Forum Fitness Club

Been going to this gym for about 7 years now, there is good and bad like any other gym but overall it’s not a bad place to workout. I will say the staff has been more friendly and welcoming than in years past, previously hardly anyone would even pick their head up and acknowledge you while scanning your card. I find now they greet you with a smile, say good morning, some will even greet you by name. I find early mornings to be the best time as the crowd is light and no wait times for the machines. After work 5 – 8 is usually peak hours but still bearable. Parking can be tough but that’s bayonne for you. I do not agree with their cancellation policy, i think a 3 month notice is ridiculous. The gym is always kept clean and when a machine is broke they seem to fix it in a timely matter. Overall i think it is a good gym!

I tried to join this gym but before I could the lady that picked up the phone to answer questions put me off. She was rude, condescending, and had a «script» verbalize to me like a robot, she did not answer any of my questions. Thanks Unilocal reviews for the warning.

The worst place ever. I feel bad for writing this review because there are a few staff members that actually care. But for the most part, they don’t.Especially that tall lady with the glasses at the front desk. After a workout I was waiting to try a protein shake and after waiting for about ten mins she came over to me acting upset that I was there making her make me a shake. And forget about cancelling your membership
, everything they told me at time of signing up went out the window when I cancelled. Fees after fees and they still charge you three months after you cancel even though I made sure I asked these questions when I signed up. I had to make an appointment to cancel but to sign up everyone was available. Typical gym, with your typical fraudulent behavior. Stay away.

1– Fitness classes: unprofessional trainers, poor quality of tools, unclean one studio .
2-​Personl Trainers: nothing new, just wanted your money .
3– Price: very high according to what the gym has.
4– Payment: One of the places that ruin your credit card.
5– Sales People: Never tell you anything, never been honest.
6– Contract: I didn’t even have a copy of it, they hide it once you sign it.
7– Management and customer service team: very very rude people .
8– (Zero risk 100% money back gurantee):is a total lie as every thing and your money is all what they care about .
9– Total dishonesty about the agreement.

Do your due diligence, BEFORE signing ANYTHING at all.
DO NOT be rushed thru the contract signing process or it WILL bite you in the butt.
KNOW the cancellation process
WATCH your billing monthly.
SAVE all your paperwork.
READ THE REVIEWS 1 STAR 2 STARS
Enough said
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !!!

Just really bad. I would recommend going anywhere but here!
They tried charging me for 6 months after I canceled my membership PROPERLY! The manager tried saying I didn’t cancel but of course I still had a the proof I did. They had bills sent to collections for no reason. They’re cheap and they only care about themselves. Very fake.

they stalled my cancellation so they can bill for extra month. when I signed up for the gym they had no problem taking down my information and credit card. I just walked in off the street no appointment needed. now that I want to cancel membership I have to make an appointment. I will not take a day off of work to cancel a gym membership so they are making me wait 2 weeks to «fit me into the evening schedule» the better business bureau should investigate this place. if you need a gym go somewhere else!!!

After being a member of ten years of the Forum fitness Club, I still enjoy attending the group fitness classes particularly Body Combat. I enjoy my personal training sessions as well. I’m happy to see the variety of classes offered at this gym. This is beneficial for all fitness levels. Membership is affordable. The staff is welcoming and professional. Come check them out in Hudson County for a guest pass. Oh by the way check out amazing juice bar too.

This review is solely based on classes offered – group classes, for that matter. There is an array of classes offered most days of week. From bootcamp to yoga, trx to rpm. The scheduling is panned out through the day which seems to accommodate the general working population (imagine, some classes start at 5:30 am). In addition, they added a Saturday All-​class where in one sitting (or standing, or jumping) you get to experience every class they offer in 15−20min intervals. The instructors are very professional and motivating. I love when some instructors stay before and after their classes to join club members in their routine. The only downside is that their floor gym is rather lacking in space and it could get crowded at times. Lastly, their free yoga mats could use a little cleaning (if not, getting replaced).

This gym is inexpensive and I must say that you get what you pay for. This gym is always dirty and the machines are always disgusting. They need to have employees or housekeeping clean down the equipment everyday since there is such a large amount of visitors per day. I literally saw a man check in coughing and sneezing and the front desk associate asked if he was sick and he said he had a cold. That’s nasty.
Also, the personal trainers should have a separate section to use with members who are paying for personal training sessions. When I work with my trainer there are times when we have to wait for someone to finish using the weights, kettle ball or machine and I feel like with the amount of money that I am spending that this should be better.
But I also want to get back to the cleanliness. One day I took a paper towel and wrote my initials on it and left it in a treadmill and went back everyday and checked it for 5 days and it was never removed until I finally took it out and placed it in the trash. This goes to show you how the machines are never cleaned.
I know this gym only charges $ 15 a month for membership but I do feel that they can step it up.

