Information about Minto Sports Complex Fitness Centre (MNO)

801 King Edward Ave
K1N 6N5, Ottawa
+1613-562-5789

Opening hours

  • sunday: 7:30-21h
  • monday: 6:30-23h
  • tuesday: 6:30-23h
  • wednesday: 6:30-23h
  • thursday: 6:30-23h
  • friday: 6:30-23h
  • saturday: 7:30-21h
University sports center with a 1,200-person arena, Olympic-length pool, gym & ball fields.

Our comment from FitFit Canada about Minto Sports Complex Fitness Centre (MNO):

Minto Sports Complex Fitness Centre, located on the University of Ottawa campus, offers a wide range of modern facilities perfect for students and the general public alike. The centre features:

  • Multiple arenas and fields for various sports including hockey and American football.
  • A well-maintained swimming pool ideal for daytime swimming or recreational activities.
  • A decent gymnasium equipped for various workouts, though it can become crowded during peak hours.
  • Friendly and helpful staff that provide excellent service.
  • Convenient amenities such as a bar for post-game festivities and a health clinic offering vaccinations and check-ups.

While the complex offers many advantages, users have noted that the gym equipment might be outdated and the ice surface conditions can be problematic during warmer months. Additionally, reception staff can sometimes be overwhelmed, leading to long wait times. Overall, Minto Sports Complex remains a great place for diverse sporting activities and community engagement.

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Minto Sports Complex Fitness Centre (MNO): Opinions

3.9/5 (159 Opinions)
Gregory ALCIDAS 5 months ago

Fantastic experience: Tout nouveau, tout beau, tout neuf

Vlad Juste 6 months ago

Fantastic experience: Great location great building and facilities

DJ GRIMM 6 months ago

Negative experience: Ice surface on both rinks is horrible during the summer. Soft and dangerous and has been that since the Rink was built. Friendly staff tho.

Rebecca Lav 7 months ago

Positive experience: Very cool building on the ottawa university campus. It includes multiple arenas/fields and has the bar!

Dominique Bower 8 months ago

Negative experience: Poorly managed

Leo Snow Paws 8 months ago

Positive experience: I went there for a hockey event, it was fun and the food provided was great.

Specimen 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: Top notch service.

Em 11 months ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, clean dressing rooms, and a place to eat upstairs. Two ice pads - one doesn't have stands and limited seating on the second floor to watch. The main ice is used for uOttawa hockey games, so there's plenty of seating there.

Abraham Lopez 11 months ago

Positive experience: The University of Ottawa has a good space for its students to play sports.

Luke Bowlby 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Nice

Vijay Tiwary 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Very well organised, neat and clean!

adrian 1 year ago

Positive experience: Decent gym at best. Lacking good back equipment however. Worth a visit.

Husein Amiji 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym

shaik wasef 1 year ago

Positive experience: Gym is pretty packed during peak hours

Hugue Gagnon 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Nice gym!

Benjy Grégory Didier 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Je ne commence même de fréquenter habituellement l'espace, je l'aime déjà!!!

Alexandre Bernard 1 year ago

Negative experience: I had to write final exams in here and I failed the exam. Would not recommend

MEHDI ZAHED 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Best place for swimming.

Pat Warner 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: The varsity hockey games are always entertaining.

reuben ben (charger44) 1 year ago

Positive experience: Great place but they need to add more staff at the reception. It seems like every time I visit there’s a long lineup.

Baran Sabzalizadeh 1 year ago

Positive experience: I watched a hockey game between uottawa and uCarlton's teams here.

RACHA ZAHIRA AMMATI 1 year ago

Negative experience: Doctors are amazing and very professional. The treatment to patients from the reception staff is incredibly rude and highly unprofessional from the blonde lady at the front desk. She speaks to people in a very unprofessional manner, not only me. When I arrived at the clinic she was already addressing in the same very rude way another girl that was there before me. When she wasn’t working there, I received better treatment from her co-workers and had a comfortable experience. She makes people feel very uncomfortable and have an awful experience even if it is just requesting information. Beyond rude.

emma 2 years ago

Positive experience: good gym but its always overcrowded which is super annoying.. however the staff are really kind and i'm paying for it as part of my tuition so might as well make good use of it lmaooo

Marg 2 years ago

Positive experience: Really nice pool but it's a tad warm for working out hard.

