Crunch Fitness - Somerset Reviews Summary

Category: Gym

Address: 960 Easton Ave, Somerset, NJ 08873, USA

Phone: +17323250203

Rating: 3.8
based on 125 reviews.

Customer Service

Pros:

  • "The general manager, Kyle, and the fitness manager, Ed, were extremely helpful in arranging the perfect fitness plan for me to reach my goals."
  • "The management is understanding and quickly resolves any issues."
  • "The staff have been courteous, respectful, helpful, kind, and friendly."
  • "The staff who are very friendly and welcoming every day that I come to workout."
  • "The staff at crunch are fantastic. Extremely attentive and big on CDC compliance."
  • "The General Manager Kyle and Fitness Manager Ed have been such a great help with assisting me in regards to any questions involving my membership."
  • "New management is always present and approachable."

Cons:

  • "They make cancelling a membership insanely hard on purpose and it's ridiculous."
  • "They make it very difficult to cancel your membership and do not notify you via email when they charge your account."
  • "The manager is apathetic and doesn't seem to know how to work with customers."
  • "Charles, the manager, is a very rude and disrespectful person."
  • "They have the WORST manager ever. He lies and does not want to help in any way."
  • "Horrible management. I’ve been trying to cancel my membership and tried to call multiple times and ask for a manager and they always say that they’re busy and will call you back- but they never do."
  • "Disappointed in the way this crunch is managed."

Equipment and Facilities

Pros:

  • "Equipment is good."
  • "The place is clean and has a lot of good equipment."
  • "They provide a great assortment of classes to join and have a wide range of different machines to use as well."
  • "The machines are usually in pretty good working order and there's never a hard time finding an elliptical or a treadmill."
  • "Excellent selection of free weights, machines, and cardio equipment."
  • "There’s lots of equipment, ample room to stretch and lift, and they have a great selection of classes."
  • "They also have a ton of treadmills and cardio equipment."

Cons:

  • "It feels like every day a different machine is broken."
  • "Some of the equipment has a tendency to be broken...a lot."
  • "Several treadmills are broken for months and no one fix it!"
  • "Over half of the cardio machines do not work."
  • "The shoulder press machine (non-cable) has been 'temporarily out of order' for over 3 months now."
  • "The dual cable machines need to be seriously maintained, as one side is under more tension than the other."
  • "A lot of broken machines, also clean bathrooms, management should be more efficient than just charging my monthly fee."

Cleanliness

Pros:

  • "The place is clean and has a lot of good equipment."
  • "They keep it clean."
  • "Charles and staff takes great care of the place, is always clean."
  • "Great clean facility!"
  • "When walking into this gym the first thing I noticed was how clean the gym is."
  • "Love this gym I’ve been going for almost a year now… great equipment and friendly staff."
  • "Loved this gym very warm environment."

Cons:

  • "This location needs to clean out, floor is disgusting, have been working out here over 3 months never seen any person cleaning."
  • "Men’s Bathroom stinks horribly……. Does anyone clean it…. Always out of towels to clean the equipment."
  • "Consistently dirty bathroom and gym... I never see staff cleaning and overnight cleaning is rare as well."
  • "The whole gym is dirty and smells."
  • "Paper towels are out and everything is pretty gross since no one has anything to wipe the equipment off with."
  • "There’s always some issue in the locker room, either the showers are broken, the urinal is broken, or there’s just filth everywhere."
  • "The Somerset location's condition is appalling – most equipment and cardio machines have been broken for the last five years."

Management and Policies

Pros:

  • "I found the number to the headquarter at the crunch gym and solved the issue with them and got my nonsense fee canceled."
  • "I disputed the charged with my credit card company, and got ALL my money back!"
  • "I was able to... make sure that they canceled my membership, closed my account, and refunded me that money."
  • "I had previously heard that Crunch is notorious for giving people hard times to cancel their membership, so when I signed up I made sure I avoided a contract with them."
  • "I appreciate the time he allowed for me to see the cameras for myself."
  • "I feel I can workout safely at this gym."
  • "Love the peak plus membership and no contract."

Cons:

  • "Many, many months later I was charged again for several months in a row until I eventually saw that there were these charges."
  • "TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE NEVER SIGN UP HERE. Cancelled my membership... They still keep charging!"
  • "They make it very difficult to cancel your membership and do not notify you via email when they charge your account."
  • "Ending your membership is near impossible since this is a franchise location."
  • "Crunch tries to make it almost impossible for you to cancel your membership and waste your time and money."
  • "Crunch is at the top of predatory billing practices- despite COVID and being closed down for months, they have restarted their automatic monthly charges on ALL members."
  • "Cancelled my membership on May 15, 2022. They still charged me for the months of June and July."

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