I received a notice from my gym(Health and Athletic Center(HAC)) telling me about the wonderful news of being bought out by life time fitness. When I first heard this I thought it wouldn't be so bad, in fact they already have a large facility in town that is closer to where I live. But after reading the small print it looks like it's not going to be such a great deal for me. Currently I pay $23.12 a month for HAC, Life time fitness offers five service levels: bronze, gold select, gold, Platinum, and Onyx. Bronze being the cheapest package starts at $43.25. I also found out that the larger facility that is closer to me is not available to bronze members, only gold or higher. The gold select membership is $54.07 which is more than double of what I'm currently paying. It's still unclear what is going to happen to the existing HAC facility. I don't know if they are going to close it down or keep it open as a bronze membership facility. I'll need to have someone from HAC clarify this but after reading the news letter it didn't sound like they were going to keep it open after the 31st of December. If they keep it open past December 31st it will need to be a bronze member facility otherwise the only bronze member facility nearby is North Dallas which is to far to drive.
My options are:
1.) don't do anything, my HAC membership will expire September 30, 2008.
2.) Sign up for bronze, Allows me to pay my existing membership dues and continue access to HAC until December 31, 2008..
3.) Sign up for gold, allows access to large facility and HAC.
Does anyone here have a membership to 'life time fitness'? and if so are you happy with their service and facilities?
Is anyone a member of LA fitness or 24 hour fitness? What are their monthly rates like? I don't expect to get the same great deal I
had with HAC but I would rather pay only around $30-$40 for the service.
