Pinecrest Recreation Complex
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Information about Pinecrest Recreation Complex
Opening hours
- Monday: 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Tuesday: 6:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Wednesday: 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Thursday: 6:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Friday: 7:00 AM – 8:00 PM
- Saturday: 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM
- Sunday: 7:30 AM – 7:00 PM
Our comment from FitFit Canada about Pinecrest Recreation Complex:
Pinecrest Recreation Complex in Ottawa is a well-regarded local center featuring a variety of facilities for all ages, including a heated swimming pool, a hockey rink, and fitness areas. Visitors appreciate:
- Cleanliness and Maintenance: The facility is consistently praised for its cleanliness and well-maintained amenities.
- Ample Parking: The complex offers a large parking area, making it easy for visitors to access.
- Affordability: Many users have highlighted the low fees for swimming and other activities, making it a great value.
- Friendly Staff: Guests describe the staff as welcoming and helpful, enhancing the overall experience.
- Diverse Activities: The center offers a range of activities from swimming and skating to group fitness classes, catering to various interests.
While most feedback is positive, a few users have mentioned challenges such as limited lane swimming hours and the need for advance reservations, indicating that it's best to check schedules ahead of time. Overall, it's a charming community hub focused on recreation and well-being.
Pinecrest Recreation Complex: Opinions
Fantastic experience: Good local place for lane swimming. Ample parking. The showers and locker room are clean and more than adequate. The pool water tends to be warm. The facility does not supply fins but does provide flutter boards and pull buoys. Check the schedule and make a reservation before arriving on a weekend, or risk being turned away. Lane swimming may not qualify for the kids play free program on Saturdays.
Fantastic experience: Lots of parking lots of room clean
Fantastic experience: Friendly and clean
Fantastic experience: It was nice. Very cheap for free swim. 6 dollars for me and my wife to gof for an hour.
Fantastic experience: Great spot!
Fantastic experience: Unfortunately we will
Positive experience: Great older rink. Played some pickup hockey. Changerooms are small but the showers in room 3 were unexpectedly clean, bright and spacious. The ice was in perfectly good shape but it took a couple.extra minutes to dry after scraping.
Positive experience: Nice location. Newer that some of the other recreation centers but not the newest.
Negative experience: No one answers the phone.
Positive experience: Underutilized park with tennis, pickleball, baseball and football facilities. First time I've seen kids using the batting cage.
Fantastic experience: Amazingly affordable, clean, safe and modern workout, health & fitness facilities. Great staff
Fantastic experience: My favorite part about coming here to watch my man play hockey---- is B-lining it to the coin machines and loading up my pockets with yummy candy, gumballs and toys to bring home for the kids!!!! SUPPORT LOCAL and meet me at the gumball machine.... ;)
Fantastic experience: Very pleasant and clean and free for Saturday open swim! I was a bit disappointed that the women's shower area has no privacy dividers.
Fantastic experience: A nice older recreation complex. The ice hockey rink has a display of old famous players. The locker rooms are nice but not overly large. There is a pool and a couple of ball fields here as well. Centrally located with ample parking in the back makes it an easy place to visit.
Positive experience: People are friendly. Has cardio room.
Fantastic experience: A functional recreational complex with a swimming pool, hockey ice rink, skating area, gym, sauna, Weight and cardio room, free public WiFi. The indoor swimming pool is heated and it's 7.5 feet deep and the shallow end 3.5feet with lifeguards constantly on site. Group fitness with cardio strength, Zumba, Yoga, Aquafitness schedules, different swimming schedules which include lane swim and public swim, skating schedules for adults, family and public skating. There is also a nice hockey rink on site. ♿ The complex entrances, restrooms, the amenities and parking spaces are all wheel chair accessible with clear signages across the facility. The access registration fee is reasonable and flexible. The facility is well maintained, they keep to the timing of their schedules and the staff members are of great help. Expansive on-site parking to accomodate a lot of vehicles durimg peak periods.
Fantastic experience: You don't worry about uou stuff being stolen as lockers and pool are behind locked doors lol. Went here for aquafit everyone there liked it. One big pool with shallow and deep ends and a dry sauna.
Fantastic experience: Clean. Staffed with friendly and knowledgeable individuals.
Positive experience: Nice place, but the pool is quite cold for babies.
