HI Myriam,

If you would like to try Holmes Place in Jelmoli on the 5th and 6th floor, there is a Glocals special available. May interst you, not exactly Oerlikon but ony a few min. by train.

Best!
Steven

Hi Myriam

I guess you covered the whole offer in Oerlikon; in the surroundings there are also:

http://az.arena-fitness.ch/ (Wallisellen)

http://www.sfcs.ch/ (Dubendorf)

both of them are easily reachable (not more far away than Alstetten, I'd say) if you have a car, but they are not very far away from train stations too (Wallisellen and Stettbach)

Ciaociao

Fabrizio

Try http://www.silhouette.ch/

... glocals members have a very special price there...

599 for a year... good value for money...

Of the above places you mentioned, I can only suggest you TC since I play squash there and the fitness center is really good and clean!

regards, Ehsaan

Hi Miriam,

Do not make the mistake of joining Holmes Place

I am a member of Holmes Place and I must say their service is a disaster and the management is quite chaotic. I am still stuck with them for the next 2 month since I took a yearly membership.

However, I tried ACTIV FITNESS for a week and it is brilliant!

Cheers, A

Hello Ahuva,

I am sorry to hear of your expierence at Holmes Place, I am the new GM for Zurich, I just arrived and am still between Budapest and Zurich each week but I am pushing very hard to alliviate the deficit of service and facilities.

We have a new refurbishment just finished, new vanity are for the women and we are getting new cardio machines as well in the comming weeks. A new functional training area is being planned for later this year as well, very exciting.

The sercive is being addressed with intensive standard and procedural training as well as myself being always available for discussions, when I am here.

I invite you to come to the club and speak with me, I woudl love to please you!

Thak you for your honesty, I realy appriciate it!

Be Well,

Steven

Thanks for your offer Steven, but unfortunately its too late.

I will join ACTIV FITNESS in May when my contract run out.

I find Holmes Place ridiculously over-priced for the service that is offered.

Cleanliness is another issue. The stuff is the gym is often broken.

Other fitness clubs offer the same or better service and infrastructure for a much better price with an option of using several locations.

I think you guys have a long way to go and I just saw this Silhouette offer for 599 which is way better than Holmes Place. ACTIV FITNESS offers a very nice price too!

You mentioned there is an offer for glocals members. Nobody ever told me at the reception and I just checked your website. You have other partners, glocals is not one of them.

So my overall experience with Holmes Place? False promises and NOT a GOOD service AT ALL for the money I paid.

kind regards, A

Hi everybody,

As Ehsaan already told you all Glocal-Members have a fantastic offer for 599 instead 1099 at SILHOUETTE! Including 5 Gyms in Zürich and 1 in Kloten (by train 3min from Oerlikon) with over 165 groupfitness classes and all the latest gym equipment..

And one more important thing: we offer to every Glocal-Member a free trail week where you can test all the gyms, classes and wellness facilities...! For free... :-)

@Ahuva: what a pitty that you took your desicion with Active, but i have to admin that they offer a great service for that price as well.. however, you can still benefit from your free trail week at SILHOUETTE till May... :))

No matter where you all will join, i wish you all the best in achieving your goals and a great start in your gyms...

Best wishes

Marc

Operating Director Silhouette Zürich

for more information: [email protected] or www.silhouette.ch

Hello Ahuva,

Thak you for your honest thoughts, allthough it seems you may have had a personal expierence with someone which upset you and I appoligize for this in the name of Holmes Place.

I searched the records to see if there were any recordings of problems in your time here but I found no record of your membership here in Zurich, could it be that you were a member on another Holmes Place Club, possibly Oberrieden?

Whatever the case, I hope you find what you are looking for!

Best,

Steven

P.S. (How are you Marc!)

Thank you very much for your answers ! I appreciate your different opinions about all the gyms located in Oerlikon area. I will give a try to some of them before choosing one and will post as well my review so that it may help other people interested !

Myriam

Hi Ahuva

I am also thinking to register to Aktiv Fitness.

Is there an aktiv fitness in Oerlikon? I didn't find it on the website.

Thanks for your answer!

Update: I finally got a membership at TC Airgate. I cannot speak for the other centers as I did not try them. But so far, this is one is really good, big, lot of equipment (5 treadmills etc..) + sauna, steam room etc.. The trainers are really helpful, nice and most speak a very good english. If I should find a weak point, I would say that they do not offer a lot of collective classes by comparison with other gyms, but after work starting 5PM, i think the offer is  more than sufficient (biking, zumba, pilates). 

Hope it helps !

Hi,

As I'm also looking for a gym, in Altstetten this time, would the Silhouette offer still be on? and does it apply only to the annual membership ? Would I also get a week's free trial? 

thanks

Sasha

Hi, silhouette has the same offer for glocals members!

regards, Ehsaan

Thanks Ehsaan!

Of course a bit too late to answer but just to all interested people know: I am member at NordFit in Oerlikon. Quite old-fashioned, look a bit like from the eighties. But it is clean, a lot of machines / equipment, very friendly staff, lots of courses, little sauna, solarium, cafeteria. Members are mainly internationals working for all the consultants, financial and insurance companies in Oerlikon. Before I trained at Active Kloten which was very modern and nice. I changed to NordFit to be able to exercise during lunch break. Regards, Daniel

Hi,

Many thanks for raising this thread and the answers. I had the same confusion. . I need a gym which has preferably outlets in kloten and oerlikon so I can access from house and office conveniently. It seems Active fitness and Silhouette are the 2 main options. I am trying to find if both have presence in kloten and oerlikon both. I am likely to take up the weekly trial offer this week itself and then finalise.

Hi Marc

I am a Glocial Member and on the lookout to join a Gym, currently living in Kloten. Is the offer your posted on here still standing for Silhouette?

Please let me know and I will make time to visit.

Thanks

Dario Cucci