Court Jester Athletic Club

Positive experience: I've been a member here for many years. There are a lot of different areas to lift in (read you don't have to see the same people all the time unless you want to). I take a lot of the group classes that come with the membership. I get a lot out of them. Great trainers. It is an older building but I think they are trying to up their game a little on cleaning and maintenance. But it is a gym, a good one for the price but you can't expect marble showers. Overall it is pretty well equipped. I go in the mornings and people are pretty friendly. The fact that it is open 24 hours on most days is nice. I like a gym that I enjoy going to and where people are friendly and respectful.

Positive experience: Old place, cool front desk staff, most members aren't friendly though...Needs modernization. I will say they seem to be putting what money they do have int the right place(their equipment). Locker rooms definitely need some attention though.

Negative experience: How hard is it to post an accurate class schedule? Beyond staff capability, I fear. I just want to know when I can access the functional fitness room and it’s frustrating that I never know whether there will be a class there since the location of classes appears to be based on a coin toss by the instructor. It doesn’t help that all the lighter kettlebells are in that room and inaccessible on a regular basis. If you need lighter weights or an open space good luck planning your workout around the gym’s whims.

Negative experience: Some real billing issues, overpriced.

Fantastic experience: I have been going here for the last 14 years and have always enjoyed what you have. Miss the pool but I understand.

Fantastic experience: Great !!!!!pp

Positive experience: Somehow the best gym in the area. They close too early on weekends and the equipment looks very old. The price is higher than it should be but thankfully the place isn't too busy during peak hours because of it.

Fantastic experience: The best gym in the area

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out, great staff and people are friendly. Dosen't seem to be any judgmental people there.

Positive experience: classes are great. need some updating I'm the facility though

Negative experience: The gym used to be great but those times are behind us. If you absolutley love putting other peoples weights away, or searching for where someone left a dumbbell, this is the place for you. They gave gotten rid of the pool, towels, daycare, and the bathrooms are disgusting 70% of the time.

Fantastic experience: My favorite gym in the area. It is said in the olden days, that all members were capable of world domination due to their pure physical supremacy and capability.

Negative experience: Not sure why they are still charging the same after closing the pool, the daycare, taking away towels and bathrooms always look/ smell horrible. Not worth the money at all anymore. After 12 years is time for me to find another gym.

Fantastic experience: Court jester is my favorite gym in this area, I've tried out most of the other gyms but always end up back at court jester. I like that they have two locations for the price of one membership. They are consistent with upgrading equipment. For all the traffic that comes throughout the day they do a good job keeping the gym clean. Ive been a member for about 7 years and plan to stay a member.

Negative experience: Unfortunately gave them a chance after they closed the pool. My card was stolen and proactively let them and gave them a new card. I was told it I will be given a 20 dollar fee given the original charged was declined on my stolen card bc it was cancelled same day. Manager was extremely rude and was more upset she had to get out of her chair to help a customer and refused to not charge a fee. Needless to say, I toured Lourdes right after and was blown away. For the extra 30-35 a month I would highly encourage you to leave for a far superior facility.

Positive experience: Nice place with many physical fitness options

Positive experience: Not the gym it used to be. Showers are older than most people that go there. Has some features that are nice and somewhat okay but reminds you of a locker room that is in dire need for an upgrade. And disappointingly now they don’t even offer towels to boot. Even worse, they now have closed down the pool for good.

Fantastic experience: Clean, good hours, good classes

Fantastic experience: One of the best gyms in the area.

Positive experience: Great gym, bought a day pass to give it a try, more than likely signing up for a full membership now!

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out.

Fantastic experience: Staying fit it has everything for everyone the hours at east Friday 8 00pm Saturday Sunday should be longer 4 00 pm is not Ideal For a person that works and has a family

Fantastic experience: I have been a member for over 20 years. Working out before work has been my thing. Covid has interrupted that by closing the gyms for many months and then work has me working from home, so I can't hit the gym on the way to work any longer. Still, this gym has a good set of aerobic machines and weights. If you like to get in a swim, the pool is wonderful. Membership costs a bit more here, but this is a premier gym in this area. I do wish they would fix the broken showers, although I have always been able to find one that works. Having to bring my own towel since Covid is a pain only because I sometimes forget.

Fantastic experience: I'm reluctant to share too many details, because Court Jester AC has to be the best-kept secret in the area. Staff are kind, facilities are clean and amenities plentiful. Additionally, rates are extremely reasonable. Highly recommend!

Fantastic experience: It's the best fitness and health center in the area

Fantastic experience: great atmosphere clean gym and tons of equipment

Fantastic experience: Pool is great, very nice people there working out

Fantastic experience: Well run establishment with plenty of room to workout at even the busiest of times. The staff is always super courteous, facilities are clean and their covid response was great.

