Minto Recreation Complex - Barrhaven

Fantastic experience: Nice and clean place!

Fantastic experience: One of the few pools in Ottawa that are warm enough for toddlers.

Negative experience: Your body and finger nail smells like urine after you get off the pool. Pretty awful. I suppose that's a common issue with popular swimming pools.

Fantastic experience: Wonderful space, great atmosphere!

Fantastic experience: Nice place for kids activities ..

Fantastic experience: Beautiful, well lit place. Sara on the front desk was smart, creative & very helpful with advice & our membership. The perfect sports complex 10 mins walk from home. What's not to like?

Fantastic experience: Great place to spend an afternoon skating!

Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities and nice staff

Positive experience: Nice complex but the parking is far and not very fun when it's raining

Fantastic experience: The therapeutic pool is great to take babies in for a swim. The change rooms are alittle cold after a swim so make sure you have a very warm towel.

Fantastic experience: Good gym area

Positive experience: Good, clean. Multi purpose recreation centre.

Fantastic experience: The Minto Recreation Complex is a multi sport and event building. The building consists of one swimming pool, two ice hockey rinks and an indoor basketball court. Staff is very friendly and overall this is one of the more known buildings in the neighborhood. Well maintained building, however, the parking lot is far away from the main building and sometimes is completely full. Overall, highly recommend if you are in the area !!

Positive experience: A modern, well-maintained and bustling recreation complex serving Barrhaven and surrounding neighborhoods, with friendly and welcoming staff. In addition to standard amenities like rinks, swimming pools, playground, and weight/cardio rooms, the complex offers a unique indoor walking track on the second floor, perfect for winter walks. The only drawback is that it can get quite crowded, often operating at full capacity.

Positive experience: The Facility is nice and has potential. Unfortunately it seems the majority of their staff are teenagers and couldn't care less about enforcing the rules or following themselves. I've frequently seen minors in the weight room wearing flip flops or sandals when it is clearly advertised that it's prohibited. Additionally, they were unaccompanied and engaging in exercises that can hurt themselves (i.e. teasing each other over their max bench press weight and peer pressuring each other). On another note, the front desk staff can be found playing games on their phone at any given time and have asked customers to wait a moment before putting the phone down.

Fantastic experience: We love this rec complex! Very clean, well staffed and great hours!

Fantastic experience: Pool is great. Very clean

Fantastic experience: By far the best facility in Ottawa, especially the pool. Also one of the cleanest

Negative experience: Bad sales. The attitude of front desks is not welcoming.

Fantastic experience: this place is great i love it and i love to play by the pool and have fun!

Fantastic experience: This place is family friendly and have options for birthday parties , organized sports and an amazing indoor swimming pool. parking on site.

Positive experience: The swimming pool is certainly not that big. It’s pretty crowded. It’s good for playing with kids only. If you are looking to have tons of space to swim, maybe you need to look for another places.

Positive experience: Excellent facility with nice swimming pools. Not a five star due to absence of steam and sauna.

Fantastic experience: New and top notch facility. Staff are great too.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful complex and amazing prices for renting rooms for birthday

Fantastic experience: Excellent amenities. Use the ice rink and always super clean and well maintained the changing areas and bathrooms

Negative experience: lady in the back where the cars are stole my credit card was very rude and obese

Negative experience: I dropped my Credit card visa it had $12k and they stole it i kept an eye and an employee took it and spent it on Prada. One star i'm never going back there. Same with you guys.

Negative experience: Nice building. I had a negative experience with unhelpful employees.

Fantastic experience: Lovely place. Gym is small but good enough, very convenient. Very convenient for those who live near by

Fantastic experience: The Zamboni Company ice resurfacer and the engo ice wolf with solid ice are in the arena

Fantastic experience: Very nice facility, a great space for a family swim.

Fantastic experience: Very clean, and the employers are professional and helpful

Fantastic experience: I am here every year. Location is good, somethings could use an update like the showers etc. Gym is good, pools are good, ice is usually good aswell.

Positive experience: Very busy time for public skating this Spring. There are only two rinks and this place is packed so full you have to park 5 minutes away from the entrance. The lines are long at the information desk just to pick up a couple of tags so you can get on the ice and the change rooms are small so you don't have a place to sit. The walkways around the rinks also pool a lot of puddles. Overall, not the best facility I've visited.

