Gold’s Gym

The gym itself is fine, but the staff is suspect. I moved away two months ago, and called to cancel my membership. They made me pay for another month because I was ONE DAY into the new month, and charged me a $ 50 cancelation fee.
Fine, whatever, water under the bridge. Until I just checked my bank account and saw that I was charged for ANOTHER month, several weeks after canceling. I called them, they put in the cancelation request AGAIN, and said that they couldn’t issue a refund for the month they charged already.
They seem really shady at best. Who knows, maybe next month they’ll charge me again and blame it on another convenient «clerical error.» Avoid this place.

Keep getting the run around with wrong charges on my card. They say they will have someone call me back and no one calls back.

Love this gym and the instructors. Gold’s offers more instructor classes than any other gym in the tri cities. It’s a great gym for those who just want to work out without all the frills of a club.

BYOT (bring your own towel)
I did my Unilocal research and I decided to join golds gym.
It was my first day today. Just joined. I think it’s a really nice place. It’s clean the equipment is nice. I took an active step class and the instructor was great. I worked up a good sweat and can’t wait to try out some of the other classes.
I have a three year old I watch during the day so I’m also utilizing their daycare. Which seems to have a very helpful staff.
I have a few observations of things I wasn’t expecting, however.
I was surprised to find there are no normal small towels to use to wipe off your sweat. They only have red garage towels that look like oil rags, roughly the thickness of paper towel. Kinda weird??? to have such ghetto rags in such a nice looking gym with such state of the art equipment. But maybe that’s how they keep there membership fees down?
I asked a guy in the locker room after my workout if there were any towels to dry off with after a steam and a shower and he said you gotta bring your own. Hu? That’s weird? Maybe I’m from Alaska and they give you towels at the gym in Alaska and it’s understood that in Washington you BYOT, but I think it’s weird. So I grabbed a stack of small red reusable paper towels and looked around the locker room for the steam room.
And looked
And looked some more.
All the while there were some duchy shirtless dudes taking pictures of each other in the locker room trying to bend one leg slightly so they could get a good pose with their abs, I guess? And snapping selfies in the mirror. I shared a look with the guy I asked about the towels, we were both on the same page. More humorous than annoying. Well slightly annoying.
So I kept looking for the steam room and finally found it. Outside the Locker room by the pool. It is a co-​Ed steam room. And you have to wear swim trunks to go in. Not what I would expect. I guess it cuts down on the old naked people you have to deal with but I would prefer to go in a steam room with a towel and get right out and go in the shower.
After showering and toweling off with 5 or 6 oil rags I got ready and went to pick up my toddler from the daycare.
First thing I noticed was the lack of things for kids to play on in the play room or the use of space. They have a few different areas gated off that seem to have things to play with. But when I went to pick up my child there were no kids in any of the gated off areas, that had all the toys and like 30 kids corralled like sheep in the main central area from 8months to 4 year olds. There were about 4 or 5 lady’s working there and it just seemed very cramped. Perhaps it the time of day I went, just dropping my son of to the 4^th grade and coming right over to the gym. I’ll inquire as to why the other areas weren’t being used there may be some prudent reason I’m not aware of.
So I’ll take my son to the park after the gym to play on some equipment and BYOT and just deal with the co-​ed steam room.
But, I can’t wait to try out some of the other classes.

The Richland Gold’s Gym is nice. The equipment is in good shape and it’s never too busy for a workout. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the hot yoga studio and the instructors!

Prefer Richland over Kennewick! They both offer great classes and machines!
Richland has more space! Excited to see whats happening with the basketball area

This is the Best fitness center I would say in this area !!! Very friendly staff, variety of work outs, hot tubs, pool and trainers. Looking to be in a Healthy life style and change your life then check this out !!! Also Golds Gyms are located all over the states where you can travel and use your membership anywhere there is a Golds Gym!!! Very nice !!!

I’ve been a member since the gym was built. The equipment is modern and most cardio gear have a built-​in TV and internet. Front desk staff is nice. They keep the main gym pretty clean, but lately Ive noticed that the men’s showers have developed a real smell… like they aren’t being cleaned often enough or ??.
Like most gyms, it gets REALLY busy from ~ 5−8PM.
I would have given a 4 star rating, but the shower smell is a real turn off. I hope they correct this ASAP.

