Columbia Icefield (CIF)

Positive experience: much better than PAC imo

Fantastic experience: Watched Waterloo Warriors-Toronto Varsity blues. Great game and home victory. Not able to purchase tickets online, but reached out to Warriors and no problem to buy on site. Friendly staff and great atmosphere at the arena.

Positive experience: Nice place. Bathrooms kinda mid though

Fantastic experience: The Icefield Adventure is a must see when visiting Jasper National Park. The ice crawler operators are a fun bunch and the tour is educational. They also include the Skywalk glass walkway over the glacier which is a fun added feature. I should say that it is a 2.5 hour drive up the Icefield Parkway which sounds like a long ways but the drive is almost better than the tour. The best, most extraordinary views of the mountains can be even along this route with lots of places provided to pull off the road safely and a number washrooms provided.

Fantastic experience: Well organised tour and efficient staff. Enjoyed our trip to this place

Positive experience: Thought there would be rubber badminton courts Good overall though

Fantastic experience: Amazing turf fields and badminton courts.

Fantastic experience: Clean and spacious

Fantastic experience: Absolute beautiful facility!

Fantastic experience: An amazing experience everyone should try at least once in a lifetime....

Positive experience: Huge ice rink with limited seating fr spectators. Radiant heating makes it comfortable for watching games or practice. Parking is $1.00 . Not convenient to the entrance

Positive experience: Wish there was better seating

Fantastic experience: Very nice facility.

Negative experience: Bad ventilation, haven't heard more weird gym music than here, gym is busy WHLOLE DAY makes it hard to access anyhting. Would recommend PAC

Positive experience: Cold

Positive experience: The lockers are dirty and they never tell you when you’re not allowed to enter.

Fantastic experience: Such a beautiful complex..the folks are really fantastic here!!very much a Family..

Positive experience: They need more than one door to this place! Basketball court was great though.

Fantastic experience: Really nice rink. Well maintained.

Fantastic experience: Birkaran was our ice explorer driver, he was knowledgeable and funny. The glacier was beautiful and the Skywalk was amazing. Will definitely be back and hope for Birkaran again!!!

Fantastic experience: Good equipment, qualified first aid support ... in case something goes wrong.

Fantastic experience: Nice courts and clean each time I went there

Fantastic experience: always good times balling here

Fantastic experience: CIF gym be better than PAC

Fantastic experience: Lots of fun events and clubs.

Positive experience: great facility. But it's very hot in the hallways. Maybe their AC is broken???

Positive experience: turn on the a/c in summer :((

Fantastic experience: For students, good gym, open basketball courts, and open fieldhouse space.

Negative experience: The courts are dusty dirty and old. There is only one basketball court and I can guarantee you its filled with at least 50 people at all times of the day. People fight to play next like hyenas fight each other for a scrap of meat.

Positive experience: Ight

Fantastic experience: Good game, no backs to the seats so grab a blanket & a seat cushion, as the seats are benches but numbered seats

Fantastic experience: رائع ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Fantastic experience: Everytime I come here I just want to stay

Negative experience: After taking 15 minutes to wait in line and show the people standing in the booth (who always talk with their peers inside and give you attitude for some reason??) 20 things about how you don't have covid, the gym is pretty gross. They seem to care more about you not wearing a mask from one machine to the next machine 3 feet away than actually cleaning the gym. Just confused??

Fantastic experience: Great facility. Some staff are really rude, others are great. The main gyms 1 and 2 have POOR ventilation. You can taste the sweat in the air especially during summer.

Positive experience: why is called an icefield?

Positive experience: Well equipped facility.

Negative experience: Its wet due to rain

Positive experience: I play volleyball here w other players all located in and around the Waterloo tech park . Best part about it is the people working here set up and tear down the net, change rooms are standard but clean!

Fantastic experience: Great gym, its always busy though

Fantastic experience: Great variety of equipment, staff is friendly, gyms are well maintained.

Fantastic experience: Loved it

Positive experience: very crowded

Fantastic experience: As a student this is a solid spot to train in any sport. I have met some people from the community as well who also enjoy the facilities. Some aspects do need updating and revamping but the field house is a huge bonus

Fantastic experience: Now became a place for all sports! New indoor turf is awesome but needs net on the ceiling to protect balls. :)

Fantastic experience: Nice place to work out with ur friend.

Fantastic experience: Great facilities

Fantastic experience: Well maintained facility, very friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Best sports place..♥️

Fantastic experience: I've been coming here since 2015. This is an amazing facility

Fantastic experience: Excellent sports complex with spacious (paid) parking.

Fantastic experience: Good facility

Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities like gym, badminton, basketball

Fantastic experience: Great venue to see my first Ice Hockey game. Lots of fun!

