Cedar Hill Recreation Centre

Fantastic experience: Shout out to Cedar Hill Rec. Pilates instructor Sandra Walton! Thank you for your positive, clear, and safe direction. Your quiet, background music keeps me in my body and out of my head. I leave your classes feeling strengthened and lengthened!

Positive experience: Stopped by Second Chance Cafe. Great eats and service

Fantastic experience: The staff are wonderful. Very welcoming place to come.

Positive experience: They have a nice fitness room and a gym that they have different activities going on at different times during the day. Also the bonus of an art gallery highlighting different local artists.

Fantastic experience: Super friendly, well equipped gym. Open until 10 :) I wish this one had a pool!

Fantastic experience: This busy, cheerful place is well staffed and very well used. On weekdays, the number of older people doing fitness and taking classes is truly inspiring. The art studio is also very well set up, and the cafe is a busy social spot. I drive here from James Bay - would love something like this in my neighbourhood.

Positive experience: Lovely space. Yoga room feels cozy and not cavernous with lots of blocks, and bolsters. Love that the cafe has reopened. I am disappointed that while the weight room has been "greened" the lights are still migraine triggering florescent. Not a great space for those with scent challenges, and no consistent "Scent Free" policy posted. (Please go unscented to public spaces)

Fantastic experience: Had fun at the Rec Centre! Good classes, great service. ❤️

Positive experience: The rec center is good but the gym is small and crowded after work.

Fantastic experience: Good

Fantastic experience: What a great place. Awesome people and oh wow, that cafe. Just amazing. Fresh baking mmm mmm

Positive experience: I like this gym but it does get fairly hot during the summer inside. They should adjust to temperature to cooler setting if possible. Also it would be nice to have some background music in there, because it's awkward when it's so silent. It shouldn't be like a library! This would lead to more interactions between patrons. The gym is meant to be a social place, and the rec center should promote that.

Fantastic experience: kind and helpful staff! love this place

Negative experience: Was not the centre itself but a small ball diamond behind it. The field is rough, and the outfield is mishaped overgrown, and uneven makes for a difficult game.best part is the backstop and dugouts.

Fantastic experience: Amazing pottery studio with plenty of space and amenities.

Fantastic experience: Great art facilities

Positive experience: Old equipment in the weight room. No Olympics rack, very tight space. Bathroom and shower mostly clean.

Fantastic experience: The art displays in the gallery here are well worth a visit. The cafe is also worth visiting since it's large and comfortable. With tons of programs, this is a real community center.

Fantastic experience: The trail is nice. My toddler likes to see ducks near a small pond. :)

Fantastic experience: I went to an art showing by Amy Frank, plus a public talk by her. Both were showcased in a great environment at the Center. Washrooms were in good condition and very handy. The lovely flowers outside added to the experience. If I lived near the Cedar Hill Rec Center I would join it.

Fantastic experience: Been going here for almost 20 years, great weight room along with every other amenity you could think of. Not to mention being able to look out the windows at a Gary oak sanctuary and nothing but rolling hills and dogs running around having a good time. Doesn't get much better than that

Negative experience: This is a review for the weight room, I'm sure the rest of the facility is lovely. I recently moved within 5 minutes of here and am very disappointed. I will gladly be driving the extra 15 minutes or so to the Oak Bay gym. Here is what I found: Bad: -Poor machine variety -TINY. Good luck if it's busy. -THIS IS MY BIGGEST GRIPE!!! As someone who is quite tall, I found many of the machines uncomfortable and borderline unusable. -Machines just feel old and janky Good: -Friendly and helpful staff -Clean -Rest of facility is nice

Fantastic experience: Visited the gallery for a lovely queer inclusive events.. nice people good food an as always the rest of the space is always inspiring

Fantastic experience: great service from the staff and very cozy and nice environment. great place to go for community things!

Fantastic experience: They had a lot of activities to offer for Family Day. My little one had so much fun.

Positive experience: Have attended HiLo and Stretch & Strength classes here. Both have great teachers and music with moderate aerobic, weights and stretches.

