NOT WORTH YOUR MONEY! BROKEN & DIRTY EQUIPMENT & MACHINES! My friend posted a review a week ago, management responded to talk to them at the desk about the issues. Why should she when it’s all in the review/photos? There’s nothing to talk about. Fix your machines and take better care of your gym. I can’t believe after everything she wrote, the machines are still broken. Here are some more out of order/ripped machines to add to the list. No discussion needed. Fix the machines.

This gym is disgusting. On Monday night I fell off the stair master because it does not stop even when paused and that night in particular it began to accelerate on its own. The incline ab machine has been missing a part for almost a year- a quick fix that has not been replaced. The mats in the yoga room are absolutely disgusting and the hand towel machines are never working or laying on the floor. The workers go on the overhead speakers saying to re-rack weights even if they were left that way to begin with. This gym is not worth $30 a month and they are taking advantage of the low income area. I will be reporting this to the Better Business Bureau and will go to LA fitness when they open.

I have recently joined Retro Fitness Bayonne with the Ultimate membership and I am overall satisfied. For this price range you can't expect a lot, similar to Planet Fitness and other budget gyms, so my 4 star review is taking that into consideration. They offer 3 types of memberships. The Ultimate, which I chose, is around $30 a month and allows me to take group classes and access other locations. In addition, I can bring a guest with me and the guest can also take classes. Note that there's an yearly maintenance fee of around $40 bucks if I'm not mistaken. They also have a mid tier membership which doesn't allow classes or guests and a budget 19.99 membership which you can occasionally find it for 9.99 which only allows you to access your home club and doesn't allow you to take classes. You can always pay for a class separately around 5 to 8 bucks if you have one of the low tier memberships. The gym isn't big but it has decent equipment and the percentage of broken machines is small which is good. It does get crowded after 5pm but that's the case with the gyms in the area. Gym is clean, including the bathrooms which is good. The annoyance of people leaving stuff in the lockers without a pad lock is present so if you go during busy hours get ready to open at least 10 lockers until you find an empty one. Once again, this is a problem at other locations, I hope there was someone to check this and enforce the rules so that people can start locking their stuff. Staff is friendly, especially Stephanie who works at the front desk and has been very helpful since day one. Unlike the nearby Twin City/Jersey City location, the Bayonne location normally updates the group class website. It would be even better if they did it at least a week or 2 in advance so that we could plan ahead but at least they do it. There is a small parking lot behind the gym which is shared by other businesses. The gym gives you a parking pass but if you go during peak hours you will rarely find a parking spot. But there's normally street parking available, just make sure you feed the parking meter prior to 7pm. Class instructors are also very competent. My wife takes Zumba and Body Combat classes and she likes both instructors. I take Spin class with Mei who is also a competent instructor. Now my main complaint and the reason I took off one star. They have a single instructor for each class. For example, all 3 spinning classes are taught by the same person, so if she is off on a particular day, there is no coverage. During the month of February the instructor is off 4 days, including 2 days within the same week, so during that week we only have 1 class. The other 2 weeks there will be only 2 classes. Retro Fitness should find back up instructors and should add more classes. No spin classes on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays? There should be at least 4 classes a week but the ideal would be Mon-Thu + Sat morning. *** Note to owner with canned response - I have already expressed my concerns on my review. If you read it all you will see my complaints and the reason I did not give this gym 5 stars ***

My first time at this location & i wanted to potentially try out this gym since its nearby. I was standing at the counter area (no other customers but me) there was a Caucasian man behind the counter on the phone & a worker a black male on my side of the counter. Neither acknowledge my presence & when the white male gets off the phone he starts having a conversation with the co-worker about the call, still doesn’t acknowledge my presence so i did myself a favor and walked out. A place that operates on poor customer service doesnt deserve my business/money. Fyi, Gym Manager, your workers are making you lose business on potentially new customers. I wouldnt be surprised if this place permanently closes in the near future!

Stair master is broken with no sign to warn! I fall off stair master machine! So many machine broken here. I hurt my ankle there was no sign on machine I get badly hurt in ankle. I can no walk. I had to take off work…I tell front desk they no care. Can no walk since Saturday…they just want to make $. My lawyer say I should sue will update soon..

Do yourself a favor and avoid this place! There’s 0 way of getting in contact with the manager. My wife is pregnant and was told to start light exercises, she went and none of the equipment are cleaned, the smoothies are made with tap water! No choices of filter water, bottle or milk ONLY TAP. She got extremely ill, there’s no wifi password anywhere! And this gym closes extremely early. When they are a hour before closing they announce there closing every 5-7mins. Back to the Forum for us!

Been coming to this gym for 2 years. Had no complaints especially with the reopening after the lockdown. However that changed this winter with an influx of young kids (11-16) taking over. This is a GYM not Mall/hangout. Seriously considering ending my membership.

