BALLY Total Fitness – Jersey City (near Journal Square)
[UPDATE: November 09, 2008] BALLY Total Fitness: NOW HIRING. Please click HERE for more details…
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Previous UPDATE (June 17, 2008) : Click here for the opening date of the gym
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Original Post : Feb. 28 2008
It’s hard not to notice this construction site whenever you walk or drive by Bergen Avenue from Journal Square, or from any local establishment around the area. If you are commuting, this BALLYs is a good 5-minute warm-up walk from the PATH Train.
While JC Construction says the gym is a good addition to the area, I have heard a bad review of BALLY from one Jersey City resident, but I’ll post it in details once this branch has opened in Summer. (If I see strong demand from Google Search, I am going to post the review).
How about you, have you tried BALLY’s before? What’s your take?
BALLY TOTAL FITNESS
Where: Corner of Bergen Avenue and Newkirk Street, JC
Tel. No. : (201) 974-9010
Status: Under Construction / Opening Summer of 2008
they only open from 6 AM to 9pm monday to friday . and they close early in the weekends . other bally fitness such as in Union city and NYC are closing late 10 or 11 PM but journal square close the earliest .
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Atleast we, as a community, have somewhere to go and workout regardless of time constraints. The NYC location has been closing early on weekends…9 to 6 and 9 to 5. M-f…When the time comes, they rush everyone out. So how do we win?
I think it’s great and the spinning and teacher, employees are quite friendly more so than the NY or Union C. locale.
Think about it.
I did ask about the hours as well, he stated for now that is going to be the time but if people continue to request late hours they will eventually stay open late.
This place is convenient but I guess that is about it. The whole club is pretty messed up and I would not recommend it to anyone. There don’t seem to be any management. It’s more than a month since I paid them for whole year membership and some ersonal training sessions but they have not given me my ID or contract papers. Everytime I ask, they say they are working on putting everyone in the computer. The sales person whose name is Juan and who set us up never returns any calls. Looks like his goal is just to sell the contract and forget about the customer. The worse thing that I am facing is to setup personal training sessions. Whenever I tried to contact some personal trainer, they told me I have to to buy some package. What kind of BS is this? They have taken money out from my credit card but giving me hard time in fulfilling their obligations. Please refrain from this fitness club.
i would not recommend this club to anyone either. thank goodness i have not purchased a membership. the employees are not customer friendly, and do not like to sell any of the tv promotions. as a matter of fact, the curtail you from discussing a commercial promotion. i don’t like the class schedule. they have no early morning classes, and if you are not discussing checking account and credit cards they don’t care about your interest
I signed up today, using the web special ($29.99 p/month no contract). Many of you are right about them pushing for the contracts, I just brushed them off and continued with the web sign up. They’ll try to say “It’s better with the contract! It’s cheaper!”……..it’s not.
I will mention, this place is packed after 6pm. The weight room (basement) was completely crowded, almost impossible to find a space, station, or bench to work out properly. Treadmills were all being used, you had to wait in line for one, I just jumped on the elipitical to warm up. I recommend this club in the morning if you want peace and quiet. The mayhem will probably die down in a month or two when everyone gets lazy again.
Hey sure the time schedule is sucky and the need to improve it (meaning opening late nights) has been an issue. Plus I see there are many people here commenting on the crowd after 6pm! I went and it was torture but for you lazy folks use any available stair climber or something…to get a proper workout! What is the use of paying the membership fee if you come into the gym, complain and then don’t want to come back!? WTF.! The worst of it all is that the Cycling/Spinning class has filled up to capacity before the 45 minutes before the class which is a shame because half the people in the class don’t stay for the whole class! WAste of time! Yeah and I can’t wait to people get lazy again and us that go on a regulur basis can enjoy going w/o added aggravation..*(
Hello, Would any one know if there are any full week aerobic classes in any gym centers? I stay at Journal Square and would like to know locations anywhere around PATH acessesbilities. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Horrible service and filthy equipment.
1)This gym has such ghetto staff
2)The don’t clean the facility- its disgusting
3) There are no paper towels or anything to clean up after yourself
4) class schedules are inconvenient. no morning classes. 10am classes??? c’mon now..