Information about Kelowna Downtown YMCA
Opening hours
- sunday: 8h-17h
- monday: 5:30-21h
- tuesday: 5:30-17h
- wednesday: (closed)
- thursday: 9h-17h
- friday: 5:30-21h
- saturday: 8h-18h
Our comment from FitFit Canada about Kelowna Downtown YMCA:
Welcome to the Kelowna Downtown YMCA, a fantastic fitness center that offers a friendly and supportive environment for all fitness levels. Many visitors have expressed their appreciation for the clean and well-maintained facility, equipped with new machines and free weights, making it a great choice for anyone looking to lift weights or engage in a solid workout.
Members commend the knowledgeable and enthusiastic staff who are always ready to assist, ensuring that everyone feels welcome and supported in their fitness journey. The gym also features a variety of classes catering to different skill levels, adding to the diverse offerings available.
While the location is acknowledged to be smaller compared to larger gyms, many users find it rarely overcrowded, making it a convenient spot, especially for those living or working downtown. The casual atmosphere, free from intimidating sales pitches, contributes to a relaxed environment where gym-goers can focus on their fitness.
Some users have noted the limited program options and the occasional crowdedness during peak hours, but these concerns are often outweighed by the positives of having access to a well-equipped gym at reasonable rates. Daily drop-in rates and student discounts enhance its accessibility for visitors.
Overall, the Kelowna Downtown YMCA stands out as a top-notch facility with a supportive community vibe and a commitment to safety and cleanliness, earning it a strong recommendation from many satisfied gym-goers.
Services, Machines and Guided Classes
Kelowna Downtown YMCA: Opinions
Positive experience: Great for if you want to just lift some weights.
Fantastic experience: Exactly what I need it to be. I really wish they’d trade the smith for a second squat rack, when it’s busy is busy. And no one really needs a smith machine.
Fantastic experience: Great price, great service.
Fantastic experience: Best gym in town!
Fantastic experience: It’s a small location but usually not too full with a good selection of machines and free weights; you can get in where you need.
Fantastic experience: As a recent regular, the Y downtown has a great, friendly, knowledgeable staff, ready to assist. The facility is clean. Always has hot water for showers- provides locks for the lockers- Towels available for a small fee. Classes for varying abilities Reasonably priced
Positive experience: Short staffed, so limited programs, otherwise great. Staff is enthusiastic, helpful, and knowledgeable. One small room for spin classes and a slightly bigger room for all other classes. Exercise equipment appears to be in good shape.
Thank you for your feedback and praise Robert, we will ensure it's passed on to our management team.
Fantastic experience: It served its purpose while we were visiting for the week! Good little gym with enough weight for a solid workout. Day rates were helpful, I think it was 10-12 dollars for a drop in.
Thanks for the 5 stars!
Negative experience: Shane the manager spoiled it. Literally 1984
Hi Dmytro, thank you so much for sharing! The Downtown Y staff will be so happy to hear that you enjoy your workouts at the Y. We think the community of the Downtown Y is special too! :)
Negative experience: It’s tiny and has 10% of what a regular YMCA has for the same price. There are better gyms within walking distance of downtown for the same price. Don’t bother; it’s for the geriatric.
Hi there, we appreciate your feedback! Please email [email protected] if you have any specific suggestions that we can consider to improve our space. The Downtown Y's inclusive community and options for financial assistance are what sets our gym apart from other spaces. Thanks for giving us a try!
Positive experience: This is a baby boomer gym. As a result spacial awareness is at an all-time low and booster shots are at an all-time high. No heat bags which is nice, for the time being.
Thank you for the feedback. We welcome all ages and stages to our centres.
Fantastic experience: Went there a few times during our vacation for a day pass. Reasonable daily price of $10/person. Very clean studio, friendly staff, and all the equipment you could possibly need. Highly recommend
Thanks for the wonderful feedback and review!
Fantastic experience: Excellent gym, excellence staff. Great location.
We appreciate you taking the time to give us such great feedback and 5 stars! Thanks.
Positive experience: Great location but very small. Can easily be very busy and difficult to use the equipment you want to use
Thank you for the feedback and 4 stars.
Fantastic experience: Awesome gym and clean gym with kind staff! Always looking out for their clients. Not a huge number of machines but it has everything you need.
