I go to Planet Fitness because it's cheap and close to my house. Every Planet Fitness I've been to, they never served pizza and I never heard any alarms go off or they try to shame you from grunting or whatever. Either they did away with it or the locations I've been to don't enforce it.
I came to post this.
If you're a single individual that needs a mostly 24 hr gym that's cost efficient and has most of the popular machines and servicable free weights, then Planet Fitness is still king. The only drawback now is that you cannot use the gym during holidays because they won't allow people to use it while non-staffed. My local PF is putting in Matrix (plate loading) machines next year.
While I don't use the tanning or hydro-chair, the price benefit for me is to be able to use it at any PF gym while traveling (I don't use hotels much).
YMCA's, while have everything also have restrictive time & area availability.
Chain gyms, if they do have everything, are expensive, very difficult to end membership or not in my area.
