Bob Bahan Aquatic & Fitness Centre

Fantastic experience: Has everything you need staff is great. Great flow class, gym is good. Not crowded.

Positive experience: Clean facility just reopened this week. The women’s change room got new lockers. Soft reopening weights coming in this weekend. The swimming pool and sauna is open today. Hot tub will reopen in two weeks. To celebrate their 50th anniversary free event and classes starting Monday, Oct 28-Nov 2. Check out the poster in the pic. Staff were friendly and nice.

Fantastic experience: Just a nice atmosphere and good place to swim

Fantastic experience: Great place to workout and swim

Fantastic experience: Hum

Negative experience: Open until 2pm on Friday and 3:30pm on Saturday....REALLY??? I feel like they should extend their operation hours!!

Fantastic experience: Excellent indoor activity center in Forest Lawn and Malborough community

Positive experience: Nice pool

Fantastic experience: The staff are all very helpful and very friendly. Every time I go there it is always a great experience

Positive experience: Honestly cleaner than some of the other bigger pools I’ve been to. Amazing steam room, nice hot tub, and just overall a nice, small facility. I’ve been going for years and it’s still the same.

Positive experience: Great pool! Love the hot tub and steam room too. Just be sure to lock your valuables in the lockers up front and not in the change rooms.

Positive experience: Hot tub doesn't seem to have enough water in it.

Negative experience: How can you charge people to get in and then say all the pools have been booked.. that's like selling something twice if I did that as a business owner I would be charged with theft or fraud.. yet that all this place does. I was there 2 days ago and a life guard was yelling at this poor kid cause he wasn't allowed to swim while other kids were allowed.. completely unacceptable!!

Fantastic experience: Very nice and clean

Fantastic experience: Good place for a swimming lesson

Negative experience: Steam room been down for 2 weeks now looking 4 ward to opening soon

Fantastic experience: Amazing staff great place for a family swim

Positive experience: Nice pool and friendly instructors but the water was freezing, all the kids in the swimming class were shivering the entire time. Some other parents said it was way too cold too. My daughters lips literally turned blue!

Negative experience: This place is nice and quit, not very crowded but the swimming pool is always booked for someone. They should tell people in the front when they can’t swim, I paid a drop in fee and when I wanted to swim between 7-8 they said it’s booked. That is plain stupid and they knew what they were doing

Positive experience: A great place to workout.

Fantastic experience: Very nice swimming pool. Friendly staff

Fantastic experience: It is a nice little cozy aquatic centre. Started swim lessons for my 5 yr old and the best thing it wasn't packed with any other classes at the same time. Educated, humble staff. Good experience overall.

Positive experience: Smaller than I expected. Needs a makeover.

Fantastic experience: Very much experienced staff handle the kids

Negative experience: Looking for a rec centre, not youth indoctrination.

Negative experience: I have had to revise my review due to the extremely long closures of certain amenities and problems with etiquette at Bob Bahan. The hours of operation are shorter in comparison to other city facilities and this is a huge inconvenience. The city needs to pay more attention and care to this centre.

Negative experience: The second time when I came there they told me to come back for swimming registration for kids .But when I got there the one lady in the the front desk ,she WAS REALLY RUDE AND I asked her for registration for my daughter ,she told me it's already full .But it's already full slighty before 10:00 clock AM. My question is ?How could possibly full already , the lady she was really rude the lady ahead of us.There was another guy he's treated the same way as she treated us. And it wasn't really even busy at that time.Hopefully will accommodating people nicely and not being RUDE.

Fantastic experience: Very nice place they're doing their best.

Negative experience: The red headed life gaurd should look for a new job, not with the public. Been going to Bob for years and always was super pleasent and had meaningful conversations with staff members. Recently I feel like I've been assaulted. Her harassment has pushed me away from city of Calgary pools, I drove out of my way to be supportive of the facility. She was rude, made faces and has a generally poor attitude. My constant request for her to leave me alone only enraged her and cause her to push me beyond normal human tolerance. Going else where is recommended. City of Calgary should reconsider her employment.

Positive experience: Great but my brother was sent to Village Leisure or Lester Center because there was something about the swimming some yea

Positive experience: Not too busy at 6am..good steam room and nice pool

Fantastic experience: Swim lessons with our young son were great! Wish the water was warmer. The toddlers/babies in our class were constantly shivering!

Positive experience: Reasonable city facility. It has a pool with an ice rink in a separate building. I used the gym facility and it has a fair selection of machines and they are kept up. It is a bit smaller a room so there are not as many free weights as someone might want.

Fantastic experience: nice staff

Fantastic experience: Very knowledgeable staff . Safe .

Fantastic experience: The swim accessories are very helpful and is accesible always. Pool is close to lockers. Parking is big. Walk--in Programs are good too.

Positive experience: I had a really good experience I enjoyed working out on all the equipment the staff were both helpful as well as knowledgable .

