Around the Clock Fitness

I question the safety of this facility and its massive parking lot with no security guards and minimal video surveillance
Someone went into my locker stole my car keys and tried to steal my car
No one from management would return my call. I called Gabrielle the manager twice and she refused to answer or return my calls despite the fact that a felony had been committed on their property. Instead, they tried to blame me, the victim!
They wouldn’t even come out to check on me while I waited for the police

Don’t fall on their contracts.
It’s only about money not about a good service and health care. If you sign a contract and can’t keep going you will have to pay 50% from the full remaining year.
Lack of attention with your health. They don’t care your health status. They throw you in machines and despite your condition they don’t really understand your needs.
I’ll Never ever step at this gym again.
Ps: they also threat you to send the bill to collecting companies despite your health condition.
I have a bad back with 4 screws on it. They don’t care about it. they care about your money.

I have been called on more than one occasion a gym-​rat or the lesser nice term of gym-​snob. But as a daily gym goer, I do have some standards for my work out facility. I waited a year to write this review to ensure that my judgement wasn’t clouded by false rainbows as it can be with the introduction of a new gym.
But I must say that I love this gym as much today as I did a year ago when I joined. There are so many cardio machines with a variety of types, tons of weight machines and plenty of free weights. I am not big on fitness classes but I have noticed that they are always full which means they must be good. There is also a Cross Fit room with several classes offered each day (this is additional to your membership though).
The deli /​café is a nice addition to have when you are rushed on time and need to refuel. They offer great meals, sandwiches, shakes, bars and energy of many kinds!
And for those who have young kids — this part is AMAZING: The childcare room is a good size with friendly ladies that watch the kids. The toys are always clean and in good shape. And they offer a parents night out every Saturday night from 5pm-​11pm. They provide food and entertainment for your kids while you get to have a night out without breaking the bank on a babysitter. My toddler and preschooler both love it!
So needless to say, my opinion is that this is a great gym to join!!!

Forced me into a contract even though we had agreed to not do a contract. Turned into an absolute nightmare. Very shady when signing you up with a membership. Way over priced! Good facility as far as equipment, but overpriced for what you get. You do have to clean off your own equipment too.

Gym is great lots of machines and options. The classes are great and challenging. Trainers are great and so is childcare. My only complaint is some of the staff behind the counters could be a little friendlier. Some days it seems as if they don’t have time for you makes you feel as if your bothering them.

There have been numerous thefts in the men’s locker room. The owner, Derek Fay, refuses to correct the problem. There is a bolt on the inside of the locker that thieves loosen in advance so that when a victim puts on his lock, the latch doesn’t catch and the locker can be opened despite the lock. After 5 people were robbed on one day a few months ago, including two of my friends, I figured out the problem and told the managers and owner how the thieves were getting in the lockers despite customers putting locks on. They refuse to fix the issue with the bolt. They even refuse to warn customers to check the bolt before using the locker. When I discussed the issue with Derek Fay a few weeks ago, he had the nerve to tell me that his lawyer advised him not to fix the lockers because fixing the problem can be used as evidence if he gets sued. As a retired lawyer, I knew he was full of it. When I told him in writing that I will continue warning people in the locker room to carefully check the bolts, he terminated my membership and refused to allow me to enter.
If you get robbed in the men’s locker room, hire a lawyer. You may very well be entitled to punitive damages because Derek Fay has knowledge of this defect in the locker and refuses to fix it, for reasons unknown to me. Although the victims I know can afford the loss, one day a working class guy is going to lose his rent money or money for his kids’ clothes because Derek Fay doesn’t care. For this reason, it is important that if you are robbed, you pursue a claim with a lawyer against Derek Fay. If he has to pay 5 or 6 figures in punitive damages, he will fix the problem.

Just signed up for this gym two months ago. In that two months I have attended quite a few group classes — they were all awesome and a really great workout with a lot of room even with up to 32 people in one class. I have gone to the boy scout and 6 mile location — I have to say the 6 mile location is way busier than boy scout, but both are overly crowded during peak hours — I used to live up north for college where there were A LOT more chain gyms with more options keeping crowds down during peak hours.
They got rid of their towel service the second week I was there which is kind of disappointing since it doesn’t seem there is a lot of regular cleaning of the machines by staff or members.
Between 6AM and 9AM it is very busy, as well as 5PM and 8PM. It gets hard to even get a bench to work out on. I have never been during the day since I work full time, however it would be great if they opened another gym somewhere since it is the only decent gym in the area.
All in all it’s better than the gyms in the area, but not worth the high monthly cost considering how busy it gets, how hard it is to get a machine during peak times, and with them taking away benefits (like the towel service).

Ever since Around The Clock took over the Omni on Boy Scout it has gotten worse and worse. First they cut out classes from the schedule and now they are no longer supplying towels! When they took over all their sales people could do was tell the members what a dump the Omni was and how much better they would make it. Well I guess cutting services is what they meant by better. To make this type of cheapo move the gym MUST be being mismanaged and losing money.

