West Coast Fitness Centre - Ucluelet, British Columbia

Rocky L.

👎 x 2 ... for a traveler, I invite you to avoid the gym showers and bathrooms. In addition to being double the price of all the other places I visited in B.C, the place was beyond dirty.... completely disgusting... the disgusting floor, the disgusting counter, the disgusting showers... there is no ventilation in the place to change, nor opposite the showers, the smell is nauseating. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢🤢 look at the photos. A good cleaning of the shower walls, a mop passed frequently on the floor, better ventilation, really improved the place.

Anthony G.

I stayed here recently and was really disappointed with the cleanliness and service. The gym and washrooms are consistently dirty and poorly maintained — the washroom floors are especially disgusting. It feels like they are rarely cleaned properly. On top of that, the staff are extremely rude and show little to no respect for guests’ privacy. A hotel should provide a clean and welcoming environment, but this place completely fails in that regard. I would not recommend staying here.

Mark B.

Dropped in for a workout while on vacation and was impressed with everything about this gym. Upstairs was modern with a great harbour view. Downstairs was dated like the old high school gym, but still motivating enough. (WCF gets my 5th star when this gets updated!) Nice staff and washroom facilities. I'll be back!!

Food L.

dropped in during my vacation. doesn't matter if legs, upper body or cardio, it has everything you need for a good workout. staff was very friendly and helpfull.

Kath W.

I appreciated having the pool for some rehab exercises- but a bit small for laps. Glad they have a place for swimming lessons for the kids! Sauna was excellent- brand new and beautiful. Didn’t use the gym but it looked like it has some good machines and nice view of the harbour. Very reasonable prices.

Imanol B.

It's a very small gym and the changing rooms are not big enough for the amount of people going there. The sauna was packed too. It's supposed to fit 8 people but I counted 13, definitely not very relaxing, but worth it to run away from the rain a bit

Chris H.

It's the best equipped gym in the Tofino-Ucluelet area. The gym is always clean, the staff are friendly and it's rarely busy.

George

TL;DR - Filthy changerooms, but it's unfortunately the best gym option the town has.

The only good thing I can say about the gym/services is that the monthly membership is at a low cost, and they have a good amount of workout machines for a small town.

The cons are many, firstly that the showers/batbroom/changeroom is all in one tiny 12'x20' room, with only 6 lockers - so there is often not even a locker to put your belongings in. They hardly even have enough hooks to put your towel to hang while you shower. I realize that right now is the March break, but considering that their main business is being a motel - I'm more than sure that they have the funds to upgrade the facility.

This leads to my next point on cleanliness - sometimes I use the showers twice per day, once before work & once after work - and it's apparent that they don't clean the changerooms during the day - only once per day before they open. Even by lunchtime, the floors are absolutely filthy from foot traffic, to the point where I'm going to start bringing a mat in just to stand on - and bag it in a garbage bag before putting it into my bag - it's that gross. Keep in mind, I live in a tent at a campground, so my standards are not all that high - but it's clear from chatting with others (and seeing people standing ontop of the benches to change) that every person finds this disgusting. Please wipe your floors down even just once mid day - or just leave a push broom with a microfibre cover out, and I'm sure others would be happy to do it for free to save us the cringe.

The last point is the sauna... Now, I didn't see the old sauna that took them months to redo recently - but I had heard from others while using the sauna that it had extensive water damage/rot. The new one they built unbelievably, does not have a drain, not even a little 3" trough to catch all the pooling sweat - so you have to splash in everybody's juices when you step in/out 🤮 It's a shame that even something as simple as a little trough was not put in when they designed it, and that the wood siding reaches right down to the tile - instead of having a bottom 3" trim layer of tile to prevent water damage. Speaking of - you can see the damage already and the beginning of wood rot in some of the corners, and it's not even a year old...

I appreciate there being another option rather than just the campground pay per min showers - but please - you can do better 🙏