VASA Fitness Military: No Discount; § 3956 vs. the $25 Cancel Fee

VASA Fitness has no military discount on its site, and its rules put a price on leaving early: a $25 Cancellation Fee inside the first six months, plus any draft that falls in the 30-day notice window. On qualifying orders, federal law strips the first charge and limits the second. The third cost, a $59.99 yearly Rate Guarantee Fee, is a timing problem you can usually solve by acting early.

What VASA posts for service members

Nothing military. On October 10, 2026, the plan tables, the location pages, and the long Rules and Regulations page had no military rate, and vasafitness.com/military returned a 404. The only military item on the site was a 2016 Veterans Day blog post.

VASA’s location list showed open gyms in 10 states: Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wisconsin. Its only Idaho and Ohio listings, in Boise and Dayton, were marked coming soon. Several open gyms sit near installations, including Clinton and Layton outside Hill Air Force Base, four in Colorado Springs (a fifth is coming soon), Bellevue, Nebraska, Tucson, and Oklahoma City. Prices are posted per gym.

Read on VASA’s Clinton page October 10, 2026. The page also showed promotional enrollment fees, which change often, so this page does not rely on them.

The four VASA charges that follow orders

All four come from VASA’s Rules and Regulations page, read October 10, 2026.

Rate Guarantee Fee. VASA’s rules set it at $59.99 as of September 1, 2025. It “locks your monthly rate for the duration of your membership,” bills two months after you join, and bills again every year on that date. A member who joined in January pays it in March, then each March after.

Cancellation Fee. VASA says the $25 fee is “to cover VASA’s expenses in administering this Agreement,” but it applies only to a membership “cancelled prior to six (6) months from the date the Initial Term began.” Employer-subsidized Corporate Wellness plans are exempt.

The notice window. VASA asks for 30 days’ notice, and “any payments set to draft in the 30-day notice period will remain due and collectible.” Dues bill in advance, so a cancel request made a week before your draft date still costs one more month.

Freeze and transfer fees. A freeze runs up to 90 days for $15 per request, and billing restarts on its own. Basic members pay $25 to move their home gym. A personal training subscription can be cancelled only for a move more than 25 miles from the nearest VASA or by selling the remaining training to someone else, and either way costs $100.

VASA’s rules against § 3956

The federal right in 50 U.S.C. § 3956 reaches a gym membership signed before your orders, once those orders relocate you for at least 90 days to a location that does not support the contract. It also reaches a contract signed after PCS orders that a stop-movement order then keeps you from using. The § 3956 explainer covers the other contract types; the statute page has the full text.

VASA column from its Rules and Regulations page; statute from the 2024 U.S. Code on GovInfo. Both read October 10, 2026.

The $25 row is the clean one. Whatever VASA calls the fee, it is owed only when a membership ends before month six, which makes it an early termination charge on a plain reading of (e)(1).

The Rate Guarantee Fee row is the open question. Section 3956(f) reaches “any fee or other amount to the extent paid for a period extending until after” termination, but lets the gym keep “the remainder of the monthly or similar billing period.” No court has said how that applies to a yearly fee. Treat any refund as something to request, not something owed for certain.

Two members, priced

Both hold the $24.99 Fitness plan at Clinton and get orders to Germany for three years.

Prices before tax. Your join date and billing date set the real numbers.

The second row is where most of the money sits. VASA’s 30-day window can swallow the anniversary date. The statute has no notice period, so you pick an end date ahead of it.

Moves inside VASA’s footprint

The statute asks whether the new location “does not support the contract.” A Fitness or Studio plan opens every VASA gym. A PCS from Hill to Fort Carson or Peterson lands you near four open Colorado Springs VASAs, so that contract arguably still works there. In that case keep the plan, or move a Basic plan’s home gym for $25.

Orders out of the 10 states with open VASA gyms, overseas, or onto a ship are the clean case. So is a deployment of 90 days or more, where no gym is reachable at all.

Arizona members have an extra layer. VASA’s Arizona addendum writes the state’s health spa law into Arizona memberships, and the copy of that law VASA posts provides for cancellation or suspension when a member on federal active duty deploys outside Arizona. The request goes in with orders within 90 days of notice of the deployment. Section 3956 still applies on top of it.

Cancel VASA on orders

End a VASA membership under § 3956

1. Open the VASA app and note three dates: your join date, your next draft, and your Rate Guarantee Fee date.
2. Write the notice: name, home gym, barcode number, the date service ends, and “I am terminating under 50 U.S.C. § 3956; no cancellation fee applies.” The letter generator drafts it.
3. Attach your orders. If they send you outside the states where VASA has open gyms, or overseas, say so in one line.
4. Send both through support.vasafitness.com or to support@vasafitness.com, and keep the sent copy. Certified mail to Member Services, 1259 S 800 E, Orem, UT 84097, is VASA’s own written channel.
5. Cancel any training subscription in the same letter and cite § 3956 against the $100 relocation fee.
6. Check your statement. A draft or fee for a period after your end date should come back within 60 days under § 3956(f).

If VASA keeps billing after a valid notice, the enforcement guide lays out the next steps.

Guard members and spouses

Guard and Reserve members on qualifying orders count as servicemembers under § 3956(a)(4)(C); Guard and Reserve coverage explains which orders qualify. A spouse’s own VASA plan is covered only in the narrow cases the family guide lists, so a spouse inside six months should expect the $25 fee on a routine PCS. VASA’s dues are small next to the rest of the move; PCS money moves covers the bigger line items.

The law behind this: 50 U.S.C. § 3956

Termination of certain consumer contracts: gym memberships and fitness programs: read the statute , or read § 3956 in plain English, with its enforcement record .