| Tue | 05:00 am -11:00 pm |
| Wed | 05:00 am -11:00 pm |
| Thu | 05:00 am -11:00 pm |
| Fri | 05:00 am -11:00 pm |
| Sat | 07:00 am -09:00 pm |
| Sun | 07:00 am -09:00 pm |
I had a complementary personal training session with one of the Master Trainers, Vincent. He was very professional and attentive. I really appreciate that Vincent was focused on my goals and explained the rationale behind muscle movements and techniques. As for the facility, the location is great, the equipment is modern, and the staff have been very accommodating.
Still under construction a.t.m.
I checked this gym out as I was visiting DC last week. My boyfriend and I were really impressed with the amount and quality of the equipment, how easy going all the patrons were even amongst the busy time of day, and how professional all the personal trainers seemed to be with their clients and with sharing space. They had plenty of free weights, Olympic lifting platforms, and lots of cardio machines in front. We didn't use the group ex rooms but they looked smooth and private, no chance of spectators! I was really impressed with the locker rooms--really clean, plenty of space, and I had the steamroom and sauna all to myself at 8am. As a gym rat myself, I would recommend this gym highly.
Small gym and front desk isn't welcoming.
BIG TIME! The "gay" owner installed "security" cameras in the "men's" locker room at this branch too. PS. According to it's sales rep,, this location is going to be closed down due to financial problems. (That explains why they're running full page ads & "news" in Washington Post.)
BIG TIME! The "gay" owner installed "security" cameras in the "men's" locker room at this branch too. PS. According to it's sales rep,, this location is going to be closed down due to financial problems. (That explains why they're running full page ads & "news" in Washington Post.)
Big time! The "gay" owner installed "security" cameras in the "men's" locker room at this branch too.
Big time! The "gay" owner installed "security" cameras in the "men's" locker room at this branch too.....PS. Heard that this location is going to be closed down soon due to financial problems.
READ THIS BEFORE YOU SIGN UP OR READ YOUR CONTRACT VERY CAREFULLY! If you want out, you have to sacrifice a virgin or worse. Hide your kids, hide your wife... hide your friends.
Before I tear this place apart, I will say the gym cost me $100/month, which is a reasonable (albeit expensive) DC price to charge for a pretty nice gym. Good equipment, good facility, qualified trainers, steam room, sauna, etc. in a decently convenient location. However, they trap you in the membership using contractual fine print and the greediest policies I've seen of any gym.
I have NEVER encountered a gym or subscription service in my life that, by contract, charges you after you have cancelled the service and doesn't even ALLOW you to cancel whenever you want to. Pretty sure even sketchy stuff like porn sites let you cancel when you want, they just make it hard.
1. I tried to cancel this membership when I no longer wanted to go as I received great gym benefits from my employer. I was told that I wasn't ALLOWED TO CANCEL, believe it or not. They said that the only acceptable situations in which I can cancel are if I move or if I get a job elsewhere. I had a 1 year obligation under the contract I signed, one they do not advise you on and expect you to read their extensive terms and agreements. Do NOT sign up for this gym unless you are sure you will absolutely go regularly for a whole year. If you are of the 1% of mankind who shuffles through terms and agreements over anything but your housing or car lease, good for you. If you are not, you're effed.
2. Before the year was over, I did, in fact, move. So I tried to cancel again. They charge you a $25 cancellation fee AND said that because I hadn't cancelled close enough to the next billing period, I will get charged for the NEXT MONTH, so another $100. I cancelled my membership 8 whole days before the next billing period. Which raises 2 questions:
1) WHAT THE HELL IS THAT $25 FOR?? I'm paying you $25 to NOT cancel my membership?
2) How is 8 days not a reasonable amount of time for you to process my cancellation and make it final? YOU CAN WALK FROM WASHINGTON DC TO NEW YORK CITY AND BACK IN 8 DAYS and you can't cancel my gym membership?