This is a 4-​. but ive been in and seen the great potential. The workout machines are new, uptodate and can be used for more areas than those in CBRC. They have Lles Mills workouts. ho hum.
The hot yoga has a separate price-16.25! i would suggest they have more varied and advanced classes as the TC area has strong athletes. (I was really mad about the easy easy hot yoga class– not in any way worth the money and we did almost nothing. The room was a comfortable heat but really! Standing in mountain pose –plain old standing– 5 times was not much of a workout). Parking is accessible and the location puts people near all kinds of shopping.

I just got to visit this location on my recent trip to the tri-​cities. I was hesitant after falling in love with the Columbia Basin Racquet Club.
Things I noticed — music is played over speakers to the likes of Pantara, Nirvana, Clutch and Guns n’Roses.
Each machine has their own TV and a system that members can track their fitness on any given machine by logging in. The rooms are less spread out but their seems to be more cardio equipment and the same amours of weights. They have a hot yoga room and a lot of amenities as well.
I do like the front desk staff here better than at CBRC they are personable and chatty.
All in all a great experience.
The only thing I will miss is the at the Racquet Club is the track around the pool that helps condition you for warmer weather running.

Convenient location, flexible class schedule, hot yoga.. The list goes on. This is a very versatile gym!

So after attending three different gyms (including CBRC), I’ve found that Golds is by far the best option (For me anyway).
I love the open feeling of the gym as well as the variety of classes offered. The women’s changing room is phenomenal and the fact that there is a section just for women sold me! (Because as far as weights go I’m not too fond of pumping my 50 pounds next to guys who can double that!) Mucho intimidating.
My favorite area by far is the Cardio Cinema. It’s dark enough where you’re not always nervous someone is judging from afar and plays fantastic movies. They just did a week of Superhero movies and I was thrilled to say the least!
They have pretty good staff but this is also the part where I had to deduct a star! Most of them are incredibly friendly, super attentive and are willing to help you in anyway they can! However that being said, I’ve had problems with the same person (Smaller blonde girl). Once when the movie stopped playing I went out and asked her to turn it back on (No worries, I said please and thank-​you.) She smiled and said she’d get right on it. Well, twenty minutes later I was not impressed since the movie still wasn’t playing. I returned to the front and asked her to turn it on (Again a please and thank-​you, perhaps more disgruntled) she looked suprised and even went so far as to say «Oh, I wish someone told me.» Huff huff, that annoyed me but I walked away, no harm no foul everyone forgets sometimes. Another ten minutes and no movie. No more miss nice girl! Went back to the front to a different girl (Sydney, a total sweetheart) And asked her where the blonde went she told me she left for break, annoyed, I asked if she could re-​start the movie. She was chipper and wonderful as she went and did it right away.
I only knocked off one star for the absolute careless hiring of the girl because there’s no reason to judge the gym harshly by it’s one bad employee!
Overall an incredibly good gym with tons of work-​out options.

Well again I wish they were open 24÷7… But I am a Vegas girl! Lol. Any who little disappointed in some of the machines being out of order lately!!! Come on guys I do not wanna be discouraged to come work out… Kinda wish the sweat towels were better in quality.

Ok, I think I’m ready to give an update :)
I am SO GLAD they are expanding their hot yoga classes! I still love the hot yoga but they added hot power yoga. It’s SO nice to have some variety. The teachers are awesome! The room gets cleaned on a daily bases as I’ve witnessed it by chance. I now go 3 – 4 times a week. The schedule has gotten better and more stable which is really nice. That was the problem I had with it when they started offering the classes. I still wish they offer even MORE classes but hey, what they have now is good. I know they are working on getting more certified teachers on board so they could offer more classes. There are all levels of people that attend so don’t be afraid :) I was at first. They have the beginner’s hot yoga classes too which it’s a good starting point to get use to the heat. They offer per class passes or monthly membership. It’s an awesome deal in comparison to the alternative option in town. The weekend classes tend to be a bit more crowded but I haven’t experienced mat-​to-​mat crowding. They also offer regular yoga classes where you don’t have to pay any extra fees. I have not attended any of those but I heard they could get really packed.
I’ve used the cardio machines too and they’re never really crowded. The Cardio Cinema could get a bit crowded but not too bad. It does tend to be more crowded after work hours (4p to about 7pm) but before work (opening to about 8am) it’s nice. Not too crowded.
As you can tell, I tend to stay away from the gym when it’s too crowded but if you’re attending hot yoga classes, I don’t think that would matter very much.