Fantastic experience: A great place to workout. Two floors and a good selection of equipment.

Fantastic experience: That's where I get it in at. Good equipment and good people there

Positive experience: Went to check regarding a membership.

Negative experience: Gym has gone down hill. The benches are broken, weights are all over the place, machines were dirty, very old equipment, $10 for a day pass is a total waste of money. Not to mention the ladies room was absolutely disgusting. Very disappointed.

Positive experience: Old equipment

Fantastic experience: They should update some of the facility but great overall

Fantastic experience: Best gym

Fantastic experience: Very very clean!!! staff is friendly and open to questions.

Fantastic experience: Best place to train

Positive experience: Best gym in the area. Although that doesn't say a lot. Often dust balls on the track and machines get replaced slowly. The new HIIT area is pretty cool, but took away more racquetball courts. Kind of lost the reason for it's name. When I started going here in the 90's I think they had 9 courts. Now they have one.

Positive experience: Best gym in the area

Negative experience: Facility is in need of repair. Tiles falling off the shower stall walls for quite some time. Dry sauna splintered and broken nails sticking out of the wood. Black gunk in whirlpool filter box. Locker room stinks. Lockers dirty. Filthy place. I will never return.

Positive experience: A bit of an older place but good equipment. Missing some great machines the other one has; but it does have a broader selection.

Fantastic experience: My favorite gym. It always feels good after a good workout

Fantastic experience: Nice gym

Fantastic experience: Very large, even when the lot is full the building isn't.

Fantastic experience: My body has changed amazingly going to this gym besides my diet being clean its a great place to workout and i would love to work there or any gym since i feel at home in a gym recommend trying the 1 week trial you won't regret it

Fantastic experience: I like the one in Johnson City. They have 2 floors. The 1st floor in ya treadmills and ellipticals. Up stairs they have weights n indoor track. Very impressed. Not to mention a hot tube in locker room.

Fantastic experience: LOVE spin classes. Employees are welcoming and pleasant

Negative experience: old equipment, dirty

Positive experience: Lots of equipment, friendly staff

Positive experience: Wish it were more updated but really great instructors for classes and deals for students!

Positive experience: Been here 3times and II love it took my AAU players there to workout with Ms T. And they couldn't wait to go back would've given it a 5 but I had to go back to Detroit

Positive experience: The club is quite in need of updates and repairs. Th mindful pilates studio in the club is beautiful!

Positive experience: It is what it is.

Positive experience: I like it. I have been swimming/working out there since the 1990's. I can't think of a better facility in the area that has a pool. And thank goodness those annoying Binghamton University students no longer come over the bridge to work out here.

Positive experience: Can't think of anything else I would need from a gym. They offer day care which is amazing. Add in the sauna, hot tub, steam room, pool and then all the exercise equipment. Hands down the best gym in the area.

Positive experience: As far as a gym goes they have lots of equipment, decent classes, a indoor pool saunas, hot tub, and, indoor track. I haven't seen any broken equipment since joining 2 months ago. Considering that's the main part of a gym I gave it 4 stars That being said, I wish they would clean the place better! The the wet sauna smells like straight mold and there's loose wires hanging from it. The dry sauna also smells musty. The hot tub isn't at the correct water level, and a lot of other things just kinda seem like they could use some attention or at least a scrub. The showers are especially sad, the soap dispensers are broken and do not work right, they also resemble the bat cave and have very poor lighting. The shower curtains are ancient and filthy and it doesn't look like anyone picks up the mats to clean underneath them. For 40$ a month I feel they could keep the place a lot cleaner. Also people don't wipe the machines down here really, which I feel would also be better if they set up more wipe down stations. The spray bottles are often empty. The machines have sweat stains and dusting collecting on them in some places, the walls are also covered in stains.

Negative experience: It's like the deadzone

Fantastic experience: Great Club. Staff very professional

Fantastic experience: Great value with lots of exercise equipment

Fantastic experience: Good place lots of different work outs available and a friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Little expensive, but worth every dime especially if you utilize everything they offer

Fantastic experience: Excelente place to expend quality working out time... a place where my energy flow freely around great people.. love it.. owner and workers have great attitude.. well recomender.., not everyone has the same expirience but speaking on my side of the coin..

Fantastic experience: Come here when we visit family. Wish we had a gym like this in our home state of KY!

Fantastic experience: Without a doubt the best gym in the area.

Fantastic experience: Great Club. Staff very professional

Positive experience: CJ west has a bit of a rundown feel to the building but the equipment is starting to be updated and new HIIT center looks amazing! The pool is decent for lap swim but if more than 3 folks want to swim it gets crowded easily. The free weights have a very large selection to meet every need.

