Ron Andrews Community Recreation Centre

Fantastic experience: I happen to lose my phone at Ron Andrew’s rec centre. Kim the front desk associate was the kindest ,and most helpful person in locating my phone. Thank you Kim.

Fantastic experience: Kim at front desk - very helpful and friendly

Fantastic experience: Appreciate support of Connie R. in helping me learn how to use the gym.

Fantastic experience: *Pool and men’s changing room closed* for refurbishment until Oct 2 I believe.

Fantastic experience: Cozy. The table tennis table needs to be renewed. It's not standard.

Fantastic experience: Great community center! I have volunteered here two summers in a row and with kids club and kid's night out throughout the school year. The community centre itself is getting old now, but the organization of the camps here is excellent, and so are the leaders and the staff. It really does have that sense of community.

Fantastic experience: Great spot, careful the pool is cold!

Fantastic experience: This is a nice place! Compare with other comunity center can looks old and in not in a good shape but once that you start to visit often you notice that the staff is doing a great job. I totally prefer the gym there that going to parkgate, lonsdale or any other comunity at north shore. Staff is really nice.

Fantastic experience: Love that the facility is in the forest. Nice staff at the front counter and fitness centre has some great equipment. They have a TRX room which is great for plyometric exercises.

Positive experience: Nice little rec centre. Covered I. Beautiful forest, has a sauna steam room and got tub. Also has a couple diving boards and a rock climbing wall. Playground outside to! Great for taking the kiddos!

Positive experience: The machines in the gyms are old, numbers of weights faded, no bench for say lat pull-downs... But I don't mind... Because the pool is the best in the North Shore. No point going anywhere else.

Positive experience: Front desk staff are always lovely! Building is very tired and ladies washroom not very clean

Positive experience: Good pool and sauna facilities and cleaner changerooms now than in the past.

Positive experience: A little dated .Could use some more weight training space,but it fills the purpose.

Fantastic experience: Very friendly helpful staff. Gym is small. Not a lot of weights. Nice pool

Positive experience: Difficult to find correct entry area due to lacking adequate signage.

Positive experience: Nice but a little outdated.

Fantastic experience: Great as always

Positive experience: I like that this rec center is hidden less people to bother you steam room is usually empty wich is nice and peaceful environment to be around would recommend to anyone that likes peacefulness when working out or going to pool

Fantastic experience: Old

Fantastic experience: Good all round facility

Positive experience: Good facility for it's age.. but it's old. Love the hours. Can get in early to start the day. Pool is good temp for long swim, but cool for playing. The instructors are great with the kids.

Positive experience: Friendly staff.

Fantastic experience: Small old-school rec center with 2 gyms and a 25-m pool as well as a sauna, hot tub, and small leisure pool for kids. Small and cosy

Fantastic experience: Awesome local pool. Quiet, peaceful. Everything always works.

Positive experience: Great selection of the activities for the kids

Fantastic experience: Great selection of activities for kids at this community centre. The pool is however very cold so might not be my first choice with very small children of you want to take them swimming.

Fantastic experience: Great community centre.

Positive experience: "I recently visited the Ron Andrews Community Recreation Centre and was thoroughly impressed by the facilities and staff. The center has a wide range of activities, including a state-of-the-art gym, several swimming pools, and a variety of sports courts. The staff were incredibly friendly and helpful, making sure I had everything I needed to have a great experience."

Positive experience: Great community pool and fitness centre.Dated but well maintained by pleasant staff.

Fantastic experience: Great Community Centre!!!

Fantastic experience: Great squash court with friendly staff

Positive experience: Fine community centre. Could use an update, but does the job.

Fantastic experience: I love this pool but this place needs to be rebuilt.

Negative experience: They allow too many people in the swim lanes, to the point where nobody can swim.

