Membership

You can, and we would rather you had the membership that fits your household than one that does not. Before you decide, it is worth knowing what changes: individual and couple tiers do not include unlimited Baby & Me, JExplorers and JCamp discounts, or coverage for multiple children the way a family membership does. If those no longer matter for your family, a smaller tier may well be the right call. If they still do, a family membership is usually better value. Email membership@thejla.org and we will go through it with you.

We would rather talk first, and not to talk you out of it but instead to have a chance to make sure you know everything your membership now includes, because a fair amount of it is new since last year. Email membership@thejla.org or speak to anyone at the front desk to review, and if you want to cancel we'll provide the few brief steps to do so.

No. Everything included in your membership today stays included, and several things that used to cost extra are now part of it.

This is the first change to most of our tiers in many years, and our rates had stayed below what comparable centers in Los Angeles charge. It comes with more included than before: Lap Swim, Water Aerobics, and JSplash are now part of every membership where they used to carry a separate cost, the gym is air conditioned, program rooms have been improved throughout the building, and Baby & Me, JFit, and Arts & Culture have all expanded. Nothing has been removed from your membership. The move to Amilia is a separate project that happened to land in the same season, and neither one funds the other.

It depends on your tier, and the cards above show every monthly and annual rate. Rates were not adjusted by a single across the board percentage. Each tier was brought closer to what it costs to deliver, so Family and Senior Couple memberships changed the most, and Individual Adult monthly did not change at all. Two things worth knowing either way: the $36 administrative fee applies to new memberships only, so as a current member you are not charged it, and monthly memberships are now true month to month, because the three month minimum commitment that used to apply has ended. If you would like someone to look up your specific membership and walk through it with you, email membership@thejla.org.

That depends on what your family wants next. Preschool was one part of your membership rather than the whole of it, and everything else continues: aquatics, JFit, Arts & Culture, Mindful Mondays, Community Shabbat, and Open and Family Gym, plus discounted JExplorers and JCamp for your child and unlimited Baby & Me if you have younger children. JExplorers and JCamp are the natural next steps for school age children, and our Arts & Culture programming is growing as another option. It is not the same room, but it is the same community.