I’ve been going to this gym for about 6 -7 months. The staff is nice but it’s impossible to talk to management. I had a wonderful trainer named Chris who was stripped away with no warning. I felt confident in his skills and built a relationship with him. I am 7 months postpartum and he respected my boundaries. I tried to call the gym the manager never called me back or the district manager. I will be canceling my training sessions in the future, hopefully they take into consideration clients concerns.

Staff are always friendly and very helpful here. This location is the cleanest, nicest looking out of the other locations in Hudson county and never too busy to get a solid workout in. There’s plenty of parking in the back, nice variety of drinks, shakes, and protein snacks. I would love to see them use filter water instead of tap for the shakes they make . Overall though, great gym and environment, highly recommend!

Workers are cool, but the gym is horrible. So many machines are broken like the stair master and the leg press. There’s an out of order sign that’s been on them for months saying new equipment 4/6. It’s almost May now. Guess they don’t want to spend money on new equipment and don’t care that people have gotten hurt on that old stair master. LA Fitness is open now so might head there soon if they can’t fix their machines by summer. They’re just charging people for memberships and not keeping their end of the deal. Not what I signed up for.

This gym has potential but the management needs to get better. The air conditioner in the basement has been broken for months. It feels like a sauna down there and it smells really bad. It’s so hot the mirrors get foggy and nobody cleans them. They put a metal fan blowing hot air. I don’t know why it takes so long to fix the AC. Yesterday, I asked if the ac was fixed and the girl at the reception told me that supposedly it was fixed but she didn’t think it really was. When I went to workout, it was so hot so it was definitely NOT WORKING.

I been going here for 5 years now and I love this gym. The Staff are awesome and very kind so are the members. The gym is very clean in my opinion. Best gym in Bayonne way better then the jersey city one. I give it a 5 star I love coming here and never have I encounter a problem here. Would recommend 10/10

Staff are friendly and helpful. People very easy to work with. Made the right choice choosing Retro Fitness over other choices in town.

The music they play after 7pm is heavy metal . It gets boring, every night the same same same music. Music to stress you out more than pump you. They should cater to all music genres. They should have at least one more zumba class, instructor to change it up. Some kickboxing is greatly needed. They don't make the gym more appealing. Best we got in Bayonne.I guess.

This location is the cleanest, nicest looking out of the other locations. Staff always welcomes you with a hello and a smile. The entire crew, as far as I've seen, is always willing to help. Lots of space to move around. You never feel like you are on top of another person!

Well for me I normally go Wright after work and if any of you know that after a 12-14 hr work day and then a 1-2 hr workout the simplest thing like a smile will totally make your day thanks staff for being the way you are👍🏽great gym definitely will recommend…

I have been going to this gym for 3 years without any issues, until it came time for me to move. I had a 1 year contract that was set to expire in June, and I confirmed in person with the staff there that my contract will not automatically renew. I was assured that there is nothing further I needed to do. In late June, I found that I was once again billed. After calling and speaking to staff, I was told that my contract is now over, and that there will be no more billing. Now at the end of July, I get an even bigger charge from this location. When calling, I was told that my contract automatically renewed monthly, and that I would have to come in to cancel (this would require a flight and hotel to get back to New jersey). I finally speak to the owner who tells me I should have read the fine print, and that he'll "allow" me to cancel through email. I have since sent an email to their location requesting my "membership" be cancelled. I have not recieved any confirmation as of yet from the owner confirming I will no longer be billed but will update if they ever decide to cancel this so called membership. Moral of the story is be sure to get in writing when they tell you there will be no more billing or else you will get swindled everytime.

Great gym, 3 levels, a fitness room, plus they make delicious shakes. Downstairs there is a good size free weight and dumbbells area along with 2 smith machines, 2 squat racks, a hack squat plate loader, leg press plate loader and more. Prices for membership are very affordable, and they have a daycare(just check times). Top floor is all machines and cable machines, along with many treadmills, ellipticals, bikes, and a movie room if you don't want to be bothered. I enjoy my workouts everytime I go there and that's why I highly recommend this particular retro fitness.

The gym can be crowded at times but very organized and clean. It usually thins out after 8pm and then you can usually use any bench or machine that you need. People do put the weights back fro the most part at this gym. They also have some Floor Fans in the free-weight area which I think is necessary because the air is really circulated and you can breath right to lift heavy weights.

There are good and bad. But better then LA in Bayonne. One of my complaints was that they rules of no bags with you as you working out Very very annoying rule, and the only Gym that has it. They need to relax with that. I had better workouts there then in LA fitness beyond . 👍🏻 I would suggest updating old equipment if they did not do it already. They will better place

Poor Customer Services it takes days and weeks for manager to “work” on simple task.