Planet Fitness – Hingham

Not a good gym! Equipment types are very limited. Staff are unfriendly. This is great place if you are over 60 years old.
It is clean though!

Always a great experience! The staff is amazing they are always attentive and nice. The gym area is VERY clean and I always see some on staff cleaning. The locker rooms are always clean. I work in Dedham and live in Dorchester but I will always Tavel the extra mile for this location.

Bare bones, but sometimes that’s all you need.
I have the $ 10 a month membership, and it’s worth every penny. There are tons of cardio machines, and I’ve never seen more than 1 or 2 of the treadmills not working (out of about 30… that’s as good or better a rate than any other gym I’ve seen).
I find the «judgement free zone» stuff a little silly, because I’ve never felt particularly judged at any other gym I’ve been a member of, but whatever.
My favorite part is the 30 minute weight room… it’s just a ring of weight machines and you’re not supposed to do more than 2 reps on any of them. LOVE this idea, as every gym I’ve ever been to has had some guy with a neck as thick as his head monopolizing the abdominal machine for 35 minutes at a time, when all I want is a quick weight circuit workout. And the staff take this pretty seriously too: I did once see a staff member ask a member to use one of the weight machines in the main area if he wanted to spend longer than allowed.
It’s not a perfect gym. The bathroom’s not the cleanest place in the world (but it’s not gross either), and the machines aren’t high end (no treadmills with individual TV screens, like fancier gyms have these days), and the WiFi totally sucks, and I have to watch Fox News on the TV screens… but for $ 10 a month, it’s great. (Full disclosure: I’m a member here and at a more «full service» gym, which costs considerably more. I use the childcare in that one, but PF is near my house, and I go here in the evenings and on weekends when my husband is home to watch the kids.)

I like this PF for location and the value it provides. However, what really, really, really sucks is their wifi. It is sooooo annoying work out here that it ruins my work out. You can’t get access to Pandora for more than two songs before it closes you out, even with full bars for signal. It is so frustrating to be running and then your music shuts off and you have to stop and reload your music player instead of Pandora because of unreliable wifi. It doesn’t matter how many people are in the building… I’ve been in there when it is almost empty and this happens.
The staff has to reset the wifi often and gets frustrated too. I don’t know why the owners won’t invest $ 60 to get a booster or replace the router with one that works. We don’t need the massage chairs, get the wifi working! And they should provide it because the building doesn’t allow any cellular signal in so I can’t stream.
I would give this a 4 rating if not for the frustration with the wifi. It has been going on for a a few years. Complaining to them does NOTHING so I’m hoping this will be a stronger statement to the owners.
I am thinking I need to bring my own router or booster where I can set for private access. Having music makes a difference in a workout and PF makes it very difficult to access it for my online playlists.
The other really annoying thing is you can’t use a credit card for payment, only a check, which makes me very uncomfortable and I think is unfair to the customer in terms of not having an option. It’s much better to have credit card payment because it allows for me to manage finances better and track expenses, which you can’t do with a checking account in the same way (unless doing manually which is a hassle).
PF, PLEASE improve your wifi. It’s not that expensive and will go a long way to making for a better workout experience at your facility. I don’t have this problem with any of the other PF I have worked out at (e.g. Dorchester, Weymouth, etc.)

This a great deal and a great facility. Cardio is well represented as there a lots of machines for such and they do get used, Weight lifting gets its fair share with a wide range of equipment, such as smith machines, and such, although free weights, no benches, squats, etc. are limited. Plenty of dumb bells though. The facility is very clean and the staff are great.

Planet fitness is an interesting organization.
For a ridiculously low price you can have a membership that allows you to utilize their gyms at any time for as long as you want.
The problem is that they don’t have any of the equipment that I want in order to conduct a high intensity workout.
The only barbells they have for instance are the ones attached to the smith machines so I am unable to conduct any olympic lifts or deadlifts.
There’s what seems like 100 cardio machines, but the area for bodyweight exercises can barely handle 3 people attempting to do pushups, air squats, etc. at the same time (and there’s usually several people utilizing the area for stretching and/​or yoga)
The real reason for the 2 star review was my experience with the staff. Apparently they have been trained by the owner to tell people that they absolutely have to be on an EFT (electronic funds transfer) from their bank. This didn’t seem to be a problem when I originally signed up (quite a while ago, right around when they first opened).
I was harassed every time I came into the gym to provide a blank check. I indicated that I did not want to pay by check and that my debit card was never declined and if there was ever to be an issue I would be responsible for any fees incurred.
I was eventually approached by what I presume was a manager (a blonde-​haired woman whose name I don’t recall) and she told me that I signed an agreement indicating that I had to use EFT. I said I signed no such thing. She became furious and flustered with the net result being that I did not have to use the EFT.
I no longer felt welcome at the gym and for several months I simply didn’t show up. Eventually I canceled.
If you’re really interested in health/​fitness you’d be 1000 times better off going next door to CrossFit Bare Cove or even better — head across town to CrossFit Hingham.

So far, so good. We joined under the «no commitment» membership since we’re probably not going to be living nearby for very long. I think it’s a great membership option and it wasn’t expensive. I think it was $ 35 to join and $ 18 a month or something close to that. You can only go to the gym you join at, but I think it’s a deal. One quirky detail, they require a checking account payment rather than credit card which we found odd. A cancelled check is necessary for membership.
As for the gym itself: we joined the Hingham one because my mom noted that the one in Weymouth is always crazy busy. I hate being overheated and waiting for machines when I am trying to workout so the Hingham one seemed promising. I’ve only been a couple of times, but it is sparkling clean and fairly well temperature-​controlled. It was a little hot one day, but not unbearable. As for crowding, they told us it might be busy in the mornings, but when we go, around 8, there are still tons of machines.
My only small complaint would be that they show awful tv. I bring my personal DVD player (my new gym-​necessity) so it’s not a huge issue for me, but I hate how every channel is showing the news. I think a variety of programs would be helpful.
I also haven’t noticed too many annoying people at the gym. It’s low key, but it has everything fancy gyms have except for the classes (which I could never gather enough courage to do anyway).

Signed up, gave credit card information. After 3 visits, they said I’d have to provide a cancelled check in order to continue membership. — My credit is perfect, and I don’t just give my bank information out. After telling them no, they said I’d have to cancel. So I did.
I don’t understand this place.