We love the pool here at Oriole, which is tucked away in a residential neighborhood…read more It's $11 for resident admission for the day and $13 for non residents. There is a VERY tasty Flash Taco stand here offering tacos ($5), burritos, nachos, and quesadillas ($14 for the supreme with meat). Cold drinks and Mexican paletas and ice cream bars ($5) also available! The pools are clean and well life guarded. There is a 15 minute safety break on the :45 of every hour, where anyone under 18 needs to get out of the pool. Two diving boards, one steep water slide, splash area for kids, lazy river, couple of lap lanes, and lily pad obstacle course over 4' water can all be found here. Lily pads were a hit with my kids last year, but now that they're a year older, stronger swimmers, and taller, they're not as challenging. Still fun though. Variety of aquatic amenities and the Flash Taco keeps us returning here! A Morton Grove gem!

If you have toddlers or kids under 10 . I think this place is perfect for you. The area is not big…read morebut enough for you to see your kids swim w no worries( make sure to have them in floaties for safety) as a mom of 2, 3 and 6 its hard to keep up, you are constantly running after them but for some reason i was feeling relaxed here.(no jk) we stayed for 3.5 hours. My son was able to go on the lily pads for a 100thx ..he had so much fun! . Theres a closer pool from us (centennial park)but they ddnt allow him to go on the lily pads because they dont allow kids with floaties..also they charge my 3 year old (resident) $9‍.. but in Oriole $0.. (NR).. def going back for more fun times w/my kids..

Review for Harrer Pool parties only: Don't. We contacted the park district 1 month prior to…read moreintended party date to pay deposit to secure the party room. After scheduling and paying deposit for the pool party and confirming we have 1 hour set up and 1 hour post party to clean up, we tried to contact the Harrer pool coordinator for room specs, table number, size, chairs and equipment availability so we know what we needed to buy or not buy..table covers wall decor and such. Nothing. Emails and phone calls not returned. Was contacted 2 days prior to party by the new coordinator only to be asked about the cake. Coordinator told my daughter, the birthday celebrant's mom, we had to be out of the room exactly at noon. We were pushed out at 1145.. why? They had their own party to go to. Will never opt for a party space that NEEDS to have a coordinator on site. Have used the field houses for parties before and will continue to use them again. OR will rent Oriole Pool party room and instead (as long as that particular "party planner" is NOT part of the deal) So terribly disappointed.

This review is purely for the 'open' volleyball Thursday nights. I've gone to the gym for years…read more The workers there are friendly and helpful. The older woman that looks to head this "open" volleyball seems to pick and choose when she would like others to take part. My friends and I have slowly started to participate in the open volleyball here, but have noticed that her attitude towards us participating is not very kind. We come from different suburbs in the Chicagoland area - not exactly close. But we're turned away because she felt that they couldn't let one more team play (even though other players told us we were welcome). Third week in a row we were given attitude while trying to take part in "open" volleyball. I would suggest MG park district try to come up with a sign up sheet or better method of signing up to partake in "open" volleyball. Because if I have to travel from far to only be told I cannot play, it should not be called "open" volleyball. We would have made other arrangements to play had we known we would be told we cannot play there. Instead we wasted 45 mins trying to arrange another court to play. Unprofessional and rude.

Great for the kids & adults, food wasn't the best but hey wasn't the worse. Will be going back this…read moresummer.

I have been going to Flick for two years to do water aerobics. This location has 5 pools. Excellent…read morefor smaller kids and even better for the teens. Staff is always gracious and friendly. Lots of lifeguards around each pool. Busy early in the morning when the day campers arrive. I would recommend arriving around 1pm. They have an onsite cafe that serves food for a cost. The summer goes by fast. Enjoy this location as much as you can.

Nice outside pool- kid friendly and adult friendly - they have day passes and season pass…read more Kids from ages 1 month to 75 years old - three different pools and a water slide and kids wading area

First time here today and can say I liked the pool. Actually, there are 3 pools. Doesn't matter how…read moreold your child is, you can definitely find the one which is the best for his/her age. There is one big slide, but the child has to reach certain high in order to use the slide. If you are hungry, there is small shop where you can buy some food or ice cream. Not sure what the choices are, but saw a line in front of it. Also, if you are not Park Ridge resident, the price of ticket is higher. All in all would recommend this pool.

The place is so ghetto. The people there are so rude because the people that were PAID to be in…read morewhile I had a membership they were trying to physical fight my sons. even as far as chocking my sons and pressing them. On the other hand they went as far as using tactics to fight my son. This place should be sold and gone. Not to mention the people are repeatedly being rude to my kids and other people ( I know this because my son's friend of friends told their parents to tell me). This place is just so out of hand and should not be here much longer.

