It doesn’t look like much from the outside, one of several health clubs studding a long street running beside the Danube, deep in Vienna’s 2nd District. Clean and unstuffy, and not even a little bougie, the place comes with the typical gym trappings: pools, fitness rooms, tennis courts, a workout area.
Walk in on a random Monday and girls are playing dodgeball in the gym while boys shoot hoops behind them. In the workout room, a half dozen adults listen to their podcasts on earbuds as Harry Styles wafts from the speakers. A lost-and-found bin is overstuffed with unclaimed towels and T-shirts and swim goggles. All of which is to say: The Hakoah Sports Club in the heart of grand Vienna? It does a convincing impersonation of your local YMCA.