I can’t speak for how busy it is or how hard it is to get machines during peak hours because I rarely come before 10:30 PM, so it’s always dead and clear when I’m there.
Pros:
–Pool
–Area for where women can work out
–Basketball/​Racquet Ball Court
–Cardio Cinema where you can watch movies while working out
–A huge locker area with bathrooms, changing rooms, showers, hair dryers, mirrors and a really cool machine that helps rapid-​dry bathing suits after swimming.
–Hot tub and steam rooms!
Cons:
–That it’s not open ²⁴⁄₇. It really bothers me they close early on Friday, Saturday and Sunday because they’re closed by the time I get off.
–Like other reviewers have mentioned: That the pool area is on display in the middle of the gym and everyone working out can stare in there. Why not make it one-​way glass so they can’t see in – just themselves… or cover it… anything else! It’s so weird!

I normally go to the kennewick golds gym but wanted to try this location out. Not impressed. No towels for sanitation to be seen anywhere in the gym, it’s a Tuesday as well, and no help from front desk to get towels for restock. I’ll continue to go to kennewick but never again in richland. Poor guest service. And sanitation as well in women’s changing rooms.

Writing a review for a business in a smaller community (like Richland) is kinda hard for me. Because in making comparisons with similar businesses (to determine the number of stars), there just may not be many or even any similar establishments. In Richland, Gold’s only competition is the venerable CBRC. I went to CBRC back in the 90’s, and quite liked it then. But somebody recently snarked to me, in discussing CBRC, that their current equipment is probably exactly the same equipment they had in the 90s.
On my visit to Gold’s this past weekend, I was willing to purchase a one-​day guest pass. However, to my pleasant surprise, the guy at the front desk waived me through without taking my money. Gold’s is clean and well-​maintained. The gym is open and airy. I appreciate that Gold’s has free sweat towels and cleaning solution located in several spots throughout the gym.
However, I didn’t like the Precor weight machines. Most of them have you sitting at a funny angle, with thirty-​nine million settings you have to fiddle with before you can begin your set. And for such a big gym, it seemed like the selection of weight machines was skimpy — with a real shortage of upper-​body machines. But the Precor weight machines were a picnic in the park compared to the Precor Elliptical.
Yes, the Elliptical has TV channels available on its display. But hell, the exercise controls are a nightmare. I’m used to aerobic machines where you enter your age, weight, type of exercise, resistance and exercise length in logical steps before you begin. However, with the Gold’s Precor Elliptical, you have to go through several non-​logically titled screens to set up your exercise (and it doesn’t walk you through the steps). Also, this Precor Elliptical forced me to hunch over uncomfortably. The most silly thing about this machine is how it takes your pulse. With most other ellipticals, the pulse monitor is in the poles, but not on the Precor. You have to remove your hands from the poles and grip these little metallic posts below the display to get your pulse. Speaking of the poles, why are the handles so fat? They’re about as wide as the blade on a rowboat paddle, and are very uncomfortable to grip. But I did manage to eke out my 50 minutes of cardiovascular on the thing.
Gold’s has an impressive quantity of aerobic machines, but they have squished them all together. The machines are touching each other. If all the machines are in use, this is really cramped quarters.
If Gold’s was the only gym in town, I suppose I could get it to work for me — but on future visits to the Tri-​Cities — I need to check out the Kennewick gyms, and yes, maybe even go back to CBRC.

