Comments on: California WOW - Ekkamai http://www.durianseed.com/thailand/bangkok/personal/fitness/sukhumvit/california-wow-ekkamai/ Fri, 18 May 2012 09:08:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: dapperdan http://www.durianseed.com/thailand/bangkok/personal/fitness/sukhumvit/california-wow-ekkamai/comment-page-1/#comment-13827 dapperdan Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:16:39 +0000 http://www.durianseed.com/thailand/bangkok/personal/fitness/sukhumvit/california-wow-ekkamai/#comment-13827 I always went early in the morning and found WOW to be uncrowded. I hate when the customers sit on a machine and rest or talk on a telephone. I found the staff, other than the salespeople to be very freindly. But I never asked for anything special and other than checking in had nothing to do with them. I just checked in, changed, and went from machine to machine. It's very clean. I don't know what a Diamond Dual Membership is but I paid 8000 for 4 months, because I had to leave BKK for 5 months. I should have taken the year I guess. I guess I could have gotten and year for 8000. Next time I'll be tough. But I think I got my moneys worth any way. I got some good workouts in. If anyone has pointers about the membership, please enlighten me, because I'd like to join with the option of going to use the Pattaya WOW as well.<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 4   <img STYLE="border:none" SRC="http://www.durianseed.com/wp-content/images/stars40disp.gif"></li> </ul> I always went early in the morning and found WOW to be uncrowded. I hate when the customers sit on a machine and rest or talk on a telephone. I found the staff, other than the salespeople to be very freindly. But I never asked for anything special and other than checking in had nothing to do with them.
I just checked in, changed, and went from machine to machine. It’s very clean.
I don’t know what a Diamond Dual Membership is but I paid 8000 for 4 months, because I had to leave BKK for 5 months. I should have taken the year I guess. I guess I could have gotten and year for 8000. Next time I’ll be tough.
But I think I got my moneys worth any way. I got some good workouts in. If anyone has pointers about the membership, please enlighten me, because I’d like to join with the option of going to use the Pattaya WOW as well.
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]]> By: <fb:name linked="false" useyou="false" uid="680305874">Steve Benjafield</fb:name> http://www.durianseed.com/thailand/bangkok/personal/fitness/sukhumvit/california-wow-ekkamai/comment-page-1/#comment-13371 Steve Benjafield Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:17:16 +0000 http://www.durianseed.com/thailand/bangkok/personal/fitness/sukhumvit/california-wow-ekkamai/#comment-13371 Of all the Calfiornia WOW gyms, this is the closest to home, and the one I use the most. The ground floor is small and purely cardio, the 2nd floor (which can be accessed direct from the BTS station) has even more cardio equipment, a large freeweights section, resistance machines, and a kickboxing section, and 3rd floor is more cardio, pilate stations and the group excersize studios. The 2nd floor is quite crowded, and a pain in the arse to get around, and in the evening, the freeweights section is jam packed. As with all the California WOWs I've been too, the trainers are arrogant pricks, and the sales staff are overly pushy to the point of being rude. Also the admin and customer service is in the gutter, but thats a given with any major gym-chain The Ekkamai gym actually has the most spacious changing room of all the other branches, but thats still not saying much. One major gripe, is that on the 2nd floor, because of the huge opening to the BTS, the air-con isnt upto scratch, and if its been raining, the whole place steams up Im a Diamond Dual member, so I have no idea on membership costs here, but If you stick to your guns, a year can be had for 7-8000baht cash<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 4   <img STYLE="border:none" SRC="http://www.durianseed.com/wp-content/images/stars40disp.gif"></li> </ul> Of all the Calfiornia WOW gyms, this is the closest to home, and the one I use the most.

The ground floor is small and purely cardio, the 2nd floor (which can be accessed direct from the BTS station) has even more cardio equipment, a large freeweights section, resistance machines, and a kickboxing section, and 3rd floor is more cardio, pilate stations and the group excersize studios.

The 2nd floor is quite crowded, and a pain in the arse to get around, and in the evening, the freeweights section is jam packed.

As with all the California WOWs I’ve been too, the trainers are arrogant pricks, and the sales staff are overly pushy to the point of being rude. Also the admin and customer service is in the gutter, but thats a given with any major gym-chain

The Ekkamai gym actually has the most spacious changing room of all the other branches, but thats still not saying much.

One major gripe, is that on the 2nd floor, because of the huge opening to the BTS, the air-con isnt upto scratch, and if its been raining, the whole place steams up

Im a Diamond Dual member, so I have no idea on membership costs here, but If you stick to your guns, a year can be had for 7-8000baht cash

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