Arrillaga Outdoor Education and Recreation Center - Stanford, California

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Eric W.

If an evil witch cast a spell on me turning me into a frog, I wouldn't be that upset, knowing that I could come to the men's locker room at this gym and have a never ending supply of drain flies that I can eat in the shower area. Even when staff are made aware of the issue, the bugs are still there months later!

Otherwise it is a good gym, though it probably serves more patrons than it can handle. Expect queues to use the power racks if you go in the afternoon, and even the morning rush gets pretty crowded.

Liam M.

Good gym. Well-lit with well-maintained equipment. Disappointing lack of Olympic platforms, though. Avoid peak hours,
if you don’t want to wait for the racks.

MONIKA K.

My favorite place for lunch, amazing quality of nutritional food. Lunch meal coupons are so economical. Highly recommended

Nanette S.

Fantastic pool—and the entire facility is excellent. Very helpful staff. So grateful it is here.

Eric

Gym has lots of quality equipment across a range of disciplines, so right off the back, that's 4 stars from me because most gyms just don't. Staff also very friendly. Basically everything else is quite bad. The weight collars in general are broken, near broken, or don't fit half the bars properly; not sure whose bright idea it was to get "olympic lifting bars" some of which are 1-2mm different diameter from the others, and then have weight collars that can't accommodate the discrepancy (this was annoying enough that I actually checked to verify that some of the bars aren't actually oly bars). Just get standard metal collars if you can't have collars that actually fit on the bars so there is more wiggle room. Very poor air circulation in there as many other reviews have mentioned. Also as other reviews have mentioned, making announcements that the gym closes 10 times in the last hour is annoying AF. If the gym closes at X time, don't shut 3/4 of the lights off while people are in the middle of sets with 5 or 10 minutes to go; that is kinda dangerous if someone is lifting heavy and gets startled. Either close the gym 15 minutes earlier if you really need all the employees walking out at X time or keep the lights on until it actually closes.

Luke S. C.

This gym is clean and well maintained. 5 stars. But everyone - everyone - has headphones and yet they still play loud (bad) music, making it impossible to just work out in your own little cocoon. Why? This is why headphones were I vented and why we all have them- so we don’t all have to be exposed to the taste of one person. What a shame!!!

Anh N.

-2 stars is for the gym weight room. It is really really HOT in there, even in a cold winter month. It gets uncomfortably hot starting in the spring. Summer is unbearable. Usually weight rooms should be kept at 62-63F but this room sure feels like 72-78F. The circulation is poor. Always really busy. Lots of equipment and machines though.

Restrooms are kept clean and new. There are yoga rooms, a climbing wall (but it’s very popular and closed in the summer), and a basketball court I think.

The pool is out temporarily for an upgrade, but it was great (clean, temperature controlled, well-lit at night, love the Friday music, can’t beat the aesthetic of Hearst pool in Berkeley tho).