Avila Bay Athletic Club

Yes, expensive compared to other places, but hands down the best deep tissue massage I have had!
Amazing! Buy a service and have access to all the club amenities for the whole day:
cardio area, weights area, pools, sauna, tennis courts!

Visiting friends, we took advantage of the pools. The facilities were great and loved the pools to be followed by a few minutes in the hot tub. Unfortunately we must have hit the day when the pretentious, «I’m rich and I know everything » people at the hot tub. Not fun — left.

Bought a facial off deal saver for $ 40 normally $ 75. Was a great deal for a 60 min facial, even included a little neck, arm, foot massage. Any service you receive there you can use the facilities for the day which is awesome. They have a lap pool with a huge sauna and infrared sauna. The infrared sauna was a little hard to find, off to the side by itself, but was still great. They also have and area for kids for swimming, with another sauna and pool. Plus tennis courts and gym, with classes you can take. The staff is amazing, so sweet and so nice. Will be back again for sure. Thanks again!

Beautiful grounds, lovely staff, clean facility, fabulous pool, maintained tennis courts, talented spa staff and in a perfect location. I had recently cancelled my membership at the Avila Bay Athletic Club for various reasons (nothing to do with the club!). Despite not having the membership I still find myself being drawn back to the club every opportunity I get! I recently swam with their Master’s Swim program — I adore their pool. I appreciate having the option of choosing which dressing room… the one in the gym (adults only) or the one near the pool (family welcomed). Sitting in their hot tub under the swaying palms or in their infrared sauna will melt away your worries and dissolve your stress. Yesterday received a massage from Mary-​Anie. I have received many massages and am usually surprised to find a talented therapist on the central coast, let me say, I was blown away by my massage. Mary-​Anie is extremely intuitive and immediately identified and treated areas needing attention. She is well versed in cranial sacral therapy which few therapists have a good grasp of. Will definitely be booking another treatment with her in the near future. The spa rooms are welcoming, clean and relaxing and they encourage you to take advantage of their facilities after your treatment. I will look forward to seeing Amy and Travis’ friendly faces next time I walk in for a treatment.

I don’t easily give out a five star review, but when I really thought about writing this review there was not too much not too like about the Avila Bay Club. It’s a clean, well maintained facility with beautifully landscaped pool areas that are excellent places to relax. The work out facilities are up to date and well maintained. The staff is super friendly, welcoming and accommodating. The location is outstanding, the best micro climate in San Luis Obispo County. I am no longer a tennis player, but they have great tennis courts, tournaments etc. In the summer they have fun Friday ‘Happy Hours’ with great local musicians performing and reasonably priced drinks and also feature a local winery. I have been a member here for about 15 years and now go five days a week. The monthly dues are significant but it is worth it. The snack bar will not give you a gourmet meal, but does rise above ‘snack bar’ status. The main locker rooms are a bit small — four people is a crowd in there. There is also a ‘family’ locker room outside of the main building that is a bit larger. This really is as good as it gets in San Luis Obispo County.

Wanted to do something fun & maybe a little crazy with my hair… booked an appointment with Nancy. She was great!!! Totally helpful & accommodating. We browsed thru several pics & ended up doing a little collaboration. I’m loving it! Amazing fun summer hair! She gives a great shampoo & blow dry too! Thanks!!!

Wow, lovely and worth the price. Gorgeous well maintained courts, wonderful pool, gym and foodies. And the tennis crew are amazing. Jenny teaches you to really play tennis with direction in all techniques. Hugh and Mark are also so kind and helpful. Love this place!

We stayed at the Avilla Garden Inn across the street from this club. As guests at the inn, we get access to the club while we are staying there. We didnt get a chance to make use of the facilities, but they did look awesome.
We did however take advantage of their babysitting service. We met all 3 of the people who were looking after the kids, and we couldnt be more impressed. We had them watch our 1yr old daughter while we went out for dinner. The odds were really stacked against them. It was the first time we’d ever left our daughter with a babysitter, and she didnt know these people at all.
Needless to say our daughter wasnt so happy that we left her, but they managed to keep her entertained and relatively happy for 2 hours. One of their staff members had to carry her almost the entire time to keep her from crying. Amazing staff.

Every one of the staff here are upbeat & friendly. There is a snack bar/​grill on the main level where every time we entered and left the club we would get a different delicious aroma rush through the air from whatever was being served at the time. There are weight rooms, locker rooms, multiple private showers, 2 large heated outdoor pools, 2 large outdoor hot tubs, many tennis courts, and message therapists.
Though we indirectly met one of their personal trainers (Larry Goldman) hanging out on his day off in the hot tub as well as in action with a client the next day who was knowledgeable and generous (giving non clients tips on his personal time!). This review is primarily for Megan Beach.
Megan was my second professional message therapist in my life. The first one brought a lot of fluff to the table (in the defense of the first message at another facility it was labelled a Swedish message and not deep tissue message). Megan’s message was a deep tissue message and was done so well with so much relaxing impact, that I am still feeling the results 4 days later!
I can’t think of visiting in the Pismo/​SLO area with not visiting Megan again.
Thank You Avila Bay Athletic Club, and Thank You Megan Beach.

Awesome! We are invited to be guests as we visited folks in the area. We hope to live here in the next year and I can’t wait to use the pool. Classy facility! Colleen, Sacramento, CA

I would join this gym if i didn’t live so far away. Great!

Super nice. Came free to use with our stay at the Inn. If that isn’t incentive enough to try this place, then the numerous tennis courts, swimming pool, weight rooms, spas, etc should hopefully catch your interest.
It’s not overly crowded like you find in most clubs. The lobby is nice and comes with a fire place (when’s the last time you saw that at a fitness club!).
I can only imagine how much a membership here costs but given how much there is to offer and how clean everything is, it is well worth the cost.

Visiting the area and used this club as a guest Great facility. Nice staff. Clean locker rooms. Pools were warm and clean. The Pilates class was challenging.
If I lived here, I would join.

Wow, what a great place to work out. They have swimming, tennis, classes, cardio and weight rooms, food, a lobby with a fireplace and reading material, and even a little spa. I had a massage from Tricia, and she worked me over. She was a little too rough but reduced the pressure when I let her know.
The cardio room has the usual equipment, and there are TVs but not on each machine. You can borrow a radio to listen to the TV or music. I used the heated outdoor swimming pool, it’s small but I had it to myself. The spa jet switch was broken, but it was still warm and inviting after swimming. I think there’s an indoor pool too. The woman locker room is nice, with multiple clean showers, toilet areas, and sinks. A man walked into the locker room, as there is also a pool side entrance, he was embarrassed but I wasn’t naked, so it was all good.
Staff are genuinely pleasant and helpful, and if you stay at the Avila Village Inn, across the walkway, you get free use of the gym. There’s a bike trail between the fitness center and the Inn, that goes all the way to the beach.
I’m sure membership is expensive, I didn’t look, but if you have money and want to work out, this is a great place to go.

If you have money to spare and live in the area, you have to join this health club. It is ridiculously posh and just generally AMAZING. I got to use this club for free for two weeks when I was the temporary babysitter for a girl whose parents were members. We spent hours there every day, swimming in the luxurious outdoor pools and hot tub, checking out the tennis courts, and eating healthy lunches inside. Although I couldn’t do these activities with my charge, I observed an endless number of classes, and state of the art athletic equipment.
Yeah, there’s a little bit of a «money» vibe, and most of the people who go here are in pretty good shape. But it’s family oriented and not a place where you have to worry about creeps. If you want a place where you can focus on your health and fitness, this is a great place.