Carleton Athletics

Positive experience: Yres bien pour l acueil des coureure demain pour le marathon

Fantastic experience: Was there to pickup my running package for the Ottawa Marathon weekend. Friendly helpful staff.

Fantastic experience: Carleton University top notch programs...

Fantastic experience: I lost my rings here last week and the front desk staff just about bent over backwards to get them back for me. One woman in particular was incredibly helpful and kind and did a million things to help me get them back. I can't speak to the facility but I have always had a 10/10 experience with the staff.

Negative experience: Good equipment and friendly staff. 2 star for how crowded the gym is. Just had to work in on adjustable cable with 6 other people. The gym is not big enough to accommodate 30000 students who attend Carleton. Needs a whole new facility or 2 gyms.

Negative experience: It’s a very nice gym but I would recommend paying monthly. If you give them your card they will make it nearly impossible for you to cancel. The front desk is very unprofessional and unhelpful as well and acts very annoyed when they have to do their job. Also be ready to wait months for your gym card.

Fantastic experience: Love attending the women's hours at the gym here.

Negative experience: The most toxic and unethical sports league

Negative experience: Very poor customer service. I asked nicely a question to the young woman working there and she simply scoffed at me and said “no”

Positive experience: Probably the busiest gym in the country

Fantastic experience: Best swimming pool in Ottawa.

Positive experience: Great gym - lots of weights, machines, cardio machines etc. Pool is a bit old and showers aren’t that pleasant.

Positive experience: great staff

Fantastic experience: One of the few 50 m Pools in Ottawa. Cold like hell but clean and well equipped. Reasonable prices for students :)

Positive experience: A nice pool. The viewing area is carpeted steps so not ergonomic at all. At a university so paid parking, but there is a park just across the street with free parking and it is only a 5 minute walk. Wouldn't park there all day but for an hour or two in an evening it has been fine for me.

Fantastic experience: If you look closely, someone in one of these photos is shopping for marital aids. Oh, and there's a pool.

Positive experience: Great facility although the sauna in the men's locker room needs to be deep cleaned. I often see bugs on the dirty floor. Other guys have been saying the same. Regular cleanings are necessary.

Fantastic experience: I love this place, so much positive energy!

Positive experience: Gym is small and v busy Pool is great

Fantastic experience: The swimming pool is really nice. Parking is expensive though.

Fantastic experience: Love swimming at CarletonU. It’s great to have an Olympic sized pool in the heart of Ottawa.

Negative experience: Equipment always broken

Negative experience: Way too busy, you have to wait for every machine no matter the time of day. It’s also really small compared to other university gyms and plenty of the machines are out of order.

Negative experience: 7 vital machines are out of order for weeks with no repairs. Overcrowded and small. Stay away.

Negative experience: Too expensive No parking Too much construction

Fantastic experience: Amazing facilities.

Positive experience: It's aight

Fantastic experience: Awesome double gym.

Fantastic experience: Variety of gym equipment and great place for workout

Fantastic experience: It’s a very good complex, I’m here at least 2 times a week to swimming!

Negative experience: at around 3:20 pm on oct. 11, 2022, i had asked this girl working if i could get a tour and all she said was “all u buddy” as she rolled her eyes at me.

Negative experience: This athletic centre confuses 'inclusion' with segregation. What is this institution teaching us when they separate people into groups?

Positive experience: Decent gym but extremely busy around 5-7

Fantastic experience: Great place to workout for out of town people. Only $12 a day for guest pass

Fantastic experience: an excellent university gym. Spacious, bright big windows, and lots of squat racks.

Negative experience: I wouldn’t recommend it for the general public to be honest with you. They expect you too pay for extra service if you aren’t a student there or else you’ll get exclusion. The opposite of what they have in big bold letters. The welcome desk can’t even say hello unless it is to take a payment. You can have a much better workout at a corporation gym with far less of a headache.

