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St. Paul Eastside YMCA is a local gym located at 875 Arcade St, St Paul, MN. This facility offers a variety of features, including a swimming pool, sauna, steam room, and basketball courts. While the staff is generally friendly and helpful, the gym often feels outdated and lacks some essential equipment. It is especially appreciated by the local community for its welcoming environment and adherence to COVID safety protocols.

However, some members have raised concerns about the cleanliness of the locker rooms, the condition of the equipment, and how staff handle their duties. Despite these issues, it remains a favored spot for families due to its facilities and friendly atmosphere.

Pros:

  • Friendly and helpful staff.
  • Good swimming pool and basketball courts.
  • Clean and well-maintained facility.
  • Separate locker rooms for families and individuals.
  • Good adherence to COVID safety protocols.
  • Welcoming environment.
  • Convenient location for the local community.
  • Offers sauna and steam room.
  • Available childcare services.
  • Varied equipment for workouts despite some limitations.

Cons:

  • Outdated facilities and equipment.
  • Cleanliness issues in locker rooms.
  • Concerns about the staff's customer service in some instances.

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Reviews (20)

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Becoming increasingly frustrated with the cleanliness of the family locker room. The floors are always dirty in the showers. No one wants to drive home nasty sweaty or chlorine pool wet, so showers are a given after working out and/or swimming. Another irritation is when a grown person (usually men) are in the family locker room by themselves. When I am there without my boys, I use the individual locker room and these grown people should too. Family locker rooms should be used for people with families not someone who wants to hold up a shower for 20 minutes and stare at my kids as they dry their swimsuits. Otherwise the equipment is well maintained and the pool is pretty clean.

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I tried to come redeem a 5 day trial but felt completely unwelcome. They pulled up my file and saw that I paid to go swimming at a different location & apparently used a free pass years ago, which I don't remember, and then started questioning me about actual intentions on getting a membership and abusing the trial pass system. Kind of sad, not much places to stay fit on the Eastside and this is how they are treating people.

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I gave this gym a 1 star because of the workers. They are the worst and most of them need to be fired for example Analin Haley is the member service director she never picks up the phone when you need an appointment and she acts so sassy …

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The staff here is friendly AND helpful (unlike most of the staff at the #ymcamidway location)! The facility is outdated and not as "comfortable" feeling as some of the other locations and the pool area is way outdated. The clientele is mostly retired seniors so there's typically never any of the reckless eyeballing from guys that I experience at other gyms. All in all it's a good place to go for a good #workout 👍🏿💪🏿#thatsthereal #realreviews #fitnessreviews #gymlife #reviews #mpls #saintpaul #minnesota #minnesotareviews #mnreviews #thereal

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Staff is great, perfect location for us as it's close to home BUT our only complaint is that little kids are allowed to run around screaming while we do our exercises. Roommate is blind so he relies on his hearing a lot and although it's understandable that it's going to be noisy, he can get used to everything but the sudden screams of unruly kids in his face. We haven't said anything to the staff as we're sure this place is more for kids than grown men. We go late in the evenings mostly now and don't swim any more.

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Would be a great place but the staff here are racist. My beautiful clean kids were told not to swim because they were dirty. I was shocked. All other colors went on with no issue. I never went back since.

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Front desk stuff very helpful. Enjoying pool, sauna and steam room . Bummed no jacuzzi. Child care workers are the best. Love shallow to deep pool for my children. I enjoy lap swimming.

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This is the best Y in the Twin Cities. Everything is clean and the people truly care about people there. I have been going here for 3 months and before that we tried 4 other locations in the TCYMCA group. This is where we will be staying and feel connected most.

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A very nice "Y" with about everything your expect at the YMCA, except a whirlpool. But there is a sauna and a steam room, along with various strength training equipment, pool, cardio room, add separate locker rooms for kids, adults, and 1 for families

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I would like if they made the water slide available more often during the day. It seems it's almost never on when I am there and the staff don't even like to turn it on of you ask while they just sit there anyway..

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Except the peak hours, this place remains quite free or moderately crowded.

This business has a rating of 4.1-star.

This business has 20 reviews.

The address is: 875 Arcade St, St Paul, MN 55106, United States .

The contact number is +1 651-771-8881

This service is listed under Gym .

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