3) So if I move in the middle of May, I still have to pay $100 for the month of June? Even though I physically cannot go?
3. When I complained, the staff were not friendly, They defended their policy as fervently as a German officer from the 1940s would defend the concept of Aryan dominance or Tom Cruise would defend Scientology. It's set in stone, and they encouraged me to file a dispute, but threatened to send their collections agency after me. Go ahead. I have the money, but I won't indulge them with the satisfaction of victory and enabling them to perpetuate this shady business practice. Take my credit score instead.
Never ever ever. There are other nice gyms out there if that's what you need. Do not come here. They don't even have a pool or a hot tub. Or a monthly free massage. That's the least they could give you for being a black hole for your wallet.
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The staff's response to my request for an immediate cancellation:
1) Compares the policy to that of a LEASE. Apartments ask you whether you will be resigning the lease. They ask for their keys back. They want to know if they have to look for a new tenant. That is why they want to know in advance. The gym should not be comparing itself to housing. It should compare its policy to that of other gyms.
2) Details the steps to effectively cancel, which are comparable to the process of trying to acquit yourself of a felony.
3) He claims the business policy as "not greedy" because they want to keep their doors open and maintain a budget? Guess who else wants to do that? EVERY BUSINESS. I'm a customer, not an investor. I don't give a rat's a** about your budget and your doors. Chinatown liquors wants to keep their doors open but they don't lock you in their store until you buy a bottle of Cuervo. Survival is not an excuse for greed.
Love this place. So clean and on point.
Love it here .. I hope they put the seated calk raise machine in their.. I was looking for that today.. Overall no complaints!
Group fitness classes are fun and the sauna/steam room are wonderful.
Love this place. So clean and on point.
Love this place. So clean and on point.
Love it here .. I hope they put the seated calk raise machine in their.. I was looking for that today.. Overall no complaints!
Love it here .. I hope they put the seated calk raise machine in their.. I was looking for that today.. Overall no complaints!
Group fitness classes are fun and the sauna/steam room are wonderful.
READ THIS BEFORE YOU SIGN UP OR READ YOUR CONTRACT VERY CAREFULLY! If you want out, you have to sacrifice a virgin or worse. Hide your kids, hide your wife... hide your friends.
Before I tear this place apart, I will say the gym cost me $100/month, which is a reasonable (albeit expensive) DC price to charge for a pretty nice gym. Good equipment, good facility, qualified trainers, steam room, sauna, etc. in a decently convenient location. However, they trap you in the membership using contractual fine print and the greediest policies I've seen of any gym.
I have NEVER encountered a gym or subscription service in my life that, by contract, charges you after you have cancelled the service and doesn't even ALLOW you to cancel whenever you want to. Pretty sure even sketchy stuff like porn sites let you cancel when you want, they just make it hard.
1. I tried to cancel this membership when I no longer wanted to go as I received great gym benefits from my employer. I was told that I wasn't ALLOWED TO CANCEL, believe it or not. They said that the only acceptable situations in which I can cancel are if I move or if I get a job elsewhere. I had a 1 year obligation under the contract I signed, one they do not advise you on and expect you to read their extensive terms and agreements. Do NOT sign up for this gym unless you are sure you will absolutely go regularly for a whole year. If you are of the 1% of mankind who shuffles through terms and agreements over anything but your housing or car lease, good for you. If you are not, you're effed.
2. Before the year was over, I did, in fact, move. So I tried to cancel again. They charge you a $25 cancellation fee AND said that because I hadn't cancelled close enough to the next billing period, I will get charged for the NEXT MONTH, so another $100. I cancelled my membership 8 whole days before the next billing period. Which raises 2 questions:
1) WHAT THE HELL IS THAT $25 FOR?? I'm paying you $25 to NOT cancel my membership?