Positive experience: Equipment variety is mediocre at best. The atmosphere is quiet if you prefer that. Not as good as Oak Bay Rec

Fantastic experience: A very nice place with many activities you can sign up for or drop in. I have done quite a few art classes here and they have all been great. 5/5

Positive experience: Great Centre with amazing programs. I especially like the Second Chance Cafe; good food, great coffee, and smiles all around.

Fantastic experience: Nice club with almost all the amenities. My husband plays squash there and it's really good.

Positive experience: Great place. The public wifi currently is not workinf for mw...and i use to listen to tunes on the treadmill.... but otherwise. Great resources. Great staff, great amenities and schedules. Great favility.

Fantastic experience: I just walked the trail. Clearly marked trail around the golf course. There's a lovely Vista to see on the home stretch... if you travel counterclockwise facing the Rec Center from the parking lot.

Positive experience: Great place to work out. Small and intimate. Staff are all very kind and helpful. Place is kept very clean.

Fantastic experience: Is well maintained trail.

Fantastic experience: So many art choices, huge parking. Love here

Fantastic experience: Good views of Cedar Hill Park. Many kinds of facilities - squash courts, indoor tennis courts, cardio/weight room, arts centre, art displays, cafeteria. Nice place for the Arts. Gallery, studios for Visual Arts, summer camp, lessons & activities for seniors, & outdoor activities. Must check their programs online to make sure space is available. We rented this place for 160 people and ordered food from outside. Staff was very cooperative and set the tables as requested a day then took them down when we were done. Great pricing as well.

Fantastic experience: The gym is smallish, but sufficient and affordable. All of the staff are friendly and helpful. The equipment is well cleaned and maintained. They offer a variety of classes, ranging from exercise to pottery. The Cedar Hill chip trail (3.5 km), around the golf course, is a great way to start or end a visit to the Rec Centre.

Fantastic experience: it was nice , & it was clean. we came on a busy night. definitely taking my little one on a less crazier night to explore some more.

Fantastic experience: Squash courts are great!

Fantastic experience: I love the arts centre here, so many great and affordable classes

Fantastic experience: Smaller rec centre compared to the other Saanich ones, but I see that more as an upside. Crowd levels are lower, classes offered have availability, and the atmosphere in general is great. My only wish was that there was one more yoga class offered per week.

Fantastic experience: Love the staff, front desk, personal trainer Karen, yoga instructors Sophie, Petra and so on.. always a great atmosphere! Hoping that new gym equipment comes finally in 2023.

Fantastic experience: Great rec center with something to offer for everyone, located centrally on the border of Saanich and Victoria. I've enjoyed walking around the golf course for years as well as the ceramics center.

Positive experience: Nice clean gym, just wish it had a bench press and sauna. Price same as Oakbay but less amenities.

Positive experience: The gym is okay in a pinch, and the price is reasonable, however, this exercise facility is too small and needs an upgrade of equipment.

Fantastic experience: It was super clean, quiet yet peaceful. The staff was very friendly.

Fantastic experience: Lots of new machines. There's an art gallery and indoor tennis courts

Positive experience: Great tennis courts! Nice people and a good gym too!

Fantastic experience: I attended an Arts and crafts show. The choice was fantastic and the dealers were helpful and friendly. I highly recommend it.

Positive experience: Good community facility. Lots of programs. Nice trails though occasionally marred by inconsiderate runners who think they own it, never announce their presence particularly to seniors who aren't as agile . You would think the private school and running clubs would remind their people it's a public trail and to respect others. Doesn't seem to be on their radar. Sad really

Positive experience: The weight room is clean, well maintained, and the machines are in good working condition. I wish the facility was larger, but it's probably the right size for the community. Staff was friendly. Decent place for what it is. Seems to have a lot of art programs.

Positive experience: Great ceramics programs for all ages. Great instructors. Clean facility. They keep the grounds and flowers really well manicured. It's apparent lots of thought has been put into site maintenance and upkeep. Clearly lots of behind the scenes work by the maintenance team. There's a beautiful walk that loops around the old original farmstead land. An improvement would be to have a building map at least at the main entrance. Not a lot of signage for where to find rooms, nothing is intuitively set out or visible.