Thanks for the kind words Scott! We appreciate you taking the time to share your experience and will pass it along to our Downtown Y staff team. :)
Fantastic experience: Excellent and clean facility, friendly and supportive staff, great equipment, and surprisingly decent room despite the limited space. Highly recommended.
Hi Ryan, thank you so much for taking the time to share. We're glad you enjoy the Downtown Y! :)
Fantastic experience: Fantastic classes, the staff are very friendly and helpful. All of the class instructors are volunteers. Always clean and a great experience.
Hi Laura, thanks so much for the kind words! We appreciate it. :)
Positive experience: Decent facility for fitness needs. Staff are nice but some seem sad and lethargic most of the time. As to clients, not a single person has smiled at me or made any positive or friendly comments.
We are sorry to hear this, thank you for passing on your feedback.
Fantastic experience: Showers could use a little more privacy
Thanks for the feedback and review.
Fantastic experience: Small, but good! No pushing sales representatives and a friendly vibe.
Thanks for the great review!
Fantastic experience: Small gym, but it has everything needed. Definitely recommend
Glad to hear it! Thanks for the comment and we look forward to your next visit!
Fantastic experience: I love everything about this place including the staff. I can do whatever I can imagine on any machine I want and and also do free weights and stretching.
Thanks so much for the positive feedback! We really appreciate it and are glad you had a great experience. :)
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, good layout, and never too busy! I enjoy the vibes here...it's not like a usual "Kelowna" gym (in the best way possible)!
Thanks so much!
Negative experience: Awful/rude management and very small gym full of young teens.
We are sorry to hear this.
Fantastic experience: All the staff are friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. The gym is a good size - not too intimidating but not too small either. I enjoy coming here and that says a lot coming from someone with extreme gym anxiety. Daniel has helped loads with learning/trying new exercises and when he isn't working the other employees have stepped in and helped me out, thanks!!
Amazing! Thank you for your comment. I'll make sure to pass it along. I'm so happy that you love our facilities and staff. We do too!
Fantastic experience: Been to a few gyms and this is the best one I’ve been to. From the staff to the equipment and facility, everything is top notch. If I didn’t have to move, I would have stayed for as long as my body can carry me.
Hi Jason - this is amazing! I'm so glad you love our facilities. Where ever you move to, I hope there is a YMCA for you to join. I will make sure to pass along your comments to our team. All the best.
Fantastic experience: I appreciate this Y is very clean, doesn’t play music (most people have their own earbuds), and has established safe and smart cleaning procedures. Change rooms are large and have many lockers. The staff is also extremely kind and helpful. It’s never too busy, and the facility has all the machines and cardio for a complete workout! I’ve been going here for years and will continue to do so.
We are so happy that you love to workout at our gym! We pride ourselves on having a safe and welcoming environment for everyone. I will pass your comment onto our teams.
Positive experience: Love this place
Thank you so much! We love our community.
Fantastic experience: I love going to this gym! It's in a great spot, the staff are super friendly and helpful, it has a good selection of new, well maintained equipment and its super clean! Their pandemic protocols make sense, are enforced, and the staff make a clear effort to maintain sanitation and social distancing standards. I feel as safe as one can get at a gym during these times!
We are so happy to hear that you enjoy our facilities. We pride ourselves on having knowledgable and helpful staff and volunteers!
Positive experience: A little small but they have all the basics
Thanks for the 4 stars!
Fantastic experience: Good place to workout, ask for help if you're a beginner
Thanks for the 5 stars.
Fantastic experience: The staff are really friendly and they are there for me. Whatever your goal may be, they will help you out! They gym is very clean as well
Thanks so much!
Fantastic experience: Love the openness of the gym ️♀️ kept very clean best place to work out .
We appreciate you taking the time to give us a great review!
Positive experience: Definitively the best and friendliest staff around, they know their stuff! Due to the amount of space available, it can get cramped during peak hours but there is still less noise compared to a big box gym.
Thank you for the great feedback and review.
Fantastic experience: Great gym. Inexpensive. Awesome equipment. Good customer service.
We appreciate the great review, thank you!
Fantastic experience: Clean and pleasant gym environment with a great staff.....I love going there
We are so happy to hear it, thanks for the great review.
Fantastic experience: The equipment is new and the staff are incredibly nice and helpful!
We are so happy to hear it, thank you for the great review.
