24 Hour Fitness - Falls Church, Virginia

Sebastian lopez

omg, What a horrible experience at this gym. Starting with the front desk person being very lazy, she also refused on many occasions to give us the free pass for 3 days, she denied it and after a long talk she told us that she would only give us one. She asked us for our IDs, I lost my state ID a couple of days ago and I brought my passport so they could see it, these people apart from being very xenophobic I think, as soon as they saw my passport, they started to inspect it and talked to my friend in front of me assuming that I didn't speak the language and that I didn't have a 'LOCAL ID' I couldn't enter, meaning I could only enter by PAYING, otherwise not. I took out my phone and showed them my state documents in PDF and after having no other way and when they realized that their assumptions about me for bringing a passport were malicious, they changed their attitude. What an unpleasant experience, all for coming to a place that they recommended to me. Besides, the machines are very old, it seems that they don't do any maintenance and they haven't renewed the machines for many years. I went in just to look at the gym and try it out, but nah, I won't go back. I'll stay at my current gym.

Torb Gox

For over two weeks, the inside temperature has been over 80 degrees. These are taken on different days, at 1:30pm, 6:30pm, 1:30am, and 4am. Management is very unresponsive when emailed about it and when they do respond, it's a vague "we're working on it." Staff at the front desk knows little about what's going on. No specifics about what is being done to remedy the problem or even an estimated timeline on when it will be complete. These temperatures are mild considering the cooler weather we've had. What happens in a few weeks when we hit summer weather?

There are multiple leaks with resulting mold around the gym. The basketball court reeks because there's 0 moving air in there.

Management will also yell at you if you rerack weights too loudly. It's a gym, there will be noise.

A few years ago, there were a number of car break-ins due to insufficient lighting in the parking lot. There's still broken glass on the ground from one of them. It's still dimly lit and their camera can't catch anything further than 30 feet.

Gym gets one extra star because it's a decent price with a solid brand of weights near the power racks.

Edit: What a surprise, a generic copy & pasted response from management.

Edit (7 months later): We got a few inches of snow and I wanted to see if they were open. I tried calling several times, checked the website, and Google and there was 0 notice of the gym being closed. Not a voicemail or note on the website that would take 2 minutes to post. Just completely dark. They aren't great with answering the phones in general, which is why them not answering wasn't sufficient indication of it being closed.

Charles Marsden

Ever since I joined this gym about 2 years ago my experience has been nothing but incredible. The facilities are always very clean and the staff is extremely professional. Rene in particular makes sure to greet every member with a big smile and warm welcome. I would recommend this gym to anyone in the Northern Virginia area.

Evan Glasier

The only good thing about this place is the price. Bathrooms are filthy. They sweep but never mop or scrub anything it seems like. Machines and areas around them are never cleaned and broken machines take forever to get repaired if they do. I’d gladly pay more and have some decent cleaning service come in and clean daily

Emerson Roman

If I could give it zero stars I would. 24 hour fitness is a scam. They promote 3 day free trial but when getting here they told me $25. I was excited to and to get turned down like that really disappointed me. Please don’t go here or go to a 24. Hr fitness. Go to Golds Gym where real athletes train. Also, the smell was a rancid smell like chlorine and it’s dangerous for certain people like my age. So please get that fixed. Thank you for your time.

Rita J

For a super sport this place is filthy. All the machines are rusted with piles of dirt just sitting in them. Thank goodness I used the gym on a day pass before committing to transferring my membership from another state. So so dirty.

gee Ijoe

I called every other gym in the area and they are open . This facility’s name is false advertisement , they aren’t open 24 hours . The sauna ,steam room and jacuzzi area is closed after 8 pm as well . The roads are clear and so is the parking lot but they have are closed .

Grant Dressler

I’ve been going to this gym for about a month and I would recommend it to just about anybody (unless you’re really really strong, in which case you should probably just go to DMV Iron down the street).

It’s big and has a good number and variety of machines, weights, and lifting platforms. I’m especially fond of the turf and sled, which you don’t see in many other gyms.

It is a big corporate gym, so you get all of the flaws you’d expect (occasionally crowded, bathrooms aren’t the cleanest, equipment not always put back, some other patrons need to work on their gym etiquette) but that’s not unique to this gym.

Overall, this is probably the best value gym I’ve ever belonged to and I’ve been very pleased with it so far.