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WEATHERED BY THE COAST
TOMAKIN FIRST · YOUR TOWN NEXT
FOUNDING LAUNCH — LIMITED
Weathered by the coast.Built for strength.
A private gym on the coast — booked and unlocked from your phone. Join and pay a fraction of the price, or drop in casual. 24/7, minutes from your door.
THE SITUATION
There's no gym in Tomakin.
Until now, your options were:
- A 40-minute round trip to Batemans Bay and $103.78 a month for a gym you'd barely use.
- A home setup that never quite happened, or barely gets used.
For a coast full of people who train, that's a strange gap.
Salt & Iron closes it. Two private pods in town — one weights, one cardio. Book by the session, pay only for what you use. No front desk, no contract, no crowd. Just your rack, free the second you walk in — because you booked it.
THE FOUNDING OFFER
Founding memberships
42 of 42 left
Then standard memberships
56 of 56
98 memberships, ever, at this site. Founding pricing closes for good once the 42 are gone; the next 56 join at the standard rate.
A capped run of founding members funds the first pod — sold before we build, so you're not paying for a promise, you're the reason it gets made. Two ways in:
Option 1 · Founding · pay as you go
Start flexible.
$19
/ month — sessions $12 for your first 3 months, then $15.
- $19 a month, month-to-month — no lump sum.
- Founding session rate: $12 for your first 3 months, then $15.
Option 2 · Go annual — best value
All in.
$12
/ session, pre-bought and locked in.
- Annual membership, 1 month free — pay for 11, get 12.
- Pre-buy 50 or 100 sessions at $12 — locked in.
- First pick of standing slots — your regular time, before anyone.
- You fund the build. Best value.
Every founding member also gets
- Phone-book, phone-unlock, 24/7 — from day one.
- Your name on the founding wall — numbered.
- The lowest rate we'll ever run — and you're the reason the pod opens.
Fully refundable until we hit the number that greenlights the build. If we don't get there, you pay nothing.
WHAT YOU GET
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
KEY
No booking, no entry
The pod only ever unlocks for a booked slot. Your booking opens the door at your time and locks it after — no fob, no key, no one to let you in.
PAY
Members pay less than half
Drop in casual at $40 a session, or become a member: $19 a month drops every session to $15. Casual's there for one-offs — but train even twice a month and membership pays for itself. It's the discount, not the door.
SOLO
Private by default
The pod is yours for your slot — just you, or a training partner. No crowds, no queue, never waiting for a rack.
KIT
Curated, not cluttered
Rack, bar, plates, dumbbells — the essentials done properly and kept spotless. Serious gear, chosen, not a graveyard of machines.
24/7
Any hour, every day
5am, midnight, a wet Sunday — book it and it's open. The pod never closes and never has a queue.
HOW YOU BOOK IT
The pod is always private.
Book it the way that suits.
Drop in casual, or become a member and pay a fraction of the price. Every booking is a full 60 minutes — the whole pod, yours for the hour. Train solo, or bring a mate and split the cost. The app always marks your slot private, so no one else walks in.
Session typeJust youWith a mate
CasualNo membership · the full price
$401 person
$50$25 each
Member$19/mo · a fraction of casual
$151 person
$20$10 each
Standing slotYour time, held weekly · never re-book
$221 person
$33$16.50 each
Bring your PTYour trainer books the pod for your session
PT rate
Casual is the drop-in rate — no membership, and steep on purpose. A $19/month membership drops every session to $15. Training longer? The next back-to-back hour is half price ($7.50).
PRICING
Casual, or member. Your call.
Casual is the expensive drop-in ($40) — no membership, no strings, no discount. It's priced to make the choice obvious: become a member and every session drops to $15, a fraction of casual. Membership isn't a gate, it's the discount. Train the same time each week? Lock a standing slot so it's always held for you.
No membership
Casual
$40 / 60-min session
The drop-in rate, steep on purpose. No commitment — but no discount either. This is the full price; members pay a fraction of it.
With a mate — $50 total, $25 each
Full price
Book ad-hoc
Member
$15 / 60-min session + $19/mo
A $19/month membership drops every session to $15 — less than half of casual. Book any open slot, whenever it suits. Pays for itself in two sessions.
With a mate — $20 total, $10 each
Back-to-back hour — 50% off the second ($7.50)
Best value
Your time, held
Standing slot
$22 / session + $19/mo
Lock your regular time — same slot every week, held for you. Never log in to re-book, never lose your 6am.
With a mate — $33 total, $16.50 each
Never re-bookDO THE MATHS ON THE DRIVE
$23.95 a week — then you add the drive.
The nearest gym is a 40-minute round trip. Three times a week, that's 80 hours a year in the car — two full working weeks — before you've touched a barbell. Then you fight for a park.
Drive to the Bay
$23.95/ week — membership only
- That's the sticker only — then it stacks up:
- + a joining fee & an access pass just to get in the door
- + petrol — 20 min there, 20 min back, every single session
- + a fight for parking at the other end
- 80 hours a year in the car — two working weeks
- ≈ $1,840–$3,990 a year, all in
Park at your pod
$15/ 60-min session
- Minutes from your door — park right at the pod
- The whole pod to yourself, a full 60 minutes
- Almost zero hours in the car
- About $2,028 a year — same money, none of the drive
Once you count the petrol, a pod and the Bay cost about the same — within a few dollars a week. Count what the car really costs you, and the pod comes out cheaper. But the money was never the point.
