John W. Lindsay YMCA

Expérience fantastique: Amazing place, amazing people. I upgraded from GoodLife and would never go back.

Expérience fantastique: A beautiful pool,gym, games rooms, meeing spaces.

Expérience fantastique: I’m not sure what others expected, but this YMCA is awesome! It’s clean, well-equipped, and they keep adding new machines. One of the best YMCAs I’ve seen even better than many in Toronto.

Expérience négative: I use to think so highly of this place and recommend it to many people but after a recent situation regarding payments and my account I realized giving them the ability to do any withdrawals from my account was a huge mistake on my part and I’ve had to since get my bank involved because they lack transparency when it comes to account charges.

Expérience fantastique: Lot of work to maintain this humble abode

Expérience fantastique: For $15 and no time limit, this was a great way to spend a long layover in Halifax. Huge hot tub, fantastic pool, decent change rooms. Fantastic

Expérience fantastique: For $15 and no time limit, this was a great way to spend a long layover in Halifax. Huge hot tub, fantastic pool, decent change rooms. Fantastic

Expérience négative: friendly staff, poor management

Expérience fantastique: The staffers at the front desk are quick to troubleshoot and update our membership from the backend. If you register on mobile, give them a call or pay them a visit for a quick fix.

Expérience fantastique: Great facilities, amazing staff.

Expérience négative: If you're looking to become a "bot" it's a one-stop-shop. If you're just passing through or a tourist and need a quick workout, the YMCA offers 1 day memberships! The gravity of the place speaks for itself! I would not recommend this gym to no one!

Expérience négative: Wouldn't recommend getting a membership here if you're into serious swim training. Unfortunately the staff are inexperienced in running a pool making it difficult to maintain any sort of regular training plan. They don't stick to the lane schedule posted online and instead expect people to go looking in an app for free swim times, which even then doesn't always guarantee you a window for training, I was kicked out several times at a moment's notice for lessons. The lifeguards here are also lazy and sit half their shift behind a desk rather than educate people on using the lanes properly. I've had to move facilities, which is disappointing as I did like the gym.

Expérience négative: Came here and got a day pass for post-workout sauna/steam room access, only to find out you’re not allowed to use them without a premium membership. Not impressed at all with the two-tier class system.

Expérience fantastique: Gonna miss this gym. Really lucky to have had it over the past 4 years. Blessed

Expérience fantastique: SUPER PLACE....GABIKA SLOVAKIA

Expérience fantastique: Beautiful facility and helpful staff.

Expérience fantastique: Cleanest YMCA I have been to so far. Only reminder is to bring your own shampoo as they don’t provide that in the showers.

Expérience fantastique: Clean , easy access , nice customer service. All falicities . Daily access while you paid for it , so sound good when you are on a trip .

Expérience fantastique: This place is amazing.

Expérience négative: Very rude stuff specially lifeguards. I was there on a trip and us a YMCA member I went to closest YMCA but seems like they did not give proper training to stuff or just hire anyone.

Expérience positive: Energetic atmosphere, really good place

Expérience positive: VIP is good but usual locker room is not good , there is no towel and even a shampoo.it's like Titanic 2 floor with a huge different things . Don't forget sandals or flip flops. But totally good.

Expérience fantastique: Awesome, met fellow members

Expérience fantastique: Best gym in the world (minus the broken assisted pull up machine haha). Staff is so friendly. Gym users are also really nice, i always leave here having had at least one pleasant exchange or conversation. Bathrooms are clean, the cardio room / stretch room are so peaceful, love the view of the gardens and the natural light and the central location ☺️

Expérience positive: Just started at this gym but they had a great and inclusive summer student deal. Great space, feels very inclusive and friendly - never had a problem finding space in the gym although it gets a little crowded after work around 5pm. All the staff I’ve talked to so far have been friendly and helpful.

