Chocolate Lake Recreation Centre

Fantastic experience: A hidden gem of a neighbourhood rec centre. Great programs, wonderful staff, a variety of room rental types. Centrally located, with transit access and parking. It shows its age in a few spots, but that adds to its charm. This vintage repurposed school doesn't look fancy from the outside, but it's one of my favourite HRM Rec facilities.

Fantastic experience: Good

Positive experience: Basic functional weight room in basement of local rec centre. Inexpensive at $5.85 and quite clean and organized. An attendant was on duty one of the days. Two rooms with 4 cardio machines and a mix of free weights and cable machines. Medium sized so could get crowded though fine with the 6-8 people I when there. Change room only had a few lockers which need own lock. I brought my gym bag in and hung on hook.

Positive experience: Used the dance studio. Mirrors in 2 or 3 sides of the wall would be better; found mirror in one side of the wall. Restroom was wide and clean. Overall it was a good experience.

Fantastic experience: Chocolate Lake Recreational Centre is a quiet but popular place which opposites the Chocolate Lake Beach. There is a gym&weight room, a multipurpose studio and a children care section. You can also see the Nova Scotia Life-saving office at the basement. It's good to hang out there to check what can meet your needs for activities.

Fantastic experience: Decent place.

Positive experience: Great place for kids to play and so many different programs they offer. Lack of infrastructure and management are the cons!

Positive experience: The people running these programs work very hard to put on great programs for the children. The building however is in need of a lot of work, Halifax is really neglecting this building site.

Fantastic experience: Good info

Fantastic experience: Keeps us going!

Fantastic experience: Great community center with lots of different programs and events. On site gym with online sign-up.

Fantastic experience: Awesome staff who keep it real through these Covid times. Perfect relaxed environment for birthday parties with clean rooms and lots of tables and chairs. Washrooms and kitchen are spotless. Lots of parking and very reasonable rates. Thanks,

Positive experience: It's not the top rec centre but it's ok got all facilities but is a very old centre

Fantastic experience: wonderful place to swim and take a rest. even though it is definitely lake, it is like small beach. not deep. warmer than ocean. i saw three lifeguards there.

Fantastic experience: Convenient location and has friendly kids dance teachers.

Fantastic experience: My son had the best time. Everything was perfect the gym and the party room!!! 5 stars for sure

Fantastic experience: Fri night social is a great evening for many .

Negative experience: Haven't been there in a while so the staff might be different. I took a class there as a kid. A girl did something really rude to me during the class, started an argument, and the staff without hesitation turned on me and were hostile towards me over nothing that I did. I left the class and later asked for a refund because I didn't want to be in that environment, and was refused. I've had a bad taste for this place ever since.

Negative experience: Great little rec center, lady at the front desk was cranky. She interuped while I was talking often and her demeanor was quite rude. My experience with Halifax Rec has almost always been a positive one until I had to go in and interact with this lady.

Positive experience: Good service

Fantastic experience: Great spot for kids and adults.

Fantastic experience: Fri night social is a great evening for many .

Positive experience: Dated facilities, but well kept.

Positive experience: Pretty dingy and old. Cheap memberships. Will never step foot in again as its depressing.

Positive experience: The facility is not state of the art and is showing its age, but as a municipal rec centre it has a decent little gym and some nice rec spaces.

Fantastic experience: You can use the gym for $5

Positive experience: Lots of activities and friendly staff. Building is pretty rough looking however.

Fantastic experience: Good activities for all. Kids and adults. They have body building center

Fantastic experience: Great gym for the lowest rate in Halifax.

Positive experience: DSLR Course lack the use of projector

Positive experience: Taking a course there now on photography, they have a professional who has been a photographer since the 70s and is still a professional in the feild. Friendly staff, clean venue and it is very cozy.

Fantastic experience: They have a wonderful preschool

Fantastic experience: Great location with lots to offer, including the Atlantic Karate Club