Equinox Santa Monica — Local services in Santa Monica

No where to really stretch or do your own exercises. Overcrowded and weird layout on different floors and in corners of building. Yoga room isolated on a different floor. Workout and cardio machines distributed throughout building in a weird and uncohesive way. My favorite century city but too far to drive. West LA feels old jacuzzi there just don't. Lol. Hate trying to workout here and I have been member of gyms for years classes no point no room to move. When I try to use the main class exercise room to do my own workouts it is being mopped or there are club employee meetings going on. Hate it! The new toiletries in showers average not up to the standard I would say of a destination membership maybe just so cal. Paying a lot for average products. Body wash super watery..v strange overall 0 stars only 1 because I use the gym only to shower after working out/running somewhere else, like the beach Lol! Sad. Hope they remodel or do something to this place it sucks and looks dated . Don't go in steam room it smells and feels unsanitary. Grosses me out. Ladies in locker room start opening all the locker doors like half hour to 45 minutes before closing. People are still there and hard to move to get in to get your stuff from locker or get dressed. Uncomfortable as if they were...

Had a horrifying experience. We visited the location on 201 Santa Monica Blvd to have a quick tour to see the amenities. The guy at the reception was very hospitable. He introduced us to a staff member (her name was Vivian if we heard correctly). Instead of giving us a tour she started asking us plenty of personal questions like where we live, where we used to live, why we moved, where we work, do we live together or not and much more. We explicitly told that we are not confortable with such personal questions, but our voice was ignored. Then she was kind of pushing us to sign us for membership without showing us the gym, we insisted to see it and she pushed us to leave our contact details - we also don't understand what's this for.

Finally instead of having a 10 min tour as we wanted, we spent more than half-hour answering very personal questions (for example I'd like to understand how the above mentioned questions are connected to gym membership) and only 5 mins observing the gym. And obviously we decided not to go for membership.

Time-wasting....

I joined the Equinox club on Santa Monica Blvd a few week ago and am absolutely blown away by this place! It’s an impeccably clean facility with top notch trainers and every piece of fitness equipment you can imagine. My personal favorite part is the wide variety of great group fitness options which make it a one stop shop for all things fitness: they offer everything from barre/yoga to spin/precision running and a huge variety of strength training as well as myofascial release techniques (think self massage) classes which are great for injury recovery and prevention. The group fitness instructors at equinox are clearly well trained and kept up to date with the latest and greatest fitness trends - rather than focusing on their own workouts during your class they walk around the room offering modifications, progressions and encouragement to ensure that members get the most out of OUR workouts.

I’m a lifelong workout enthusiast who loves all things fitness and have been to countless health clubs throughout the country - Equinox is truly in a league of its...