Guelph YMCA-YWCA

I love going to the Ymca good after school program every night so I recommend here

Pool experience is good. However Gym experience is the worst. Reasons are:1- You’ll see that 2-3 trade mills (out of total 6-7) are always either under maintenance or not working.2- water fountain wasn’t working today.3- A bunch of 5-6 guys highjack entire gym equipments every day from 6 PM to closing time. They create nuisance by shouting , screaming (which they might think is a way of motivating each other), making loud sounds, banging weights on the floor (due to ego lifting ), spending hrs on one single equipment. Also, a gym staff spends his entire shift with them in the gym during his work hours which could be used more efficiently otherwise.4- People don’t wipe the equipment after use.5 - Area near weight and dumbbells stinks always which means there’s no proper cleaning.I hope they’ll improve after seeing this review. Don’t bother going to this place for gym.

Signed up today and the service was excellent!! Everyone was so friendly and answered all our silly questions.

They don't do credit of debt for a day pass. Time to leave 1992. There are children who run lemonade stands that have figured this out.

I love this place! The main reason I am excited about this particular YMCA is that parents can exercise with their kids ages 10-12 in the gym, as long as they take a short 1-2 hour session together with a personal trainer at the YMCA! ♥️ They also require that a parent is always within arm's length of the child when the child (10-12) is working out. My child loves working out with me! Other parents are respectful of the rules as well, and their children are always at an arm's length. Also, this location has a huge teen presence! It is great to see so many teens excited to workout! This gym definitely has a positive vibe. It is also regularly quite busy with people, which adds to the energy of the room. They also have super thick gym mats for doing stretches on; I have never seen ones this thick! ♥️Family change room: It is enormous and well maintained! It is wonderful to have so many individual stalls for kids to get changed in!Equipment/Gym: See my pics for some of the equipment. They have the main gym room and many rooms throughout the building with gym equipment. They also have a basketball court that is always filled with teens and sometimes men. There are squash courts. The weight machines have holders for your water bottle! ♥️They have a water bottle filling station.Lockers: You need to bring your own locks, and your lock can't be too thick to fit through the locker hole if you are using the lockers across from the gym.Staff: The custodian went out of his way to help me with something for my child -- really wonderful person! One of the personal trainers is particularly friendly (the really tall guy). The girls at the front desk are friendly. The swim instructors have been lovely people as well.Bathrooms: They are kept incredibly clean! Wow!Food: They have vending machines and a cafe. The cafe has limited hours. They have tables and chairs in front of the pool to eat and watch your kids.Pool: It is smaller than the Cambridge YMCA's pool, but it is adequate.Hours: See my pic.Wheelchair accessibility: The bathrooms and doors have wheelchair buttons. See my pic. There are a ton of wheelchair parking spots. I have never seen this many in one area!Parking: There is a shocking amount of parking in their massive parking lot.YMCA amalgamation: You can use your membership here or at any other YMCA in the Waterloo or Stratford/Perth regions. However, each YMCA has different policies, so that may affect your experience. For example, the Cambridge YMCA has a minimum age of 15 or 16 to use their weight machines. At the Guelph YMCA, it is 13 with no training. See my first pic: Fitness Age Policies."*I took the indoor pics on an unusually quiet bad weather afternoon

Great community gym with above average amenities. Support your local Y!

staff is soooo good with the kids, gave us peace of mind to go and workout, take a few laps in the pool knowing we didn't have to worry about them! Also always clean, never had an issue with this YMCA.

My problem comes from how little it is open there's no more flexibility when it comes to getting a work out in... On the weekend, you sleep in a little. You wake up at 12pm better hurry up it closes up in an hour or during the week you get off work at 5pm better hurry up it closes in three hours. We're paying the same price for a big reduction in service. I can understand the lack of staffing but the LCBO is open for more hours daily.Let me end off by saying I love this gym it's got everything you could want! all the exercise equipment and friendly staff. I've have been going there forever! highly recommend it!

It was our first time to visit YMCA today and had an amazing experience,especially thanks to the very sweet and friendly lady , Malissa. She introduced lots of proper activities for my kids enthusiastically and patiently and arranged the perfect time for them.Excellent place for the family having fun especially in the cold winter time!

The staff that I engaged with were friendly and courteous. That said, I joined a Diabetes program through them only to find out that certain advertised benefits were not available to all. They recieved the funding for the program but failed honour the program detailes and lacked online and communication transparency. Too bad because like I said, the staff seemed great.