I saw a thread posting about swim lessons recently, so I figured I should write about where I take…read moremy kids. Schumacher Natatorium is the swimming pool facility within the Park Ridge Community Center located at Centennial Park on the corner of Touhy & Western, maybe a mile west of the uptown Park Ridge neighborhood. When my 3 year old Stunt Boy developed a love of water parks over the summer, we decided it was an opportune time to introduce him to swimming. We decided to sign him up for the 18 month-3 year old Water Babies. The programs here run the gamut from infant Water Babies to senior citizen exercise classes. The Park Ridge Park district really has a great facility, which is their crown jewel and their newest building. The locker room is always very clean. There's a separate closed-off dressing area within the locker rooms for families, in case dads bring little girls to class or moms have little boys. Lockers are free, just leave your ID at the front desk. There's also piles of blue towels for the taking, so you don't even need to bring your own. There's a big pool, with depth ranging from 3 feet to 7 feet and 4 lanes wide. Then there's a kids' pool with a 3'-6" depth, a fast current area, and a shallow wading pool with a very basic water slide. The pool itself is always the right temperature every time we've come -a perfect 78 degrees. And the floor around the pool is nice and balmy too, so you aren't freezing. The lifeguards on duty keep things orderly, making sure there's no horseplay or unsafe activities going on. A pool manager is constantly on the scene with a clipboard in hand, making sure everyone who's got a class goes to the right place. Since multiple classes take place simultaneously at various parts of the pool(s), it's sometimes hard to see where you belong, especially on the first day of a class. No problems here. The instructors are great with the kids. Most of them seem to be high school age or maybe starting college. One of them has really gotten to like the Stunt Boy, who progressed from Water Babies to Preschool Paddlers to Mighty Minnows in just 3 months. Totally fearless in the water, he's ready to do the cannonball if they would ask him to. Some of the classes allow the kids to advance to the next level as they learn within the class, like the "Learn to Swim" class my 6 year old son takes. It has 6 separate levels, with all classes taking place at the same time, just in various parts of the big pool. As kids master the needed skills, they move on to the next level. In all, it is a really great program and I wish I had a place like that in Chicago when I was growing up, as no city park or YMCA offered this well-organized and well-managed swimming program.

We are rejoining after taking a break for a few years. Facilities have been upgraded since 4 years…read moreago. That's a plus. Super responsive team. They were very helpful setting up my partner with steps moving forward to get his health in check. Seemed genuinely engaged. A change I did notice is that they now charge you if a guest comes to use the pool. I think that's a poor policy. For $280/mo it would be 3 of my guest passes to bring my kids and then charge me an extra $45 for them to go to the pool with me once? Anyway. Other than that, I am excited to be back.

Tbe pros: close to my house. Th pros: The staff is unfriendly very rude. Cleanliness is…read morequestionable as there is always tissues in unused stairmaster or treadmill. Lockers get stuck and locked so you have to call unfriendly staff Which is uncomfortable because they look like they don't want to be there. Meditation clas is anything but relaxing with an instructor just scolds you even if you cough. Th showers are never clean.ive been to othe lifetimes where they actually vacuum the showers this location does not.

I went to this gym once. It's got a nice atmosphere and some new expensive equipment. But it has…read moremore older machines than other la fitnesses I've been to

Rude staff and manager. Monday's aquafit class canceled with no explanation or information. (And no…read morereturned calls after numerous messages). Women's locker rooms are always dirty.

Huge shoutout to manager Joe at LA fitness for helping me resolve a membership issue that has been…read morefrustrating me for a while. From the moment I explained the situation, Joe was patient, professional & genuinely willing to help & he resolved the issue!! Thank you Manager #1 Joe

This is a fairly new LA Fitness. It replaced the location on the 2nd floor of the strip mall (the…read moreold Bally Total Fitness). Being a newer facility, everything is spotless and in good working order. The only negative is that there is no hot tub or sauna here. (The old one had both.)

We had our daughter in park district swimming classes but she wasn't making progress. At Foss she…read morebecame more comfortable and confident, and after a couple years now swims considerably better than I do.

I am truly sad and disappointed in our Foss experience at Elmwood Park. When we started at Foss,…read morethe quality of instruction and kid-friendly environment made it worth the steep price. Our son loved his lessons. However, several major factors have caused us to pull our son out mid session. This year, Foss stopped offering any make up sessions. To us, this was unreasonable as the current session is 13 weeks long and the price is $30 for a half hour. Instead, Foss offers family swim as a substitute for a make-up lesson, which books out months in advance. Other swim schools offer tokens for make up sessions as inevitably, very few families are available for 13 weeks straight. We also experienced a major lack of communication with management. Nobody answers the phone. We missed a session once and when we arrived the following week, the building was closed. There was nothing on the website or any form of communication to inform us of this closure. When I called and asked why the building was closed I was told that there had been a note on the door the previous week (the week we missed.) Most unfortunately, the quality of swim instructors at Foss varies widely. Although our three teachers before this session were great, our most recent teacher wasn't in the pool when class started, had 4 year old kids sitting on the step for long periods of time, and put the kids in time out if they moved to the other end of their lane for their turn. Of course the top priority is safety, but she never showed the children what she expected of them. I'm still not sure how they were expected to get to the other side of the lane for their turn. I had to stick up for my son when the teacher put him in time out for moving down the lane. During the first class with her, my son only swam for 10 minutes total, as the kids sat on the step for the first 10 minutes, played games for 5 minutes and were sent out of the pool early. This is not acceptable when classes cost about $1 per minute. When I spoke with the manager about my concern, another mom was doing the same thing about the same teacher. Instead of listening to me, the manager said she'd call or email me the next day, but I never heard from her until I followed up a few days later. If I were the manager, I would be interested in knowing why families were ending their sessions. Overall, this lack of communication, and poor teacher experience is no longer worth the high cost (and parking nightmare.) We were hoping to keep our son (and eventually enroll our daughter) at Foss as there are few swim environments close to us that are as kid friendly. We know a lot of families at Foss who have had great experiences, but unfortunately, it was not for us.