This place was so awesome for the family. Has various pools, hot tub, warm pool for toddlers, wave pool, sauna, steam room, diving pool with varying heights, lap swim pool. Very reasonable prices. Worth checking out! Staff are friendly and watchful. read more

I have nothing to say except wonderful things. The facility is lovely and staff are helpful. I had a very scary scenario on Sunday afternoon where my three year old hit his head. The lifeguards and supports were excellent. They were efficient and thorough in assisting my toddler and I. They provided great care until the paramedics arrived. I am forever grateful! read more

Amazing facility. So why the locker hassle? Need your googles? Buy another locker token. Need your shampoo? Buy another locker token. Who wants to walk out to the front desk dripping wet? They warn that there have been thefts - no kidding, it's probably because it's too much hassle to keep your stuff locked up. Vancouver community centers refund your quarter. The Y lets you access your locker all you want. PLEASE just raise the rates by 50c and make the lockers free. read more

For swimmers (and for parents in search of a diversion for their spawn) this place is outstanding. The aquatic center is absolutely badass, with five-?-if memory serves me-competition-sized pools and one amply sized kiddie wave pool with a pirate ship structure and a wild corkscrewing waterslide. It's the shit. Prices are crazy low (I think it was like $4.50 for use of both the gym and the aquatics center; they have monthly fees which I'm also told are very reasonable. It'll set you back a quarter to get a locker token, but it's Canada, so...you know. No one's gonna touch your stuff, because that would be wrong. In other news, I have never seen so many white people. Returning to the facilities, they have a great handle on what happens in which pool, and they vary their temperatures intelligently. The aggressive lap-swim pools are kept cooler; when I was there, three were occupied with competitive club teams and a synchronized swimming group (this sport freaks me out, but that's ancillary). The pool they used for laps had a swim club in the first three lanes, leaving another 3-5 lanes for lap swimmers. It was a weekend day and I had a lane all to myself. The pool's cooler temperature was perfect for brisk swimming without overheating. Afterward, you can relax in the hot tub (which does get a bit full). Happily, there's an additional hot tub just for the kiddos and their parents (the temperature is not as high, which is safer for younglings). I think this place is nirvana for swimmers, but I will say they do the unwelcoming cattle-style showers I really don't like, and the locker room is not particularly large for such a large facility (and it is just an open, cement-floored room). I wish they'd put a little bit of love into their locker rooms; it makes a difference psychologically to have a bit more privacy or locker rows with movable benches, that type of thing...also some floor mats might be useful, as the floor doesn't drain perfectly and I nearly bit it hard when walking in from the showers, as the floor was wet and very slippery. On the entry level of the facility there's a little bare-bones cafeteria/coffee shop with Wifi. The gym portion above is decent, though it's clear that the priority for space allotment here was the aquatics offerings. The gym overlooks the pool, which is kind of fun, and the cardio equipment, while adequate, is nothing to wax poetic about (although the treadmill I was on felt pretty stripped down, it did have a built-in iPhone charger, however). There's a good selection of free weights and a mix of older and newer exercise machines. Because it's in Canada, people are friendly and mind their own business, so it's an unswervingly polite experience. read more

Love this place to work out and swim. Great prices and up-to-date fitness centre. We come here every day.

This pool has so much potential. But it really needs an upgrade in many areas. 1. Price for a swim is $7. plus 25 cents for a locker key. Really? Locker keys? That means people here who don't want their valuables stolen (there are signs everywhere reminding people to secure their belongings, and signs telling you not to leave anything in your car either- also at risk of break in,) have to buy a locker key and coin. You cannot use your own combo or key lock. So, now you have to use your locker coin to put in your belongings, and then have a giant key on a giant bobby pin to take out to the pool deck. (I will not stick a pin through my bathing suit!) Then when you return to the locker room, you have only one chance to open your locker - you cannot RE-lock it. So if you want a shower or need to use the washroom or dry your hair, etc - you have to leave the locker unlocked and out of your sight. So why the heck did I pay 25 cents? This system is so antiquated it's embarrassing. 2. Hair dryers. Most pools that cater to adults who swim have dryers on the wall for hair drying. A lot of people, especially women, have long hair, so this is a fairly important issue in the design of a locker room. Not at this pool. There are exactly TWO hair /hand dryers in the locker room. One is at waist level and the other is about 7 feet high and in the corner by a wall and mirror, making it extremely awkward to dry my hair. And both of them are in the narrow hallway that runs between the showers and main locker room. Brilliant.Yes there is one plug for your own hand held dryer. But hey, I am bringing a towel, a swim suit, flip flops (to prevent athlete's foot and other fungal diseases) swim cap, lotion, shampoo, wallet, phone, etc. They want me to port my own hair dryer too? 3. Showers. I haven't seen a shower this old in a long time. There is a wide open space the size of a large walk-in-closet with 7or 8 shower heads. If you have any shyness or privacy issues, this is NOT the place for you. I've been an athlete for 40 something yrs - so I'm not so shy about locker rooms. But there are a lot of people who would be uncomfortable with this arrangement. Women with scars, colostomies, breast issues, of certain cultures, using tampons, or just plan shy might not shower in places like this. A couple walled or curtained stalls would be respectful and appreciated. There are also no benches for people with mobility issues to sit on for comfort or safety reasons. How is this even legal in this day and age? 4. Rules and Regs PHONES in locker room - DO NOT bring smart phones with cameras into a locker room with naked people including children! Victoria needs to get with the times and start enforcing this. SHOWERS - Take one BEFORE you enter the pool! And enforce this! SWIM CAPS - WEAR one if you have long hair. Nothing is grosser than getting someones long stringy hair between your fingers or caught in your goggles. Enforce this! There are many pools all over the world that have hygiene standards in keeping with public places where folks get naked, swim, wash and use toilets. There is no reason why in Canada our hygiene standards have to slip because someone's feelings might be hurt. This facility is not as clean as it should and could be. One day I saw a naked woman sitting on the sink counter (eww!) using a smart phone. Yes, really! 5. POOL There is a diving section, a kiddie section, a 25 m lap/aerobics section and a 50m swimming area. This is great. However, despite teh schedule being online, their own policy suggests you call EVERY time you go for a lane swim in case the schedule is usurped by a swim team or competition. Nothing like driving all the way there, paying $7.25, changing into your swim duds, and finding out you have 15 mins to swim instead of your usual 45. Other than that, the water quality is quite good, and rarely are the 50 m lanes crowded. At times the deep end 25 m section is quite crowded. 6. LIFEGUARDS I've seen them gazing into outer space, cleaning and contemplating their fingernails, and literally watching as two people doing back-stoke collided in a swim lane. (My frantic pointing did not help.) This is a life-saving JOB. They can be a bit slack here. That said, some of them are excellent. Some more on-the-job refresher training and supervision might be in order. I'll continue to go here because there is no other 50m option within a 40 km radius of my home. I'd like to see this place cleaned up and set the standard for public pools instead of barely making the minimum standards. read more