Positive experience: The staffs are friendly

Fantastic experience: Lots of gym options and pool activities

Fantastic experience: Great pool for family fun and kid's swimming lessons. Great stuff with patients and very professional

Fantastic experience: Good community center

Fantastic experience: I like to come here on weekends mornings to get a good workout in at the gym here. The gym is usually pretty spacious as there are two separate rooms which is convenient for spacing. One of the fitness rooms consists of a good number of cardio machines and some weight machines like a chest press machine and some leg curl machines, as well as some lighter dumbbells and some kettlebells and rollers and so on, whereas the other one is fitted with two barbell racks, a good variety of different barbells, cable weight machines, a leg press, sone grips to do dips and pullups and an area with heavier dumbbells and a few other miscellaneous tools. The two room organization of the fitness centre means the heavy weight room is usually much less crowded and more spacious which makes it easier to just plug in your headphones and just focus on your own routine without much risk of a disturbance, and it is still rather well equipped to be able to do just about everything your routine calls for. (Though this is not what I come here for) the rec center also features a really nice lane swimming pool and a recreation pool and some other sports, games and training facilities for younger people or people who do not come for the gym where I imagine classes take place. The staff I find here is pretty pleasant and friendly too and is more than happy to hold a nice conversation with you. Pretty good place and worth the distance to get there.

Negative experience: If it werent for the clearly antivax woman at the door spouting off about how vaxes are dumb dont work and everyone is scared and need to catch covid to move on this place is usually nice to come to but its gone downhill lately and little blondie doesn't help..i love this place but recently its been rediculos. gym close doesnt help at least theres steem room which does the job to relax once ur past the front door

Fantastic experience: Been going here for over 40 years. Home away from home. Very well maintained facility. Excellent Covid-19 precautions. The swimming pool is clean. There is even a preschool in the building which is Excellent! Walking and jogging trails outside of the facility. Nothing beats the beauty of old growth trees.

Fantastic experience: Love come here the pools is great and steam room, sauna and hot tub are great.

Positive experience: Dated facility but great staple in the community. Pool is good for lane swimming, has fairly good lane swim hours. Lanes seem slightly narrower than a standard lane, but they fit the bill. Good time clocks that are synchronized. I’d give the showers an 8/10 for temperature and flow.

Fantastic experience: My kid's first swimming session was here and the staff are really friendly and helpful!

Positive experience: Aged, but well maintained rec center. It's my go to. Nicely situated in the forest near some walking trails.

Fantastic experience: It feels like home.

Negative experience: The dirtiest pool in the North Shore. They probably have outdated filtering or lazy to clean it. Disgusting.

Fantastic experience: Nice little gym with a strong sense of community focus. The staff here are the real gem; it's the kind of place where you get to know people and develop friendships. I miss coming here.

Fantastic experience: Wonderful place and sometimes enchanting when you least expect it, that is Ron Andrews Community and Recreation Center....

Fantastic experience: Great pool, awesome staff. They have been doing a great job cleaning between groups.

Positive experience: The swimming pool and gym need upgrades . No market or nice juice bar just a vending machine .

Positive experience: Difficult to find

Fantastic experience: It's a nice place to workout and it's even a nice place for quiet on the weekends and on the weekdays and after a workout its a good way to go to the pool specially its nice that they have steam room and even a sauna room its quit and they is less people and when going to the hot tube its nice they is less people and i can relax in the hot tube.

Fantastic experience: Our community pool. Its older and pretty basic but honestly that's all you need for swim lessons. No silly distractions.

Positive experience: Great swimming classes for kids.

Fantastic experience: I love to come here for a calm swim/sauna/steam room visit. It's not the newest or most modern pool you can get but it's clean and there is almost no people. I rather drive from Burnaby to get here than to go to an overcrowded pool.

Fantastic experience: Great place to swim and work out

Positive experience: Nice, but could use an update

Positive experience: Cute local community recreation centre on the north shore. There is ample parking nearby and easy road access, car share is unfortunately difficult in this area. The fitness facilities are aged and small and the pool is very retro and needs updating. It is hard to climb out of for some people and not that accessible. Love the orca tiling on the pool floor.

Positive experience: It's a pretty good spot to get your swole on

Negative experience: The gym is dated and small. There are always a few machines out of order. The local high school hosts their P.E. class here on the weekdays so it's almost impossible to get access to the treadmills. Would not recommend if you are looking for a quality gym.

