Champagne Fitness Centre - City of Ottawa

Nice. Pool is smaller than the Lowertown pool but is generally not too full. Except right after New Year's for some reason. Have not tried the boxing gym. Don't be an idiot, lock up your valuables or don't bring them. People are what they are.

Neighborhood icon, the city will close it 5-10 years, cos ottawa sux

The pool is small and only 25 yds in length. But it is downtown. It's also pool only with the mezzanine floor used as a boxing gym. It also comes with a nice sauna. The water temperature is on the cool side.

Amazing location and is really clean. The change rooms are small but it's not much of an issue, and the pool is 25 yd instead of 25m. The only odd thing is that each lane alternates swimming on the left vs swimming on the right. Never seen that before and it kind of confuses me.

25yd lanes, swam today and was humbled by the other older folks who were more than willing to assist. Staff super friendly and very helpful providing a ton of info

This is a solid community center gym. Good selection of weights and machines, and it's never been to busy when I visit. The pool is really popular, but I don't use it.The only drawback for me are its hours. It opens at 9am Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. If you prefer to work out early in the morning, this is a drag. But nothing some schedule adjustments can't fix!

The gym is clean, it is not to busy too. I rather go to the gym here that other gym. But it is very small, but that is no problem to me.

Really friendly staff. However, their drop in rate is $9 (and monthly passes are not affordable either). I don't know how most are supposed to be able to afford this, especially if they are someone on a fixed or limited income. These facilities are already subsidized with taxpayer money and drop-ins should never cost more than $5! It really makes me sad that the income barrier to a healthy lifestyle is so high and they are doing a disservice to public health along the way. It would be one thing if he's were privately owned but these, and the many other recreation centers, have a duty to achieve broad accessibility to public good services and facilities.

Great community gym, weight room, lap pool, and training area. Relatively well maintained, and cozy. Since it's small, you'll need to avoid the kid rush hour for the pool. Same goes for the weight room. Great options of machines. My only gripe is their annual summer closure for over a month is annoying, and leaves locals without a car, without options.

Pretty decent facility… though they need to do a better job of communicating when they don’t open according to schedule.