Bay Club Portland

Exceptionally clean and well managed. By far, best sports facility I’ve had membership with, which includes all tenures in NYC and Southern CA. Keep up the nice work!

Brody made the process completely transparent and easy. I have been to this club before so this review is not about the facilities but the people. Brody was professional, upfront and honest. This club has transferred ownership a few times. I am hoping that my experience ongoing reflects the forward facing people handling the onboarding.

Bay Club is not nearly as well run or together as it was when it was Club Sport. Pretty clearly the new management is just not invested in ensuring quality, but happy to keep charging rates like Equinox. The poor high schoolers working the cafe get flak from customers for not being able to make coffee drinks (espresso, latte, etc) but it turns out they never got trained on how to use the machine. Today I saw half a dozen cardio machines out of order. The sanitary wipe stations have the sanitary wipes in their plastic buckets on top of the sleek dispenser, I guess because no one can be bothered to open the dispenser and refill it? Paper towel dispensers in the locker rooms empty before 12 pm. If you don’t need a pool, I really don’t see what this place has above 24.

Great Gym! Committed trainers, lots to do

We have been going to Bayclub for about a year now. The classes are great, and so is the pool but it seems like the Precor treadmills are always broken and out commission. The Precor treadmills always have at least 3 treadmills that are consistently not working and theres been issues with the elipiticals as well. The memberships are expensive so I'm not sure why they can't hire a person to come in and fix the equipment. Everytime I report a broken machine they assure me that they are on it but the guy who does the maintenance isn't there. Spoiler alert, he's never there. It's just upsetting because I could pay $25 a month and go somewhere else but we're supposedly paying for the quality, but it's severely lacking unfortunately. I am editing to add that there are constantly children 13 and under playing on thr machinesI am reminded because it's happening right now. ON THE WEIGHT MACHINES.

Teacher Erica for swimming is the best ever!!! She is 100 percent patient, kind, and an expert in her field. Our daughter has excelled tremendously and found a love of swimming, all thanks to Teacher Erica. She puts a lot of thought into making her lessons fun and interactive and also incorporates fun swim toys. My husband also has had the benefit of learning swim instruction from Erica. She was able to fine tune all of his strokes and help him achieve all of his swimming goals. Ten thumbs up for our favorite swim Coach, Teacher Erica!!!

My 3 year old son has been working with Coach Erica for the last 6ish months. Finding her and her swim classes has been one of the best experience. Erica is compassionate, knowledgeable, patient and is just so amazing with her students. My son has learned so much in such a short time. Thank you Coach Erica you have a lifelong student with our family

Our son has been swimming and taking lessons with Teacher Erica since he was 18 mos. He’s 3 now and he can keep himself Floating, find the wall, dive, and swim unassisted for short periods. He’s learning different strokes now. We started for general safety, but kept going bc he was learning so much!

We love our swim lessons with teacher Erica! My kids started swimming with her at just a few months old. She is an amazing swim instructor. All three of our kids are learning swimming with her (currently age 3-5). When my parents came to visit, they were in awe how advanced the kids are for their age. I personally love the water safety she practices and teaches as well. My kids absolutely adore Erica. She is fun, engaging and great with children. Erica is an excellent instructor and I like that she is easy to communicate with. She pushes the kids just to the point where they keep learning, but not too much that they loose the fun at it. My kids love the water, gained a lot confidence in it and learned a variety of skills. A neat bonus of taking swim lessons at Bay Club Portland is that they get to swim in the outdoor pool at times as well in the summer.During Covid it was very difficult to get into swim lessons. We tried it all: Farber, Children of the Sea, Emler, and now for the past year with teacher Erica again and Bay Club. While we really liked one of the other swim schools (and one was an absolute waste of time and money), teacher Erica doesn't compare at all to them. The kids get so much out of her lessons! It would have taken years with the other swim schools.

This review is for Coach Erica, our swim coach at the Bay Club. My two kids have been taking private lessons with Erica for almost a year. Prior to lessons, our son really wasn't able to swim. He had started lessons prior to covid, but then he lost those skills over the two years away from swimming. He is now a confident swimmer and can swim both freestyle and backstroke. He is now starting pre-swim team and is loving the new challenge (age 6)! My daughter was already confident in the water, but she had also lost most of her stroke skills during covid. She is now able to swim all four strokes and is starting swim team with Erica before transitioning to a full swim team (age 9).Erica is a great coach. She is firm but also very fun, ending each session with fun water play. She really emphasizes the details of each stroke so that the kids learn them right from the start. If a certain drill isn't working, she will try something else. I am a swimmer myself, so I am definitely watching closely to see how they are learning. I have been very impressed. I wish I had Erica when I learned to swim too!It is such a pleasure to be able to go to water events and know that my kids are safe and having a blast, and we don't have to be in the water every second with them!