Fantastic experience: Awesome place for aqua

Fantastic experience: Clean facility with great, friendly, and helpful staff.

Fantastic experience: Love the fact that this place is still very affordable, the staff is friendly. Good for the whole family.

Positive experience: Was quiet and had next too no people!

Fantastic experience: I like to Swimming

Positive experience: Friday after 2pm and Sunday is closed otherwise it's a great place

Fantastic experience: Took my school swimming lessons 32 years ago now my childrens turn. Amazing swim every time

Negative experience: Very basic facility. Has barebones what you need. Gym is small, not a lot of equipment. I would like to see more equipment here in the future when they redevelop it and a bigger gym. Currently it is about the size of a medium sized locker room. Pool is good, has a hot tub and a steam room. Staff are very friendly though. The hours here are awful, they are never open till 9pm like every other facility. Tuesday and Thursday they don’t open till 12pm and Friday they close at 2:30pm!? I would understand if just Sunday they are closed, but all of this in combination makes you constantly looking at the hours to see if they are even open. My recommendation- if it’s super close to you like for me. Then yeah go here, if you can live with that other stuff. But if you have a choice, there are a few better gyms and pools that are not to far from here and go there instead.

Fantastic experience: the staff is always friendly and very helpful

Negative experience: Excellent staff and service, except the hot tub which is waiting for a part from Germany for over a month now.

Fantastic experience: The staff are exceptional

Fantastic experience: This place has been like home to me for the the past 10 years the staff and other members are wonderful people whom I never could've beat alcoholism without... Renfrew has a better steam but nothing beats the wholesome Loving community at Bob Bahan!!...thank you for being a staple in the community!!

Fantastic experience: The staff at this facility are just awesome. Thank you all for all you do!

Fantastic experience: Beautiful place to swim ‍♂️ that's foso

Fantastic experience: Great staff, always clean, lots of nice people, and the Steam room is HOT!

Fantastic experience: wonderful facility for swimming, and cardio and weights gym upstairs.

Positive experience: Its a good pool. They have nice staff members.

Positive experience: I have been coming here every Sunday morning for years until the pandemic happened. Now that things have opened up, why isn't the pool opening up on Sundays again? Very sad about this, it was a favorite pastime for me and my friends. Please re-open Sundays!

Negative experience: Hot tub needs to be hotter wish it was more deeper also

Fantastic experience: Great place, been going here with my father and uncles since I was a kid. The people who work here are always so nice. The people I've met here have always been great.

Positive experience: Pros: staff, dive tank, steam room Cons: hot tub was cold and dirty, floors were dirty and diving board appeared to be rusted and loose (?)

Fantastic experience: I give 5 star to Michaels ,because he was working in the bob brand's reception today for regeneration. He did his job very well and very nice, polite and very fast . Thank you Michael

Positive experience: Went to family swim today with baby. Staff was very nice. Water is quite cold. No boats for baby like some pools have. The change rooms have no where to put baby when changing. The men's shower was very cold water and the women's shower was too hot for baby. The family swim was full of lane swimmers which was a bit awkward and no other young kids or babies. But I was told I couldn't bring baby to lane walk even though that's all I would be doing. How come lane swimmers can come to family swim but I can't bring baby to lane walk?

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Fantastic experience: I love this place

Fantastic experience: Awesome place to come swimming the lifeguards are very nice the gym is a little small but still has a decent amount of equipment/machines

Fantastic experience: Love going for Swims here. Staff are so nice! It's really clean in the pool changing room etc.

Negative experience: Rude customer service An assistant asked me for my proof of vaccination, she didn't know there was a one dose vaccine called janssen from jhonson & jhonson recognized by Canada as valid vaccine. She said to me "so because you made it to Canada I have to accept you here with that vaccine" I am Canadian citizen and should not be treated this way just because some people don't know about the regulations If they work with public they should show good customer service and Politeness.

Positive experience: Never been to it but heard good things about it.

Positive experience: Should have the diving board open more often and longer

Fantastic experience: Lot's of memories and good days were spent there! Nice attenders nice staff.

Fantastic experience: Lot's of memories and good days were spent there! Nice attenders nice staff.

Positive experience: Kind of boring not much to do in the pool but it’s just a simple pool Still fun for the kids

Fantastic experience: Absolutely , well maintained and friendly staff. Life guards on their game. Different from what I have seen elsewhere.

Fantastic experience: Nice, clean and standard city swimming pool

Negative experience: I thought this place would be great since I live close by and got a month membership, mainly for the gym and steam room. It’s not, it’s terrible. Multiple times people have come to the gym room with a speaker and set it up with offensive music blasting so loud the radio is drained out and no ones seems to care. I’ve been kicked out of the steam room twice by rude lifeguards who just open the door and yell “everyone out” when it’s just me inside. I don’t see a reason to ever go here unless you like being bombarded by terrible music in the very small weight room or getting kicked out of the amenities they list provided, that are open and no one else is using mind you. Will not be coming back.

