John W. Lindsay YMCA

Fantastic experience: SUPER PLACE....GABIKA SLOVAKIA

Fantastic experience: Beautiful facility and helpful staff.

Fantastic experience: Cleanest YMCA I have been to so far. Only reminder is to bring your own shampoo as they don’t provide that in the showers.

Fantastic experience: Clean , easy access , nice customer service. All falicities . Daily access while you paid for it , so sound good when you are on a trip .

Fantastic experience: This place is amazing.

Negative experience: Very rude stuff specially lifeguards. I was there on a trip and us a YMCA member I went to closest YMCA but seems like they did not give proper training to stuff or just hire anyone.

Positive experience: Energetic atmosphere, really good place

Positive experience: VIP is good but usual locker room is not good , there is no towel and even a shampoo.it's like Titanic 2 floor with a huge different things . Don't forget sandals or flip flops. But totally good.

Fantastic experience: Awesome, met fellow members

Fantastic experience: Best gym in the world (minus the broken assisted pull up machine haha). Staff is so friendly. Gym users are also really nice, i always leave here having had at least one pleasant exchange or conversation. Bathrooms are clean, the cardio room / stretch room are so peaceful, love the view of the gardens and the natural light and the central location ☺️

Positive experience: Just started at this gym but they had a great and inclusive summer student deal. Great space, feels very inclusive and friendly - never had a problem finding space in the gym although it gets a little crowded after work around 5pm. All the staff I’ve talked to so far have been friendly and helpful.

Fantastic experience: The service desk girl was super nice and give us a tour on the facility (I had my two kids with me) she was very patient and friendly, besides that the building was super clean, it was busy but still ok, family friendly, and all the staff seem very professional, we will 100% sign up for!

Fantastic experience: Amazing place with amazing prices and help

Negative experience: Horrible experience. Bought a membership to play badminton and was told by the front desk that I would be able to call in and book court space. I wasn't able to get through to anyone for a week so I gave up. Their website is a complete mess. Its only use is to get you to pay money and show some pictures. If you plan on using this facility you pretty much have to do everything in person or it wont get done.

Fantastic experience: Great people great swimming pool I wish they had better family swim and rec swim

Fantastic experience: Beautiful center! The gym is very well organized, the equipment is good and there is a beautiful view. It was a great training. Thank you!

Positive experience: Pretty good gym overall, the pool is pretty good but it’s dirty sometimes

Negative experience: Nice facility. Awful staff if I'm honest. A handful of very poor experiences. If your in it for the gym membership, not a bad move. But the aquatics department is quite frightful.

Fantastic experience: Great customer service and affordable membership

Negative experience: Grand entrances, but the usable facilities are tiny. Not impressed. The pool is basically only for lane swims, they book up to 8 people per lane. I thought I would have my own lane, but there were 2 other people already using it constantly. The free swim times are only 1 or 2 hours per day and they asked me to leave the ramp area of the pool because I wasn't doing laps. When I first arrived the whirlpool was packed with a therapeutic group for differently abled people, it's a good initiative, but then there was no room for me after I walked 30 minutes in -10 to relax in the whirlpool and get kicked out of the lap pool. I was hoping to find a nice place to unwind, but as it turns out it's not fun to stay at this YMCA. Disappointing. I loved going to the Y in Kelowna.

Positive experience: What a great community resource. It is beautiful. Clean. And Functional. The building has great staff and a great vibe. It is seriously AllAges! I have no complaints . You should get a day pass and go see!

Fantastic experience: Great gym with friendly staff. Pool, hot tub, sauna, steam room etc.

Fantastic experience: I play badminton here being member and it's wonderful and well maintained

Fantastic experience: Good one

Fantastic experience: The best gym facility in halifax

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym and pool.

Fantastic experience: Great gym

Fantastic experience: Excellent facility fully equipped. From Ontario if I compare with Burnhamthorpe Rd. Mississauga facility across from Mississauga Central Library. Built around 1994 Halifax Y is better.

Positive experience: If you are driving parking could be very difficult at times. It's a relatively new gym, very clean and well organized but they charge American YMCA guests $10. 00 fee to use the facilities. Funny thing is when members from this YMCA travel south they can use other gym for free. I paid the fee to use the gym. At time there are groups of people gathering around and hording the equipment they need to make a rule that no more than 3 guest can gather at a machine at a time. They also have members using their mobile device while resting on the equipment .

Fantastic experience: A cold plunge would make this place amazing

Fantastic experience: Very beautiful pool and pleasant staff. Thank you for your cooperation .

Fantastic experience: Called for info on a specific event, the person was new and a still got me the info I was looking for. Then someone else called me to ensure my child had permission to attend the event since registration is normally done ahead of time. Pleasant to talk to, and helpful. Very Good customer service, especially from a new employee.

Fantastic experience: 수영장을 주로 이용하고 있지만, 맴버쉽 가격도 적당한 편이고, 직원들도 대부분 친절하고, 청결하게 관리도 잘 되고 있는 것 같다.

