Mary Free Bed YMCA

Fantastic experience: I love all the free classes, coaches are very encouraging, locker rooms and the facility are always well kept! Great place to workout!

Fantastic experience: I took a water aerobics cardio mix class today. The instructor is wonderful!!

Fantastic experience: Great facility for a morning workout. It is a little more difficult to get onto machines later in the day. The staff is always friendly and helpful. The place is always clean and well maintained. I love my Y membership and I have not fully utilized it yet!

Fantastic experience: I simply love this place!!! Super friendly staff and everything is clean

Fantastic experience: Mary Free Bed is my happy place a few days ! I take Aqua Arthritis classes 3 days a week. The instructors are wonderful. Staff at this YMCA is excellent!

Fantastic experience: We have been taking swim lessons with Whitney Ferrell at the Mary free location and downtown GR. my daughter just turned five and she is such an amazing swimmer all thanks to Whitney. my 2-year-old son is currently also taking some lessons with her and he's also doing a great job. She's the best swim teacher out there.

Positive experience: This place is amazing. EXCEPT. The hours. I SO. WISH. that there were extended hours. As a full time college student and as someone with a job, it’s just not realistic to try to get in by 8pm when I have to be up early for classes and then work in the evenings. I wish that there were (high school and older) extended hours at night so I could actually get a workout in, too. Kids don’t need to be there. But this would be amazing for people who actually want to work out when they can. The hours alone make me want a membership elsewhere, which is unfortunate because it really is a nice place. If there were extended hours I would 100% be there twice as often and I would want to bring friends. If it was open till midnight… dang. I’d be there every day.

Fantastic experience: The Y is a great place to go to improve your physical health, and the facility at Mary Free Bed YMCA is designed to accommodate people with disabilities. This is great news for those of us who are less able-bodied than athletes.

Positive experience: I like the Y better than the downtown one. The pools are too small there. And it always smells like sweat. They should improve the ventilation.

Fantastic experience: Very clean, friendly, helpful staff when excerising, and arthritis class in the pool at 1 p.m. is the best for the instructor, who is so motivating, and the life guard keep a good look to make sure everyone is safe.

Fantastic experience: Never any broken equipment, well organized, very nice, helpful staff. Great facility!

Fantastic experience: Beautiful facility.

Fantastic experience: The pool is nice and refreshing the hot tub is great, up stairs All I have done is the bikes and treadmill but I enjoy doing them.

Fantastic experience: The facility is a very nice one. It offers a wide variety of equipment, classes, and programs. This Y also has two pools and a hot tub. Plus, they have a Kidzone.

Fantastic experience: This place has helpful, friendly staff and the facility is still looking new and smelling clean. Splash pool for children has been a great opportunity for grandparents to interact with their youngest grandkids. Just being able to walk the indoor track in icy weather would be wonderful for many of us stuck at home.

Fantastic experience: Clean facility. Helpful friendly staff

Fantastic experience: It's a beautiful place, all the equipments are clean and new, friendly staffs and I love going here.

Fantastic experience: Absolute five star level Quality, Community and Accessibility

Fantastic experience: Wonderful gym! Beautiful courts, track, pools, fields, and workout equipment. So many opportunities for classes and youth sports! I love how it is accessible for everyone, especially those with injuries or disabilities.

Fantastic experience: The best Gym that I experienced.

Fantastic experience: As a former user of this YMCA branch, I can say that this has great facilities. The track never gets too congested, and the pool is well-kept. Besides that, the locker rooms are very clean, and the sauna is a nice touch. The selection of cardio and weights is extensive.

Fantastic experience: But technically 1 star because earlier today I had leg day and boy lemme tell ya... In my youth (12 hours ago) walking up and down the stars was a breeze. Now I feel like a polio patient crawling up an down on my hands and knees. Granted, my glutes are getting major swole. But ladies, at what cost? Websters dictionary defines Mobility as "the quality or state of being mobile or movable". Folks, when your paddy cakes are a sore as mine, that is not the case. I've found it harder to do everyday things, like sitting, breathing, blinking and pooping. When will we stand against the atrocities of organizations like the YMCA who take your money and then subliminally force you to get heathy? Never! Because somehow I quite enjoy it.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic facility to workout in, with a large variety of equipment and ammenities.

Fantastic experience: Great facility, along with a great staff. Always courteous, one of the best YMCA’s I have been to.

Fantastic experience: The Mary Free Bed YMCA is a fantastic facility. I have been visiting this gym for over 2 years now and I have met some great people here, including the staff. The facilities are clean and offer a great range of amenities such as the basketball courts, pool, hot tub, and sauna. You will certainly not have issues with being judged or condemned by any of the staff. I highly recommend visiting their facility if you are a single individual or a family.