I am not sure why anyone would choose any other gym in the greater tri cities area.
Pros:
Yoga yoga yoga– the floor is rubber and mat like– unlike other hot yoga studios where you can smell the bacteria reproducing in the carpet mats. The instructors are very good and instruct at all levels.
Cardio equipment– all state of the art. iPhone/​pod hook ups and tvs in 95%.
Women’s gym– they have a small secluded gym for women who may not want to squat or crunch in public.
Staff– all very friendly and helpful
Tanning discount– score. 30% off next door. You have to ask … Don’t assume your sweaty clothes and flushed face tipped off the receptionist.
Cons:
While I appreciate the attempt to go green, often times they are out of wipe down towel for the equipment. Gross.
Only 4 stair climbers– at busy times their always full. Also bring binoculars, there staged in the back and pretty far away from any tv.

And now for the long-​awaited update…
The gym is months removed from the tiny temporary facility which was cramped, crawling with dangerous pinch hazards, dreary, and stinking of Subway.
But.
It.
Was.
All.
Worth.
It!
The new Richland Gold’s will take your breath away. This is the newest, largest, and most advanced gym in the Tri-​Cities. I know it’s just a gym, but when I walk into this gym, I get those feelings I got when I walked through the gates of Disneyland as a kid:
Our new gym makes me feel like entering an adult Disneyland, and these would be the lands of Gold’s:
ADVENTURELAND: Would definitely have to be the Group Exercise rooms, racquetball/​basketball courts
FANTASYLAND: The Cardio Cinema
TOMORROWLAND: The state of the art cardio equipment
FRONTIERLAND: The free-​weight section, and pool area
MAIN STREET USA: The huge weight machine area
CRITTER COUNTRY: The childcare area
This is everything a gym should be: packed with tons of options, clean, not super-​packed. You see, for me, a good gym is one you don’t get tired of, and that keeps you motivated to keep going. If your gym is gross, or if there’s lines for every machine, or if it’s just boring — that’s not going to work. You won’t go. You’ll pay a hefty sum for nothing. A gym should be a place where you WANT to go to. It’s a tough thing to do, but I think this gym, for the most part, does this.
Yes, there are some issues:
o Pool isn’t huge
o The pool area is «on display» to the main gym area
o The men’s locker room along with the restroom area is fairly small
o Only one group exercise room
o Fox News is on one of the big TVs
But you know what, these are all minor issues.
The Group Exercise classes are taught by excellent instructors. The room is enormous, so you can always find space in there. I mainly take Body Pump in the evenings. I would prefer a constant time instead of the 5:30, 5:00, & 4:30 times for Mon/​Wed/​Fri.
The Cardio Cinema is cool! They designed this room so that it basically is like a theater with cardio equipment. I’ve been to other gyms, where they just throw a «theater» together, and they can be dangerous. The visual/​audio are good. They generally have decent movie choices. This makes a workout whiz on by. Just be careful though. It is dark in there, so be careful — especially on the treadmill!
All the cardio equipment is top of the line. The ones in the cardio area all have touch screens and you can watch cable TV, plug in your iPod, or watch a video of a «virtual run» that you’re doing.
I’m a little surprised by the size of the free weight section. You’d think that with a gym like Gold’s which has a high «meathead» ratio, would cater to them and have tons of free weights for them to slam loud on to the ground. But yeah, this would be the area where you MIGHT have to weight for something.
The pool is small, but you have three lanes. In general, it is crowded during the weeknights (but I think any pool would be like that). The hot tub is fair-​sized. The dry sauna and steam room are totally awesome! When you’re in the steam room, be aware that when the steam is jetted in, it’s a little loud — it will wake you up if you are chilling in there.
I’ve taken a hot yoga intro class, but I’ve not signed up for hot yoga yet. I’ve heard it is a month to month sign-​up and it’s around $ 30/​month. (this is a GREAT deal compared to the monthly fee at Bikram Yoga). I plan on signing up soon.
I’ve been going to this gym quite a bit since it’s opening a few months ago, and I’m still finding new and cool things.
It’s not perfect, but I totally love it. And for my monthly rate of $ 29, it’s a total steal.

Great new gym, lot’s of equipment, tons of space, tons of classes and specialty rooms, nice pool (once it’s finished), lot’s of parking which is great.
Wish there were more than 4 bikes, but you rarely see all taken so it’s not a huge loss there’s so few. There is so much room and equipment in the new one I have hardly found a time that is so packed you can’t move. Great place.