Positive experience: WLU > UW. Very unfortunate

Fantastic experience: Increíble facility to play Varsity sports! Amazing for playing soccer indoors. This is first world stuff! Well done Waterloo

Negative experience: Battle of Waterloo. (Hockey rink review only) Nice old building, great ceiling. Sound system needs work. Brutal site lines. Poor quality plexiglas, tough to follow the game unless you are in the middle of the rink. Fast paced good level of hockey.

Fantastic experience: Amazing facilities

Fantastic experience: ONLY REAL POWERLIFTERS GO HERE

Positive experience: Not bad I go all the time it's just regularly very full for not to big of a gym

Negative experience: It is always busy and people hog the equipment.

Positive experience: Nice facility friendly staff very helpful

Fantastic experience: The gym is free for students and really has any machine you could ever need. It can get quite busy but since it's free I don't complain.

Positive experience: I pick things up and put them down. Can get busy at the beginning of term but it's free with tuition so no complaints. Broken machines are fixed pretty quickly and they've probably got what you need

Positive experience: Machines in the gym are getting old and need repair.

Fantastic experience: Good ice surface with large change rooms.

Fantastic experience: #1 gym in Waterloo

Positive experience: Would be Awesome if they increase the ventilation a little bit more

Fantastic experience: Great facility, thanks for allowing KCI girls Rugby to practice here. High class facility, high class Team!

Positive experience: Nice gym but very sweaty

Fantastic experience: Good student gym for University of Waterloo students. Plenty of space for cardio machines and weigh lifting. Contains 3 gyms for basketball, or occasional badminton.

Positive experience: University of Waterloo provided students one of the best here good to different activities in addition to Physical Activity Centre.

Positive experience: Sen-durs

Fantastic experience: quality gym and basketball courts

Fantastic experience: Great old barn to play in terrible to watch games (no seating)

Fantastic experience: Haven't been here in a while but it's nice and bright

Positive experience: I really enjoy working out here. I prefer it to the PAC. There are a lot of other sports and activities going on to enjoy. I personally enjoy going to the recreational ice skating.

Positive experience: Would be nice if the non-student staff treated students like clients rather than necessary evils. But the facility is steadily improving, and it's got everything you could want in a gym.

Fantastic experience: Best on campus gym for UW students! Unfortunate that Laurier students come so often even though they have their own gym. They have been increasing the frequency of checking the WatCards so it's been better but it's still very congested during peak hours. Check the times before you go! I also saw some new equipment being tested. Hopefully they get some more equipments!

Fantastic experience: Highly Equipped , professional staffs, energetic place.

Negative experience: The gym is just so out of date. The facilities are pretty bad, mostly unavailable, and the people (not the staff) at the gym are pretty rude.

Positive experience: Since it’s January, it’s pretty busy. But it has most thinks a standard gym has. No complaints

Negative experience: Treadmills continuously broken, many times with out an out of order sign, and very dirty. They clearly do not wipe down their equipment

Negative experience: Nice gym but wayyy too crowded. Often having to wait in line just to use the machines/bar racks/treadmills, making it really hard to get an efficient workout in.

Positive experience: 作为免费健身场地算是非常不错！但是器具坏掉了没有维修是一个很蛋疼的地方

Positive experience: It's a good gym but sometimes it's schedule fluctuations make it a little difficult to use the gym floor in ways that match your schedule.

Positive experience: Nice gym. Good facility with good enough equipment for me to do Olympic weightlifting. Make sure you do not go between the hours of 4-8pm as the gym gets extremely crowded around then.

Positive experience: Nice facilities here (field, courts, gym etc.) Only complete gym on campus, so it's usually quite busy (gets bad during peak times).

Positive experience: Average facility. Courts need to be polished and better maintained.

Positive experience: Great for students

Negative experience: Recently I think they gave up on cleaning the equipment, it’s all sticky and gross all the time

Positive experience: The facilities are out of date.

Positive experience: It’s an ok gym. It’s older and tends to be super crowded meaning significant waits for machines and benches. Equipment is in varying states with many things fairly worn out and not cleaned regularly. The gymnasium is nice and the ice pad is decent.

Positive experience: Good vibrance for workouts

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym. Great environment atmosphere

Positive experience: The facilities appear to be good and well tended. It is clean and offers several different types of sport venues including court (basketball, field hockey), rink (hockey), and gym (yoga, martial arts). Beware the parking however. The nearby lots are frequently monitored and even a 5 minute visit might land you a ticket if you don't pay or have a pass.

Positive experience: Weight room is often overcrowded in the evening, has everything I need for bodybuilding

Fantastic experience: For Waterloo students this is the biggest activity complex on campus. Regular intramural games are held here. Here you'll find a swimming pool, ice hockey rinks, basketball courts, squash courts, etc.

Positive experience: Not allowed to use during coop

Positive experience: Good facility for the students. However the condition of washrooms/change rooms are subpar.