Fantastic experience: Great pace to shop all your shopping pleasures are here along with the food places my favorite would be mango cafe 100%
Thank you!
Fantastic experience: Great gym, great price. Very friendly and helpful staff.
We truly appreciate the great feedback and review!
Positive experience: Nice location and staff are lovely and super friendly. Find the space a bit cramped though.
Fantastic experience: New equipment, friendly staff.
Fantastic experience: Very clean and has a great selection of equipment. It might feel a bit cramped if you are used to massive, open gyms.
Fantastic experience: Nice clean place
Fantastic experience: Great facility and great staff! Classes are awesome
Fantastic experience: Just great events on the calendar and a real friendly staff to help.
Positive experience: I was in Kelowna for a day and wanted to have a workout. The YMCA seemed like a great option. Decent drop-in rates. Concierge were very attentive and nice. The fitness centre is very clean and equipment is new! I really enjoyed the ease and hassle free experience of having a quick drop-in workout - from a visitors perspective!
Fantastic experience: Super clean, new equipment and great staff! A 'regular people' gym, not full of juiceheads trying to show off how much they can lift and monopolizing the equipment. Hit up Kristi's yoga class if you get a chance, she's awesome!
Fantastic experience: Really great clean gym. Staff was very friendly and helpful. Easy to work out in the YMCA. Machines are all very new and well maintained.
Positive experience: Would be perfect if the gym was open later 11 pm or at least 10 pm would be more realistic to be in a city this size
Thank you for taking the time to review us Jessy, we really value your feedback!
Fantastic experience: Quaint and nice place to work out. There are plenty of classes and all financial gain is given back into the community through charity programs.
Thank you for the five stars Adeeb! We love giving back to our community and we are glad that you enjoy working out in our gym!
Fantastic experience: Great Gym and helpful staff
We appreciate the five stars Gary, thank you!
Fantastic experience: A gym where all the employees know you by name, but never try to sell you anything.
Thank you for taking the time to give us great a review Christina! We really appreciate it!
Fantastic experience: Beautiful new gym with great instructors. Thanks Colin for the HIIT class. I've never hated jumping squats the next day like this ever before
Hi Anthony, we are glad that you enjoy using our gym! We appreciate the five stars.
Fantastic experience: Clean and quite outside of peak times. Gets the job done, staff are really friendly. Very convenient if you live or work downtown.
Thank you Leigh for the five star review!
Fantastic experience: AWESOME staff! A friendly & very knowledgeable team to guide you to your fitness goals.
Thank you for taking the time to give us a five star review Karen, we are glad to know that you enjoy using our facilities!
Fantastic experience: Great atmosphere, great facility and even better staff.
Jeremy, we are happy to hear that you love our facility and it's atmosphere, thanks for the five stars!
Fantastic experience: Good friendly people lots of help
Thanks for the five stars Ron, we appreciate the feedback!
Positive experience: Small but does the trick
Thank you for the four stars Prahlad!
Fantastic experience: Great gym with friendly staff. Was able to get the student deal price as I'm here for school so was pretty happy with the pricing. They have pretty good equipment and keep the place pretty clean. The treadmills have TVs so you can watch and can also hook up to netflix. They have a squat rack. They only have one cable machine with two cables but generally it isn't crazy busy.
Thank you for taking the time to write out a five star review Dave! We are glad that you enjoy using our gym, good luck in school!
Positive experience: Small gym with most of the equipment you would want. Generally has everything available during peak hours. Price is a bit steep for what you get but the location is good.
Thank you for the four star review Don, we appreciate it!
Fantastic experience: Awesome for a YMCA, they let me drop in which they wouldn’t let me do in Calgary. $10 clean towels, shower and a great gym.
We are happy that you are enjoying our gym Brian! Thank you for the five stars!
Positive experience: I did go in but the staff in Rutland are great LOL
Thank you for taking the time to review us, we appreciate it!
Fantastic experience: Great central location. Nice facility. Lots of program options. Love the YMCA, great staff, super friendly & informative.
We are happy to hear that you enjoy using our facilities, thanks for the five star review!
Fantastic experience: Not that YMCA is not perfect but I am writing in here to thank Brandon. He is a great instructor, very knowledgeable, afable and always there to help. Thanks Bran. Morteza
Thank you Morteza for taking the time to write us a five star review, we will be sure to let Brandon know how much you appreciate him!