Positive experience: Should be better !!

Positive experience: It’s a nice place.

Negative experience: Outdated gym , only good if you’re a student because they get it for free

Fantastic experience: My daughter attended multi sport summer camp here and it was a blast!

Negative experience: This gym has too many rules The turnstyle is a lawsuit waiting to happen

Positive experience: small gym but it has everything you need and it’s very affordable. i just wish they had stair masters

Fantastic experience: I've rated this place before. VERY impressed with accessibility here! Tunnels underground to get anywhere on campus. Gym space is immaculate. Accessible showers. Push plates in all the right spots...and they all work. Staff is helpful. Reasonable rental rates. Good parking. Highly recommended!

Fantastic experience: Worked out there once by invitation… I liked it

Fantastic experience: Option for 50m pool & various group classes. Prices are reasonable & client care is superb.

Fantastic experience: Love it here!

Fantastic experience: Well-equipped gym

Fantastic experience: Love this place...always a good vibe and lots of equipment/weights. Although, I worry sometimes that the little details get overlooked. Poster was removed the last week of Dec.....2022!!!!...Check the date on the accompanying photo! Gotta be Covid!....research grant written all over this one!

Fantastic experience: Love it

Positive experience: Carleton Altheics is a nice facility. The gym has a wide variety of machines. Friendly staff, frequent sanitization for covid.

Fantastic experience: It’s not a fancy athletics facility but it’s clean, well managed and easy to navigate. They’ve implemented new protocols for COVID which makes coming to campus take more time but it’s worth the work. The fitness center has several racks and lots of weights to work with. The cardio equipment is usually busier but there is still several options.

Fantastic experience: I'm shocked how well the athletics system adapted to covid and I'm stoked that the facilities are still available.

Positive experience: Good facilities but it's always busy and hard to get a spot.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful college-level basketball game experience for younger ones, the crowd, music, narrator, lighting,.., such an inspiring event . Wish all college games will be open to high school students for free.

Positive experience: Great swimming pool, I go to swim here every week since it was reopen

Negative experience: Literally the worst gym ever. Very few machines, always crowded, even during CoVID. Tbh, the staff is fantastic and very friendly but the gym itself is horrible. Get ready for people staring and invading your person space.

Positive experience: Bookings run out in less than 20 seconds with the new system hence -1 stars. Otherwise feels like my own personal gym with the new capacity limit.

Positive experience: Well equipped, knowledgeable and friendly staff. Only downside is it can get very crowded during peak hours but the covid reservation schedule sort of takes care of that. Getting a reservation these days (Fall 21) is difficult though.

Fantastic experience: Great Fitness Centre and Pool. And the Welcome Centre Staff great service!

Fantastic experience: Excellent facility with lots of parking

Fantastic experience: Carleton university Athletics center is one the best in the neighborhood. The swimming pool and their lessons and clubs are great especially for kids of all ages. It's open to public. There is a Tim Hortons in the building. Also, they have soccer and tennis courts close by

Fantastic experience: Staff are great, not a fantastic variety of machines, but the massive full-length windows are so nice. It beats GoodLife at Lansdowne (actually the worst gym I've ever been to).

Negative experience: Too many chads

Positive experience: The meat selection was not the greatest but all in all it was good.

Positive experience: Tunnels are good. Facility is not bad also.

Positive experience: Usually busy, but reasonably priced if non student.

Negative experience: Small, overpriced, and the only ventilation is the two little fans they have, so you'll be breathing in other people's odor and sweat during busy hours .. the change rooms are pretty gross too..

Negative experience: Don't be surprised if suddenly light in the tennis dome dissappears and you will be absolutely in the dark. It means steward turned it off without any warning.That what happened on December 29th.2019 at 11p.m. with 10 players inside.Generally speaking people were treated as an animals.Just in shock.