Stephen N 2 years ago

Positive experience: Great

deepank kartikey 2 years ago

Positive experience: A great complex to indulge into multiple activities ranging from Lifting weights, Ice-skating, Ice- Hockey, American Football etc. The complex also consists of a health and fitness center where you can get regular checkups, blood work, vaccination etc. done. All the above facilities are preferably for the University students but can be used general public by paying extra charges and making appointments.

OY CN 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great. All entrances open. Ice is hard.

Chris 2 years ago

Positive experience: Arena stuck and no more bar on-site.

Alex Alcaide 2 years ago

Negative experience: Equipment is old, too many rules, their bench presses move so much. Get a GoodLife membership if you can.

Tamara Jones 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Staff are very helpful, full experience. 2 ice pads, swimming pools, diving pools, an all purpose gymnasium, weight room.

Celtie 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: There is a hockey rink, a football field, a tennis/badminton court, squash rooms, an exercise room, some study spaces, the university health clinic, a university bar, some classrooms, etc. Minto complex is a very accessible building too, with automatic doors and elevators.

Ronan Milne 2 years ago

Negative experience: The eduroam WiFi doesn't work in all rooms leading to many inconveniences for students and professors alike and the maps are sparce and not always helpful

Spark Dream 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love the pool, very clean establishment

viola caissy 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Such a Lovely Clean Centre

Myroslava Volosheniuk 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good clinic !

shahryar moradi 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Our lovely gym.

Caleb Joskow 2 years ago

Negative experience: This gym is absolutely terrible. The equipment is old and terrible quality. It’s always overcrowded and the machines are places awkwardly so sometimes using machines your in other people way, especially the cables. There’s also multiple machines that are completely useless and just take up space. I HATE every time I have to go to Minto because mon petit is closed or booked up. Minto makes me dread going to the gym but there’s nothing better in the area. Compared to other university’s facilities Minto is a joke and honestly embarrassing. If you are a serious lifter find a commercial gym, I promise the commute is worth it. The rest of the facility such as the hockey arena and soccer field are nice and much newer than the gym. PLEASE UPDATE THE GYM!!

Ebuka Okpala 2 years ago

Positive experience: You can get your covid-19 vaccine in this building.

Tat Guicini 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place for a night swim or hockey for kids. Love it. Number 1 go place.

Sean Young 2 years ago

Positive experience: Large gym space with loads to equipment. But damn, the locker room needs plenty of cleaning.

Abby Huard 3 years ago

Positive experience: great place, very clean and friendly staff

Trevor Work Wilkins 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place. Well laid out. Just had a booster vaccine there, but it's great for hockey too

Sobia Muhammad 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good place

Patrick Good 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Sports!

Saleem Butt 3 years ago

Positive experience: Good place. Now a days being used for vaccination of Canadian against covid

Noel Smith 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: I got my booster covid-19 shot

Garth 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Took my friend for her booster shot and unexpectedly got mine at the same time as a walk in

Jogoie VlogZ 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Got my booster shot here

Stephen Spidell 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: I was there for a vaccine shot, nothing more.

Paul Macdonell 3 years ago

Positive experience: Very good service for the booster shot

Sid Elladan 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Wonderful facility

Erin Do 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff for the vaccine appointment.

Farah Gulzar 3 years ago

Positive experience: Good place

Guy Valentine 3 years ago

Positive experience: Set up for covid booster facility. Almost an hour behind schedule, but going flat out to get the jabs in.

Devin Baines 3 years ago

Negative experience: Very slow vaccination clinic. Not enough people giving the shots to handle the traffic. Was much better in the summer.

Indika Madugalla 3 years ago

Positive experience: Now a days being used for COVID 19 Vacation clinic.

Youssef Neema 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Staff and facility both one of the best. Clean and well taken care of.

Itzayana Shadani Cruz Luis 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: The people is super polite. I like it.

Glen Morrisey 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very friendly and helpful staff in this complex.

Animaliste Viau 3 years ago

Negative experience: Got a $95 parking ticket

Jacques Marengere 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: We found lots of services

Rodrigo Ledesma 3 years ago

Positive experience: Gym is old and rusty

Doug Bailey 3 years ago

Positive experience: This ice is always wet here and doesn't freeze very well after the Zamboni is done. Dressing rooms are a good size.

