Misfortune
I managed to get hold on 2 7 days passes to California Fitness which located at Midvalley. My dearest wasn’t keen on going to gym, so I decided to bring my college mate instead. We went there right after my evening shift.
Before entering the gym, we had an hour of consultation on ways to life a healthy life and mention that I need to put on some weight. At the same time, they were promoting their membership packages and said 28th April was their last day offer. I wasn’t knee to join the gym, one, it’s very inconvenient to get there and two, I wasn’t knee to spend so much money because I might not be able to commit myself to go every week. After the consultation, they issued us 7 days VIP membership each with our name and membership number printed on the back.
The place wasn’t spectacular probably because it wasn’t fully renovated. The additional things they had there was the single basketball court, swimming pool and a hot tub.
This is how it looks like on the outside.
The place to collect towels. One bath and face towel were provided so we need not to bring any.
The lockers in the ladies. Lockers were left open if it’s not in use.
This is how the locker looks like. Using a combination of 4 digits as our password.
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Before doing any work out, we were advised to do to stretching. We did our work out on the treadmill for half and hour and did height lifting after that. Knowing that they have a swimming pool, I brought my swimming gear along. My college mate who is a swimmer taught me how to swim. The last time I swam was ages ago. The swimming suit I had was bought long ago and it still fit me perfectly. I know nothing about swimming. All I know is how stay afloat in water. Haha… I used to learn swimming from my aunt for a few days and that was when I was a kid. After swimming, we dipped ourselves in the hot tub before taking our shower.
After shower, we were getting ready to go home when my college mate found out that his wallet was missing. He searched the locker and the gym several times and there was still no sign of it. I felt terrible that this had happened to him because if it wasn’t for me, he wouldn’t have lost his wallet. That’s not just it, his wallet contain RM400+ cash, ATM cards, IC, driving licence, Touch n Go card, insurance card, electricity and water bill. The cash included the money he had earned from last month and his housemates’ money for the electricity and water bill. It is very troublesome to lose a wallet, imagine all the hassles one has to go through. The parking ticket was also in his wallet and we had to fill in forms and get a replacement ticket. California Fitness was helpful enough to issue an accident report for my college mate but there was nothing they can do. The cleaners that were on duty have already left and no one has returned any missing wallet to them. We were told that we could keep our valuable stuff in a safety locker which is located next to their server counter. We weren’t told there was such locker in the first place. If we were informed early, this wouldn’t have happened.
The worst thing is that, so happened that the following day is his birthday, 29th April. Sigh. What a way to start to celebrate a birthday. I honestly felt terrible for him. I really am.
After we left Midvalley, I drove my friend to Pandan Indah police station to make police report. It was passed midnight and we still haven’t taken our dinner yet. The police that was in charge told us that we need to get the report stamped the next day because the counter had closed. So much hassle. We only had our dinner after that. By time I reached home, it was almost 2 in the morning. My mum was seriously worried about me coming home late.
8 Comments:
It's a very sad experience he got... haha~
btw celine, i guess your fren might need a sling bag around u all the time~
** the word knee should be keen , correct me if i am wrong ya
Well, you wouldn’t want to be carrying a sling bag along with during work out, do you? That’s why lockers are provided.
Luckily he brought his hand phone, house keys and my car keys along during work out, or else I don’t think we will be driving home that night.
Oops! You’re right, it’s “keen”. Spelling error. Thanks for correcting.
No worries, every mistake would be a learning point...hehe
anonymous: I agree. :)
hi celine,
i happened to find your blog while surfing for info about california fitness. i've just registered for their trial too, and i'm going there on monday.
thanks for ths info you shared.
well.. a lil q here: i'm abit impatient to wait till monday to ask about their membership rates and fees.. wonder if you could tell me briefly how much their fees are (i can't seem to find their membership rates on their website).
Thanks,
Hello Chelsea.
I'm not sure about their current rate. The promotion price that they offered during my last visit was RM2000+ a year - unlimited access (promotion price before the launching). There are few other packages but I can't recall. I was told that the membership price will increase after the launch. Not too sure.
Sorry I couldn't provide much info. But all I can say is that the membership rate is always changing, to attract customers. Same goes with other gyms that I've been to.
Anyway, thanks for dropping by. :)
WOW! the cali club @ malaysia is so much nicer than the one here in singapore! We dont even have a hot tub nor a pool not even a basketball court. Lucky people!
And if I do plan to visit KL, do you have any idea how I can get hold of trial passes?
Yours,
Denyce (just a passer by) :)
denyce @ gmail. com
Dear Anonymous,
Sorry, I'm not sure whether those free passes are still available. But you can try asking them. :)
Cheers!
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