Expérience fantastique: The service desk girl was super nice and give us a tour on the facility (I had my two kids with me) she was very patient and friendly, besides that the building was super clean, it was busy but still ok, family friendly, and all the staff seem very professional, we will 100% sign up for!

Expérience fantastique: Amazing place with amazing prices and help

Expérience négative: Horrible experience. Bought a membership to play badminton and was told by the front desk that I would be able to call in and book court space. I wasn't able to get through to anyone for a week so I gave up. Their website is a complete mess. Its only use is to get you to pay money and show some pictures. If you plan on using this facility you pretty much have to do everything in person or it wont get done.

Expérience fantastique: Great people great swimming pool I wish they had better family swim and rec swim

Expérience fantastique: Beautiful center! The gym is very well organized, the equipment is good and there is a beautiful view. It was a great training. Thank you!

Expérience positive: Pretty good gym overall, the pool is pretty good but it’s dirty sometimes

Expérience négative: Nice facility. Awful staff if I'm honest. A handful of very poor experiences. If your in it for the gym membership, not a bad move. But the aquatics department is quite frightful.

Expérience fantastique: Great customer service and affordable membership

Expérience négative: Grand entrances, but the usable facilities are tiny. Not impressed. The pool is basically only for lane swims, they book up to 8 people per lane. I thought I would have my own lane, but there were 2 other people already using it constantly. The free swim times are only 1 or 2 hours per day and they asked me to leave the ramp area of the pool because I wasn't doing laps. When I first arrived the whirlpool was packed with a therapeutic group for differently abled people, it's a good initiative, but then there was no room for me after I walked 30 minutes in -10 to relax in the whirlpool and get kicked out of the lap pool. I was hoping to find a nice place to unwind, but as it turns out it's not fun to stay at this YMCA. Disappointing. I loved going to the Y in Kelowna.

Expérience positive: What a great community resource. It is beautiful. Clean. And Functional. The building has great staff and a great vibe. It is seriously AllAges! I have no complaints . You should get a day pass and go see!

Expérience fantastique: Great gym with friendly staff. Pool, hot tub, sauna, steam room etc.

Expérience fantastique: I play badminton here being member and it's wonderful and well maintained

Expérience fantastique: Good one

Expérience fantastique: The best gym facility in halifax

Expérience fantastique: Amazing gym and pool.

Expérience fantastique: Great gym

Expérience fantastique: Excellent facility fully equipped. From Ontario if I compare with Burnhamthorpe Rd. Mississauga facility across from Mississauga Central Library. Built around 1994 Halifax Y is better.

Expérience positive: If you are driving parking could be very difficult at times. It's a relatively new gym, very clean and well organized but they charge American YMCA guests $10. 00 fee to use the facilities. Funny thing is when members from this YMCA travel south they can use other gym for free. I paid the fee to use the gym. At time there are groups of people gathering around and hording the equipment they need to make a rule that no more than 3 guest can gather at a machine at a time. They also have members using their mobile device while resting on the equipment .

Expérience fantastique: A cold plunge would make this place amazing

Expérience fantastique: Very beautiful pool and pleasant staff. Thank you for your cooperation .

Expérience fantastique: Called for info on a specific event, the person was new and a still got me the info I was looking for. Then someone else called me to ensure my child had permission to attend the event since registration is normally done ahead of time. Pleasant to talk to, and helpful. Very Good customer service, especially from a new employee.

Expérience fantastique: 수영장을 주로 이용하고 있지만, 맴버쉽 가격도 적당한 편이고, 직원들도 대부분 친절하고, 청결하게 관리도 잘 되고 있는 것 같다.

Expérience fantastique: جميل

Expérience fantastique: جيد

Expérience fantastique: Everything in one place...

Expérience fantastique: Great place to work out.

Expérience négative: They didn’t let me in.

Expérience fantastique: Pretty good place

Expérience fantastique: I love going here! So much variety for what to do.

