sherry choi
January 24, 2018 00:05
I don't recommend this location. All the staff have such an attitude and if you are a woman, this is an unsafe place for you to work out.
Recently, I went there around 9pm and finished my regular workout and took a shower and put a towel over my body. There was no one else in the women's locker room except a cleaning lady. Then I saw a suspicious person, who didn't look like a female, walking back and forth very slowly fully dressed with a towel on their head. I reached out to the person and snatched the towel from their head. It was a teenager or boy in his early 20s. He just slowly walked out and I screamed so hard several times, "security!" Not a single person showed up.
I quickly put my clothes on and ran upstairs to the front desk people. When I asked them if they heard me, their response was "oh, music is too loud here". No one asked what happened to me and they didn't seem to care at all. I explained to them what happened, but no one asked if I'm okay or said they were sorry. My body was shaking from fear. They seemed more interested in making excuses, since they were saying things like "maybe he got lost",or "he might be the son of a member."
The next day, a manager called me and asked if there was any chance the person in the locker room might have been transgender. The day after that, he called again to say he had reviewed the surveillance tape from the entrance area. So basically this suspicious person walked into the gym without scanning a member ID and none of the front desk people seemed to notice or care. The manager said they don't know who he was, and since nothing physically happened to me, they wouldn't report it to the police. He also said the guy was not a member of the gym--but, if you don't know who he was, how can you be so sure he is not a member of the gym only because he didn't scan his card? Also nothing happened? Seriously? The manager offered me two months free but come on!!, I don't feel safe at a gym that has such poor security and I don't feel comfortable with the staff's attitude. In response to my questions, the manager told me there is nothing to prevent people off the street from entering the locker rooms (other than the inattentive front desk people), and he also said they did not intend to make any changes to improve security.
I canceled my membership immediately. I wasn't paying over 200 dollars every month for such poor service and lack of security. I feel that all women who go to this gym should know what happened and how badly equinox handled the situation.