Walker Family YMCA

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Fantastic experience: Positive: Quality Love this YMCA, very clean...great machines and basketball court...always run in to friends and really nice people here...

Fantastic experience: Very clean and great protocols in place to make us feel safe post covid

Fantastic experience: Great place..friendly staff..so much to do..a class..swim..gym..for the kids and adults

Fantastic experience: If you're looking to get healthy with people you can count on for proper exercise advice and a pool, a gym, place to sit and converse. It's all here, and will have you coming back. Good job!

Fantastic experience: A great place to get and stay fit. Open convenient hours for me and my career

Fantastic experience: Fantastic location, come here to use the gym- excellent facilities :)

Fantastic experience: Lots of things to do. From walk the Track, Playing Some Basketball. Using the Machines, to Swim Some Laps..!! Small Café area..

Fantastic experience: Excellent staff

Fantastic experience: They do their best, friendly people, nice environment. Excellent Manager, Ben has helped me multiple times with some minor issues and everything was rectified. I use the pool because I am disabled and cannot exercise outside of such and the pool staff are great, especially that one young boy he works very hard and is very diligent.

Fantastic experience: I am so appreciative of this YMCA. I have been to a few of their classes and the instructors have always been great. I constantly use the Child Minding to watch my infant son. They take very great care of him while I get to workout.

Fantastic experience: Nice facilities

Positive experience: Adequate equipment and instructor

Fantastic experience: This is a great place to workout and find peace of mind all in one place... cone see for yourself, you won't be disappointed you did!!

Fantastic experience: They do their best, friendly people, nice environment. Excellent Manager, Ben has helped me multiple times with some minor issues and everything was rectified. I use the pool because I am disabled and cannot exercise outside of such and the pool staff are great, especially that one young boy he works very hard and is very diligent.

Positive experience: Great place to take children 13 and under. Amazingly nice staff. Very informative as well. Willing to help answer any questions. Will also give you information on more spots to take your children around the City of St Catherine's

Positive experience: The pools here are nice and spacious. The locker rooms are plentiful. The showers however do not warm up immediately like the ones in Toronto, and the sauna room requires a plus membership. The fees are also higher due to the lower population density of St. Catharines. Granted, the facilities are nice to use and include multiple gyms, equipment and dumbells.

Fantastic experience: They have a lot to offer...In fitness

Fantastic experience: Lovely and very helpful team

Positive experience: Beautiful location overpriced for what's offered

Fantastic experience: probably my favourite ymca out there!

Positive experience: nice place for the children to chill

Negative experience: This facility has a great gym with working machines and pool, but I’m shocked that I’m paying $60 a month at least for my membership and I can’t even bring a guest without being charged. I feel that on my journey to become stronger, mentally and physically, that I should be allowed to bring someone for emotional support. This is not easy, and not a lot of people, such as yours truly, cannot pay for all these this by ourselves. They charge you for towels too, which should be provided freely by this ymca. The staff’s attitude Varys between the members, but the later I come the more agitated they seem when I ask them questions. I’m always being questioned, as I should not be for I have not acted suspicious or anything of the sort.

Positive experience: The changing rooms are not in good condition. They need to be renovated. They smell sometimes

Fantastic experience: If you're looking to get healthy with people you can count on for proper exercise advice and a pool, a gym, place to sit and converse. It's all here, and will have you coming back. Good job!

Fantastic experience: Clean and organized

Negative experience: bro i gave them 20$ for a day pass, i got a 5$ 2 loonies and one 2 dollar coin and i did not receive the right change. i came back to ask if i can they money i needed back but they did'nt believe me. sadly i didnt get a receipt.

Fantastic experience: Love this spot. The staff are welcoming and helpful. Very attentive. Place is huge and has pretty much everything. I love that they do membership assistance here. If you’ve never heard of it, you bring in your notice of assessment for the previous tax year and they’ll knock a percentage off of the membership price based on that information. Think a regular membership is $56. I got a 50% deduction with membership assistance and only pay $23 per month, which is fantastic seeing as it’s the best gym in St. Catharines. Like I’m getting so much for pretty cheap and that’s pretty dope. Highly recommend.

