24 Hour Fitness — Local services in San Diego

Update Post Remodeling 5/2025

R.I.P. Basketball Court, Hello Organized Glory!

Welp, the basketball court is officially gone. I know, I know — for some of you, this is like finding out your favorite taco shop has closed down.

For me?

I didn’t really care... except that was where I enjoyed the fine art of men-watching. Those beautiful athletes... they’re out in the wild now. Stay strong, ladies and gents.

Now to the good news:

The new design? 10/10, would let them redecorate my house. Gone are the days of overcrowded chaos, unsafe layouts, and random people bumping into you mid-bicep curl like they’re playing gym dodgeball.

Instead, they finally used logic — a revolutionary concept!

Each area now has a purpose.

Squat racks? Together. 12 of them!

Leg machines? Together.

Ab machines? Together.

Free weights? Upstairs.

Cardio machines? Upstairs. It’s like they finally said, “Hey, what if the gym made sense?” Whoever came up with this layout deserves a raise, a trophy, and maybe a lifetime supply of protein powder.

Look, I get it. The basketball court was part of the community — practically a historical landmark at this point. But honestly, this upgrade was needed for anyone serious about working out without getting tackled by accident.

PRO TIP: If you're thinking of joining, this is the prime time. And don't be shy — ask for your teacher discount. Save those coins. Education and gains — a powerful combo.

IN SHORT:

RIP Basketball Court.

Hello Actual Gym Efficiency.

24 Hour Fitness — you did it.

Also, can someone please send the new designer to my house? My house could really use some minimalistic layout , efficient designer expertise with a soft touch of feng shui.

FINAL SCORE: 9 protein shakes out of 10 — minus 1 point because I still miss my cute basketball-viewing sessions.

†* Pre-Remodeling Review**

BRING COVID GUIDELINES BACK

All gyms need the hygiene protocol to be permanent. The volume of fitness folks circulating requires 24/7 sanitizing & cleaning. 24 hour sucks at this criterion.

I COME HERE FOR THREE REASONS:

My kids play a sport. It's a 2 hr block. No need to doom scroll so I go to the closest gym. And I'm absolutely selective on what I do here.

The three platforms on floor 1 are good, safe and updated. I do all I can on these platforms.

Treadmills are quite decent and plentiful.

THUMBS DOWN

Unhygienic overall Bathroom floors have never been cleaned, I don't care what they say. And it NEVER smells like bathroom disinfectant cleanliness Upstairs is a zoo within a zoo, ish is everywhere

FRUSTRATION FREE TIPS

It's better to wait for a downstairs platform then it is to try to figure out what to do at this gym The boxing bag is quite popular (there is one guy that thinks he is Canelo Alvarez and he turns on his own boombox super loud behaves like it's his own gym). I will give him props for his skills. But who isn't good when fighting a phantom opponent. Whatever is that you think you're going to do, have a Plan B 24 hour claim that they put in new equipment a month ago, IMO this is questionable

"If you have another option do that instead. But it's better to do something than...

This gym is either 1 or 4 stars, it really depends on WHEN you come.

Pros: The equipment itself is a little old, but you'll find everything you need to hit all your muscle groups. The cardio room has lots of machines. Usually some will be kind of broken, not to the point of not working, but where they'll make some loud clanging noise. But otherwise you'll usually get a cardio machine. The staff here is friendly and isn't pushy. I've also seen some pretty good deals on the protein which rival even online discount prices. It's right off the freeway and there's usually plenty of parking. I've never heard of anyone getting their cars broken into or anything like that so I'm guessing this place is pretty safe.

Cons: Never EVER come to this gym between 4pm-10pm M-F, unless you don't value your sanity. The weight room is so congested that you will be 2-3 groups deep in line for not one, but several of the same bench or machine. Yep, that's about a 10 minute weight per machine or bench IF YOU'RE LUCKY and one of the aforementioned groups aren't hanging all over their cell phones. You can tell you made it at peak time when everyone hangs out by the rail overlooking the cardio room, that is, until the guy doing the farmer's walk along that aisle makes everyone scatter. Then everyone just goes to where you're at and hang right next to your range-of-motion for your exercise. /facepalm They used to have a variety of things on the TV but now they put half of them on a repeating 5-minute 24 Hr fitness commercial, and the other half on sports (apparently if you're in the gym you're only allowed to like and watch sports) except for one lonely tv in the corner that's on the news.

Note: Rules are never enforced here. So you'll get the usual people throwing weights around, never racking them, yelling and grunting, not wiping down their machines or benches, walking around in sandals and carrying huge bags into the weight room and court, etc. This works to your advantage if you forgot your towel; that rule is never enforced either.

Pro tip: Come late at night. It's 24 hr, that's what you pay for. Late at night you get ALL the equipment to yourself (well, there are like 10 or 12 people but compared to a couple thousand during peak times, it's great). They finally manage to clean the bathrooms late at night, so they don't smell like sweat and urine as usual, and the weights are racked and...

Nope , I’m so angry right now! I can’t believe that I forgot & left my bag in a locker 1 day, came back a few hours later and it was closed due to a power outage & next day came to retrieve my stuff and GONE! WTH! And I live 1hr 45 min away. And at 130am their is no one that can help locate my things. You would think society has progressed and are smarter, but not big failure here with poor management decision to cut away! Let me give 24hr fitness a suggestion that can help PR and relations to your patrons, especially that had had their membership since I was 13 (family fitness at that time) and I’m 43 now. 30 yrs! And I don’t feel like 24hr fitness cares at all about personal relations.

How about you start tagging the locks give them 24 hours or something to remove their lock instead of just cutting every Freaking lock when covenant to your schedules. After all your supposed to be 24hrs to work around other peoples busy lives. That’s why I kept my membership for so long. Never has this happen to me and I goto allot of locations and have left my stuff for a few days occasionally. After reading more poor reviews I’m getting even for mad! Instead of spending time to cut peoples lock clean the dam place ! Reading even more reviews.. I’m getting ahold of corporate, this place is a bit in dire need of new management. It really sucks because up until this happened this was my favorite club , now I despise it! So after talking with one of the managers maybe because I just finished The Sopranos series, (I know I’m behind most people) shockingly surprised I got that vibe from the manager on how they handle business & 24 hr fitness corporation policy. Wholly WOW!🤯 but really should I be so surprised at 43 yrs in 2022. Sad sad planet right now. I’ll try to stay happy faced 🤡! Sadly I feel I need to definitely change something about how I deal with 24hr...