Physical Activities Complex (PAC)

Expérience fantastique: Great place to write final exams!!!

Expérience fantastique: Great place!! It's really convenient when living on campus. It's very clean and really nice!

Expérience fantastique: Lots of space, I'm talking about the spring term tho ahaha, but a really good gym. I love it.

Expérience positive: Spacious

Expérience positive: Love coming here for my kids swimming lessons. Just wish parking was a little easier.

Expérience positive: Great gym and other facilities. (Pool, basketball court, etc) Lots of room. Gym could use some more equipment.

Expérience positive: 1- Long opening time 2- Concentration of equipment in a large building

Expérience négative: Many of the athletics staff have been rude and unhelpful in my experience. Whether it is a lack of training or care I am not sure but it promotes unhealthy gym culture for students. This makes me feel unwelcome and I have acquired a membership at an external gym.

Expérience négative: Put more pec flies in there jesus christ and fix your showers

Expérience positive: It's always PACked

Expérience positive: UW need to build a new gym, don't go at 8pm unless u want covid

Expérience fantastique: It has been a long time since my visit. What a beautiful facility.

Expérience positive: REALLY CROWDED. Also, a lot of the men here have terrible gym etiquette (interrupting sets, being boisterous and loud, not wiping equipment etc). Plenty of platforms and equipment in general, machines are somewhat disorganized. Small freeweights area, but at least there's 2. I only come here because it's conveniently on campus, I have a membership at my gym in my hometown that I would much rather go to.

Expérience positive: Good service

Expérience fantastique: absolutely beautiful place. total staple for any waterloo student to either get a nice lift or swim in, maybe shoot some hoops or play volleyball or just chill with the guys! this place turned me from a boy to a man, lot of late nights and early mornings pumping iron , setting spikes and tying up the kyrieeeees (he’s a goof now tho )

Expérience positive: Busy

Expérience positive: The new renovations are a welcome addition. The new equipment and gym layout are top-notch. The main issues are with overcrowding. PAC is always busy with teams, clubs and people working out. It's really hard to consistently find open squat racks and benches. The locker room washrooms are quite rough too

Expérience fantastique: Love this gym. 3 floors, always enough equipment. Gets full at peak times like 4-5, but you can use whatever machine you want within 2 mins of waiting. Tons of bars for squats/deadlifts platforms. Tons of benches for bench press and more. Lots of cardio machines. As expected from a university campus, but better than CIF. Only issue is that it closes around 10. I would love for it to be 24 hours.

Expérience positive: basketball court was fine to play at ball takeout was easy to do using the watcard lots of nets were available to choose from, even then the court was pretty empty most of the time. often had a net or two side by side for games to play on. court was clean and did not feel dusty nets were clean. very good choice to play at when it is raining outside

Expérience fantastique: Clean, new equipment, and a very clean pool facility.

Expérience fantastique: 10/10. Best place on campus to write an exam.

Expérience positive: Gym is too hot

Expérience fantastique: Almost all in one location, a great place to work out.

Expérience fantastique: OUA 2022 Badminton Championship at University of Waterloo, waterloo, Ontario.

Expérience fantastique: Clean facilities and nice gym, great place unless you're writing an exam there

Expérience positive: Where's the yellow guy?

Expérience fantastique: I like so mouch, in the gym are profesionals machines, very clean and organize.

Expérience fantastique: They have complete set of fitness equipments, first and second floor. Ranging from dumbells to cable machines. They also have olympic size swiming pool, but you need to reserve a spot/lane first on the website.

Expérience négative: Nice facility. Directions to the only available entrance unclear. Staff not so welcoming to newcomers. Convenient location on campus.

Expérience fantastique: 5/5 failing my exams here but at least it's sorta pretty?

Expérience fantastique: Enjoyed Convocation 2019 here as we cheered on our Engineering grad. It is amazing how many people will actually fit in this space.

Expérience fantastique: Good when it's not exam season.

Expérience positive: Really compact, doesn’t have much equipments. Is usually crowded

Expérience positive: Great service and location. Slightly overcrowded due to construction and temporary relocation.

Expérience positive: Very nice convocation

Expérience positive: I mean its a gym and then you write your exams there so minus one star

Expérience positive: Went to my first gathering at University of Waterloo in this building. Lots of construction going on so a bit tough to get around.

Expérience fantastique: Nice place

Expérience fantastique: Looked good

Expérience fantastique: squash is here

Expérience fantastique: Super active

Expérience fantastique: It is the place where you screw yourself.

Expérience fantastique: Would write exam here again

Expérience fantastique: Great sports complex.

Expérience fantastique: Need more facilities like this

Expérience fantastique: Great seating to watch a basketball game

Expérience fantastique: Place where the orientations, final exams are held.

Expérience fantastique: Good place to workout other than cif

Expérience positive: Scary exam center

Expérience positive: Amazing equipment. Could have more

Expérience fantastique: Great sports complex.