Fantastic experience: One of the best sport complex in Ottawa; clean, well-organized with nice trainer and staff

Fantastic experience: We love this pool for preschool swim. Facilities are bright, clean and spacious. Staff are professional. Water is warm

Fantastic experience: A very clean and modern facility with a pool, rink, fitness center, and additional meeting rooms. Plenty of parking is available.

Positive experience: I find it frustrating that many of the gym equipment are broken and not repaired for months. There is already a small amount of machines. For such a massive building, they really messed up building it the gym space. It should be double the size for this building. Just too much wasted space in there.

Fantastic experience: Magnificent, sprawling full-sports facility. Airy and spacious inside. Lots of parking.

Fantastic experience: The nicest change rooms that I've ever used at either a public or private facility. Great pool for swimming lengths.

Negative experience: My ex wife spoke to the staff and lied to them about me while I was attempting to visit my child at her sporting event, their mother removed her from the class to spite myself and within seconds the employee conducted "parental attendance" and when I said my child's name, who was clearly just in the room seconds before this, I was told by her "coach" that she wasn't there that day and I needed to leave immediately. After I left the manager Shawna decided to search my social media profiles and look me up, even though Shawna herself only said my ex asked her to take our child out of the gameplay, so why did they conduct parental attendance and why did they search my socials? I believe that the city staff at this facility was deliberate in their actions against myself and are doing this due to what was said about myself from my ex wife, who hates me beyond all recognition. I am unbelievably disappointed in the staff at this facility and will be making formal complaints with the city and with our local MP as this behaviour is uncalled for. I was simply a father trying to watch his children have a good time and this was the result.

Fantastic experience: Shout out to the lifeguard Aiden. He's an amazing instuctor and the progress my 5 year old made in only 3 swimming sessions is incredible. Thank you Aiden!

Fantastic experience: This is a very comfortable and relaxing place to spend that gym time every day. Lots of nice people and the Minto team are great. If you wanna feel at home while burning those fat off, come to Minto Barhaven

Fantastic experience: It was very nice and as clean as it can be with a tournament going on with people in and out on a stormy weekend. I liked the layout and it seems like there is a lot to do there.

Positive experience: Very nice facility! Unfortunately, the facility is overcrowded and overused. Fees should increase to maintain the quality we paid for with our taxes.

Fantastic experience: great place with lots of sports utilities. Just parking lots are little bit far from center.

Negative experience: Use to be good but now all activities are always full! they should give preference to people that live close to Mintos and not for people that lives far. Very unfair

Fantastic experience: Minto offers great swimming lessons a good place to relax a nice gym and hockey rinks and if there's no swimming lessons the pool is open to the public

Fantastic experience: One of the best places in Ottawa for your recreational needs. My kids love the swimming classes. Check it out. Free swim also.

Fantastic experience: This place is very nice and has everything you need to have a good workout. The only drawback is that the accessibility and layout are not as intuitive as it could’ve been. For example, you cannot access the walking track from the weights room. Parking was not that easy to find. However, whatever they had were fantastic. It’s a very family friendly environment. The place was spacious, clean and modern. The staff were friendly and helpful.

Positive experience: hello minto! i'm going to tell u some insightful things. 1-fix your pëë amount in your kiddy pool, pls learn minto!!!!!! 2-the ice rink is great, keep it. pls learn minto!!!!!!!!!! 3-let people with life jackets into the deep end, pls learn minto!!!!!!!! 4-stop classifying people with bracelet colors, thats r&cist, pls learn minto!!!!!!!!!!! 5-pls turn up the temperature in your change rooms, please learn minto!!!!!!!!!!! thats it, ur beautiful just the way you are:3

Fantastic experience: It's a nice community center. Open swim is nice, water is clean, lots of room in the change rooms. Their work out room looks nice and they have a walking circle above a gym.

Fantastic experience: Minto is a great facility offering a large number of activities starting from toddlers to senior citizens...I love it for my daily exercises, walking and other regimes..