Positive experience: Good facilities

Positive experience: Pool is far too cold for myself and my toddler. The staff is always kind and friendly. We love the playground and the kids club (by NVREC)

Positive experience: It was a pool to swim at. As advertised! April 2021 Covid update: doesn't matter if the lanes are double wide, lane etiquette should still apply. That means, don't swim down the middle, pause in the corners, and Let. Faster. Swimmers. Pass. Would be really nice if the lifeguards actually enforced it so I didn't have to get in fights with people who won't let me pass them.

Negative experience: Great place i live.

Positive experience: Good pool. Changing rooms a bit out of date, but warmer and nicer than Karen Magnusson.

Positive experience: Great community Recreation centre . Pool , sauna, steam room , hot tub ... Multipurpose rooms providing many classes . Well situated surrounded by forest

Positive experience: I go to Ron Andrews pool for the deep water aquafit course. Out of the four pools on the North Shore, I find this pool is the best. It may be one of the older facilities but the pool is absolutely fantastic, so I recommend.

Positive experience: Friendly staff, has most of what you would want. I wish for a second rower often, as there is only one.

Positive experience: Nice place but way too many swim programs kills it for the public swimming. Have to start limiting this as public swimming is a priority. Perhaps they should build another pool and dedicate it to group rentals??

Positive experience: Pretty clean gets a little busy over the weekend overall good experience

Positive experience: Great place

Positive experience: Outdated, but does the job locally

Fantastic experience: Super friendly and super helpful staff! I can't find anything negative to say about this facility. For its age, it is maintained extremely well. If you're unable to find an activity here that tickles your fancy, then no facility will please you - or maybe you're just looking for an excuse to enable you to continue your sedentary ways.

Positive experience: best place to swim,relax at jacuzzi and sauna or steam bath to relax.

Positive experience: The pool is cold...

Fantastic experience: Great facility. Nice setting.

Positive experience: Decent pool after the recent upgrade. People there are generally kind.

Positive experience: Very old at this point. Pool and gym are ok, front desk personnel are mostly pleasant. Make sure you go during quiet hours if you want to drop in for a public swim though, as lane availability is subject to change last minute. I would check the website if I were you.

Positive experience: A nice place

Positive experience: Staff is super fun! From the front desk to the pool staff, very chill bunch. The facilities are not brand new but they are very good and not too busy!

Fantastic experience: Beautiful sports and leisure combined facility

Fantastic experience: Swimming lessons are going great and duringe my daughter's swimming lessons I go out to the woods with my son

Positive experience: Nice pool and helpful staff

Positive experience: This is my once a week, neighbourhood go-to for a sauna/steam. It's not the prettiest facility but it's close, the staff are friendly, and the facilities work the way they're supposed to mostly. The sauna is an exception as I didn't find it gets that hot. Some of the regulars were spotted putting a splash of cold water onto the thermostat to try and keep the heat up but the heat seems to be set at a low point. The steam room is nice, complete with blazing hot drips from the ceiling. I have never used the gym but the facility looks great. All in all a great local rec centre.

Fantastic experience: Glad the hot tub is back up and going. Nice pool and two gyms to work out in too

Fantastic experience: Awesome experience!!

Fantastic experience: Nice pool to swim laps. It's a shame the hot tub wasn't working but will be nice when it's back in action.

Positive experience: In need of serious upgrades. Basic pool and basic facilities all around.

Fantastic experience: Good place to be!

Positive experience: Fitness center & public pool, hot tub, sauna & steam room

Fantastic experience: It's up hill.form me.

Fantastic experience: Amazing place. Friendly people. Good facility

Positive experience: I love the new whiteboards.

Positive experience: Good facilities but getting old.

Fantastic experience: Always a great community centre!

Positive experience: Not the newest facility but it is well kept and has great open skate.

Fantastic experience: Lovely place to rest, relax and detox.

Positive experience: A great community centre witb a pool and lots of programming. I learned to swim here and 40 years later, so are my kids :)