Fantastic experience: جميل

Fantastic experience: جيد

Fantastic experience: Everything in one place...

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out.

Negative experience: They didn’t let me in.

Fantastic experience: Pretty good place

Fantastic experience: I love going here! So much variety for what to do.

Fantastic experience: Great facilities, and easy parking

Fantastic experience: zach goes above and beyond for all the clients

Fantastic experience: Beautiful place and lovely staff

Fantastic experience: Great surroundings, awesome equipment, clean, tidy and awesome views.

Fantastic experience: Shoutout to Zach for being 10/10 YMCA employee. He needs to get PROMOTED ASAP!

Fantastic experience: I had a very good and useful interaction with the Welcome desk.

Fantastic experience: The best sports center for the family. Bad for parking.

Negative experience: Price and s completely outrageous. No seniors’ discount. Very poor website.

Fantastic experience: Really good gym. Very good work out Atmosphere.

Fantastic experience: Great facilities for a low price. Sauna and towel service are a big reason I joined.

Fantastic experience: Great pool, sauna, steam room, gym and more, clean and great staff

Fantastic experience: This place is peaceful and a lot of activities to do! My favourite part is the swimming pool :)

Fantastic experience: Wonderful facilities and aquatics program. Now if only my kids would stop being sick long enough to attend!

Negative experience: Worst steam room ever, weight floor too small, facility is nice and large but poor choice of layout during construction since most of it is wasted to have big open space instead of usable space!

Fantastic experience: Amazing spot in the heart of our city- wonderful staff, great programs and extremely clean and cozy.

Fantastic experience: The best gym in Halifax on my opinion, a wonderful pool, there is a steam room. Great service, very clean.

Fantastic experience: Nice facilities! Awesome place to spend some time. The only thing it's missing is a water bottle fill-up in the pool area and change rooms. A cold plunge would also make that place unreal but I might be too ambitious with that one lol

Fantastic experience: Excellent new facilities. The app could use a little bit of organizational work to make it more user friendly, but generally is very helpful for booking lanes or other activities.

Fantastic experience: I always look forward to visiting the YMCA when I’m in Halifax. What a fantastic facility- so bright, clean and such state of the art equipment and pool! Can’t wait to visit again.

Negative experience: Been with YMCA so more then a year. Had really bad experience today. We went as regularly and we scan our card. It didn’t work for some reason. Girl at the desk shout and pull us over like we stole something. First she told our membership is cancel due to our email but we didn’t send any email to cancel. She was trying to find but no proof of our email sent as she said. Felt embarrassed in front of other the way she started conversation please do train the front desk staff some customer service skill.

Negative experience: Me and my grandmother went to this ymca for me to play basketball and we are from out of town so i had To give our information to the front desk. After all my information got verified i was Trying to put my grandmother under the guest pass but Lisa (ymca worker) was saying that i couldnt use my guest pass but i can Use my membership. Left a sour taste in our mouths but we moved on my grandmother then asked them to remove her name and info off the paper for security reasons and Lisa started to give her attitude and was very snobby, but the facility was very good and has a very good basketball court.

Positive experience: Nice gym with nice facilities however in the gym the amount of people loitering and wasting time and hording machines for pictures and some of them literally nap on it , is way too much . Alot of young adults that come in groups to have "fun" at the gym . Makes it much less practical to work out there especially with their really high rate

Fantastic experience: The atmosphere is great and welcoming. Clean environment and friendly- knowledgeable staff. Instructors are very inclusive for people with different challenges!

Positive experience: The children (teens) that hang around all afternoon and into the evening hogging machines and areas with large groups just screwing around and not doing anything correctly is the biggest downfall, that sign of rules is like wall art now as nothing in it is followed or enforced. These kids are such a nuisance to those who actually wish to workout properly and not use it as an after school hang out. It’s hard enough to get manyyyy pieces of equipment let alone when they post up and share it with 11 of them or do their entire workout in one spot on one piece of equipment.

Positive experience: Good place but there are no separate changing rooms (for man)...only bath room, so not too convenient when you changing your clothes after the swimming...

Fantastic experience: Majority of the staff is amazing! It’s in a great location (despite nearly impossible parking situation). The facility itself is well maintained, it’s spotless and fresh smelling. I’ve utilized just about every portion of this extremely large rec centre. They’ll even give you a sweet deal on their membership prices if you any afford their set price.

Fantastic experience: The facilities are new and always clean. There's a lot of amenities here and I really appreciate the price point. To me, this is way better than a regular gym membership.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful facility, the plus change rooms are especially nice. Wish the towels were bigger but that's pretty normal for gym towel service :-) Great pool for lane swim

Fantastic experience: Best place to be for activities and sports

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out!

Fantastic experience: Beautiful facility

Positive experience: good

Positive experience: Staff was helpful

Fantastic experience: Not too much busy always

Positive experience: Unfortunately the YMCA app and website do not properly communicate with one another.

