Not All Hotel Gyms are Created Equally 

If you are a frequent traveler then you know that hotel gyms can bring negative imagery of a dull and disappointing fitness room. Keeping up with your workout routine can be very challenging especially if your travel agenda is packed with meetings, attending events or commuting from one site to another. Hitting a local gym is not always an option when your schedule is tight, not to mention traffic and weather conditions that are unpredictable and can become a challenge.

Hotel gyms can be a great alternative and a great option to staying fit if selected properly. In most sad cases, travelers feel surprised and lucky when they realize that their hotel does have a  gym at check-in, yet they are still unaware of it’s condition until they go there. In other instances, travelers do spend time researching hotel options and possibly find few gym pictures posted by the hotel, but then to their surprise these pictures don’t seem to represent reality at all and feel disappointed upon arrival. Unfortunately, to these factors and many others, hotel gyms and fitness centers have a negative reputation that causes people to have very low expectations.

In our travel experience, what we came to discover is that not all hotel gyms are created equal. There are so many hidden treasures in terms of amazing fitness facilities with top of the line equipment that can go head-to-head with many fancy gyms. Some hotels have truly outdone themselves and have invested heavily to cater to the fitness conscious traveler. The disappointing fact that we came to realize is that few hotels do market or expose their hotel gyms properly which could be attributed to the wrong belief that travelers see these amenities as secondary when rating their hotel experience.

A New Social Media Review Platform for Hotel Gym Reviews

There are many new waves and trends happening within the hotel industry, including a stronger emphasis on better catering to the fitness travelers.

Fit Spotting mobile app wants to change how hotels expose their hotel gyms, and how travelers should be searching for hotels; based on their fitness ranking. Fit Spotting allows users to post pictures, write detailed reviews and explicitly indicate which equipment category the facility offers. The fact that it is a mobile app makes it very convenient for travelers to locate their hotel gym based on GPS coordinates to upload their pictures.

This is the Yelp for Hotel Gyms and Hotel Fitness Centers. The app wants to become a trusted source for all travelers around the globe that care about fitness. Fit Spotting, is a simple and elegant app for sharing hotel gyms, and most importantly it is FREE.

Fit Spotting covers more than 20 countries and has over 100,000+ hotels listed. Pictures and reviews are uploaded by travelers, and based on the individual ratings, the platform aggregates the data to create an overall hotel rating known as “Fit Spot” rating.

From Mission Impossible, to Very Possible.

The complexity of collecting information on every hotel gym that exists is an extremely daunting task given the number of hotels world wide. Fit Spotting solved this problem with their tool, by empowering the community to take control of how the hotel/hotel gym should be rated.

Fit Spotting is not only a tool for travelers and hotels to share their thoughts about their fitness priorities , but also to any entity within the hotel fitness industry including: fitness trainers, hotel fitness center designers, and hotel fitness equipment manufacturers.