Bay Club Cupertino

This place is just too expensive. You just don’t get what you paid for. The worst part is that They raise the fee 10−15% every year. They will do whatever they can to rip the members off. Why pay more for the same things you get at other places at a fraction of their price. No brainer. I tried this place for 2 years and too bad that I finally realized it. Go look for somewhere else.

Management doesn’t care for their squash users. Ball machine has been broken for months ! Thermostat is placed in the most useless place — making a joke of how the temperature is regulated for the courts. It looks this club is determined to annoy users and succeeding admirably !

Pretty impressive facility. Clean and open space. My company has contract with them. And, we have fitness classes there. I really like it. Definitely high end gym.

The Bay Club Cupertino is a nice club and clean. It is a nice place to workout. The thing that bothers me most is the people that don’t pay and sneak in to use the club. I have found purses stuffed in lockers and safeway cards to gain access to the lockers. I swear I have even see people who come off the street to use the showers and wireless. No matter how many times I have told and complained to management nothing is done about this. It is due to the design of the front desk which has many entry points to sneak in. Give it a try and don’t pay the $$$ to come here!

My experience at the Bay Club has so far been positive!
I have a two month pass, so I’ve been frequently attending their group X classes, and using their amazing shower and locker room facilities.
Their treadmills are also great, and offer effective HIIT workouts!
The Sauna and Jacuzzi really stand out to me in the bay club! I haven’t used these resources yet, but the fact they’re there is just REALLY cool. I can imagine spending a whole day at the bay club, morning till night, just lounging and relaxing, especially over the weekend.
My dad is a full time member and sure enough, enjoys using their conference rooms, ping pong table, and frequently insists that we have all our social rendezvous at the club.
I wouldn’t blame him, the club IS gorgeous and well kept.
Many people have commented that it doesn’t make sense to pay the high membership fee when non-​members frequently use membership-​only facilities. I would usually agree, however, recently I’ve had employees come up to me at these exclusive lounges and verify that I’m a member — so I feel the management is slowly trying to be more proactive about it.
Hopefully they’ll soon come up with a better system to ensure that members are getting full benefits compared to non-​members!
Anyway, I would definitely renew my membership to the Bay Club in the future if I wind up staying in the South Bay.

Come on, please fix tv’s on elliptical machines. They haven’t worked since this place opened. Always freezing and cutting in and out.

Two years later (and now an actual member), I still love coming to the Bay Club.
The things I love about the club:
— Marie’s classes on the weekends. She is FANTASTIC. Her sessions are very intense and she’ll really challenge you to kick it up a notch. The body step class is high cardio and you could very well start sweating after the warm-​up. You’ll also want to die during her body pump class but you’ll feel amazing afterwards — guaranteed. Sometimes she can’t make it on the weekends and whoever subs in for her is just never as great as she is.
— Jimmy’s kickboxing class — you better already be in pretty good shape to keep up in this class. Super high level intensity! Love it!
— The new body wash — smells like apple now!
— USB charging inside the long lockers. I usually stick to the ones that I know work.
— Lots of running/​elliptical machines
— Private conference rooms to do work
— People working the front desk are pretty nice and inviting whenever I walk in
The things that I don’t love about the club:
— The WORST website ever. I tried to book a private conference room online and there’s literally no place to do it even though they say you can do it online.
— Needs way more ventilation and fans above the running machines on the second floor. Or perhaps, they need to switch to machines with fans on them already which is the best case scenario. Those machines are the best.
— The beach chairs next to the jacuzzi are super uncomfortable to lie in. I had to pad it with a ton of towels.
— The shaving cream sucks. A lot. First, it smells like antiseptic. Second, it’s super thin and doesn’t lather at all. I don’t get why the shampoo/​conditioner/​body wash is great but the shaving cream is so terrible?
— The floors outside the showers seem really dirty and grimy no matter what time I come — early morning, mid-​afternoon, or late at night. It needs to be scrubbed like once a week.
— They really need better enforcement of the Starbucks seating area. There are way too many people who aren’t members sitting there.

Bay Club is very beautiful. My favourite parts are one of the lounges which has brown sofas and nice décor, as well as the Jacuzzi room which has nice lamps on the walls. The Jacuzzi itself is aesthetically pleasing as well. The employees seem pretty friendly as well. I also like the fact that there are a lot of Asians because it makes me feel like I’m back in Taiwan (I’m too shy to talk to them though).

