Price Crunch?

they do a civ service discount? i'm a state employee, too, and was not offered any special rate [i pay ninety/month]. i'm there 6 days a week, mostly in the early a.m. and sometimes after work. never a prob getting on the good cardio machines in the morning. after work, it can get hairy, especially early in the week, when people are more ambitious. the weekends can be a bit population-dense, as well, but i've rarely had to wait long enough for serious irritability to set in. and, like a previous poster, i am really particular about the machines i'll use. definitely some maintenance and staff issues, but all worth it, imho, for being 1.5 blocks from home.

I just joined the Crunch on Flatbush.

$79/per mo.

I can go to any crunch nationwide, though, which is cool since I work in the city near one.

I don't think I would EVER want to work out on that ground floor. They need to get shades or something. It's really fishbowl like down there.

I think the windows around the ground floor equipment will help get me motivated to get into shape faster. Can't be overweight and wheezing with the entire neighborhood catching a glimpse as they come up from the subway.

i'm ambivalent about the new first floor. equip is great. but the window totally fucks with my repressed exhibitionism. just as i'm getting into my endorphin euphoria, i realize that all of my neighbors, colleagues, exes, etc, who traverse flatbush may observe my guilty pleasure of running to bad 80's pop while lip-synching and playing air-keyboards. it was enough to make me go back upstairs today, where i could enjoy the run with only the tourists in the doubledecker busses as witnesses. maybe i'll get over it or maybe they'll install a modesty screen. one does end up feeling like unwitting reality tv persona.

withachaser wrote: i'm ambivalent about the new first floor. equip is great. but the window totally fucks with my repressed exhibitionism. just as i'm getting into my endorphin euphoria, i realize that all of my neighbors, colleagues, exes, etc, who traverse flatbush may observe my guilty pleasure of running to bad 80's pop while lip-synching and playing air-keyboards. it was enough to make me go back upstairs today, where i could enjoy the run with only the tourists in the doubledecker busses as witnesses. maybe i'll get over it or maybe they'll install a modesty screen. one does end up feeling like unwitting reality tv persona.

You're not the only one.

BKChickie wrote: [quote=Carnivore]FYI, bklynby and anabanana posted from the same IP.

Curious to know if you could figure out whether or not that was a Crunch-controlled IP.

All I can tell is that it looks like it's probably an IP address for a business of some sort, as it's registered to an ISP's "industry retail group."

Anabanana had to be a shill. No one could possibly, with a straight face, utter the words "the front desk girls at Crunch are great!" unless they were one of them.

The first floor phobes can hide away easily on the awesome new video game bikes in the back of that floor. I am no shill, but those things looked pretty damn cool.

P.S. - all the girls I know hate the first floor fishbowl. I don't, but I could understand why people would want some privacy.

I'm sure if enough people comment to management they would add shades. Unless they're total jackasses.

Carnivore wrote: I checked the ARIN WHOIS database and reverse IP check and all I could find was that it was an ISP that provides commercial IPs, not one of the local consumer ISPs

someday people will learn how the internet works 8)

No. Do you mind saying by what percentage yours is going up? I'm locked into a two year contract, thankfully, but I'm curious as to how much they're jacking up the monthlies.

I got that letter but I am supposed to be in a contract.

the gym is nice but time has shown their financial department are imeciles.

they overcharged my gf about $180 in the first three months.

then they lost my cc information, twice, and couldn't seem to get my autodebit going.

carapace shell wrote: Going to this place has gotten pretty frustrating of late. It seems they're signing on new members like gangbusters. There's usually no room to stretch, and the (ladies) locker room is so crowded it feels like a fire hazard.

I also notice that their "Comments" box has miraculously disappeared.

I wish I could say I was done with this place, but I don't know where else I'd go. (I'd consider Eastern Athletic but I hear they're closed on Saturdays.)

Just needed to shake my fist for a minute.

I agree! I'm getting really tired of it, too. It's so disappointing: facilities were expanding with expanding the locker-room capacity. I don't know how it is on the mens side, but on the womens side there are often absolutely no lockers available and no place to hang a coat. Despite this situation, they are still actively signing new members.

It's like I'm getting to the point where I'm planning my whole evening around going to the gym when it isn't crowded.

When I was there this week, I asked for the general manager's card. I plan to send him an email. I'm not sure what good it'll do.

But, maybe this thread will warn a prospective member: if you want to work out after work, fuhgettaboutit!

VeggieQueen wrote: I was going to recommend they cut locks again. I've been there when there are no classes going on and very few women in the gym, but yet most of the lockers have locks on them.

It costs $5 to buy a new lock, and I don't know how much a monthly rental is at Crunch. Therefore, given how seldom those locks are cut, it's a better bet to just buy a new lock every couple of months.

Aenigma wrote: Interesting idea regarding the locks, BKChickie. I'm tempted...

I just want to make it clear that I don't do that, but I would not be surprised if someone did.

At first I thought that the crowding was just a temporary blip, but that it definitely NOT the case. Glad that others are noticing it too, and I'm not just being a whiny New Yorker.

Actually, I think that it's from the classes. I noticed on Tuesday that both the aerobics studio and spin room were full for the entire time I was there. Since I'm assuming that most who take classes are women, that would explain the serious overcrowding of the lockers.

Really, the club itself is a bit more crowded than before, but nothing that seem extremely unreasonable. If it weren't for the women's locker room I could deal with it.