Expérience fantastique: Great facilities, and easy parking

Expérience fantastique: zach goes above and beyond for all the clients

Expérience fantastique: Beautiful place and lovely staff

Expérience fantastique: Great surroundings, awesome equipment, clean, tidy and awesome views.

Expérience fantastique: Shoutout to Zach for being 10/10 YMCA employee. He needs to get PROMOTED ASAP!

Expérience fantastique: I had a very good and useful interaction with the Welcome desk.

Expérience fantastique: The best sports center for the family. Bad for parking.

Expérience négative: Price and s completely outrageous. No seniors’ discount. Very poor website.

Expérience fantastique: Really good gym. Very good work out Atmosphere.

Expérience fantastique: Great facilities for a low price. Sauna and towel service are a big reason I joined.

Expérience fantastique: Great pool, sauna, steam room, gym and more, clean and great staff

Expérience fantastique: This place is peaceful and a lot of activities to do! My favourite part is the swimming pool :)

Expérience fantastique: Wonderful facilities and aquatics program. Now if only my kids would stop being sick long enough to attend!

Expérience négative: Worst steam room ever, weight floor too small, facility is nice and large but poor choice of layout during construction since most of it is wasted to have big open space instead of usable space!

Expérience fantastique: Amazing spot in the heart of our city- wonderful staff, great programs and extremely clean and cozy.

Expérience fantastique: The best gym in Halifax on my opinion, a wonderful pool, there is a steam room. Great service, very clean.

Expérience fantastique: Nice facilities! Awesome place to spend some time. The only thing it's missing is a water bottle fill-up in the pool area and change rooms. A cold plunge would also make that place unreal but I might be too ambitious with that one lol

Expérience fantastique: Excellent new facilities. The app could use a little bit of organizational work to make it more user friendly, but generally is very helpful for booking lanes or other activities.

Expérience fantastique: I always look forward to visiting the YMCA when I’m in Halifax. What a fantastic facility- so bright, clean and such state of the art equipment and pool! Can’t wait to visit again.

Expérience négative: Been with YMCA so more then a year. Had really bad experience today. We went as regularly and we scan our card. It didn’t work for some reason. Girl at the desk shout and pull us over like we stole something. First she told our membership is cancel due to our email but we didn’t send any email to cancel. She was trying to find but no proof of our email sent as she said. Felt embarrassed in front of other the way she started conversation please do train the front desk staff some customer service skill.

Expérience négative: Me and my grandmother went to this ymca for me to play basketball and we are from out of town so i had To give our information to the front desk. After all my information got verified i was Trying to put my grandmother under the guest pass but Lisa (ymca worker) was saying that i couldnt use my guest pass but i can Use my membership. Left a sour taste in our mouths but we moved on my grandmother then asked them to remove her name and info off the paper for security reasons and Lisa started to give her attitude and was very snobby, but the facility was very good and has a very good basketball court.

Expérience positive: Nice gym with nice facilities however in the gym the amount of people loitering and wasting time and hording machines for pictures and some of them literally nap on it , is way too much . Alot of young adults that come in groups to have "fun" at the gym . Makes it much less practical to work out there especially with their really high rate

Expérience fantastique: The atmosphere is great and welcoming. Clean environment and friendly- knowledgeable staff. Instructors are very inclusive for people with different challenges!

Expérience négative: The children (teens) that hang around all afternoon and into the evening hogging machines and areas with large groups just screwing around and not doing anything correctly is the biggest downfall. Not to mention the signs listing rules ate like wall art now as nothing in it is followed or enforced. These kids are such a nuisance to those who actually wish to workout properly and not use it as an after school hang out. It’s hard enough to get many pieces of equipment let alone when they post up and share it with 11 of them or do their entire workout in one spot on one piece of equipment…..most employees do absolutely nothing in the weight room except change paper towel in dispensers, again no rules are enforced ever. Edit: I finally cancelled membership!

