Planet Fitness – South Plainfield

Good gym, good staff, but the members take away from it all.
This Planet Fitness is decent. The staff is helpful most of the time and the equipment is pretty decent.
The locker rooms are clean 90% of the time and the gym on a whole is a great facility.
HOWEVER, due to the members of the gym, there is often an odor. This odor is there more often than not and is actually distracting. I understand that if you’re at a gym, you sweat, and of course you’ll have BO, but because of the particular demographic at this gym, the odor does become bothersome. It’s noticeable because when any given person walks by, a waft of their aroma suddenly smacks you in the face. The ventilation in the gym is good, but there’s no escape from the smell.
You’ll have ²⁴⁄₇ access at this location and the gym never gets overly crowded. Sometimes you’ll have to wait for a pull up bar or a incline leg press but it’s never unbearable and members aren’t apprehensive to let you work in with them.
Good gym. Not great, but acceptable.

For a $ 10 a month gym fee, this is an easy choice. It’s more for the lax fitness type. They don’t have classes and are missing a few pieces of equipment you will find at other gyms. No pool.
Sunday nights aren’t too busy but weekdays around 7pm it gets packed.
The staff is friendly and never rude no matter how many times I forget my swipe card.

Planet fitness guys dont know how to cancel a membership. Even though I requested membership cancellation, it was not done properly in the system and they charged for two months and yearly membership. Pathetic…till now they havent resolved the issue… Planet fitness dont you guys feel shame?

i usually have a great work out here and its not too over priced being 20 $ a month and i joined because they said no gym intimidation but today in the day time it was different. The trainor was sitting around doing nothing at all but when i was done with my workout i NOTICED HE WAS LAUGHING AT ME as I walked out i asked him about no gym intimidation and I am a paying customer. I realize i have some pounds to lose but it is most distressing when your trying to lose weight and you see fit people laughing at you. When I asked why he was laughing at me he said he wasnt but his friend next to him kept laughing and my family members saw him laughing. I now am discouraged and thinking of joining a different gym where the trainors encourage people to work out and lose weight and not make fun of them because they are a little over weight This kind of treatment makes people want to quit the gym. I always thought trainors were there to help but with this kind of attitude no wonder he sits and does nothing all day. Trainors like that need to be fired and give someone that is a nicer trainor a job that can actually encourage people to lose weight and work out which i thought pf was all about NO lugs no gym intimidation its all lies really disappointed pf south plainfield i shall not be back thanks for hurting my feelings and my families.

I’ve just about had it with this place… Thinking of canceling my membership! PF is finding all kinds of ways to get more money out of me. When I first started going they weren’t taking the monthly payment out of my account… Blamed me for that. I switched to black card $ 20 monthly … Made me pay for $ 10 and $ 20 yearly fee. They refused me to work out unless all money was paid. Right on that phone I went to corporate but of course they didn’t care nor did south Plainfield give two craps! They are sneaky and I don’t like it anymore. I should have left after the first incident.

I have a regular $ 10 a month basic membership. But, these guys charged me for the Black card membership of someone else for last 2 – 3 months. I don’t check my bank accounts regularly but thank god the guy who was I being charged for cancelled his membership and I got the membership cancellation email on my email id, otherwise I would have never known I am being charged for the someone else’s black card membership. See the attached 2 photos. I am NOT WILFREDO LUNACRUZ.
I asked South Plainfield Planet Fitness to give me refund and they said they can’t give refund. They just gave me a new membership card & said I will have to call some Greg Laughlin. I mean seriously? It’s their fault and I’ll have to call someone to get it resolved.

My 1^st review was 5 stars based off of visiting over night. My schedule has changed & I now visit during the day. HUGE difference ! Extremely over crowded, new management (young Latin male) while I was trying to check in, he was too busy scolding a female employee who looked his same age. As far as professionalism, how could you not attempt to pull a co-​worker off the floor? How could you not attend to the customer 1^st? (obvious case of power — tripping) The staff cycles often, but this location is MUCH cleaner than the Somerset one.

Cheap place to get a good workout. Why only 3 stars? Because they are always out of spray for cleaning the seats and back of the machines. They don’t even have enough of those. Some of the paper dispensing machines are broken since ages. In the evenings i need to wait for some of my favorite machines. The men’s room is pretty good. There are lots of elliptical, treadmills and cycles. I complained about one of the machines that was not working properly and the instructor said that’s how it is because you have put just 10 pounds weight. But i think it should work fine regardless of how much weight there is.

they want you to clean after using the machines but half the time they run out of cleaner and your spraying down the machine with water that was put in bottle.

I like this gym for the most part. The membership is cheap and they have a lot of equipment and it is never too crowded. However, I will never understand why they have «free bagel days» and «all you can eat pizza night». I never partake though. Oh yeah and there are bowls of tootsie rolls everywhere! LOL. Overall, it’s a clean gym and they are open ²⁴⁄₇ which is pretty cool.

I was so excited when this gym opened up. It’s clean and there are no sales people to bother you. However, I miss the babysitting that is offered at many of the gyms. So my plans get forfeited because I have no one to watch my kids. They have a HUGE waiting area, why they cannot convert that to a small play area for the kids is beyond me. Let the customers decide if they would like to pay an extra fee. The rates do not need to change. I still don’t the the pizza days or candy sitting on the tables. I scratch my head on that one too! lol