Prairie View Golf Club - GreatLife Golf & Fitness

My husband and I been members of Great Life Golf & Fitness for a very long time - over 7 years. We recently contacted the gym to cancel our membership, since we moved to MO and will not have access to their facilities. I have never been more disappointed in a company, than I was in the response we received from Great Life. I want to share their response, because I have recommended Great Life to so many friends and I want anyone who signed up from our referral to have this information. I also want anyone who is considering a Great Life membership to have this information. This is "need to know" information, as the laws in KS do not protect consumers (at all) regarding gym contracts. When you sign a contract with Great Life, the fine print states that you have to cancel by Feb. 28 of each year or your contract renews without any acknowledgment from you. So if you forget to cancel by 2/28 - you are legally obligated to the membership for the next year starting April 1st. It doesn't matter if you are hurt or injured and can't use your membership. It doesn't matter if you move out of state. Also please note: The contract says you have to give written notice which has to be give to the offices in Ozawkie. I would strongly recommend that you send a certified letter, because if they don't acknowledge your request to cancel - it is your word against theirs. We were not aware that we would be moving on 2/28, when the deadline for termination rolled around. In my wildest dreams, I never realized that Great Life would give us any issue with cancelling after we had paid them for 7 years without missing a payment or being a late on a payment. We were valued patrons, so they told us. Apparently they love their membership fees way more than they ever cared about their members. Every other gym we have belonged to has let people out of the contract if they moved to a location where it wouldn't be feasible to access the facilities. It would be completely different if we had the membership for a couple months and just wanted to cancel. We don't live within 100 miles of any Great Life facilities. Another interesting piece of information on Great Life - to raise prices on gym members, Great Life only has to send a postcard via USPS stating the price increase. If you don't receive that postcard and decide to cancel when your rate actually goes up on 4/1 - you are screwed and can't cancel. So if you are signing up for a gym membership, I would strongly encourage you to know that there is literally no laws that look out for gym members and companies like Great Life will absolutely capitalize on this. Great Life will allow us to buy out the remainder of our contract by paying 70% of the remaining payments or we can find someone to take over our membership. Why in the heck would I try to pawn this situation off on my friends? I wouldn't. I would rather pony up and pay the 70% of the contract than screw my friends over. Maybe if Great Life understood that, they would retain more customers the good old fashioned way!

GREAT Life: Sweating with the oldies!Of course, I am not talking about music. You too can sign a year long contract to work out like it's 1992, because that's when almost all their equipment was manufactured. Keep in mind, you do not get to enjoy this equipment at its prime. No siree! You get equipment that is worn out, with fraying cables, cracking welds, rusting cardio machines, bent barbells and dangerously out of tolerance equipment. There's nothing that entertains me more than getting an opportunity to purchase equipment and bring it into the gym I am paying a membership because they WON'T upgrade their stuff! Do you want to learn a new trade? Doesn't matter. You will at GREAT life. You will learn how to maintain and fix gym equipment DAILY. But that's not all!Do you enjoy doing cardio during a bulking work out routine? Great! Because we at GREAT life have decided to put half of our dumbbells upstairs, and half of it down because the floor is too weak to handle the weight of a GYM. Of course we could reinforce the floor or renovate the basement so there is enough room downstairs to accommodate the free weights, but that would cost money! We clearly are not going to do THAT! When we do "fix" something it will be out of service for over a month, because time off from working a particular body part allows you to achieve higher gains!So, if you want a gym like this come see us at GREAT life!

O...M...G...!!! I Thought I had seen bad golf courses before, but I was sadly mistaken. The absolute worst goat ranch you have ever played looks like Augusta National compared to this waste of property! I wish there was a category lower than 1 star, but...Let's start with conditions: *no grass in fairways to speak of; even weeds have a hard time growing in the rocky "soil";*no cart paths; there are a ton of rutted, rocky, washed-out dirt trails that apparently are meant to serve as paths, but the cart does not have the suspension to handle them anyway...plus, they don't lead you anywhere in particular;*greens are surprisingly smooth, but shaggy; cup locations had not been changed in some time, since grass was growing over the holes. THE highlight of the greens: EVERY SINGLE ONE HAD ANT HILLS ON THEM...and I don't mean one or two...I had to putt around some of them! I am only grateful they weren't fire ants...I think.Now let's move on to "amenities":*carts are gas-powered; mine seemingly had choke issues and never really got going well. I had visions of it dying in the far reaches and not being able to contact the clubhouse to get a replacement. How they stand up to the off-road conditions is beyond me!*Signage is apparently a concept foreign to the course, and with the wacky layout, sorely needed. I spent a good 15 minutes riding around (on the moto-cross fairways and "paths") looking for tee boxes. The best part of the day was when I asked a young staff member where the 11th tee box was, AND HE COULDN'T TELL OR SHOW ME!*staff helpfulness: aside from the (hopefully new) encounter above, I had an issue with 3 greens in a row being watered as I was coming up to putt. It was bad enough working around the anthills without dodging sprinklers. As I came up to the third one, I saw the maintenance guy standing next to the sprinkler control box looking at me. I shouted "Can you shut them down for a second?" He just shrugged and turned away!*atmosphere: l had no expectations of Pebble Beach when I turned into the gravel lot with a "No Parking" sign posted to protect tree roots that had broken through the surface, and the lady behind the counter was certainly talkative and friendly, but the capper to the whole day was the scene on the first tee as I was rumbling up to the 18th green: a "gentleman", playing by himself, was loosening up prior to starting his round. Suddenly, he took it upon himself to take his shirt off, revealing a very substantial and very pale beer belly! A few practice swings, a hitch to his swimming/running shorts, and he was ready to go! I only hope he was able to complete his round without a bad sunburn!PVGC is part of the Great Laugh Topeka family of courses. I am very familiar with them, and also with owners Rick and Linda Farrant, and their business model of minimal investment in course upkeep. HOWEVER, Prairie View doesn't even meet my lowest expectations for Great Laugh. If you are NOT a member, please don't waste your time or money paying greens fees at this trash heap. If you ARE a Great Laugh member, I remind you that a portion of your dues goes to keeping PVGC in operation, and your cart fee contributes to the overhead.In conclusion, this course should be put out its misery, and allowed to return to its natural state...whatever that was.