Positive experience: Very busy place, friendly people. Worthy and close down town.
Thanks for giving us four stars Noel!
Fantastic experience: Great gym, brand new equipment, helpful staff. This gym gives you everything you need, classes are also included in the membership and the membership is good at YMCA gyms across Canada. I hve just started at this gym and I have no complaints, I would recommend this gym.
Thanks for the five star review Karen, we are happy to hear that you are enjoying our membership and like our gym!
Fantastic experience: Excellent place to work out! I workout in downtown Calgary at a very expensive place, and the staff and equipment at the YMCA Kelowna downtown is much much better! I would highly recommend working out here, especially if you're staying at a hotel in downtown. The inexpensive $10 drop-in fee is nominal for the excelleny service you get from the staff!
We are glad that you enjoyed using our facilities during your stay in Kelowna, thank you for the five stars Don!
Positive experience: If you live downtown then this is the gym to choose. It is however pretty small and although the equipment they do have is in excellent shape, there are a few missing standards. No leg press. No calf raise. Limited abs equipment. Rectify those 3 things and get the missing star.
Thank you for the four stars Arnold, we appreciate the feedback about our gym equipment and we will take it into consideration!
Fantastic experience: Great gym. Never have to wait for equipment. Friendly and accepting atmosphere
We are glad that you enjoy using our gym Amber, thank you for the five star review!
Fantastic experience: Marella's morning salsa lessons on Thursdays are fabulous! If you ever want to experience positive energy in the morning this is the place. Super Fun!!
Thank you for giving us five stars Joann! We are happy to hear that you like Marella's morning salsa lessons, and we will let her know how much you appreciate them!
Fantastic experience: Small but well equipped gym. Great staff.
Thanks for the five star review Spartan News!
Fantastic experience: Great service and variety of classes. The personal training session is very helpful and the student price is very reasonable.
We are glad that you like using our facilities Natalia! Thank you for taking the time to write us a five star review!
Positive experience: Clean facility, friendly staff. Only gave it 4 because it is a bit small so on busier days it can be frustrating
Thanks for the four star Mitch!
Fantastic experience: Great gym! Lots of great equipment, everything is new and clean. Staff is nice and helpful. They also have great classes, I especially recommend yoga and intense intervals. The space is quite small, so when it's busy it feels a bit crowded. But mornings, early afternoons and weekends it's usually fine.
We are glad that you enjoy using our gym Zuzanna! Thank you for the five star review!
Fantastic experience: I just love this place all of the staff are super friendly and will help you out at a moments notice. Its is always so bright and clean inside and I always feel welcome. Not to mention all the bran-spakin-new equipment! Highly recommend by me =]
We are so glad that you always feel welcome at our facilities Kari, thank you for taking the time to write us a five star review!
Fantastic experience: Awesome gym! Very helpful and friendly staff/trainers, brand new equipment, great location, and fun classes. Have tried a few other gyms in Kelowna and the downtown Y is definitely my favourite.
We are happy to hear that our downtown Kelowna facility is your favourite! Thank you for the five stars, we really appreciate it!
Fantastic experience: Great facility. Everything is new. Lots of classes to choose from and good schedule to incorporate exercise before at lunch time or after work. The staff is great.
We are glad that you are enjoying our facility Catherine, thank you for the five stars!
Fantastic experience: Average size gym with a good variety of classes. Wish the YMCA had a dry sauna.
Thank you for the five stars Vanessa, we will take your dry sauna idea into consideration!
Positive experience: New and clean, friendly staff, lots of classes. No pool or steam room tho.
Thank you for taking the time to give us four stars Hanna!
Fantastic experience: A nice, new and clean gym. Rarely crowded.
Thank you for the five stars Peter, we really appreciate the feedback!
Fantastic experience: Great place no kids
We appreciate the five stars you left us Franki! Thank you!
Positive experience: This is a brand new gym- new equipment! However, it is very cramped and small space. Also the pricing is quite expensive, there are much cheaper options out there. Very friendly staff that make you feel welcome and comfortable. Very clean!
Thank you for the feedback Celine, we really appreciate you taking the time to review us! We are glad that our staff made you feel comfortable and welcome at our facilities!
Fantastic experience: Well equipped, not too busy
We appreciate the five stars Jonathon, thank you!
Negative experience: Over priced. Much better options available in the area
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