After realizing Bay Club shower products are watered down in janitors area near mop buckets I wanted to take a closer look. In this picture take a look at the drain pipe snake with hair on end resting on top of body care products. I’m thinking somehow that hair is going to find its way into the shampoo and that did it for me. I’m so disappointed in Bay Club and gross out.

The gym is clean and great. Nice facilities.
I would have given the club 5 stars except for one thing. They claim the Starbucks is dedicated to members only on their website but it’s always filled non-​members in the area, There are signs that say the area is for members only but no one enforces it. The area is more like a student union. I’ve complained but it has fallen on deaf ears.
The Starbucks is a nice place to relax, assuming you can find a spot to sit down.

Staff needs to consistently monitor non-​members from using the members lounge, or reduce membership fees by $ 100.
This club was amazing when it first opened. Its starting to feel old and not so clean already.

Know that when you’re coming in for a 3-​day trial of the Bay Club, they’re going to sit you down and talk to you about signing up for a membership. I wasn’t quite prepared to sign up for a membership at the time but upon finding out that a «great promotional year-​end deal» was about to expire, I bit the bullet and signed up given that they offered me a 2 week period to decide if I wanted to continue the membership and would return the exorbitant initiation fee if not.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, it’s been over a month and here I am actively participating in many of the gym’s programs and classes and using their facilities as an official member.
Yes membership here is not cheap. It’s cheap-​ER for Young Professionals, but still nowhere near 24-​hr fitness prices, okay. I’m happy to pay more for the beautiful facility, clean lockerrooms and showers, dry sauna, steam room, big jacuzzi room, professional trainers, huge variety of fitness classes, fitness equipment for classes and the fitness room. I don’t use the fitness room (yet), but plan to use my free personal trainer sessions and maybe pay for a few to learn how to work out more efficiently.
I work remotely and freelance so I am able to come to the gym frequently whenever I want and work there if I wanted to. That’s what makes it worth it for me. If I wasn’t able to make it here at least 4 or 5 days a week, it wouldn’t be worth it. The price tag also provides motivation for me to actually go the gym every day (external motivation, much?) — and I am seeing returns on investment through improvements in my overall fitness and physique.
My only grip is this: It is true that there are high schoolers and college kids taking up all the meeting rooms and spaces downstairs sometimes. That’s pretty annoying. They talk loud, laugh loudly, even skype with their boyfriends in the «members only» meeting rooms. I had to verbally kick one girl and her group of friends out of the room I was in once (I was in there first, and then she came in to skype with her teenybopper boyfriend). I wish they had a card sensor for those rooms to make sure ONLY MEMBERS are using it. You have to pay for an Executive Membership to use the nice ACTUALLY member-​exclusive rooms hidden in the back of the facility…
Despite this HUGE FLAW (I don’t pay this much for membership to provide a charity library for high school students!!), so far my membership is satisfactory. There’s plenty of seating and free wifi in Starbucks for everyone (not just members) if you’re not able to get a room to work in.
Speaking of Starbucks, the Starbucks should offer healthy options given that they’re affiliated with a gym. It’s pretty ironic that their fatty menu is still the same.

Wow. What a fitness center. It has up to 5 private offices meeting room with wifi and printers. White tables and white leather chairs. Very chic and attractive. You can workout while waiting for clients or just for meetings. It must be reserved but they are flexible on time.

Mediocre club
I first joined the club when they opened and was extremely excited about the beautiful facility including an exclusive Starbucks and hi end locker rooms and classes. Unfortunately, they do not maintain the club locker rooms and the jacuzzi/​sauna/​steam always smells like a bottle of bleach!
They do not monitor the guests and there are always little kids as in 2 – 5 age range in an out of the shower and locker rooms. When I pay $ 200plus per month for a club I expect to have a relaxing area that is well maintained.
They also promised you get the prime areas in Starbucks but unfortunately they do not monitor them so anyone can walk off the street and hang out there which is disappointing considering this is one of their selling points.
I reported these issues to various members of management but they were never addressed. Very disappointed so I dropped my membership.

I’ve been a member for about a year now, and at the time, bare bones membership was about $ 175/​month. You can add a bit more to gain access to the other Bay Clubs, which is personally useful if you play tennis or want access to a pool or perhaps use something close to work (and wait out the commute rush hour) vs. close to home.
I’ve been on the fence about continuing given how infrequently I go, but it is great therapy when I do go, extremely close to home, fairly uncrowded, and still feels new, though the treadmills upstairs are starting to wear out. No one cares. (Actually, I know no one reading this review really cares either, hence the 5 stars.)
There’s also spectacular entertainment watching and overhearing some of the trainers there. Given the vast majority of the customer demographic, they get away with all kinds of stuff. In the same way they have nicknames for regulars here, there are definitely some pretty hilarious nicknames for those trainers who deserve one.
Sadly, I’m 99.999% sure I’ll never meet Howard Kliener here. =)
Whoops, zoned out for a moment in front of the computer there, sorry. I’ll end by letting others know to take care when wandering around in the basement during off hours. You may walk in on something that’ll make you chuckle, but may make others uncomfortable.