Positive experience: nice place. nice staff. I prefer the ymca of Niagara falls so far but this one is good too

Positive experience: A nice facility and warm staff to help out

Fantastic experience: nice relaxing workout atmosphere. Plenty of cardio and weight machines

Fantastic experience: Love it here.The staff are all kind and freindly.Great place to workout

Fantastic experience: Upgraded the equipment, clean change room new layout nice facility

Fantastic experience: Great place for working out. Staff is the best. Love the pool

Fantastic experience: As a Trans person, I've had a lot of horrible experiences at gyms. I've been physical assaulted, harassed, asked to leave, etc. I tried 4 different gyms, and it was all the same behaviours. So I stopped going to gyms for about a year. Which sucked, because I love working out. However, when I went to the Walker YMCA to sign up, I met two awesome people. They made me feel welcomed, didn't assume my pronouns (and didn't mis-gender me once they knew!), they empathized with my past experiences, and assured me that my existence at this gym was valid and would be protected. It was honestly very emotional for me to hear this. Also, on the sign up forms, you can choose Me, Female or Other, which is pretty awesome! Thanks for making me feel safe!

Fantastic experience: Excellent quality service great workout equipment excellent gym and a great variety of different classes

Fantastic experience: Staff are very friendly and nice to my kids. Great gym that has everything.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic place everything from the staff to the variety of programs

Fantastic experience: Great atmosphere and friendly staff. The swimming instructors are absolutely fantastic with the kids.

Fantastic experience: Been going here for 10 years. Great facilities and staff

Fantastic experience: I feel really confortable! Love the place and the energy.

Fantastic experience: Exercise her almost daily quiet and have made several close friends here

Positive experience: They are a Part of the Community. Try to find something for you.

Fantastic experience: Love it!!!!

Fantastic experience: Early on center is amazing with great staff

Positive experience: This gym is expensive and there's not much free range to do what you want, but you'd be hard pressed to find another place with as much variety in activities. Personally, I've been going for yoga and squash, which are hard to find offered at the same facility, so that's a blessing for me. My only issue is they don't have the yoga in a quiet room or even try to separate it. We do it in the middle of the running track surrounding by work out machines that usually get left out and the staff will yell at you for touching them. In fact, last night when I tried to fold a machine up one of the staff, who was giving a tour of the facilities, nearly bit my head off in front of the potentially new clients. She then went on to sarcastically apologize to them about how she had to pause the tour to put away the machines. The staff rarely have a crummy attitude and luckily I've never had to deal with this employee before, but I hope I don't run into her or her negativity again. Also, what kind of gym doesn't let you touch the equipment?

Positive experience: YMCA. People are amazing here. Luv it!

Positive experience: A bit expensive if you go for the Plus membership, which I had to do in order to be able to use the whirlpool and sauna. The towels are small, rough, and not very absorbent. It's not great, but better than having to bring a towel from home.

Fantastic experience: Truly family friendly environment

Positive experience: Very courteous staff. Clean facilities. Ok cafe

Negative experience: I'm so disappointed in YMCA daycare. The only reason that my son is still going there because there is a long waiting list in other daycare around us and he is going to school in sepSeptem anyway.

Fantastic experience: Place is fabulous! On ODSP and they have a system to help folks like myself. The place is cleaner than any gym I have ever seen. The pool is lovely. Staff are friendly and knowledgeable. This is my escape from the stress of a modern world. Reccomend over any other gym!

Positive experience: Good place to be no ones tourning down. # good community in St Catharines

Fantastic experience: Why is there only white women working there and no black males. Shame..

Positive experience: St . Catherine's ymca. Old busy place

Positive experience: A great general health club. Very clean facilities and the pool is spacious with lots of opportunities for lane swimming.

Negative experience: The staff is super nice and friendly, but I'm really unimpressed with the membership overall. The only reason I'm still at the YMCA is because it's a 5 minute walk from my house. The membership is extremely expensive (over $60/mo for a basic membership). Maybe it would be worth it if you're into the classes, but if weight lifting/strength training is your main goal, I'd say this is a rip off. The equipment is limited (only one hip abduction machine, really?) and the pre-weight barbells are atrocious. The weight room is extremely small as well. It's to the point where I cant walk in with a routine in mind because I have to improvise based on what is available. And again, the pre-weighted bars are awful. I have a hard time with the rack, so I rely on pre-weighted for my squats, deads, and lunges, but these bars are soooo long and clunky, i barely have enough room to safely get a full range of motion. Another thing that really rubs me the wrong way is that you can't use a locker overnight. At smaller, cheaper gyms, I understood this policy, but the locker room is HUGE and I'm paying a premium price. I cant even get my money's worth with the pool because they have a giant window to the pool right when you walk in so there's no privacy. Not to mention, you have to pay for towel service every time. At $60/month I find that pretty offensive. Plus the showers are a thing of nightmares. I'm going to have a heartattack one day from getting blasted with the ice cold water. I think the Y would be a way better value if you could opt out of classes and activities (I dont have kids) and pay a more reasonable price. I'll be switching gyms ASAP. Fit4Less and similar are a way better value imo