2) How is 8 days not a reasonable amount of time for you to process my cancellation and make it final? YOU CAN WALK FROM WASHINGTON DC TO NEW YORK CITY AND BACK IN 8 DAYS and you can't cancel my gym membership?
3) So if I move in the middle of May, I still have to pay $100 for the month of June? Even though I physically cannot go?
3. When I complained, the staff were not friendly, They defended their policy as fervently as a German officer from the 1940s would defend the concept of Aryan dominance or Tom Cruise would defend Scientology. It's set in stone, and they encouraged me to file a dispute, but threatened to send their collections agency after me. Go ahead. I have the money, but I won't indulge them with the satisfaction of victory and enabling them to perpetuate this shady business practice. Take my credit score instead.
Never ever ever. There are other nice gyms out there if that's what you need. Do not come here. They don't even have a pool or a hot tub. Or a monthly free massage. That's the least they could give you for being a black hole for your wallet.
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The staff's response to my request for an immediate cancellation:
1) Compares the policy to that of a LEASE. Apartments ask you whether you will be resigning the lease. They ask for their keys back. They want to know if they have to look for a new tenant. That is why they want to know in advance. The gym should not be comparing itself to housing. It should compare its policy to that of other gyms.
2) Details the steps to effectively cancel, which are comparable to the process of trying to acquit yourself of a felony.
3) He claims the business policy as "not greedy" because they want to keep their doors open and maintain a budget? Guess who else wants to do that? EVERY BUSINESS. I'm a customer, not an investor. I don't give a rat's a** about your budget and your doors. Chinatown liquors wants to keep their doors open but they don't lock you in their store until you buy a bottle of Cuervo. Survival is not an excuse for greed.
READ THIS BEFORE YOU SIGN UP OR READ YOUR CONTRACT VERY CAREFULLY! If you want out, you have to sacrifice a virgin or worse. Hide your kids, hide your wife... hide your friends.
Before I tear this place apart, I will say the gym cost me $100/month, which is a reasonable (albeit expensive) DC price to charge for a pretty nice gym. Good equipment, good facility, qualified trainers, steam room, sauna, etc. in a decently convenient location. However, they trap you in the membership using contractual fine print and the greediest policies I've seen of any gym.
I have NEVER encountered a gym or subscription service in my life that, by contract, charges you after you have cancelled the service and doesn't even ALLOW you to cancel whenever you want to. Pretty sure even sketchy stuff like porn sites let you cancel when you want, they just make it hard.
1. I tried to cancel this membership when I no longer wanted to go as I received great gym benefits from my employer. I was told that I wasn't ALLOWED TO CANCEL, believe it or not. They said that the only acceptable situations in which I can cancel are if I move or if I get a job elsewhere. I had a 1 year obligation under the contract I signed, one they do not advise you on and expect you to read their extensive terms and agreements. Do NOT sign up for this gym unless you are sure you will absolutely go regularly for a whole year. If you are of the 1% of mankind who shuffles through terms and agreements over anything but your housing or car lease, good for you. If you are not, you're effed.
2. Before the year was over, I did, in fact, move. So I tried to cancel again. They charge you a $25 cancellation fee AND said that because I hadn't cancelled close enough to the next billing period, I will get charged for the NEXT MONTH, so another $100. I cancelled my membership 8 whole days before the next billing period. Which raises 2 questions:
1) WHAT THE HELL IS THAT $25 FOR?? I'm paying you $25 to NOT cancel my membership?
2) How is 8 days not a reasonable amount of time for you to process my cancellation and make it final? YOU CAN WALK FROM WASHINGTON DC TO NEW YORK CITY AND BACK IN 8 DAYS and you can't cancel my gym membership?
3) So if I move in the middle of May, I still have to pay $100 for the month of June? Even though I physically cannot go?