Fantastic experience: Cedar hill rec centre is not the same place without the coffee and snack bar. It is such an important space for those of us who use the facility for health and wellness to sit and have a coffee, it is especially tough for seniors who may be living on their own and would benefit with from Community spirit over a cup of coffee. Why is it staying closed??

Fantastic experience: Their weight room equipment is well maintained, with a wide variety of workout stations. The staff is always willing to assist you and answer your specific questions.

Fantastic experience: There is a great variety of fitness programs and times offered here. The spaces are clean and bright. It is great value. There is a well maintained 18 golf course attached and a public chip trail paralleling the golf course.

Positive experience: Cannot do LIFE PASS renewal here, only in Municipalities you live in. Great for us disabled people, travelling all over.

Fantastic experience: I have bad headache all weeks and anxiety worry

Positive experience: Took a circuit class with others. No protocol or suggestion around wiping down machines or mats after each person used them. Only one person wore a mask. Felt ill after a class so I never went back. I am very surprised that all the precautions normally taken at gyms has virtually vanished. Great community center otherwise.

Fantastic experience: Only stopped by for a shower, looks great, all kinds of activities and programs offered, friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Great facility with lots of everyday programs and activities for all ages. There's also nice walking trails around the outside area

Fantastic experience: I ❤️ this gym and facility. There's part of me that wants to tank the score so it remains quiet in there. The gym is great, simple, clean, no benches which is a bonus as it keeps out people looking for heavy weights. Lots of parking, friendly staff, I'll go daily.

Fantastic experience: Pretty cool place. The hold workshops for all sorts of things, and you can tell they love their jobs. Everyone was very friendly and the patrons were as well. They do a great job running this place!

Fantastic experience: So friendly. Lots of neat activities going on. Cute art gallery. Beautiful building with a good gym that has massive windows by the cardio machines which is a win.

Fantastic experience: Great place to host the woodworking art show!

Fantastic experience: I like it has a lot fun activities. Staff is great .

Fantastic experience: I just love this rec centr. Always fun to be at and missing the Filipino -Canadian Themed "Dinner & Dance" Xmas,Hawaiian,Valentines Day, prime Venue. Bring the Good Times Back !

Fantastic experience: A great community place. Good gym, sport facilities, crafts and dance. I enjoy the 4km walk around the golf course. I have done it in all seasons. At the north end there is a beautiful ponds full of wildlife, mallards, wood ducks, turtles

Fantastic experience: Went to see the reconciliation blanket. Moving experience, thank you for hosting it.

Negative experience: There is an aged lady with medium-length wavy blonde hair who wears glasses and always an ugly cardigan sweater who works at the reception here at cedar hill recreation. She is a total b0tch. Went in here on a cold and rainy Wednesday evening, forgot my gym bag at home which has all my ID’s, gym card and COVID vaccination proof. Thought I’d go in and just use my phone number to get in. With that thought I went to the reception and spoke to the lady described above, told her I had forgotten my gym card and want to get into the weight room. She starts off with no greeting or Hi and briefly replies: “so”. She doesn’t let me in because I didn’t have my vaccination proof. Understandable, you’re doing your job and following the rules which by the way only about half or slightly more business are actually sincerely following. Now, I cannot drive yet and had gotten a ride to the rec-center. I ask the same lady for the location of the complimentary phone that customers can use if they don’t posses a phone. She apparently doesn’t understand what I said and interprets it as that I had asked for her phone to use. To this, she replies with a heavy attitude: “I’m not giving you my phone”. When I repeat the question she then understands what I said and says: “No, we don’t have a free customer phone”. Even though Gordon Head recreation under the same municipality has one. I go on to tell her that I need to call someone for a ride back home and have no jacket or over-layer to wear over my thin t-shirt and shorts if I had to walk back. She still refuses and I am placed to leave to a long 50 minute brisk walk home on a rainy and cold evening with a thin top and shorts only because she didn’t have the empathy to talk or hear me out politely and let me use her phone in front of her out of goodwill. If these are the kind of people Saanich is going to hire to work for them on the front line who directly deal with the customers, then I will be taking my business elsewhere. Yes, it’s my fault that I forgot my stuff, but this doesn’t justify her orientation in any way. The entire walk back home I was utterly surprised and aggrieved at her decision. I am still unable to digest the fact that how merciless someone can be over such a petty goodwill gesture. Extremely disappointed with this kind of service. Just makes me wonder how cheap and self-centred kind of a person that lady is. I kindly request Saanich to review their employment manager so hiring of such uncouth people can be stopped in the future so no one in the same shoes as me is faced by a situation like this. Honestly, I am really not aware of her name, but would’ve definitely liked to have included it with this review. This is one incident which could’ve easily been prevented had Saanich chosen their front line employees correctly.