Not the best, as far as cleanliness of facility. Why? Trash from last night still there! Housekeeping don’t even say hi when members walk by. Members pays money monthly, as local students uses the club for free with out membership.
Rooms that are priority for members, when asked students to proof membership they ignores you. They says first come first serves.
Already spoke to Staff, oddly no improvements at all, only worse.
Why pay more, when people uses this club for free each day? As management simply do nothing but watch aimlessly.

Bay Club Silicon Valley is a great gym, especially for those who love group classes. One class that I enjoyed greatly is Rosemary’s Zumba class (Tuesdays at 7:30). She is very passionate about teaching, has excellent choreo, and has diverse music. She was one of the main reasons I decided to join the gym. I also follow her at her other classes as well, despite being a member at this gym.
Other pluses of the club include towel service, shampoo/​conditioner, ice water, steam room, sauna, whirlpool tub and lounges with flat screen TV’s.

I’ve been coming to the Bay Club since 2013, but I froze my membership for a couple of months when I went back to finish my last semester of college. I usually go to the Cupertino one, and I occasionally go to Financial District and San Francisco. Out of the three, I like this campus the best.
Highlights:
— Locker room: newer lockers that have complimentary USB ports inside the long lockers (some of them are broken, so I had to plug in my phone to multiple lockers before I found one that works). Jacuzzi Lounge (has tv, cool shaped lounge chairs, wet towels, etc). Well lit. Steam Sauna. Dry Sauna.
— Workout rooms: spacious, newer machines
— Group exercise classes: CXWORX, Ujam, and I try my best to make it to Cardio Kickboxing, but I work in SF, so it’s hard to come down to South Bay for this 5:30pm class. Its previous time (Monday nights) was so much more convenient!
— Lounges: Starbucks lounge, social lounge, lounges in the locker room… all awesome! The social lounge has Netflix. There are also conference rooms next to the bathroom on the main floor.
— PING PONG ROOM!
— Squash courts!
— Discounts at Starbucks for members.
— Events for members
Could be better if…:
(I’m going to sound like a princess. The club is great, and I can live without any of these, but it would be a cherry on top if they were worked on)
— Bay Club members could do a better job cleaning up after their hair in the showers. Maybe it’s because I usually come at the end of the day, but some of the showers have a gross amount of hair near the drain.
— Broken complimentary USB ports in lockers get fixed
— The area in between the showers gets gross… one solution could be to have someone frequently cleaning the floor, but another solution could be to provide shower sandals (but find a way to make sure people don’t leave with them lol…)
— Change fee: $ 250 per change?! Reactivating my membership counted as two changes (adding me back as a member and thus changing my family’s membership plan). I talked it down to $ 250 instead of $ 500, but still…
— Face wash! Wouldn’t more people use face wash than the shaving cream? Let’s do an AB test.
— Straightening /​curling irons like the SF campuses
— Guest pass fee… why so expensive? :(more guest promos please!
— Cardio Kickboxing with JImmy at a later time pleaseeeeeee
— Better paddles for ping pong

I’ve been a member here for a while and have really enjoyed my time at the Bay Club. I split my time evenly between Cupertino and Santa Clara since I like the pool and tennis facilities at Santa Clara.
Cupertino has great squash courts and a good weight room with cardio machines.
The locker rooms are also really nice with bright, clean showers, sauna, steam room and extremely large jacuzzi tub.
I have the membership that includes Santa Clara, Los Gatos, Silicon Valley Capital Club, Redwood Shores and a few of the Bay clubs in SF.
It is a bit pricey but the facilities are great and the place never seems to be overly busy.

Awesome gym or shall I say club. The facilities are very clean and there is always machines open. This location is awesome, it’s two stories with a basement that features a studio, cycling area, and cardio equipment. The main upper floor has a squash court, locker rooms, and more cardio equipment with a weights area. Everything about this club is legit, the lockers have a built in USB port for charging your equipment.
They always have cardio equipment available and usually no waiting. I love this club and HIGHLY recommend it, it’s on the pricey side but worth it.