Ibrahim Abu Sheikh 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: I got my vaccine here was a pretty good experience the only bad part was the waiting part but other then that pretty good

W Fenwick 3 years ago

Positive experience: No room assignment displays anymore. Staff are often clueless about their setup, disengaged. Rink is too often a swimming pool 5-8 minutes into the ice time... Train your zamboni drivers. Only rink that is expecting people to upload PHI on a buggy web app. How many times does someone need to tell them about 7/16" bolts sticking out of the wall 3" at knee height???

Laurel Whynot 3 years ago

Positive experience: Vaccination center for July 27, 28, 29 8 am to 8pm. I was there July 6 and 12. Its 801 King Edward with Parking at 60 Mann at Sandy Hill Arena.

Matt O'Leary 3 years ago

Positive experience: 2nd dose! Layout and signage was great. Zero confusion.

Isabel Redondo 3 years ago

Positive experience: Spacious, clean and well-run.

David Witherspoon 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Quick COVID vaccine

Lou's Small Moves. 3 years ago

Positive experience: Went for my covid vaccine and it was fast and well organized.

Cliff R D 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Received my second dose there. Well organized. Surprisingly ran 10-15mns ahead of time. Everyone there was nice. There’s free parking available for people getting vaccinated in the lot across from the complex and you can’t really miss it because there’s a huge sign.

Jonathan Jones 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Had my second vaccine shot here today. Process was smooth and efficient, except that it was running 15 minutes late. It was convenient to park in the public parking garage right beside the arena.

André Tremblay 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Je suis allé là pour obtenir mon dernier vaccin. Très bien organisé par Santé Ottawa.

André Gagnon 3 years ago

Positive experience: Espaces dégagés et fonctionnels. Stationnement éloigné, bornes de paiement compliquées.

Srikar Reddy 4 years ago

Positive experience: A good place to work out

Satya Chandrashekhar A 4 years ago

Positive experience: Nice gym

Eloïse Lafleche 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent accueil et organisation du tournoi de rugby féminin universitaire.

Kathy Morrison 5 years ago

Positive experience: Need heat in the arena. Froze!

Patrick Shea 5 years ago

Positive experience: Large facility major exercise room doctors are nice

David Wadden 5 years ago

Positive experience: Good facility just off the Queensway. Nice bar upstairs for posy game festivities

Landon Bailey 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: why don't we name every arena Minto or Sensplex?

Octavian HD 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: This is a very biased review because I use to come here when I study at UO. It's purely nostalgia, the food isn't amazing, just standard pub food. But the memories ...

Mohammed H 5 years ago

Positive experience: Wear sandals in the shower

Quintin Tallon 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice

Craig Azar 5 years ago

Positive experience: Beautiful Pub located above the ice surface.

Hannah V 5 years ago

Negative experience: The gym offers nothing but stench, long wait times for equipment and awkward/rusty change rooms.

Jesús Banda 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Awesome installation. Just what I need

Parni Tayebi 5 years ago

Positive experience: Only thing that stopped me to give 5 star is smell of this place, air quality is not the greatest and you always can smell all ppl sweats

Misguided Colt 5 years ago

Positive experience: Very nice facilities. Tends to be very busy during the school year

Adam Lawson 5 years ago

Positive experience: Alright gym, not bad if you go when it's not busy. Too small during peak hours though.

Sonya B 5 years ago

Positive experience: !! A major note is that they don't warn you very well that you must sign your name to use the ellipticals or treadmills or else other people can kick you off the machine. Other than that it's pleasant place to workout with a nice variety of machines. The only other downside is the large amount of people that go to this gym.

Jeanne B. d'Arc 5 years ago

Positive experience: Do not pay a personal trainer from here. it's a waste of your hard earned cash.

Emanuel Díaz Corti 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: It has all that I needed

Dean 5 years ago

Positive experience: It's certainly Minto Sports Complex

Alexey Shokun 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice gym

Leo Tan 5 years ago

Positive experience: Pretty good overall. I wish the width of the lockers are bigger, and I really hope that they clean the lockers from time to time.

Jared Arcilla 5 years ago

Positive experience: Always busy

akshay yarala 5 years ago

Positive experience: Pretty expensive GYM for the price if done with your studies. Its gonna be said 75$ per month. Comparatively its smaller and expensive.

Omair Jafrani 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: The gym is great but it is pretty much always busy, even in the morning. It's definitely best to go at odd times so that your workout can be maximized.

Duncan Knight 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good

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