Positive experience: Went for ice skating its same arena as ice hockey. For 2 adult costed us $12.04. Neat and clean washroom, huge swimming pool, everywhere smelling like chlorine. Overall an average place not huge complex but good.
Fantastic experience: Nice arena with heat in stands. Home to Ottawa Golden Knights. Tons on parking
Negative experience: Hours for lane swimming are very limited for weekdays. Sauna temperature is very mild if not cold!
Fantastic experience: Nice
Positive experience: 25 yard lane swim pool requires reservations
Positive experience: Hate it! Horrible swimming pool! bad service. but a good look.
Fantastic experience: Great neighborhood facility.
Positive experience: I didn't see much, but it was good enough to host six high schools and multiple people in wheelchairs at the same time.
Fantastic experience: The skating trainers are professional and nice. My son loves the skating class Also, my sod has a great time for ballet-jass class. Super energetic and nice trainer
Positive experience: Ходила трошки поплавати. Доволі приємний компактний комплекс. Була в п'ятницю в публічний час близько 13 години (з 12-30 до 13-45 можна йти без запису). Є все необхідне - душ, туалет, роздягальня зі шкафчиками. Можна принести свій замочок, якщо є цінні речі з собою. Все це задоволення коштувало мені 5.87 канадських долларів. Демократично.
Negative experience: Don't register your kids for swimmimg here. The classes are just joke. Many times changed the trainer and my kid completed the class didn't make any progress.
Positive experience: Nice place and good friendly staffs. Huge field at the back for baseball, football etc. Enjoy!
Positive experience: old rec center but alot of people use it
Fantastic experience: Decent basketball court, needs some new paving, but good nets.
Positive experience: Don't go to the gym it's literally a hallway, treadmills not working and no space
Negative experience: It's a great facility, but I'm very worried about pool hygiene. Unfortunately, it is allowed to enter with clothes other than swimsuits. hygienically this should never be allowed. The swimming attire rule should be introduced because entering the pool with an outfit worn outside carries all bacteria and germs to the water. For this reason, my daughter's eyes got infected from the pool water. I'm so sorry and I want this situation fixed.
Fantastic experience: Great little spot and had so much fun with our swim lessons with staff here. Super friendly and fun.
Fantastic experience: Clean, quiet and convenient location. Good hours/schedule
Fantastic experience: Nice facility for recreational events and camps. Trends to be quite clean.
Positive experience: Nice rink very committed to the colour sceme, small dressing rooms. They have Luke Richardson's jersey here. Cold but I still wore shorts
Fantastic experience: We take our kid to dance classes here, a fairly old facility, but service is great and very friendly staff.
Fantastic experience: A great place. Very nice
Fantastic experience: Nice, clean,big enough for 50 people partying
Positive experience: Good place
Fantastic experience: Voted here for our city elections. Google/Waze couldn't properly find the address
Fantastic experience: Nice place
Fantastic experience: Great place for yoga, swimming, and skating. Gym is small but sufficient. Only one thread mill as the second is broken
Negative experience: The entrance is just off Baseline Road and Cobden. If you have your booking for 8:30am however, restrictions at rush hour make it 100% impossible to get there from Baseline Road in your car. Coming from the west, you can't turn left onto Cobden Road between 7am and 9am Mon-Fri, and coming from the east, you can't turn right between 7am and 9am Mon-Fri. If you try tom come at it from Centrepointe, crossing Baseline, you can't go straight through ever. The only way to get there is to get to Iris from Pinecrest or Woodroffe, then then go south on Cobden. If the intent is to keep traffic off Cobden at rush hour, then they've defeated that purpose, as now you end up driving on Cobden for much further. They need to have an exception to the no-turn law for customers of the recreation complex. Someone with a brain needs to look at this silliness.
Fantastic experience: Pretty good, they have basketball nets to play at and they were really helpful when my mom got hit in the eye with a floating device. They were very attentive and helped her out right away.
Positive experience: Smallest dressing rooms for ice hockey I’ve seen in a while. August skate was wet so A/C needs work but building was super clean and well maintained.
