The Dow Bay Area Family Y is NOT very family friendly. They discriminate against mothers, fathers and children. I have been a member of the Y for almost ten years and since the move to the new facility, families and children have been just an afterthought. The Y provides beautiful accommodations and work out areas for adults equipped with saunas, lounges, television, etc., in both the men's and women's locker rooms, but the family locker rooms are almost prison-like and substandard. They have only six changing rooms, compared to the hundreds of lockers and space in the adult locker rooms. They have no sauna or shower access. They are cold, mildew filled title floors. The only thing that children can actually access for fitness is the pool and even the lifeguards discriminate against children. There is no fitness area that is provided for children. There is only limited child care. Any parent who wants to actually be physically fit after paying the membership and monthly fees has only limited availability and usually has to find outside daycare just so they can work out. Limited fitness hours, lack of child care and poor amenities are the best that the Dow Bay Area FAMILY Y can do? Funny that they gladly take many families' membership money but don't care enough about those families to provide the same accommodations and fitness programs as they do for adults without children. This is exclusion and discrimination at its worst...which is a poor reflection on Dow and the YMCA/YWCA organizations. I recommend that you not become a member if you have children and actually want to use the facilities. read more