3. When I complained, the staff were not friendly, They defended their policy as fervently as a German officer from the 1940s would defend the concept of Aryan dominance or Tom Cruise would defend Scientology. It's set in stone, and they encouraged me to file a dispute, but threatened to send their collections agency after me. Go ahead. I have the money, but I won't indulge them with the satisfaction of victory and enabling them to perpetuate this shady business practice. Take my credit score instead.
Never ever ever. There are other nice gyms out there if that's what you need. Do not come here. They don't even have a pool or a hot tub. Or a monthly free massage. That's the least they could give you for being a black hole for your wallet.
******
The staff's response to my request for an immediate cancellation:
1) Compares the policy to that of a LEASE. Apartments ask you whether you will be resigning the lease. They ask for their keys back. They want to know if they have to look for a new tenant. That is why they want to know in advance. The gym should not be comparing itself to housing. It should compare its policy to that of other gyms.
2) Details the steps to effectively cancel, which are comparable to the process of trying to acquit yourself of a felony.
3) He claims the business policy as "not greedy" because they want to keep their doors open and maintain a budget? Guess who else wants to do that? EVERY BUSINESS. I'm a customer, not an investor. I don't give a rat's a** about your budget and your doors. Chinatown liquors wants to keep their doors open but they don't lock you in their store until you buy a bottle of Cuervo. Survival is not an excuse for greed.
Cameras inside the men's locker room, but not in the women's?! The owner of Vida is gay. Does anyone else see how access to the cameras could be abused easily?!
The gym is way too dark and is a bad knockoff of David Barton (which isn't all that stellar to begin with) mixed with a cheap version of an Equinox.
There's a lack of heavy equipment at this location, so I just consider this gym a bad apartment style gym. There is no olympic platform or many plate loaded machines.
The free weight area is way too dark to be functional. In one area, you're blinded by these outdated halogen bulbs and in another, you can barely see your footing.
It's also worth noting that the severely outdated halogen lighting contributes to the heat of this place, which is a major problem during DC's notoriously hot and humid summers.
If you choose Vida, avoid this location!
Cameras inside the men's locker room, but not in the women's?! The owner of Vida is gay. Does anyone else see how access to the cameras could be abused easily?!
The gym is way too dark and is a bad knockoff of David Barton (which isn't all that stellar to begin with) mixed with a cheap version of an Equinox.
There's a lack of heavy equipment at this location, so I just consider this gym a bad apartment style gym. There is no olympic platform or many plate loaded machines.
The free weight area is way too dark to be functional. In one area, you're blinded by these outdated halogen bulbs and in another, you can barely see your footing.
It's also worth noting that the severely outdated halogen lighting contributes to the heat of this place, which is a major problem during DC's notoriously hot and humid summers.
If you choose Vida, avoid this location!
If you get spoiled easy I would stay away from this gym and go settle for a less awesome experience while spending more money. I have been a member of many gyms in many different cities around the country. I have never experienced such a great bang for the buck as I have at VIDA City Vista. Just go visit the place and you will see. The equipment is all in great shape, the place is clean and most importantly it smells great. Even the locker rooms smell great, now think about that for a minute. The locker rooms smell great, the rooms that are filled with sweaty nasty guys smells normal! This is such an easy thing to take for granted until you end up paying more for a gym membership and find you have to plug your nose every time you enter the locker room.
If it is classes you are into they have you covered, but be warned you will leave the classes sore and feeling like you actually accomplished something so if you are into going to classes just to be seen this may not be the fit for you. I'm a cyclist and used the gym to keep up on my off season training, If you really want to put your legs to the test take Tim and Cayley's classes during the week and take Wills spin/sculpt on the weekend. These three will put a hurting on you that will take your fitness to the next level.
The rest of the staff, well they are on a whole different level especially for DC. They are nice and helpful, they will take time out of their day just to have a friendly conversation and will do everything they can to make sure you are always taken care of. Go in and talk to Travis, he will get you taken care of.
Just for the record, no I do not work for the gym. I am just a member who realized how great I had it after i moved and had to pay more for far less in a different city.