Negative experience: Literally the most incompetent group of people I have ever had the displeasure of dealing with. Took over 6 weeks to print my card and they didn't put my parking registration in the system which resulted in receiving a parking ticket. Get your act together guys.

Positive experience: Friendly staff. Large gym with lots of things to do. It can get busy over the fall and winter terms at Carleton. Mostly body builders go here. The change rooms smell like sweat and your clothes can get the change room smell.

Negative experience: Tiny gym with old and damaged equipment. Staff threaten to kick you out for being too loud when lifting or dropping weights. The gym is always packed to the brim because of how small it is and for most machines there is only one of them and the line is never worth the wait. The equipment is old and nothing is updated. Some guards are held together with tape. The change room is dirty and awful. lots f theft from change rooms. The sauna breaks down every couple weeks and the showers are in terrible condition and it is hard to find one with good water pressure. This gym needs a renovation and extension with newer equipment and updated staffing.

Positive experience: The actual facility is quite nice, and has a variety of rooms for all different kinds of sports. I don’t know what it is but the hiring standard at the front desk has clearly dropped. I could ask a simple question and zero out of the three people sitting there would have an answer.

Negative experience: One of the staff members won't let us drop in to a cufit class , in which the instructor specifically told us we could drop in to. We even got the instructor to come down and tell reception afterwards to confirm that drop ins are allowed. The next day we tried to tell the staff member that drop ins were confirmed allowed by the instructor and she responded *idk what ur talking about* and went back to looking at the screen. Gives the entire staff team a really bad reputation as this lady seems to be very adamant about something that she isn't even knowledgable about.

Positive experience: Clean and friendly gym. The pool is nice but needs a refresh. The new addition is great though and when working out in the gym you have a decent view out to Bronson and over the parking lot. The staff were very helpful and accessible. Even the change rooms are clean.

Fantastic experience: Would recommend

Fantastic experience: Gym!!

Fantastic experience: One of the most affordable gym memberships in the city

Fantastic experience: Yoga is a bop. Also great facilities here.

Fantastic experience: Good without reason just because I graduated from CU...

Fantastic experience: The only and only and only... part of CU that is good.

Positive experience: Friendly, roomy

Negative experience: Terrible staff

Positive experience: Table tennis is fun

Positive experience: Too small

Negative experience: Worse than uOttawa gym for sure.

Positive experience: Locker room needs a renovation, sauna always breaks down.

Fantastic experience: It’s super cool college gym. Crowded the whole day.

Positive experience: Here’s the Christmas Holiday (2018) hours for the fitness centre, fam. Dec. 22 (8am-8pm); Dec. 23 (8am-8pm); Dec. 24 (8am-4pm); Dec. 27-30 (8am-8pm) Closed: Dec. 25, Dec. 26, Dec. 31, Jan. 1

Negative experience: Gym is always packed during peak hours and will have to wait for equipment or have some one ask you " are you done with the equipment" / "are you almost done" / " can i work in with you". If you time it right though its not too bad like early mornings or during when most students have classes.

Positive experience: Staff are friendly and the machines and locker rooms are perfectly fine. The biggest issue is a lack of respect among some of the gym goers for sharing machines. Bar the lack of gym etiquette, still a great gym.

Fantastic experience: Great roller quad session on every Friday!

Fantastic experience: Best athletes place in Ottawa. They have different kinds of sports with best instructors and equipment.

Fantastic experience: Went there for my NL and WSI, great place to learn those course. Instructor was knowledgeable and very helpful. Came back for my recent for NL and the examiner was great. Made sure you pass since a lot of us already have lifeguard jobs. Would do another recert at Carleton.

Fantastic experience: Great gym. One of two.

Fantastic experience: Kind staffs and many places to have some snacks! A lot of fitness programs

Fantastic experience: Great program

Fantastic experience: best ever !

Fantastic experience: Great place to workouy

Fantastic experience: It’s super cool college gym. Crowded the whole day.

Fantastic experience: Very nice University.