Stanwood Swim & Fitness

Let me start by saying that I can believe everything in the other review here, and it is extremely well written. Timing must be everything, I am an early morning user and never see any of the high school crowd, plus I do not use the locker room since I live pretty close by. The place is convenient, and compared to others in the area nicely maintained and pleasant and a good value. My wish list would lead with decent elliptical machines, theirs are older and lack good striding capabilities (Precors are much better). But this is the third place I’ve tried in the Arlington-​Stanwood area, and by far my favorite. I’ve been a member for two years now.

Let me start by saying that the staff is wonderful! Its a pretty clean place and the have all the basic machines and such. But there is only one of each weight machine so if someone is on the machine you want you either have to wait them out or your are out of luck. There is ALOT of high school students that go here and lets just say they dont know much about gym etiquette. They seem to be on social hour… they sit on the machines and talk to their friends or play with their phones, they are oblivious to the fact that maybe someone is wanting use the machine they have planted their butt on. I am actually there to get a workout, most days I leave supremely annoyed, because of this.
And then there is the locker room… the worst layout ive ever seen. The floor is ALWAYS soaking wet. Theres one bench to change at and it has full length mirrors on 2 sides. So as you can imagine there is no hiding anything. And to make it worse its in full view of the entrance to the locker room! There’s only 2 curtained changing areas and the days I go they always seem to be in use by people who think that its a place to store their personal items for the length of their workout. Theres plenty of open lockers to use so I dont know why they do this. So you can either take their stuff out or leave it and change in there anyway. Im not a fan of either of those options.