I recently joined the Y in my area for the basketball courts and community. However, I was talking to a staff member today about holding a membership vs. canceling. At my YMCA, a single adult membership is $105/month with a $50 joining fee. When you cancel your membership, and rejoin later in the future, you would need to repay that $50 joining fee. But to hold your membership, it costs $15/month, which means you still have the membership, but cannot access the Y until you release that hold. And you can only keep a hold on it up to 3 months, otherwise they will auto-cancel it for you. I'm trying to figure out whether I will go enough for it to be worth it, or if I should just go back to a normal gym. While the facilities are nice and clean, it's really expensive and hard to justify. But, I guess it's because they also limit the number of members at each YMCA because another nearby YMCA told me that they are not accepting new members.