom/showers. Whoever works at the front couldn't give less of a crap about anything can barely answer a question and they just sit there on their phone when they could get up, get a rag, some cleaning products and take 30 mins to clean all of those TWO showers its embarrassing that with only two showers they cant clean them. Also there's no weight room like some have it's just all out in the open and they have classes in the middle of the whole gym. To the manager please take yourself and staff on a little field trip to the AF in Cape Coral on Santa Barbara, bring a notebook and...

Visited as a guest recently and boy do I feel for the regulars here. I've owned and managed gyms all through my work past so I can easily spot a neglect in funding/care for proper upkeep as well the correct systems to maintain operations and client/guest conduct.

It only took the one visit to see the clientele emboldened disregard cleaning after themselves or putting equipment back over and over again. It may be harder to police activity in unsupervised hours, but just because something is harder does not mean it should be nixed completely. It is disrespectful to the guests that actually clean and maintain during their brief time daily. The lackadaisical nature of action told me this is very regular and careless. For one thing is certainly explained the odor of the facility and the mess of equipment throughout.

It did not appreciated the broken soap dispenser in the bathroom, insulation dangling from the ceiling, and air filtration system caked from years of a lack of maintenance. With proper systems and care these things should be addressed. Best of luck to this gym, you...