First, a bit of clarification: This review is for the Boy Scout location.
This gym has the potential to be the nicest one in Fort Myers. That said, since the new owners bought the place (it was formerly the Omni Club), they have done a full renovation, but don’t seem to be doing the same daily maintenance that made Omni so pleasant.
On the surface, the gym looks great. The equipment is in great condition (mostly) and the shake/​snack bar has a ton of food, from shakes, to snacks, to full meals. Since the new owners took over, the roof also leaks a lot less (this was a big problem at Omni). The place is also (as the name suggests) open 24/​7, which is super convenient. Also, there are free classes (yoga, spinning, etc.) if you’re into that sort of thing. Unfortunately, if you go around 5:30 — 7:30 in the afternoon, you will find the place swamped, and parking will be scarce.
Now the bad: As with any gym, do not believe anything that is told to you verbally by the membership consultants. They will promise you anything to get you signed up, and there is no accountability for their misleading statements since the gym signs all the contracts away to ABC Financial (also adds another layer of difficulty if you ever want to cancel your membership).
If you want to use the «CrossFit room,» even when there isn’t a class in progress, you will have to pay an additional $ 90 – 100 a month. This is a real issue if you plan on doing squats or deadlifting, since there isn’t much room for that in the main free-​weight area. Also if you use kettlebells, know that the heaviest one you will have available outside the CrossFit room is 35 lb. Again, if the membership person says you can use this room with a regular membership, they are lying to you.
Also, once a year, you will be charged a «maintenance fee» of $ 43. You may or may not actually be informed of this when you sign up.
My biggest issue is that before the new owners took over, there were staff that went around wiping down the machines and re-​racking the weights properly all day. Now, I never see anyone cleaning the machines, and there are plates lying on the floor all over the free-​weight area, and weights missing that you won’t find anywhere near where they belong. (The Six Mile Cypress location is even worse)
Overall it’s a decent enough gym, but it could be much better if the owner’s opened up the whole club to members and kept up with the day to day maintenance.

I have been a member at the Fort Myers Six Mile Cypress facility for almost a year now and love it! I go six days a week and it is very well maintained, has a beautiful bathroom/​locker facility and an outstanding variety of cardio and strength training equipment. The staff are always quite friendly and helpful. I really enjoy the group classes and the instructors are wonderful. They make it easy to follow for beginners but also challenging for people who regularly attend.
My daughter is a college student and they have been very accommodating allowing her to freeze her membership when she left for college then allowing her to pay by the week or month when she is home on breaks. We have never had a billing problem with them and 3 members of our household workout there. I would highly recommend this gym.

ONE word SCAM, DO NOT JOIN THIS PLACE. you will be sorry. have to hire attorney in order to stop them from billing. I have all documents that I have cancelled and still cant stop them. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

First off let me just say that I’m writing my review here because they don’t have a listing for the Cape Coral gym. Which I thought was the flagship gym before the other two opened? Before I get to the critique, I want to give a big shout out to the service of Jessica, Leanne & Georgia (who btw was a real peach — pun intended!) and you’ll see why later. Anyways, I used to look forward to coming to this gym whenever I was back in town after a work assignment out of state. Let me just say that the past few times I’ve been here haven’t been the best. It seems that when a gym expands, the customer service takes a hit as you become a number and not a person to them or at least that is how you feel.
Case in point, it’s like a nightmare trying to get a weekly or monthly pass processed. I’ve visited this gym numerous times when I’m back in town and it’s like their computer system is SO bad (and it’s been supposedly upgraded just this past week??) that it can’t do the simplest of things that other gyms can magically do when I’m visiting other States for work. It can look up my name, tell that I’ve been there before but can the poor girl who’s assisting me at say 6:30/7:00am just update my information and take a payment for a week or a month? Nooooo, heaven forbid they give the poor girl access to do that. You have to go through a whole thing of paperwork again (I’m up to like 11 times with this) and wait for a person who’s a sales associate to help you. But really guys, at 6 or 7am to wait until close to 8am for this person?
The girls I mentioned were wonderful but I felt SO bad for them. They tried to help the best they could. Jessica gave flawless service and tried to just update the screen but was blocked at every turn from doing a simple task. Georgia even tried to help as she could probably see my frustration over the simplest of tasks not being able to be done. She gets all the way through updating and (after having to call either or manager or assistant who was home) processing to find out that even she doesn’t have clearance and so she has to back out.
45 minutes later (and I could of gotten in a full workout by this point) a sales associate does come in (in his favor he was early for work Kudos for him!) and is already besieged by another lady who’s wanting to update her membership — but so what that I’ve been waiting here for nearly an hour already right? Finally, my monthly pass was processed and it felt like I had gone 3 rounds with Mike Tyson just to get it done. Had this been the first time I’ve experienced this I would of just let it roll off. But this is like the 4^th time that I’ve come here and had a similar nightmare! (Even when a sales associate is around.)
A point the gym might want to think about. All we want to do is work out. We don’t need a sales pitch to try to give us something that we don’t want. It gets old fast and many like myself just don’t have time for it. There are many other options out there and believe me if your place wasn’t so close to my house I might just be at one of those options already. Will I come back? Well I have a month pass now. But I will say this. I’m not sure that you’ll be my first stop the next time I’m back. Nor will I refer people (of whom you’ve gotten at least 11 memberships from over the past year) to your gym any longer. I just don’t feel that I want friends or acquaintances of mine to have to have such experiences either (yes, three have already had similar experiences).
Here’s to hoping that a gym that I once valued as both friendly and one of the best gets its act together from the bottom up because if you don’t there is plenty of competition out there that are willing to profit from your current pitfalls.