Positive experience: Good customer service

Fantastic experience: Staff are always friendly. Love the facility

Fantastic experience: The staff and patrons are great during an incredibly stressful time. We all want the pools to stay open in the midst of rules that constantly seem to change. I haven't been there in years, but the showers and locker rooms are nice and bright.

Fantastic experience: Great staff, lots of Renos inside. Parking around back (assisted parking closer to the doors).

Fantastic experience: I love this place same as inglewood pool but longer lengths thanks for the place

Positive experience: Lifeguards were very nice. Water could have been 10 degrees warmer.

Fantastic experience: the attention is very good

Fantastic experience: Little issue, and pretty clean

Positive experience: Nice pool, nice staff

Fantastic experience: Good pool overall, been going here for years. Appreciate that the "deep end" is a dive tank. Excellent class selections. Decent gym. Come early to get in to most of the classes, though! My only real gripes are one staff member who doesn't know basic chemical safety, and the fact that they never actually do anything about the clowns who let all the steam out of the sauna and then splash water all over the sensor. Also one of the doors in the women's washroom has been busted for weeks.

Fantastic experience: So happy to be able to get back into my pool! Staff are taking great care and attention to the covid-19 striction and expectations very happy with the way things are

Fantastic experience: Finally got to swim and cool down this summer!! Make sure to book before going.

Fantastic experience: They have very nice and friendly staff, as well as instructors and the life guards. The pool is way cleaner then most pools as it is not busy and is good for lane swimming or to have fun as well because it is extremely cheap. I go there every week and so far, it has been fantastic!

Fantastic experience: Good pool overall, been going here for years. Appreciate that the "deep end" is a dive tank. Excellent class selections. Decent gym. Come early to get in to most of the classes, though! My only real gripes are one staff member who doesn't know basic chemical safety, and the fact that they never actually do anything about the clowns who let all the steam out of the sauna and then splash water all over the sensor. Also one of the doors in the women's washroom has been busted for weeks.

Negative experience: COLD WATER! Bring the temperature up a few degrees. The kids lips were turning blue

Positive experience: I love this place

Positive experience: My children always enjoy swimming there. Great after school program also.

Negative experience: Staff here are very worst, they are racist and bully public. Never talk to staffs here, very bad and worst experience. Is there any way to escalate these people behaviour?

Fantastic experience: They have very nice and friendly staff, as well as instructors and the life guards. The pool is way cleaner then most pools as it is not busy and is good for lane swimming or to have fun as well because it is extremely cheap. I go there every week and so far, it has been fantastic!

Fantastic experience: Been coming here for years, I love this gym

Fantastic experience: It is awesome and I really like the facility

Fantastic experience: great staff clean good work out

Fantastic experience: I love to go swimming there especially as a big community so affordable.

Negative experience: Our family has been going to this pool for two years. Up till last month. All the staff were extremely nice. I started taking my little brother who doesn’t know how to swim recently. He was excited to tackle something new and challenging. One morning there was a young woman there as a life guard who (as someone who has dealt with all types of prejudice and racism could tell based off of someones outer reaction to you) did not like the look of us. Smh. My brother was not only wearing a bigger life jacket but he also at one point held on to my by accident and pulled me down. Fortunately I was strong enough to pull away. When I can out from under all I see is this 20 something woman life guard yelling at my eleven year old brother. She was shouting in front of everyone in the pool(there was a pool workout class in session) about why he held on to me and to put on the right size life jacket. All I see is my brother leaving the pool and heading out to the locker room visibility upset and crying. My sister came up to me looking shocked as I was.We stayed in the pool for a bit mainly to give my brother and his little remaining dignity time to calm down. I took this time to access my next step. Do I go straight to the guard or the office and make a complaint? I decided the mature thing to do was complain to the supervisor why a grown women deemed that it was ok to yell at a child. The supervisor was not a lot of help. She kept insisting that my brother was fine and as she spoke to him while we were still in the pool. She insisted that I don’t take make any complaint as the guard will get into trouble. What about the trauma that the lady caused my brother. Also how dare she speak to him without us being present? Rest assured dear life guard our black skin will not be darkening this fine establishment any time soon.

Fantastic experience: Great for a swim

Fantastic experience: Bob Bahan has a welcoming envirnoment all the life gaurds are friendly esecially both Heather and Maima were extremly helpful and kind . I am a very begginer swimmer. Started to learn swimming couple of month ago. Since swimming lessons are not available yet. I am trying to learn from experts like Heather and Maima. I highly recommend my family and friends to visit Bob Bahan Aquatic & Fitness.

Fantastic experience: A busy place but they do what they can to make it comfortable. Big lost and found bins at the found desk