Expérience positive: I fill trapped under the ground. No fresh air no feeling of light.

Expérience positive: Perfect place to work out and play games and swim but exams are also held here so not the best.

Expérience positive: I have exam depression from this place

Expérience positive: You might get hepatitis from the gym here, but you’ll also make legit gains

Expérience positive: The complex map is literally the worst you can imagine. It's like a maze, with doors that are either locked, or too heavy to be opened easily. There are not enough direction signs on the walls of the building and it can be quite confusing to navigate, especially for the new students. The pool doesn't have enough changing rooms with appropriate privacy for ladies, and the lockers are almost only usable when you pay for the locker service in addition to your membership fees. Despite all the negative things about the PAC building, I really enjoy the swimming classes so far and they are the only reason I go to this complex every week.

Expérience négative: I hate writing an exam here

Expérience positive: Making some major renovations. Would love to come.back in a year or 2 when they are complete.

Expérience fantastique: Good place for workout and playing basketball volleyball squash and badminton

Expérience fantastique: Pump iron get big

Expérience fantastique: Here for Waterloo Provincial Competition of Robotics. Awesome experience Al these little ones with so much potentials in them. Best of luck all teams

Expérience positive: The place fight for final...

Expérience positive: It's a pretty big complex with a swimming pool, a big court, and an actual gym with workout equipment. There are also squash courts available. The reason for the four star is because this isn't the biggest activity complex available to students. The CIF gym is the biggest at Waterloo, yet PAC is pretty good still.

Expérience négative: Good choice for graduate ceremony

Expérience négative: Always loud and inconvenient. You either come here to exercise or do exams... and then hopefully you eventually graduate here. But the main issue is the accessability of the building

Expérience positive: Under construction right now and difficult to use- I'm sure it will be fantastic when it is finished!

Expérience positive: A little outdated, but that should change when the expansion is finished.

Expérience positive: Okay gym as far as universities go

Expérience négative: Literally just gives me PTSD from first year exams 0/10 would not recommend

Expérience positive: Great place to workout also known as the hell of exams

Expérience positive: Wow - many ways to get fit.

Expérience positive: Desperately needs updated.

Expérience fantastique: Regularly visit to keep you fit and fine

Expérience fantastique: Facilities are mostly underground, but they have many squash courts and the gym has a lot of equipment.

Expérience fantastique: Older gym, but it still has all the necessities you need, not a ton of workout machines but staff is always very friendly.

Expérience fantastique: Can't wait for the renovation!

Expérience fantastique: If you wanna workout and know what to do go here

Expérience fantastique: It does exactly what it was built for.

Expérience fantastique: A little bit old, but supplies with gains no matter what

Expérience fantastique: Hands down the best gym in the area for serious lifting.

Expérience fantastique: Great Convocation in Oct.21, 2016

Expérience positive: Old equipment however everything you need for a good workout is available. Decent size. However ceiling is a bit low.

Expérience positive: The expansion will be amazing.

Expérience positive: The weightlifting gym is like a tomb, but there's sufficient equipment there. Nice basketball court and pool. Squash courts and studios available. They really should be checking watcards to thin out the crowd.

Expérience positive: Need to include a map on where things are located as it can be very easy to get lost.

Expérience positive: Best gym in UW. Not as much equipment as CIF but far less busy

Expérience positive: Decent. The swimming pool is really small though.

Expérience positive: Decent facilities, could use a significant update as it feels like the 70's in there most of the time.

Expérience positive: Not glamorous but gets the job done

Expérience positive: The PAC is the older of the two gyms on campus. It has squash courts, a full gym, a pool, and a bouldering wall to name a few of the features. Most features are open to UW students at no additional cost. Being a member of the outers club will gain you access to the bouldering wall.

Expérience négative: Facilities are decent, but quite outdated. The building is dreary and all looks the same so you will get lost. Some staff are quite moody and not very helpful.

Expérience positive: Very old building, too enclosed in my opinion since you can't really see outside, except at the entrances. Gym is a good alternative to the usually crowded CIF.

Expérience positive: Great gym setup, especially with the HPZ. No AC though, but its not that bad.

Expérience négative: Poor facilities, sports are often at bad hours, and they refuse to have drop in volleyball but are willing to set up badminton

Expérience positive: Indoor courts, gym, squash and 25 m. swimming pool. Big shower area i/ sauna

Expérience négative: Pretty small and always packed. Go to CIF

Expérience positive: Great community feeling at the gym, people are very friendly and supportive. Most people will be happy to give a spot or tips if you ask. Only people who don't fit this description are the football team players who occupy the vast majority of the gym some mornings.

Expérience positive: Good place to swim and work out.

Expérience positive: The complex is old and invokes a lot of stress cuz most finals are here.

Expérience fantastique: The PAC.