Fantastic experience: Perfect

Fantastic experience: Good

Fantastic experience: Friendly knowledgeable staff. Great place for adults and so much for kids of all ages to do safely. Amazing saff that have great teaining as well as CPR-C (children) as a requirement of all employment here. Daycare facilities on site, too many summer camps for kids to mention as well as camps for other school. holidays. Too many programs to mention for kids of all ages. One of the best beaing their Leader Corp Program. I highly recommend it for kids, the learn many core values, responsibilities and leadership skills all while having fun with new friends. Very valuable program.

Positive experience: There is a variety of things to choose from and most are fun

Negative experience: Too much chlorine in pool. If ur skin is dry, your skin will be burnt. Swimming wear also dead fast even goggles becomes white after swimming. A bit terrible maintenance.

Negative experience: old work out equipments

Fantastic experience: Wonderful programs and kind staff. Very clean and modern. The pool is a little loud during camp hours but they are really god at keep programs on schedule.

Fantastic experience: My babies go to daycare here and the others do swimming ..awesome place

Fantastic experience: A clean and large facility. Not over crowded and didn't have to wait to use the weights or other equiment. The drop in fees was reasonable as well.

Fantastic experience: Great for family fitness and activities. Very friendly staff and management!

Fantastic experience: Love this place. There's so many workout options including machines, classes, and a pool. Great programs for kids. Very friendly staff. On the bus route so very convenient!

Fantastic experience: Best gym in St. Catharines and very relaxing pool not crowded and friendly staff who great you when u come in and leave.

Fantastic experience: Great place for the family. Kids love it too.

Fantastic experience: Amazing place, clean, large variety of machines and there are multiple so you don't have to wait for people messing around.

Fantastic experience: Went for the track, one of the only indoor tracks in the area. Well kept, no complaints. Good service at reception

Fantastic experience: good gym. Price is higher than average, but it deserves the money

Fantastic experience: Great staff and volunteers. Very clean facility and tons of classes and equipment

Fantastic experience: Wonderful and very helpful staff. Very clean through out

Fantastic experience: Love living near here. Such a valuable thing for the community. They have a free early years centre in the building through the Ontario government and public health holds free “well baby” check ups here every Wednesday. If you pay for a membership, add on Swimming lessons, kids programs galore, fitness for adults...the list goes on. Haven’t had a problem yet and we visit 4+ times/week

Fantastic experience: Very clean, the instructors are awesome, and the kids program supervisors are the best!

Fantastic experience: Great place helpful staff . If you go in afternoon no wait times . Very clean ! I just wish Sunday was longer then 5 cause that's when I get home from work so I miss every Sunday

Fantastic experience: My kids love it here. There is so much for them to do

Fantastic experience: Love the YMCA! Early years access and swimming lessons and work out all Great!

Fantastic experience: Went to the early years child centre with my toddler and infant. Staff was very helpful and welcoming, and there is a variety of good activities for all ages.

Fantastic experience: Big beautiful newer complex for various sporty family activities

Fantastic experience: Great place to go.

Fantastic experience: My family and I love the YMCA

Fantastic experience: Friendly place

Positive experience: Great facility for the family to enjoy together. The staff are amazing.

Fantastic experience: Great for kids, clean and staff are helpful!

Positive experience: Awesome venue for kids bday party.

Fantastic experience: Nice ppl

Positive experience: Staff very helpful.

Fantastic experience: Lots of fun and activities for the

Positive experience: Good but busy. Parking and crowding is always a problem

Positive experience: Get rid of cell phones out in the fitness areas

Fantastic experience: Great place!

Fantastic experience: Wonderful staff and facilities!

Fantastic experience: 设施什么的都行，我认为最好的是免费课程，还有有用的地方那些可以浮着的器材都可以免费用

Fantastic experience: Great Facilities!

Fantastic experience: Awesome facility with pool and squash courts.