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| - This place is a mini mall not a gym. Let's start with the positive, the gym has incredible amenities and the local staff is helpful and polite.
This is the ugliest gym I have ever been in. It is obvious that the problem with the facilities stem from an outdated corporate model. This place is basically a McDonalds chain. What inspires you? Is it beige? Is it brown? Well you are in luck, the showers are cheap beige tile on the floor, the walls and the ceiling. Then for some reason they have a slate wall and a sliver of shiny granite you would expect from a 1997 office building. It is as if they went to Home Depot, asked: what is on sale? and said we will take it, all of it. Are these scratchy towels on sale? Great the guests want to scrub off skin every time they dry off. The smelly showers sink down into the drain instead of stepping you up a bit off the rarely washed floor.
The free weight section of the gym rivals what you would expect from an apartment building. If you like waiting to find a bench in a crowded section of the gym, then you will love this oversight. Maybe lose an office or 2 on the gym level to actually put in some more equipment,hmmmm, choices.
The entire cardio section of the gym is great but why in the world does it all face the direction of the tv's? Each machine has it's own tv built in, thousands were spent in large palm trees, the windows face these and the beautiful unique job Green Valley Ranch did with their exterior, why not have some of the machines face out the windows? It would be great to look out and see the world without having to face a television but no, this gym is not about looking outside.
A large section of the gym by the cardio equipment is used just to sign people up for personal training. In this section one of the offices even has a fantastic window overlooking GVR but don't worry, the stretching section isn't in this great light space, nope it's in the middle...facing yet another wall. The guest experience isn't nearly as important as how much they can sell you, every corner is a shop or ad space for cars, it's just weird and makes the guest feel like they are at an old mall.
The area of this gym also has great views of the strip but none of these views are incorporated into the design. It is clear that they did not want to create a unique space special for Las Vegas they just wanted to create the same tired building they have done over and over again. This is just lazy. It shows corporate leadership has no vision of the future, no ability to push boundaries and be inventive in showing respect to this great city and the beautiful mountains that surround us. Hire a designer! Vegas deserves better, we are surrounded by opulent spaces daily, did no-one stay at a nice hotel when they were here? Did no-one think, wow maybe we should up our game and not follow the same design we have used for the last 20 years, maybe not use the same materials we have used for the last 20 years? It's hard to feel motivated or inspired here when it is presented as a bad flip from House Hunters.
The pool area is great, odd to sell alcohol at a gym but I totally get it, if you can make money and have that country club vibe go for it! Use that money to update the building from an office building with a gym to a luxury gym. Great job on hiring a staff that is helpful and knowledgeable. Corporate could learn a lot from the front line. If not then a company like Equinox will move into this market and really show Las Vegas what a luxury gym is supposed to look like. If the CEO is unable to update a product with so much going for it then it is time to replace the leadership that has forgotten how to lead and now is only following. Set the standard or you fall behind.
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