Fantastic experience: Excellent. Friendly and helpful staff. First rate tennis courts.

Positive experience: Great gym and nice staff however the hours of operation are not the best if you want to workout in the morning before work. Would be nice if it opened earlier (like 6am) specially considering the high monthly membership prices.

Fantastic experience: Didn't go inside but the parking lot is robust

Positive experience: Good exercise walking hilly trail around golf course.

Positive experience: Went to buy a gift card yesterday morning. Had excellent service from the person working at the information desk. Was sorry to hear that the activity guide was on line but very happy with the seniors guide she gave me for Saanich Recreation. Not all seniors or other segments of the population have access or the ability to use a computer.

Fantastic experience: Great place for badminton!

Fantastic experience: Quiet weight room and friendly staff. Comprehensive and safe COVID policies and procedures in place.

Fantastic experience: A welcoming place for art, hobbies, exercise and compatibility, reception people is truly great. Kids programs are excellant. Following covid guidelines

Positive experience: Stuff very friendly and helpful clean 90% safe distancing good people seem to be taking care of one another. Also seem to be catching on when it comes to cleaning machines before and after use. it needs some supervision just to supervise keep everybody on their toes thank you so much.

Fantastic experience: Been going here regularly for months and it's the best gym I've been to in Victoria so far.

Fantastic experience: Clean and the gym had never been too busy. Also great art lessons for little ones.

Fantastic experience: Went to watch a squash match. Loved the setting.

Fantastic experience: I love taking classes here. Bright sunny rooms. A self-serve coffee area with good snacks and easy parking.

Positive experience: The recreation center was nice and clean

Fantastic experience: Staff has been consistently pleasant, informative, and assisting. Please stop texting in the gym, people...you know who you are

Positive experience: Treated well at reception. Gym is adequate with good equipment. Clean and well maintained

Fantastic experience: Good people, great art making ideas!

Fantastic experience: Very nice facility. Good display of art work. Love the new installation at the front

Fantastic experience: Great low key rec centre

Fantastic experience: Nice little rec centre with 2 EV chargers!

Fantastic experience: Awsome Drums highly recommended for people to relax and play the drums

Fantastic experience: Great facilities and you can get passes that work for all Saanich Rec Centres. The pottery studio and tennis courts look especially great!

Fantastic experience: Good gym, nice staff, lovely place to hangout where spending money is not required. Wifi is decent.

Fantastic experience: Best gym out there u should definitely go to it

Fantastic experience: Good views of Cedar Hill Park. Many kinds of facilities - squash courts, indoor tennis courts, cardio/weight room, arts centre, art displays, cafeteria.

Fantastic experience: Nice place for the Arts. Gallery, studios for Visual Arts, summer camp, lessons & activities for seniors, & outdoor activities. Must check their programs online to make sure space is available.

Fantastic experience: A jewel of Victoria, the squash club is impeccable and the pottery studio has all you need and more as well as friendly and kind potters.

Fantastic experience: We visited the art gallery here.

Positive experience: The golf course is in amazing condition. Get out there and plow the pasture.

Positive experience: Nice facility. Parking can be limited when busy, but there is an auxiliary parking lot to the south that is accessible from north dairy. Nice big auditorium, and other indoor activity spaces.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful building, nice interior with lots of different activities! One of the nicest recreation centers I've seen!