This is a fantastic, clean, friendly community centre with a nice little pair of gymnasiums, games…read morerooms, and a sunny 25m. swimming pool. {--If Any Local Philanthropists Are Reading This: Please donate so they can afford to be open more!!--} Currently the lane swims in this pool TOTAL 5 hours a week. It sucks. I blame the city, of course. Support your local services!

Booked a day pool pass at the Sheraton. Was very pleased with the entire experience. They even gave…read moreus a tote bag with snacks and water when we checked in. The pool chairs are comfortable and come with large umbrellas to protect you from the sun. They even have a covered, semi indoor section. Changing rooms are a bit small with shower area and sauna. Overall a great experience. We easily spent half a day lounging by the pool. It got a bit busy by the evening.

This pool is stunning. It is a heated, indoor ourdoor pool that you can swim in all year round…read more It is pretty cool to swim in a warm pool surrounded by snow in January! There is a fitness center attached as well. The staff are friendly and it is never busy, which is great.

I can't say much for the swimming pool but this park is a haven for me. Even though it's a big,…read morehuge city, people tend to forget how green it is. Stanley Park isn't huge, but it's still beautiful and lush and green filled with swings and a jungle gym and seating and it's one of those places that really makes me feel like a kid again. It's located on a relatively quiet part of King West without a lot of stores or clubs or bars or restaurants around. It feels like this miniature forest stuck right smack dab in the middle of the biggest city in the country. I wish I had more time in my life to just hang out here, people watch and play on the swings. Ah, to be five again.

Ok. It's a neat neighborhood, a nice park, and the pool was uncrowded and clean…read more BUT be warned: there is some sort of slaughterhouse/meat rendering facility very near here, and on certain days the odor can be VERY noticeable. Not unbearable, but pretty darn bad. I guess it depends on which way the wind is blowing. . .

Nice community center where I come to play badminton during the weekends. It costs $4 to play from…read more3 pm to 5 pm, which is an awesome price, considering many other places charge anywhere from $6 to $8. There are 3 courts for badminton, and the same space is used for other sports. There is also a running track upstairs where you can run 19 laps, which is equivalent to 1 mile. There's also a nice swimming pool, along with an area for ping pong. I heard there is a workout room somewhere, but I have still yet to explore the rest of the facility. Just today I discovered some music rooms downstairs!!!! This community center keeps surprising me with new discoveries lol. The quality of this place is not too new, but it's not falling apart either. It is nicely maintained. The best part.... free parking lol.

This centre is a hub in the community. The staff are helpful and down to earth and costs are very…read morefair, given its a city centre. There's a small but smart weight room, great pool, gym with a new floor and lots of multipurpose and studio space. For new parents, families new to the area, or anyone who wants to get or stay active, it's the perfect place. My only criticism ever was with the kids karate instructor. He seems to like to make kids cry, seems to have a chip on his shoulder and in general isn't that good at karate. That's one minus in 3 years of pluses, so whatever.

The pool shallow end is really great good deepness and a lot of space there are 2 other shallow…read moreends one is a kid area or whatever and the other one is a hot tub its really good and the deep end OH MY!!! the deep end has a DIVING BOARD SLIDE AND ITS 15 FEET and the deep end has a shallower spot to chill in such a great pool wow.

Playing on water slides is my version of an extreme sport, and in my hood you can participate in…read morethe x games for free. That's right, Alex Duff is open until 8pm and it's completely free. This pool has a baby area, a winding shallow end, a deep end with a diving board and another shallow end that acts as the outpost for the best free water slide in all of the land. A tall, yellow winding water slide that can make a grown woman squeal with childish delight. Beyond all of this, the deck is huge with equal parts shade and sun and a lovely mixture of families and adults. It's far less busy than the pool at Bathurst and Dundas. Crap, I probably shouldn't have written this review, but it's OK, I'll share...

hi guys- newly retired HPODP staff here. some of the reviews do not do this pool justice, so I…read morefigured I'd share some staff-known things. - the pool is cold because it is old and does not have a heater - all the staff are friendly when approached, but please keep in mind that especially on hot and busy days we are all focused on those swimming, and making sure no one is in need of help -- if people have an RBF that doesn't mean we hate working or we are rude! - the website is not the pool staff's responsibility, trust me in the past we have constantly been trying to get the city to fix the websites - any closures are for health and safety related reasons, not because we don't want to work - believe it or not we actually love having the slide open, when we close it its usually due to understaffing/heat-related things/our protocols - the city has rules for the staff as well, especially in heat waves Believe me, we WANT to be there it was a great summer job for me and if I wasn't in an internship I would return!

Jeez, I guess this pool isn't usually that loved. I can't pretend to understand why, I had a great…read moreexperience here recently. During The Summer of Covid, no less! They run the pool in 45 minute cycles. 45 minute swims and then 45 minute cleans. Minimal changing rooms and bathrooms available (though there are still some) and no water slide. The pool capacity has been lowered to 100 so it's very easy to stay away from people. My four-and-a-half year old can't wait to return!