Negative experience: This place says “drop in” sports then asks if you reserved, let me know if that makes sense . I was shook. The customer service is questionable.

Fantastic experience: Full complex. Two hockey rinks. A pool, walking track, gym and Community space. Soccer/football field and small park outside. There are rooms inside for parties as well. Well located in barrhaven with ample parking.

Fantastic experience: This is THE best community centre in this world. During Sundays preschooler swimming time, they even play kids fav songs. My son is so happy swimming here.

Negative experience: Most of the time one or the other machine is broken. Today was disappointing as the weights and cardio room was closed till August 14 and the never sent any email or text. I wasted my time which should have been a workout time after a long day at work. I have to talk to someone for this dissatisfying experience. I hope they are more respectful business.

Positive experience: The place is clean, spacious, and has lots of activities.

Fantastic experience: We always have a great time when we visit this facility. The space is always clean

Fantastic experience: Great place to go swimming or to do several sport activities. A very nice and modern facility. Love going here with the kids!

Fantastic experience: Took my son for swimming private lession at minto. Very good staff. Damion who teach my son is so dedicated to his job with excellent teaching skill. 5 star for his excellent job. Today was his last lesson and Damion made him ready for the next level of swimming.

Fantastic experience: Clean facility. Nice swimming pool, large skating area. Well kept.

Positive experience: I was there for the arena portion of the complex. The place was very clean. There were lots of activities going on. The only negative is the parking for this place, it is poorly designed

Fantastic experience: Loved the pool. So well maintained and quite big as well. Deep enough for divers.

Positive experience: Wonderful pool. But this city of Ottawa venue needs to have drinking fountains in the large lobby area. Residents only option for water should not come out of a vending machine.

Fantastic experience: Great recreation centre. Well maintained and clean! Sometimes parking is absolutely packed. Great schedule of activities.

Fantastic experience: It was a wonderful recreation complex with all the facilities. There was a gym, swimming, an ice rink, etc. Good maintenance and helping people all over the complex.

Negative experience: The gym is overcrowded with extremely limited equipment, I suggest trying another gym. Everything else is OK

Positive experience: My daily grind begins with a swim, clean pool, well organised changing areas. Knowledgeable and courteous staff at the front desk, a well maintained establishment

Fantastic experience: Pool is great, thankfully they were able to change most of the shower curtains in the Ladies change room. I will suggest maybe talking with the lifeguards about they're manners. Some speak to the kids very disrespectfully.

Negative experience: The ice was very soft, it's 13 degrees outside but the ice surface was very poor. The showers hardly had water coming out of then. A disappointing morning skate.

Positive experience: Nice complex, the parking is far from the door but acceptable. Nice bright rink, very nice sized dressing rooms, and very clean throughout. It's a long walk from the ice surface to the viewing area. Warm enough for shorts

Fantastic experience: This is always a great place to go for recreational activities. The staff are not always the friendliest, however the facility is wonderful and very well maintained. Parking does fill up quickly. The universal change rooms are great when with the family, and there are lockers you can use and boot storage in the main change room entrance. This is a great place for all sorts of activities from swimming to hockey, to badminton, to weight lifting... There's even a track above the gym/courts.

Negative experience: Facility itself is clean and well maintained **BUT** registration process is horrible! It's a nightmare for parents who have no other option but to register with the city! They refuse to hire people, they refuse to pay higher wages, therefore we parents have to suffer! Don't even get me started on the "day of registration"! It's worse than "hungry games"! City says, "we fixed the website"! Sure you did, all the classes get filled within couple of seconds, but again for "only those who can log in"! Not to mention the website boots you out and puts you in the queue! By the time you come back to "my wish list" the classes are already gone! This all happens within a minute, less sometimes.... This is beyond pathetic!

Fantastic experience: Big facilities, decent parking.Popular with families and clean everywhere. Pools are good.

Positive experience: Nice rinks, nice pool not sure what other amenities it has but very new and clean.

Fantastic experience: Swimming pools are nice, 2 ice rinks, big hockey changerooms. Gym is small but decent

Positive experience: Seems like a nice facility - but chaotic and disorganized. I showed up this evening (Monday) for adult volleyball - for which I had pre-registered online and received confirmation emails for, only to be told that with little warning the schedule had changed and it was now volleyball for kids. Schedule changes are bound to happen, but they have to be combined with proper notification of everyone effected.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful complex and we really enjoyed the indoor walking track. Parking was limited during the time we visited (after school hours on a weekday).