Positive experience: Nice club. No creepers. Bathrooms are kinda nasty at the West location.

Positive experience: Best in town, have a pool to swim, and I like the water fitness class. They also provide you towels , also have a whirlpool, sauna and steam room.

Fantastic experience: Love the gym been a member for five years and I have tried going to other gyms in the area.t just does not compare!

Fantastic experience: Very clean place best in the area we work out alot in the jc area and them cleaners they have work there tails off on that place. WELL DONE COURT JESTER!!!!!

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym love that is always clean

Fantastic experience: Court Jester is a prestigious gym for people who want to enjoy their time at a workout center. The couple things I enjoy the most is playing racket ball and relaxing in the sauna. I recommend this place to those that don't go to the gym to often; that just want to enjoy their time at a gym a couple times a week. One improvement they can make though is a better ventilation system in the locker rooms (especially near the hot tub). Otherwise, this is a great gym.

Fantastic experience: Great equipment and facilities.

Fantastic experience: Best gym I've ever been to. All the classes are included in the membership fee and there's a wide variety of classes to take plus a great weight room with multiples or each weight of dumbbells and many free weights machines and a circuit tearing room with cable pull machines on 33 machines in the circuit tearing room. They also have a great steam room and hot tub plus a large swimming pool with a schedule for family adult and lap swimming.

Fantastic experience: I have been to many gyms in Broome county NY and I have found that you get what you pay for. I saved a few bucks at other places and could see why. Court Jester has always been worth the money. I always ended up back here and I see why. I definitely will not use another gym. CJ is by far the best! I love this place, the friendly clean environment the awesome staff and the cardio classes are incredible!

Fantastic experience: Great gym pretty big, friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Great equipment and facilities.

Positive experience: Good atmosphere, High member prices, & clean establishment

Negative experience: Staff is rude, equipment in disrepair and hasn't been cleaned in weeks, building is dirty. Don't go here if your trying to be healthy.

Positive experience: Racquetball! !!

Positive experience: A really good gym, clean and friendly staff! Great pool!

Negative experience: I am a 66-year-old woman trying to stay strong and healthy, so I joined the Court Jester because it was close to where I work. After being there a year, I have decided not to renew my membership. My activities at the gym included attending 2 weight classes a week, aerobics, circuit training, and free weights. The only time that I had access to a good selection of weights under 20 pounds was when I participated in the classes. These weights were kept locked up when there was no class in session. If I wanted to do free weights outside of the class, there was a very limited selection of light weights in the weight room, and sometimes there were none because people had taken them out of the weight room. After discussing this with the manager, there was no attempt to resolve the situation. To top it off, the instructor was usually 10 to 15 minutes late for each class, making the class that much shorter. The aerobics room had plenty of equipment with many TVs set up. But, you better bring along your own entertainment diversion unless you enjoy watching Fox news, which I didn't!

Positive experience: This place bills itself as the "premier" health club in the area. The place is due for an update but it still holds strong over everyone else. You got a lot of signed authentic olympic and team apparel all over the walls. If you are looking for a place that has everything (various fitness classes, trainers, pool, racquetball, TVs on exercise machines, Etc. Etc.) Then this club delivers. Their Indoor track is rubberized but old. Circuit Machines are well maintained and plenty of weights and hammer strength type machines as well. Decent selection of updated stair climbers, steppers, and ellipticals. Only one rowing machine to my knowledge. Locker rooms on the Men's Side are pretty clean. Steam rooms have a 85-90% operational rate. It is generally clean, but sit on a towel + use flip flops.. Sauna always seems to be working... there's a whirlpool, i dont care how clean it is, I'm not stepping into that hot man soup... But its there if you need it. Never used the pool personally. At peak times (normal gym peaks) the free weight area can get a little crowded but REAL men never let that stop them. WEIGHT LIFT WITH YOUR ARM OUT THE WINDOW IF YOU HAVE TO, FULL PUMP BRAH! No lack of eye-candy or egotistical meat-heads such as myself ;) Sometimes a fitness class will high-jack the track... LOOK OUT, they stampede on to the indoor running path like a heard of snarling water buffalo with a screaming hyena behind them motivating them onward. Its awkward, its jarring, and if your not careful you may find yourself trampled into a pile on the floor and Simba crying off on a rock ledge somewhere. Water fountains seem safe to drink from, not too much alien-brain calcification around the spigot. They give ya complimentary towels at the door which i find to be straight gravy. They are not yours to keep. If you just need a simple place to pump iron or hit one faze of your training then this place may be a bit too comprehensive in its offerings for you. If you're looking for a place to get it all done and take copious amounts of showers on their dime (YOU PAID FOR IT, TURN IT UP TO 11) this is the place for you. This is like a YMCA with a little less stank.