. "1"^^ . . "4"^^ . "2010-05-04T00:00:00"^^ . "5"^^ . "1"^^ . "So far, so good. I'll admit I have my doubts about CityScape, but damn, Golds is a nice step in the right direction for downtown Phoenix. This place is done up to the nines -- amazing facility all around.\n\nThe locker room is souped up with keypads, the sauna is huge and not (yet) seedy and they offer a bevy of personal care items for you included in your membership. Yep, I plan on taking classes, so I can at least look like I know how to use half of these fancy things they offer.\n\nThere are so many machines, free weights, studios and stretching apparatuses that my workouts may stretch several hours long. Deep breath. OK, trying to put a calm on my excitement.\n\nThe \"cardio cinema\" movie theater is just a tick below ridiculous, but then again I'll probably end up using it more than half of the things they offer.\n\nThe staff has been really personable so far, which is a big boost up from the Y, where it's basically like pulling teeth just to get scanned in. Count me in as a believer!"^^ . .