Expérience positive: Good place but there are no separate changing rooms (for man)...only bath room, so not too convenient when you changing your clothes after the swimming...

Expérience fantastique: Majority of the staff is amazing! It’s in a great location (despite nearly impossible parking situation). The facility itself is well maintained, it’s spotless and fresh smelling. I’ve utilized just about every portion of this extremely large rec centre. They’ll even give you a sweet deal on their membership prices if you any afford their set price.

Expérience fantastique: The facilities are new and always clean. There's a lot of amenities here and I really appreciate the price point. To me, this is way better than a regular gym membership.

Expérience fantastique: Beautiful facility, the plus change rooms are especially nice. Wish the towels were bigger but that's pretty normal for gym towel service :-) Great pool for lane swim

Expérience fantastique: Best place to be for activities and sports

Expérience fantastique: Great place to work out!

Expérience fantastique: Beautiful facility

Expérience positive: good

Expérience positive: Staff was helpful

Expérience fantastique: Not too much busy always

Expérience positive: Unfortunately the YMCA app and website do not properly communicate with one another.

Expérience positive: Very nice staff, sometimes pool seems overbooked with swim teams

Expérience positive: Great facility. Nice change room's.

Expérience fantastique: Insanely modern and deceivingly large YMCA. Location is prime and it’s rarely to busy to get a full workout in at your own pace.

Expérience fantastique: The place is very clean and friendly staff who always wear smile on their face. So many facilities like Gym, Swimming, Badminton, Basket ball, tennis courts along with community halls.

Expérience positive: Good looking brand new gym. I'm quite disappointed with the lack of weights in this gym. There is only one bench rack at this gym, which is ridiculous.

Expérience négative: do not recommend you to go to this place， there is a “super nice“ lady will be happy to band you for 2 weeks， just because your mask is on the tip of your nose. and if you want to cancel your card you will also have to pay the two weeks. so good luck if you gose or want to go to this gym

Expérience négative: Let’s get one thing straight: the staff are extremely nice and do a fantastic job! With that being said, there is one staff who always looks at me while I’m working out and tries to make conversation while I’m wearing headphones. I understand she is trying to be friendly but I have been ignoring her for 2 months and she still approaches me when I workout during night time. At this point it is getting creepy, and I don’t feel comfortable around her because she always stares at me. Secondly, on the deadlift floor this trainer came up to me and asked me to not make noise while deadlifting. What kind of stupid request is that? I wanted to tell her to show me how to control 400 pounds on the eccentrics. I don’t drop my deadlift but you are not supposed to hold on to the eccentric during deadlifts because it will cause injury. Lastly: why is the cardio floor and the weight floor the same size when 90% of the members go to the weight section while 10% only use the cardio? Terrible decision in my opinion, all that space can be used more effectively.

Expérience fantastique: Was at a few different gyms across halifax before the Y. I would recommend the Ymca any day! Clean facility, nice Gym and locker room. The basketball court is also really nice.

Expérience fantastique: My favorite gym in hali. Maybe because it's very community oriented. Also right on spring garden which is very convenient. It's also open till 10 on weekdays!

Expérience négative: My friend got suspended for putting his mask down before his workout, many people wasn’t even wearing their masks when they are spotting and walking around got only warnings. My friend canceled his mambership, but they tell him he still need to pay for 2 more weeks. So what ever he do, he had to pay them money. felt like he got discriminated for being asian.

Expérience positive: Clean and modern building. 10$ drop-in to access the whole facility. It doesn't get cheaper/easier than that. My only critique is that the gym seems to have been designed and laid out by people who don't lift weights. You could almost half the cardio area footprint in order to add some dedicated weightlifting platforms. The weightroom is spacious around the isolation machines but crammed around the freeweights and benches. It should be the opposite. Only one dedicated bench press rack. Not enough cables or even room around the few cables that are currently there. Cheers