Fantastic experience: Good community pool and rink
Positive experience: A lot of baseball grounds (6), few tennis courts (4) and a big park. Also has a big skating rink and other group fitness like gym and swimming
Fantastic experience: One of the best pool it was clean and properly maintained
Fantastic experience: Great staffs doing all they can to teach our children
Fantastic experience: A beautiful center for kids, beautiful activities for kids
Fantastic experience: Great overall Facility: Inside: Hockey Arena, Swimming Pool, Fitness Centre, Weight Room. Outdoor: 3 baseball diamonds, soccer field, tennis courts, large open field.
Fantastic experience: Lots to do here, and many programs and activities available
Fantastic experience: Beautiful facility. Lots of great options. A plus is lots of parking.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful facility. Lots of great options. A plus is lots of parking.
Positive experience: Great, large arena, only issue is that they have small changerooms.
Fantastic experience: It's peaceful and well kept. Staff are helpful and friendly.
Fantastic experience: Pool facilities maintained very well, shout to the staff both poolside and the front desk.
Positive experience: Great for kids and families
Fantastic experience: Pool is a great place to exercise. The locker area is kept clean and is clearly well maintained. The staff are all super nice as well!
Fantastic experience: Great pool
Fantastic experience: Rather confusing to locate(it's above Rexall), but extremely friendly and helpful staff that are all to happy to help!
Fantastic experience: My first time there was for ice skating with my friend in the arena. It was so nice and very affordable. Looking forward to try some of their other activities.
Fantastic experience: The water is at an excellent temperature. Will go back again.
Fantastic experience: Very clean facility pool is great water a bit cold and with covid all measures are taken which I respect
Fantastic experience: The water is at an excellent temperature. Will go back again.
Positive experience: Big parking lot good clean city center
Positive experience: Pool water was really cold and there were no pockets available to lock stuff up and you are only allowed 10 minutes in the change room after your season is over which for a woman is not a lot of time. Not my favorite pool in the city.
Positive experience: Swimming!! Just don't go on Saturday, soo many kids enjoying a swim, no room for us old folk to swim around and keep COVID distance
Fantastic experience: Play hockey there on wednesdays!! Place is super clean and has had a bunch of updates in the dressing rooms!!
Positive experience: Good facility. Nice hockey rink, pool, and other things.
Fantastic experience: The staff is enthusiastic
Fantastic experience: Well organized facility
Fantastic experience: Awesome selection
Fantastic experience: Good aquafitness classes
Positive experience: Propre, staff serviable
Fantastic experience: Swimming was great. It's not a big pool, but it is bright and clean and everyone is respectful of social distancing.
Positive experience: Multiple baseball diamonds for all ages, and a hockey arena. Lots of options.
Positive experience: The centre is closed between 2pm and 4pm. I had called earlier in the day before going there but nobody told me that. On Google it said the centre was open till 8pm. I am assuming this is because of COVID-19 but I would not have wasted my time if I was informed of this midday closure.
Fantastic experience: Very clean
Fantastic experience: Lovely Place to do Activities and Swim
Fantastic experience: Great community centre with many services and a friendly helpful staff. We host our Christian service there every so often and it's perfect with the huge parking spot and best it's free.
Positive experience: Well organized.
Fantastic experience: Great place to cheaply swim with the kids
Fantastic experience: Great place to take the kids for an afternoon swim
Fantastic experience: if you like to stay fit and keep in shape then this a a clean quiet relaxing peaceful environment for older 30's + love going to this gym for a.full body workout !!!
Fantastic experience: I had so much fun here. I can't wait to go back. The OC Transpo 88 goes right past it. Super convenient.
Fantastic experience: Small but well located in the heart of Nepean. Great for swimming lessons for the kids.
Fantastic experience: Nice rec centre just off baseline, good selection of classes offered with great instructors. Has a pool, rink and weightroom with ample parking in the lot.
Fantastic experience: Great place! tons of parking, nice rink, swimming pool. Very friendly coaches
Positive experience: Great staff for kids camps. Safe and my little guy is have a great time.
Positive experience: Good place.
Positive experience: Great instructor and had good experience there.
Positive experience: can take ice skating classes
Positive experience: Clean facility, helpful and attentive staff. Have a monthly membership.
Negative experience: Poor communication when booking meeting rooms, only 1 person can help you and she is never there. Wifi is unprotected open network so it’s super slow, meeting room doesn’t have projector screen so you have to choose a wall to use but they are all full of pictures and whiteboards and they do not setup for you, everything thrown into a box for you To figure out on your own
Positive experience: The facility is really dated.
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