Fantastic experience: This place is great! It can be busy at times. I go first thing in the morning so we have the same group of what are now my friends that show up and keep each other accountable. They do a great job of trying to keep up with the padding wearing out on the equipment. Somethings may have a tear for a few weeks but they order new parts and fix them. The classes are exceptional and staff is super friendly!

Fantastic experience: Great place for seniors to work out and get connected to the community. Clean, plenty of equipment and helpers to get you started.

Fantastic experience: The best gym with all the amenities in one place. Would highly recommend.

Fantastic experience: Great staff. Very friendly. Equipment was clean and relatively new. Great experience. Would go again.

Fantastic experience: My special needs adult child had a dream of taking ballet lessons but due to coordination issues was never able to as a child. We found the beginner adult class at Mary Free Bed YMCA. She just started and she absolutely loves the experience and loves her dance teacher. The instructor is VERY supportive, encouraging and kind. Thank you Mary Free Bed YMCA and your instructor for giving this special girl the inspiration to dance!!

Fantastic experience: I have been to dozens of YMCAs, mainly in and around Michigan but also many across the country. This is one of the best, if not the best in terms of quality of facility, amenities, and equipment.

Fantastic experience: Amazing. Been family members for a week and have been very impressed. Family locker room and kid zone makes coming as a family a breeze. Pool is great, tons of cardio equipment, highly recommend!

Fantastic experience: Best YMCA i have been to all locker rooms are so clean so is everything else

Fantastic experience: One of our granddaughters plays outdoor soccer here. The fields are in great shape, the bathrooms are respectable and there's plenty of parking.

Fantastic experience: Easily the nicest YMCA facility I’ve ever seen. The staff is above and beyond friendly and willing to help. Their KidZone takes things to another level; the staff seems to genuinely enjoy kids and my kiddos have always enjoyed going and always say they had fun. Can’t recommend the Mary Free Bed YMCA highly enough

Fantastic experience: Definitely the best YMCA I've been to. Their indoor track is huge! They also have a foosball and ping pong table.

Fantastic experience: I like everything about this place except one thing. Can you guys get larger lockers in the Family locker room? When I take my son swimming I can't even fit a a small gym bag in them. I would like lock up my keys and phone, but can't. Everyone just throws their bag on top of lockers, run out of space quick. Your lockers in your women's locker room are much larger, why the downsize in here?

Fantastic experience: Beautiful facility with an abundance of modern equipment. Awesome staff. The best Y I've ever been to.

Fantastic experience: Good for out of town members! 10 visits free per year in one of the most beautiful Ys I've ever seen. Makes me want to move to Grand Rapids just to become a member.

Fantastic experience: Huge facilities and great daycare area for kids.

Fantastic experience: The group classes are amazing and the indoor track is clean. The staff is always super curtious and helpful. Love the place

Fantastic experience: Great facility, clean, new, plenty of options for equipment and variety. If I lived close I'd be a member in a heartbeat.

Fantastic experience: The Mary Free bed YMCA is extra-ordinarily good. I have visited some others Y's when out of town and REALLY see what a terrific YMCA facility and staff we have here in GR.

Fantastic experience: This is The Best YMCA in Greater Grand Rapids Area. Been to Rockford, downtown Grand Rapids ones and this is by far the cleanest and newest. I do like the Rockford machines better because they have timers between sets.

Fantastic experience: This place is busy - and it's busy for a reason. I've been visiting this beautiful facility for about 7 months. The staff have always been friendly and helpful. At 5 laps per mile, the track is fabulous! It's a fun distraction to see the kiddos enjoying daycamps during summer and other school breaks while I'm working out. My favorite thing? Seeing people of all ages and abilities in the same place, all working on goals like regaining mobility after an injury, or working to improve health and wellness through the many classes offered. I love this place!

Fantastic experience: Facility is clean and has just about everything. Staff is friendly and engaged. Great selection of available classes.

Fantastic experience: Kidzone is amazing. They know my 2 year old son by name and he has his favorites! Beautiful facilities, awesome toddler pool section and very clean locker rooms. Keep up the good work!

Fantastic experience: It's am amazing facility very well thought out open clean quite and very helpful staff.

Fantastic experience: This place is amazing! From the state-of-the-art facility to the very helpful and super friendly employees. I cant emphasize enough how WONDERFUL the YMCA Mary Free Bed staff members are!! From the front desk to the Kid Zone staff, fitness instructors and the janitorial staff. Happy friendly workers makes a difference in the customers experience and it does not go unnoticed :)

Fantastic experience: I love the ymca. It is near my home and I can bring my children there. It motivates me to workout.

Fantastic experience: Great new addition to the GRYMCA family! Be sure to visit the facility on a day pass...take a group exercise class!

Fantastic experience: Love working out there and my kids like going as well. Very nice, clean and always trainer's walking around to help with any questions or help with using the equipment correctly.