Fitness Center on Fantasy

[IAMASTITCHER]

Will be cruising on the Fantasy next month and want to take advantage of the fitness center. Has anyone used the center and advise as to what is available and when it may be the least crowded? I assume that early morning would be the busiest. Thanks.

 

[wilkeliza]

I is pretty busy early morning. On sea days it was empty during the actual day and later evenings.

I can't remember what the available times are but they were pretty decent.

 

[Maddysdaddy]

On our February 2014 sailing, I found that I was always able to find an open elliptical, both morning and afternoon.

As an fyi, there was one set of ellipticals placed right next to floor-to-ceiling windows (the other row was more towards the center of the room, and while it was nice to be able to look out over the water while exercising, the sun beating through the glass made it uncomfortably hot.

 

[shelbell77]

It usually is open at 6am and fills up pretty quickly - but I would say by 7am it starts to empty back out. The rest of the day I think it is slightly less crowded.

 

[Luvzmy3boys]

On cruise in Late August it opened at 6:30 every morning. Closing times varied. I did not use it that much except to get water and fresh fruit after my run on deck 4 but DH did. I usually stopped in a little before 7 and it was pretty crowded on port days and less so on sea days since people are more likely to sleep in. Even when crowded there were still open elliptical, treadmills, stair climbers or bikes. It has the usual hotel gym type of equipment as well as dumbells, bench, Swedish balls, mats etc. they do offer free spin classes which I signed DH up for as the classes are limited in size. Classes were in the afternoon and he says they were decent. There is a scale there if u r watching your weight-- hard to on a cruise right? There are you tube videos of the gym on the Dream which is pretty similar.

 

[Ofinn]

I usually use it between 5-7pm and I'm usually the only one in there.

 

[tvguy]

Is it adults only like on the Magic?

 

[timrousbeastie]

Will be cruising on the Fantasy next month and want to take advantage of the fitness center. Has anyone used the center and advise as to what is available and when it may be the least crowded? I assume that early morning would be the busiest. Thanks.

I used it 4 times or so on our last cruise at various times between early morning and mid-afternoon and there was always plenty of room. I did try to avoid 7-10 am since I figured that would be the busiest time. It felt wonderful to get a good workout in between all the food. The only negative was that it was a bit disorienting to be looking at the water through the side windows while running on the treadmills. For next time, I'll bring some headphones so I can watch the tv instead.

 

[IAMASTITCHER]

Thanks for everyones input. This helps.