Positive experience: Very nice staff, sometimes pool seems overbooked with swim teams

Positive experience: Great facility. Nice change room's.

Fantastic experience: Insanely modern and deceivingly large YMCA. Location is prime and it’s rarely to busy to get a full workout in at your own pace.

Fantastic experience: The place is very clean and friendly staff who always wear smile on their face. So many facilities like Gym, Swimming, Badminton, Basket ball, tennis courts along with community halls.

Positive experience: Good looking brand new gym. I'm quite disappointed with the lack of weights in this gym. There is only one bench rack at this gym, which is ridiculous.

Negative experience: do not recommend you to go to this place， there is a “super nice“ lady will be happy to band you for 2 weeks， just because your mask is on the tip of your nose. and if you want to cancel your card you will also have to pay the two weeks. so good luck if you gose or want to go to this gym

Negative experience: Let’s get one thing straight: the staff are extremely nice and do a fantastic job! With that being said, there is one staff who always looks at me while I’m working out and tries to make conversation while I’m wearing headphones. I understand she is trying to be friendly but I have been ignoring her for 2 months and she still approaches me when I workout during night time. At this point it is getting creepy, and I don’t feel comfortable around her because she always stares at me. Secondly, on the deadlift floor this trainer came up to me and asked me to not make noise while deadlifting. What kind of stupid request is that? I wanted to tell her to show me how to control 400 pounds on the eccentrics. I don’t drop my deadlift but you are not supposed to hold on to the eccentric during deadlifts because it will cause injury. Lastly: why is the cardio floor and the weight floor the same size when 90% of the members go to the weight section while 10% only use the cardio? Terrible decision in my opinion, all that space can be used more effectively.

Fantastic experience: Was at a few different gyms across halifax before the Y. I would recommend the Ymca any day! Clean facility, nice Gym and locker room. The basketball court is also really nice.

Fantastic experience: My favorite gym in hali. Maybe because it's very community oriented. Also right on spring garden which is very convenient. It's also open till 10 on weekdays!

Negative experience: My friend got suspended for putting his mask down before his workout, many people wasn’t even wearing their masks when they are spotting and walking around got only warnings. My friend canceled his mambership, but they tell him he still need to pay for 2 more weeks. So what ever he do, he had to pay them money. felt like he got discriminated for being asian.

Positive experience: Clean and modern building. 10$ drop-in to access the whole facility. It doesn't get cheaper/easier than that. My only critique is that the gym seems to have been designed and laid out by people who don't lift weights. You could almost half the cardio area footprint in order to add some dedicated weightlifting platforms. The weightroom is spacious around the isolation machines but crammed around the freeweights and benches. It should be the opposite. Only one dedicated bench press rack. Not enough cables or even room around the few cables that are currently there. Cheers

Positive experience: Great gym for gym goers with a balance of specific rooms (enough) for weight, cardio, stretching, cycling etc. Drawbacks: Sauna and Steam room are for special members; punching bag could be in a separate room not in gym with individuals walking by; limited free-weight machines (1 bench press vs 5 squat stations + weightlifting platform, no lying or standing leg curl etc) and packed with kids are peak hours). Plus: Extensive TRX and body weight training area, no limited area for personal training; open with natural light. Finally, if you are serious about working out you can get it done with all the machines there and varying your routine or exercises. No photos in weight room.

Negative experience: It’s a huge facility but 80% of the people are crammed into 20% of the space in the weight room. Poor weight areas for women as well. They used to have weights upstairs (used mostly by women) but they removed that. I think the majority of the positive reviews are bc it’s just a new facility which is semi exciting

Positive experience: First time visiting the facility today. Used only the weight room, it had a large variety of equipment, however it was fairly small and tightly packed. Benches too close to weight racks, ect. Staff members were all friendly and helpful. I'll definitely be back in a pinch. Pool looks beautiful

Positive experience: Great gym lots of great facilities and love the pool too. It does get extremely busy at peak hours though with groups of teens hogging the machines and benches. Otherwise great gym, love going there, especially when there's less people around.

Fantastic experience: This is an amazing facility.

Fantastic experience: Very nice place I really like the workout ️ there

Fantastic experience: Such a nice space for all!

Fantastic experience: Super friendly staff and very clean. Their 7 day free offer is a great way to try it out before committing to a membership as well. The whirlpool is a plus!

Fantastic experience: A beautiful beach day today and thank you so much because we have no beach access at our campground literally five minutes away pretty sad we tried to get to the beach connected to our campground but it seems where the locals go is the best. Most locals are walking the 5k trail that encompasses the lake itself. I would highly recommend this place for anyone who wants to access the beach area on the campgrounds and can’t because they have it closed since we’ve been here happy trails everyone

Fantastic experience: Clean, long pool with good staff. Have gym and other things too

Fantastic experience: Great place

Fantastic experience: Beautiful place

Fantastic experience: Great place to have family activities.

Fantastic experience: My favorite gym in hali. Maybe because it's very community oriented. Also right on spring garden which is very convenient. It's also open till 10 on weekdays!