Brandywine YMCA in Wilmington, DE, offers a comprehensive fitness experience tailored to all age groups. With a focus on community and wellness, this gym features a full range of exercise equipment, diverse fitness classes, and child care services. Each element at the YMCA is designed with inclusivity and accessibility in mind, ensuring a welcoming environment for members to engage in physical activities, learn new skills, or relax in the aquatic facilities.
Pros:
- Offering a wide array of equipment and facilities, including three swimming pools.
- Features a welcoming environment with friendly staff.
- Provides extensive fitness and aquatic programs suitable for all age groups.
- Hosts enriching summer camps and child care services, praised by parents.
- Accessible and inclusive, supports activities for members with disabilities.
- Multiple positive reviews highlight the clean, updated facility and the professionalism of the staff.
- Membership includes a variety of classes and access to modern gym facilities.
- Community-focused, offering financial assistance and special programs.
- Safe environment with well-maintained clean spaces.
- Staff are responsive and helpful in resolving issues.
Cons:
- Some members faced difficulties in canceling their memberships, reporting unexpected charges.
- Limited national reciprocity of membership, restricting access to other YMCA locations.
- Family swim hours in pools are often inconvenient for members with young children.
Description
Community-focused nonprofit established in 1844 with recreational programs & services for all ages.
Location / Contact
- Address: 3 Mt Lebanon Rd, Wilmington, DE 19803, United States
- Phone:+1 302-478-9622
- Website:ymcade.org
Rating Stats
Frequently Asked Questions
Except the peak hours, this place remains quite free or moderately crowded.
This business has a rating of 4.4-star.
This business has 60 reviews.
The address is: 3 Mt Lebanon Rd, Wilmington, DE 19803, United States .
The contact number is +1 302-478-9622
This service is listed under Gym .
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Kaitlyn Hu
11 months ago
I am deeply concerned about the safety measures at Brandywine YMCA summer camp. My child faced multiple distressing incidents, including being pushed into a pool despite not knowing how to swim and having water poured into his food. Another incident was another camper kicked my son’s eyes.When I approached the Camp Director about these issues, the response was unsatisfactory. Rather than addressing my concerns, the focus shifted to alleged misbehaviors by my child. Given the lack of responsiveness and the repeated safety issues, I’ve made the decision to withdraw my child for the rest of the summer.
BigCentric Sales
11 months ago
I signed up for a membership (free, they told me now that it was a free 2nd month free, whatever it was) back in Sept 2019. I used its swimming pool only once then and never used their facility at all since then. I have never received anything from them like a renewal notice or monthly newsletter whatsoever. As a result, I was not aware of being on their membership and they have kept charging the fee for years. I had a chance to review carefully my online credit card statements recently and found out that they have been "secretly" charging $102 monthly membership all along from Sep 2019. They have no interest in refunding the money they have charged. They make it challenging to terminate the membership as well. The two desk people I talked to failed to email me the membership termination request link with an incorrect email address even though I went over the email address several times with both of them. Davina Anderson, the manager there, finally confirmed that previous emails bounced back to them and and emailed me the request. She showed graciousness (?) by offering to have the membership terminated today 7/3/23 effective as of the end of June. Regarding the refund of all the back membership charges, she was talking about the fine prints of the contact which I might have signed with no knowledge of the details. How many people out there read all these fine prints that carefully unless the key issues being explained to them. This is a shame that they kept on secretly charging the membership fees with no knowledge for many members of what is going on unless the members pay careful attentions to each and every charge. This is a scam at its best for a so-called non-profit entity.
Daniel Yalisove
11 months ago
I go here for swimming lessons.
Julia S
1 year ago
The Barandywine YMCA is the best place I've ever been! Always clean, polite and friendly staff who are always ready to help, nice visitors. It is a very wonderful place to spend time with family, friends or just to relax and rest by yourself. What we liked the most is that they have 3 pools (2 inside and one outside), isn't that great? Today is my birthday and I received a wonderful greeting on this occasion to my side! What a beautiful place! I took the Membership for a year and I am sure that I will continue it several more times! Thank you for that great experience, Brandywine YMCA!!!
Drew Patel
1 year ago
Awesome gym, spacious rooms, plenty of treadmills, workout equipment, basketball court and pool lanes to workout in. They have plenty of squat racks and deadlift platforms that minimize wait times. They also have saunas to relax in as well. The staff is extremely welcoming and the gym crowd is very friendly and diverse.
Q. Gaines
1 year ago
Always a good time at the Brandywine YMCA! Child care services are awesome and available daily. All fitness center equipment is modern. Staff is friendly and available for help if needed.
Stephen Bell
1 year ago
Good gym, plenty of programs for kids and adults. Reasonable family pricing. Recommend 👍👍 …
Cesar
1 year ago
If this gym closed at 10pm it would be perfect
mike gallo
1 year ago
Had issues getting my membership terminated. Called back in January to have it terminated and was told everything would be taken care of. I didn’t noticed until April from my bank statement that I’m still paying $80 for the membership. So I called back to let them know what happened, just to be dismissed and told there’s nothing they can do about it. Thanks for stealing my money!
Mary Skaats
1 year ago
Great place to workout in a judgement-free zone, alongside people of all shapes and sizes. Staff is friendly and welcoming.