I have read all the reviews for Forum here on Unilocal for months leading up to my finally deciding to join and I wanted to begin this review by saying that I’m glad I didn’t let the reviews (mostly negative) affect my decision to ultimately join.
I joined largely in part to the fact that, due to lifestyle circumstances, the best times for me to go to the gym are during very odd hours. So, the fact that Forum is open 24 hours from Tuesday to Friday (till 11 PM) factored heavily into my decision.
I have been a member of many clubs in my lifetime. Large and Small. Very expensive, moderately expensive, cheap, and free so I think I have a good sample size of clubs for which to compare Forum to. I’ve been a member of New York Sports Clubs, David Barton Gym in Chelsea, Golds Gym, BrickHaus Fitness, Society Club, NJCU, and have been a guest at whole host of other gyms (on top of multiple locations for NYSC)
I can tell you that the amount of equipment, free weights, and cardio machines are well in line with the clubs that I mentioned both in quality and quantity. I’ve seen worse layouts and yes, the free weight area does get messy. That’s no secret but for $ 16 bucks I cannot complain. (Compared to the $ 80-​$ 100 memberships I once had) The locker is more than decent. The parking can get crazy but parking at Golds is worse.
I’ve been going to Forum for two months now and I have had nothing but productive workouts there and while yes, it helps that I go early in the morning… the fact of the matter is this: it’s a quality facility that provides a lot of value for the buck. Peak hours get annoying for most, I get that, but with any location… it helps to get informed about how you can substitute exercises/​machines on the fly so during peak hours, you won’t be forced to just wait around for someone to finish. It goes with the territory of gyms… especially for the amount you pay. So deal with it.
The trainers seem knowledgeable, capable, and have good followings. From what I can tell, the classes are top notch too.
Now, for the things I’m not too thrilled about. The front desk staff has a ways to go in providing quality customer service. It’s only been a few instances but for each inquiry I’ve had, I’ve gotten some vibe that the staff doesn’t want to be bothered. Like I’m making them go out of their way to guess what? DO THEIR JOB. One even went so far to telling me (not politely explain) No… TELL me that he has to fill out all this paperwork just because I asked him to change my payment information. Guess what boss? I don’t feel sorry for you. This is your job.
Finally, read the fine print in your contracts. You get GOT and charged fees should your EFT fail to go through on a billing date. WACK.
All told-I’m satisfied with this gym. IF you know how to train and if you especially can carve out time to work out very early… then this is the ideal set up for you. IF not, then this is still a very good gym.
Happy lifting.

Just when I thought I was going to end my membership, this gym managed to change my mind. The recent renovations have been great, best thing that could have happened to this gym. There’s more space, new equipment and the staff is by far more attentive.
This gym has now become my primary gym (I’m one of those with 2 memberships) and all the changes have made my workouts more enjoyable.

In an attempt to cancel my membership, even though my account is fully paid and up to date (even though I havent been in the gym in over 3 months) after telling them I wanted to cancel via phone, «Stephanie» then immediately went in and disabled my ability to view my own profile in my MindBody account!
In order to cancel the membership, they want you to come in and have an interview and all kinds of craziness. She asked me if I moved out of state. What difference does it make. I’m not coming back in there and that is the end. If you cancel someone that has moved out of state, then you can cancel someone that is simply not going to be subject to a long interview process where you guys try to guilt and shame someone into trying to keep their membership. Long story short, I found another gym and I just dont want to deal with THIS gym anymore. Period, the end.
I was warned by many other club members that Forum Fitness Club is extremely suspect when it comes to dealing with client cancellations or anything to do with money. The customer service alone is enough to make me never step foot in this «business» again.

