Auburn Valley YMCA

I love this YMCA because it offers so many opportunities for me and my family to exercise, learn, and have fun. The pool is one of the best features. It is surprisingly warm, clean, and well-maintained. The locker rooms and restrooms are also great. They have showers to use before getting in the water, and a family locker room and bathrooms for convenience. Outside the pool, there is a rock climbing and play area for the kids where the parents can relax outside next to a cozy fireplace and vending machines. The swimming lessons are great too. I’ve seen a lot of improvement in my child’s swimming skills and confidence. The only downside is that the slide is not always available, which can be disappointing for the kids. But overall, this is an amazing YMCA that I would highly recommend to anyone. 9.7/10 Amazing.

The Pros are: I really enjoy this gym, and people are very friendly there. I have no issue with anyone and I am there to workout. If you see a guy who sometimes wears a blue hat, that’s me. As mean as everyone looks or assumes you are, once you get to know people, they are good people to talk to and to ask questions about workouts. Like there was this one guy who came up to me last year showing me how to do deadlifts. I really appreciated that! He is a good guy! There’s also other recreational activities such as basketball and swimming which are pretty cool. I’m thinking of going swimming sometime next week.Cons: This gym seems like it getting more crowded everyday. 04 days ago, I had to wait almost an hour to use a machine that I wanted to use. The other issue is, the weights aren’t organized. I sometimes have really bad OCD and there are times where I just have to fix it. These are one of the times. One example is, a 10 LB weight is where the 35LB weight goes, the 35LB is where the 60LB goes, etc. There’s not enough room for all of the machines. A guy instructing weight classes had to use a machine that I was using, so I was kind of forced to get off the machine. Please make it better for people who actually go there to work out and not have people wait an hour on a machine. It isn’t as easy as last year going here. Way too many people.Anyways, yeah. I feel like I had to address that. This isn’t to call anyone out, it just to address the fact that it’s getting to tight of a space and that it needs to be sized up more.

(Update) The basketball court has just been re-coated with finish so it is finally clean and no longer slippery.I come here to play basketball every single day and have been coming since the end of 2010, and it has definitely been a journey.The fitness room is also great, and has as good variety of machines for both cardio, and weight lifting.There's less staff since Covid and they no longer offer towels like before.

They never answer the phone. Then when you try and sign up for swim lessons on the day the schedule is released every single class is full, I had alarms set and went to sign up at 6am. This is how it’s been the last two years. Absolutely ridiculous. 10/10 would not recommend wasting your time with auburn valley ymca.

This place is useless, I sign up for membership, but later my kids were not permitted in bigger 4 feet swimming pool or slide, although their height is over 5.5 feet. I cancelled it after a week. with this membership money you could buy swimming pools every month more deeper, cleaner and place it your yard.

I used the pool with my 10-yr-old during a weekend and was impressed by how clean and well-maintained the pool was. It had a good temperature, perfect visibility, and looked recently resurfaced on the bottom. Nice staff and attentive lifeguards too. Only downsides: soap dispenser in shower requires a lot of pumps (like 15) just to get a small dollop of soap. Also, some of the lockers were creaky. I didn't use any other services in the facility. (During covid, when Kent YMCA is closed, Auburn is open, and vice versa, so this isn't my regular YMCA.) Outside this YMCA there is a massive tower + ropes course that looks extremely fun.

Would be great if the power hungry life guards would actually let the kids be kids. They talk to you and the children disrespectfully. If you need my kid to move out of the way so you can do a swim test on another swimmer just ask them to move out of the way. You don't have to yell or be mean. Will not be returning.

The child watch women and men YMCA workers are mature adults who love the children that attend the YMCA. The front desk is exceptional. I suggest the cycling classes and Zumba classes. The facility is clean, nonjudgmental, and the community is culturally diverse. My only wish is that it was more updated in the gym.

Really great place for families to exercise, get to know new persons and find new activities. The staff is great and the child watch is really good the have more than two persons looking the children. And the adventure zone takes care of the older children.

The lifegards are so mean and ugly they are so strict they do not lat you have fun so BAD DO NOT GO THARE THE WORST PLAS ON EARTH.