If you can get over the Soviet-era architecture, lack of natural lighting, "asbestos" warning…read moresigns, and maze-like interior, then Athletic Centre is right for you. It will make you an athlete and there's plenty of equipment and facilities to show for it. Membership is already included in your UofT student tuition, but you can always opt out. The gym features an indoor track/field house, dance and fencing studios, squash courts, and Olympic-sized pools. In spite of the intimidating, performance-athlete-only vibe that emanates from the front door, you can still get inspired by the many jacked powerlifters and kinesiology students that frequent the SCC (Strength & Conditioning Centre). In this glorious facility you'll find at least 5 squat/power racks (grab them while you can), sizeable weights, and lots of cable machines. One of the leg machines are always broken but IMO they're not the important ones anyways. The olympic weightlifting platforms are where the gold's at. If lifting's not for you, then take advantage of the free fitness and conditioning classes on offer, or the paid lessons for finer things like karate or fencing. They're lots of fun, taught by masterful instructors in their field, and open to non-students too. In fact, unlike the rest of University of Toronto, a class at Athletic Centre will actually equip you with real skills. -1 star because you don't want to die alone in here, where the sun don't shine; the older AC staff are usually grumpy (always approach the younger student workers); and there really should be more cardio machines.

I spent a bit over a year as a member of the University of Toronto Athletic Centre. It's a…read moreperfectly adequate facility if it's free with your tuition; however, paying it for it was quite a waste of money for me. Unfortunately, I left more disappointed than satisfied. The GOOD: If you like to swim, they do have a nice Olympic size pool. I think this is by far the best aspect of this facility with good dedicated lap swim time. Also, if you like running indoors in winter, they have a 200 meter track. Hours are also quite generous. The BAD: They only have something like 12 elliptical machines...this is for a campus of 80,000 staff and students. Prepare for the hassle of signing up and waiting. The locker rooms are dirty, crowded, and dingy. The weight room is a mixed bag: they have a lot of equipment, but it's undersized for the usage and filled with more meathead types. Not an environment I like. The facility is also very awkwardly spread out without much natural light...kind of depressing. The UGLY: No treadmills, no stairmasters...how can these staples of cardiovascular torture (I mean fitness) be completely absent? Classes like spinning or yoga cost extra and are not cheap. OVERALL, I went here because it was close to my office. The waits and lack of cardio equipment resulted in under-utilization. I also just never enjoyed working out here. I've switched to GoodLife and haven't looked back.

I recently started to go to Memorial for mom & baby classes (music, yoga) as well as preschool swim…read moretime with my little one. Overall I've really enjoyed coming to Memorial. It's relatively new, clean and modern. There's free parking, although during the day, the parking that faces the front entrance tends to be pretty full because it shares a lot with the Catholic school next door. However there is plenty of parking around the sides. The classroom is easily accessible on the first floor just past the information desk, and is nice and big - tons of space. The pool is very nice - it is accessible downstairs, so if you have a stroller you need to take the elevator down one floor. There are male and female change rooms, but also there's a family co-ed change room which is nice when I've come with my husband, we can be tougher getting our son changed etc. The change rooms are clean and pretty easy to use with a baby - plenty of benches to lay them down for a second while you get dressed. What's really nice is that you can not only bring your stroller into the change room, but you can also bring it onto the pool deck and leave it in a designated area, which is super helpful. The pool itself is pretty warm, and has a ramp which makes it easy to hold your baby while walking in. The only thing I don't like is the time for pre-school swim time, which is Thursdays at 1:45pm, smack in the middle of nap time. Who plans this stuff? The swim is free to do, and is a great way to get an epic nap from your little one. All in all, I really like Memorial. I just wish they'd fix the wheelchair automated doors to the exterior, they always stick and it makes it tough with a stroller.

clean, truly a health club at a community fitness price,…read more Toronto- Etobicoke residences are lucky to live beside this place, what a pool, gorgeous and clean change rooms , clean, big, nice equipment, half decent members, staff exellent. a shop downstairs where you can buy variety of professinal sport merchandise like swimming caps from $10 + . if you like swimming this is the place to go. free parking safe environment and clean .

As of July 2011…read more.. Alexandra Park pool water temp is COLD. I was told by a lifeguard that the pool is leaking, and to compensate they are pumping in fresh tap water 24/7. I repeat, the water is COLD. I'm a competitive swimmer and enjoy training in cooler water (70-72F) but this is kind of ridiculous. I would say it's not more than 63F-ish. Alexandra Park pool is 50 yards long. Weird and a bit rare to see that in North America anymore. All City of Toronto outdoor pools are all free for everyone to enjoy. The showers in the men's changerooms kind of suck, the shower heads should be replaced, they kind of spit out water everywhere else than on your body. Other than that, the changerooms are clean and spacious. Not sure about the earlier poster's comments about people being young and beautiful. The patronage reflects the diversity of Toronto much like everywhere else in the city. I didn't notice any pervs or skeevs, just local residents enjoying a free city pool. I'm a swimmer and come for adult lap swimming at night, and just might have been the grape smuggler to which she makes reference. It's much easier to swim 4000 yds in a speedo as opposed to board shorts.

Great location .Must love dogs! The area is known for dog…read morelovers. But I feel the City of Toronto should invest in this park. The bathroom open May 24...so the young men pee in the bushes! Women will go to the community center..but they close early on the weekend.