So, I have a gym membership with a big, national gym. I don't like the actual gym, but before being pregnant went to various classes and occasionally used the pool. Got just about enough use out of it not to make it a waste of money.
When I found out I'm pregnant, I looked at the available classes and there is ONE weekly pre / post-natal yoga class available adn even that is in the middle of the working day. So now, I really can't get any use out of my membership at all. I genuinely don't like the big work out room / gym machines and would feel weird in there while blobbing about with a belly. What I want to do is use the money to sign up for some more-conveniently timed ante-natal classes after work / at the weekend.
I THOUGHT the notice period for the gym was 1 month, but it's actually 3 months. That's £240 of wasted gym membership.
I called up the membership team and explained this. I also explained - for good measure - that I am a high risk pregnancy (this is true, because I'm type 1 diabetic, although in practice that doesn't make any difference whatsoever to whether or not I stay in the gym) and asked if I could just give the month's notice. They said that I could but only with a medical note.
So, my question is if IABU to
- ask my diabetes nurse, midwife or doctor to draft this letter for me, in the full knowledge that there is no real medical reason why I can't carry on with the membership, but hoping that they might see my predicament and help me out (but I don't want to put anyone in a bad position); or
- just write to them emphatically saying that they can have one month's notice and that's it because they are too stupid / discriminatory not to cater for pregnant people in their class scheduling.
Or should I just suck it up? Any other suggestions?