Fantastic experience: Nice rec centre with indoor pool and ice rink. We took our little guy here for swim classes and the instructor Aydan is great. Water was nice and warm when it was -27C outside with windchill. Front desk staff friendly and helpful as well.

Fantastic experience: Great place to play Pickleball, wish they had more time slots of course as love the sport. Place is always nice and clean and sure like the fact that if short a player the staff will jump in so makes fun for all.

Fantastic experience: A great facility. 2 rinks. A huge pool area. A court for sports, basketball, badminton, what have you. Plus a walking loop, and fitness center.

Positive experience: Great arena complex. Lots of accessibility. The staff are fantastic and incredibly helpful. The place is always clean. Only thing I would change is that the vending machines aren't stocked well enough, they sell out so quickly and take forever to be refilled. And one other thing when the league was booking the ice time you would think the city would put the sledgehockey team on the accessible ice surface at minto the accessible rink is the south one and we play all out game and practice on the non-accessable rink the north rink. Don't know what happened there but it should have been the other way around.

Fantastic experience: Great place and facilities. Gym, swimming pool, hockey field... the place will be better if there was a food court like McDonald's, subway Team Horton.... and there is free wifi.

Fantastic experience: I was visiting my sisters's family in Manotick. I came to Minto Rec Compkex to do some walking. This pkace is very well managed and very clean. There are many outstanding facilities for all ages for exercising and recreation. This is an excellent facility and has plenty of parking.

Negative experience: We paid for a multi facility/activity pass. I feel our money was wasted as no one checks or controls anything. The weight room is not monitored. Lots of teens making noise. Sometimes overly crowded.

Positive experience: Have facilities to suit most people. Seen lots of people just walking through the gates without showing membership pass.

Fantastic experience: Excellent facility and staff. Went to the drop in basketball and it was pretty decent. Wish they had a referee to make it more organized and up the drop in charge.

Positive experience: Everything is nice except the pool is way too warm for swimming. I guess to serve most people especially elderly it has to be warm, but if you want proper swimming exercise I would not recommend. I have been using a swim team shared training pool in the past in the past few years in another city, as a switch this pool is way too hot for myself. Your body overheats easily after a few laps, I tried to keep swimming regardless but felt worse and had to stop.

Fantastic experience: It's a great complex. I usually go for the pool or the rink and I have no complaints at all .

Fantastic experience: Minto is a wonderful pool. The baby pool has a lazy river (though it's not always on), the lane ropes do this cool thing where they retract into the basement, and the building itself is massive. I would even go so far as to say minto is the prettiest rec center in ottawa

Fantastic experience: Just started but there are so many possibilities of things and groups to join. Will get back to you later if my impressions change. Would recommend.

Fantastic experience: The ice pads are always really well maintained. I recently left my helmet at home and the staff was nice enough to find me a loaner for the night. This so happens to be the night I take a slapshot off my cage! Happy to still have my teeth

Fantastic experience: Love this rink. Do not freeze while watching practice and games. Clean facility, friendly staff.

Fantastic experience: Great community centre. I really enjoyed going to the pool, as well as using other amenities.

Positive experience: Great facility, 5 stars for that for sure. Our 2 hour ice rental didnt have any rooms ready as they were filled with public skaters belongings. Didnt see one person working in the locker room area. I suggest you provide the same dressing rooms for the 2 hour public skating and then different rooms for the 2 hour rental instead of criss crossing the room allocations needlessly. A top facility in the City though.

Fantastic experience: This place is awesome. It's newer, clean and well lit.

Negative experience: Doesn't seem to be well run. They lock people in the changing rooms before children's classes cutting off the fire exits and ensuring only one way in and one way out. Disaster waiting to happen. No common sense.

Positive experience: It's pretty decent, I would say. It's not perfect, but it's not terrible. It has a large indoor swimming pool, and a skating rink, and summer camps, and more that I haven't mentioned. But its definitely worth checking out if you haven't already.