Same money. Zero commute.
Park at your pod.
Anytime Fitness Batemans Bay $23.95/wk (12-month) is the membership only — its joining fee and access pass are on top again, and not counted here. Training 3× a week × 40 weeks. "Count the drive" runs from petrol only to full car running cost (ATO 88¢/km) over a ~26 km round trip (about 40 minutes there and back). Pod figure is the member rate — $15 per 60-min session plus $19/mo. Real, current numbers.
TRAINERS & ALLIED HEALTH
Bring your trainer. Or your EP — often funded.
Just two pro slots
The pod is licensed to only two local trainers or exercise physiologists — by application, and that's the cap. Kept deliberately small so it never becomes their gym running your times. It stays yours; a trusted pro just books the pod for your session, at the PT rate.
EP / PT slots
2 available · by application
Seeing an EP? It may be funded
An accredited Exercise Physiologist delivers clinical exercise — and your sessions in the pod may be funded, not out of pocket, through:
- DVA — veterans with a Gold or White Card, on a GP referral. Funded in treatment cycles (up to 12 sessions); TPI Gold Cards, ongoing.
- Medicare — a GP Chronic Condition Management Plan covers up to 5 allied-health sessions a year, and you can put all 5 toward an EP.
- NDIS — funded under Capacity Building (Improved Health & Wellbeing / Daily Living) where it's written into your plan.
- Aged Care — Support at Home (65+, or 50+ for First Nations people) includes EP in its clinical & allied-health support.
Eligibility and rebates depend on your circumstances — your GP and EP confirm what you qualify for. Salt & Iron provides the private space; your EP delivers the service and bills the scheme.
HOW THE LAUNCH WORKS
We build when you commit.
01
Grab a founding spot
Reserve a founding membership at the launch rate. Fully refundable until we greenlight.
02
We hit the number
Once enough founding members are in, the first pod is funded and go.
03
We drop the pods
Both pods on site in the one container, app live, phone-unlock and safety kit — a few weeks, not months.
04
Book & train
Open the app, book your slot, unlock with your phone. Founding rate through the launch.
THE ROLLOUT
Both pods land in Tomakin first. Your town says where the next container goes.
Both pods — Strength and Cardio — go into Tomakin first, in the one container. After that, we don't guess: the coast decides where the next container lands. Register your interest for your town, and the one with the most people ready to train gets it. No expression of interest costs you a cent; it's a vote, not a deposit.
STRAIGHT ANSWERS
The questions you're already asking.
How do I get in — is there staff?
No staff, no front desk. You book a slot in the app and your phone unlocks the pod at your time; it locks again after. Secure entry, monitored cameras and duress alarm, full safety kit — the standard model for modern 24/7 pods.
Do I have to be a member?
No — you can drop in casual at $40 a session with no membership. But casual is priced to be expensive on purpose. Train even a couple of times a month and a $19/month membership pays for itself, dropping every session to $15 (less than half of casual), plus lower buddy and standing rates. Casual's for one-offs and visitors; membership is for people who actually train. Cancel the membership anytime.
I can only train at 6am — do I have to fight to book it?
No. Grab a standing slot and your regular time — say 6am Mon/Wed/Fri — is held for you every week, automatically. You never log in to re-book and never lose your spot to someone quicker on the app. It costs a little more per session, because that slot is yours alone.
Where exactly will it be?
In Tomakin, on an established local site (a caravan/holiday park) with parking, power and amenities already there. The exact spot is confirmed with founding members before the pod drops.
I'm not in Tomakin — Broulee, Mossy Point, Tuross?
Tomakin gets both pods first — Strength and Cardio, in the one container. After that, the coast decides where the next container lands, and the town with the most expressions of interest wins. Register your town above — it costs nothing and it's the single biggest thing you can do to bring a site to you. Each site is a self-contained two-pod container, so once demand in a town stacks up, we drop one in.
What does the Founding rate get me?
Two ways in. Pay as you go — $12 a session for your first 3 months, then the member rate. Or go annual — an annual membership (one month free) plus a pre-paid pack of 50 or 100 sessions at $12, and first pick of standing slots (your regular time, before anyone). Either way: 24/7 from day one, your name on the founding wall, and you're the reason the pod gets built.
What if the launch doesn't reach its number?
Then we don't build, and your founding deposit is refunded in full. You only ever pay once the pod is going ahead.
What equipment is in the pod?
A properly-specced free-weights and strength setup — rack, barbell, plates, dumbbells and the essentials — chosen for people who actually train, and kept spotless. Private to you for your whole session.
RESERVE / REGISTER
In Tomakin? Grab a founding spot. Elsewhere? Vote your town up.
Tomakin founders fund the first container — both pods — at the launch rate, refundable until we build. Everyone else: register interest for your town and pull the next container your way. Same form, no payment either way.
Thanks — got it. You're on the founding list and we'll be in touch shortly. (Nothing within a day? Email member@saltandiron.com.au.)
FOR SITE OWNERS
Own the right patch of coast? Host a pod.
We fund, build, run and insure it — you provide a serviced pad with power and take a share of the revenue. Zero capital, and it's relocatable. Register your interest below; approved site partners get an access code to view the full partnership prospectus.
Register your interest
Approved partners
Have an access code? Enter it to open the partnership prospectus.