Lakeview Athletic Club

Very clean facilities. Indoor pool is small. Roof pool is tiny. Both still nice features. Holiday hours are typically very short. Extending the holiday hours would be great.

An ok gym, small weight room, not a lot of selections.The main complaint is the hours. Why are we closing at 9pm? There's absolutely no good explanation for this. When I signed up it was until 9:30. Those of us who workout in the evening have a small window of time after getting off work to get in. You need to extend your hours to at least 10pm.

As someone who has been a member since 2017, I have mixed feelings about this gym now in 2023 knowing what it used to be. Pre-COVID, this gym was top notch but it never quite bounced back. The gym itself is pretty decent. Overall, there are five floors and a rooftop pool:Floor 1/Basement: Men’s locker room and pool/hot-tub (20 yds and three lanes)Floor 2/Main Floor: Entrance, cycle studio, women’s locker room, and a rock climbing wall (which has been closed since 2020)Floor 3: Dance studio for various classesFloor 4: Weight room on turf w/ four squat racks, a smith machine, a couple of benches, a bunch of dumbbells, barbells, cables, machines, etc.Floor 5: Dance studio for yoga classes and a large cardio area w/ treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bikes, erg machines, etc.Roof: Pool that is open during the summer (people mostly just lounge here)The main complaint I have with this gym is the hours. The gym has never returned to pre-COVID hours and currently closes at 9pm on Mon-Thurs, 8pm on Fri, and 7pm on the weekend. This is pretty embarrassing. The result is a gym that has the same foot traffic as pre-COVID but fewer hours. X-Sport (3 blocks south) and Planet Fitness (several blocks north) are both 24 hrs. FFC East Lakeview and Quads Gym both close at 10pm during the week.This gym tries to distinguish itself for its classes but my perception is that programing seems to have been decreased post-COVID as well (at least the spin and free-climb classes). The rock-climbing wall has never re-opened to my knowledge and there has not been any indication that it ever will. As some of the other reviewers have mentioned, last summer there were AC/HVAC issues that made working out feel like you were in a sauna.The locker rooms have showers, the lockers have key code locks attached, and there are towels available for you to use. The pools both seem small but if you really wanted to you could go to the West Loop location which has a 25m pool. You can purchase personal training if you want and it seems that the trainers are pretty professional. You also used to be able to purchase sports massages here but that is no longer a thing after 2020. The employees working here are really nice although reading other reviews it seems cancellations are difficult (you must give 30 days written notice). I believe guest passes are $25.At the end of the day, it's an okay gym. I just have a hard time knowing how much better it used to be. All I really want is for all CAC locations to return to their old hours of operation and I would be fine with the other post-COVID nuances (barring another HVAC failure).

This Gym has declined so much - It is shocking- Womens locker room has mold everywhere - The showers are rarely cleaned and disinfected- The towels are old and shredded- Steam room has no health department schedule as in most properly managed gyms - Members go into steam & sauna fully dressed - with shoes - talking on their cell phones with shoes on the wall- If you leave weights out will find them in the exact location days later---The decline in maintenance and care is palpable-

LVAC but the HVAC prob won’t work as it was down most of the summer 2022. Guesting policy is abysmal even after HVACageddon. The front desk is friendly and greet-able 10% of the time (if they even notice you, though the morning crew gets …

Staff is friendly and helpful. Locker room is more than serviceable, and plenty of cardio equipment. The instructor quality for classes ranges, but you can find ones you like.The weight room is too small for such a busy gym. It’s pretty hard to get a decent lift near peak hours.

I have been a member of LVAC for over a year. The club is very clean and the equipment is good. My biggest complaint is that their check in experience is terrible. They typically have 2 to 3 people at the front desk who I assume are being …

Gym was ok - horrible policy for membership. Signed paperwork three years ago & they continuously renewed, no one ever reached out to check to see if I wanted to continue. When I tried to cancel my membership I was asked “why” & if I wanted …

I’ve been a member for one month now and I really love the ballet burn and yoga classes there. I agree with the other reviewers that the AC is a huge problem in this location because in 80-90 degrees outside the AC practically barely works …

It’s a good gym but it feels like a funeral, it’s been a month since the speakers don’t work in the third floor, a gym without music? And they give towels to clean the equipment instead of wipes like if we pay $10 a month