Stay away. They really don’t know what they are doing. I went to cancel my membership back in December because I was moving to texas. They all (front desk, the blond lady i spoke to to cancel) told me it’s a 30 day notice and my last billing would be January. Great perfect, so you would think. February, i got some notices saying I am being charged by forum. I called they were apologetic and said they will fix it. Great, NOT! Its March, and they took out over 60 $ and when I called they are giving me some bs that’s it’s a 60 day notice and my membership is till March. And that the lady I canceled with gave me wrong information. Wtf!!! And best part when I ask to speak to the owner she flat out said no because she has been there for 30 years. And i asked repeatedly to speak to the owners and she said no because they are at a conference for 2 weeks.
They are really that money hungry! Should of listened to all the bad reviews on Unilocal.And sad part was I was a part of this gym for years. Boo to them. I will never recommend this gym. Their customer service is disgusting and they should be ashamed at their work ethics. Disgusting!

I’ve been a member for about, I believe 3 years now? But let me tell you this gym has its bad/​good flaws.
Let me first talk about the bad flaws about this gym, so that if you don’t like some of things you read then you won’t have to continue about the good flaws…
Bad flaws; it’s crowded almost every hour unless you would come in later in the middle of the night (around 12 am to 1 am) so if you don’t like working out at a late time then I don’t think it’s a good fit for you.
Also one of the things I hate about this gym now is that they don’t have a place where I can just do simple work outs on my matt. I hate doing work outs on my matt near where most of the guys do their work outs. Makes me feel uncomfortable. I work out at night so every time I come in and would try to go in the room where they do Pilates/​yoga/​etc it’s always locked now. Before it wasn’t like that at all.
Also some of the staff doesn’t seem very friendly at all.
And lastly, I hate it that the weights are everywhere on the floor, members don’t ever put them back where they belong. So when I want a specific number of weights I have a hard time looking for them at times. I understand that it’s not the management’s fault, but if you had someone who’s on top of this situation, then I don’t think that should happen consistently.
Good flaws! It’s 24 hours except from Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On their site it stated that their facility is open 24 hours everyday, which is incorrect. Friday is until 11 pm, Saturday is open until 7, then Sunday at 5 pm.
They have a shake bar! I usually order the pineapple mango fat burner shake, and I must say it’s really good! And they are all at a reasonable price.
The locker rooms are huge and also includes a sauna.
It’s pretty clean.
They offer a good amount of fitness classes, such as, yoga, boxing, spinning, Zumba, and a lot more I believe.
Last good flaw in my opinion is that it’s very cheap! I pay 16 dollars a month.
Overall some of the reasons why I am a still member at this gym facility is that it’s very convenient for me since I live a block away, it’s 24 hours most of the days since I hate working out during the day anyway. And it’s cheap, I pay only 16 dollars a month. Yup, these are the only reasons why I am still a member of this gym. Hope this helped.

It’s been my gym of choice since I moved to Bayonne because it’s close and cheap. It does the trick. I hate that u can’t pay for individual classes and you have to actually up your membership to take anything other than the intro class! –_–
Also, no one seems to really be on the same page. I always get a different answer when asking the same question which is kind of annoying. Lately though I don’t know what’s been going on that it seems like it’s a hang out spot for its employees… Not saying all though. There are some that are professional and probably get as annoyed as the members at the new people «working» there. But either way not that bad of a gym. Relatively clean.
Oh and ugh the grunters! Lol I hate that the weight room (space?) is so small. You rarely see women in there because the men usually mark it as their territory and hog everything 0. o !! I like that it’s almost 100% 24 hours: D

My name is jake holton hopefully if they do read this I want them to know it was me I honestly don’t see why everyone here is bad talking this gym like all gyms they have there problems for the most part the staff there is fairly nice to me I never really had any bad feed back from the but this one woman there she is new this short black girl with lang wavy hair she is as fake as fake could be bit other than her the staff is friendly the gym patrons there have been friendly to me I can’t speak for others I think this is a fairly decent gym now the reason for 3 stars there cancellation policy is f**king ridiculous they really say you can’t cancel no cancelation fee fix that — -that is not a problem for me anymore now that I work full time and my finances are straight but for other people who want to cancel beware of the Bs they tell you

Great club. Excellent service. Thank you Kathy (the owner) for everything. Rocky is an excellent trainer. Darryl always helpful.

Had a difficult time canceling this gym, I must have requested multiple times for cancellation. Even when I told them I lost my job, they still tried to convince me to stay.

It’s a good gym overall, however it has many members and gets very packed especially during peak hrs. The staff is pretty helpful and overall does a good job of maintaining the gym.
Update: this gym was good and is slowly going downhill. The staff get on my nerves, plus my bro tried getting in one day for a one day trial. The guy tried charging him 25 $$$ just for one day. Are you kidding me it costs less then 20 $ for te whole month. This gym is ridiculous now!