YMCA Alaska

Fantastic experience: Very clean and friendly gym! I am impressed with the variety of cardio and strength equipment. Definitely all you need to get a great workout. Also can’t beat the YMCA membership prices!

Fantastic experience: Great view of the mountains while working out in the spacious gym upstairs.

Negative experience: Terrible! The staff don’t help at all. I asked the front where the “youth workout room was” because the lady at the front told me my kids could workout in the “youth room.” I literally just signed in as a guest and it was my first day. They told me “go upstairs” I asked the guy upstairs at the desk “where is the youth area for my kids to workout?” Told him that it was our first day and that the lady at the front told me to come upstairs for the youth room. He told me “go downstairs and talk to the front” at this point it was completely just frustrating that no one would help or actually tell me where said “youth room” for my kids to workout in was and or show me where it was. Literally my kids and I just left without working out. Extremely frustrating to come to a place to workout and the staff won’t get off their butts to actually tell you and show you where stuff is. We never found the “youth area” that they told us about since no one would show us after asking 3 staff members about it.

Negative experience: I just experienced such an awful situation at the YMCA of Anchorage in Lake Otis. My son, who is autistic, and his neurotypical sister were both enrolled in the preschool swimming class. The first class was last Monday, June 2nd, at 6 p.m. My autistic son was very excited, and yes, I admitted he didn’t have the best listening ears, but he loves the water. So we showed up today to the class after talking to him about the importance of listening due to safety. He was ready to listen this time. We arrived 15 minutes early, and he sat quietly and waited for his lesson to start. As we walked to his instructor to take them to the pool, she told us that we needed to see the manager, Steve, who showed up right there at the poolside and started to talk. He told us that we needed to get him into a private lesson because the other 2 parents complained, and they were about to pull the kids out of the class. Remind you I have both kids right there in front of him while he says that, both in swimsuits and ready to go to their class. The YMCA team couldn’t call me or email me earlier; they couldn’t do this in private, even when they had 48 hours to do so. The other two parents were right there too, smiling and taking pictures of their children while they were in the pool. They didn’t give my son another chance. The manager, Steve, didn’t even want to observe the class to see if my son was listening. There were no signs, there were no prior emails or phone calls, there was no privacy, and he spoke those words in front of my ready-to-swim children. I’m hurt, I might be overreacting, but this could have been handled so much better.

Fantastic experience: I love the facility and the sense of community that the YMCA has more than anything. However, the best part of the YMCA is how wonderful and caring the Child Watch workers are. I don’t know what I would’ve done as a new mom without them being so kind, both to me and my son. My son adores them, and it feels really good knowing he has more adults in his life that look after him and he can trust. They’re the gem of the YMCA.

Negative experience: Overcrowded dirty locker rooms , if you want to lap swim forget it the pool caters to water aerobics swimmer are just out of luck even though we pay the same. Equipment is frequently out of service especially the tread mills and they are slow to fix. On the bright side the the employees are very pleasant and helpful to bad they are stuck dealing with the mess given to them by the management that could care less about the people that actually pay to use the facilities.

Positive experience: Big windows with beautiful view of the mountains and lot of natural light in the weight/cardio room! They have a good amount of cardio and weightlifting equipment. I went here for over four years. It was getting too crowded, especially during the after school/work crowd. Nearly every piece of equipment is in use at that time. There is always broken equipment that takes far too long to repair. Also didn’t like that they have group fitness classes in the main workout area at prime times. They use a large portion of the equipment for those classes and will kick you off.

Positive experience: I rarely gave any troubles, been there for a couple so years now. But I gotta pay 55$ just for the court to always be closed or closed early, or being lied to from staff saying they’ll have the pool open. not what im expecting..

Fantastic experience: Clean and friendly

Fantastic experience: We love this facility. Welcoming staff always, The people you meet from the community are so sweet we love the water aerobics class with Jacque she is amazing and a lot of fun she is sure to make you smile! Absolutely love being a member of your looking for a great welcoming spot to work out check this place out! They have a salt water pool!

Fantastic experience: Very welcoming, relaxed, cheerful:). front desk always super helpful.

Fantastic experience: Enjoy the friendly staff and inclusive atmosphere.

Negative experience: There are a group of women and the aquatic director that bully people at the pool. Should you be a man, watch out this is female power trip at its best.

Fantastic experience: Enjoy my time at the Y.

Negative experience: The front desk was super disrespectful and had a lot of sarcasm. I do not appreciate that kind of customer service. I will be taking my business elsewhere.

Fantastic experience: I love this Y. The set up is very nice, the equipment is in really good condition, swimming pool is a very nice size, and the gym is very well tooken care of.

Negative experience: Volunteer Lady Who comes in the mornings is extremely rude and likes to powertrip if you ain't happy with your job especially if you ain't making money you can always quit everyone would be happier

Fantastic experience: Great staff and facility. Just joined and plan to make use of it. Happy healthier 2024.

Negative experience: One particular employee comes in on Monday mornings and takes a large part of the weight room, cranks the stereo so loud you can't hear your own music through your earbuds any more, then screams at the seniors in her class because they can't hear her over the music.

Negative experience: Most of the times the weight machines are broken and every time i return they are still broken

Fantastic experience: Not bad

Fantastic experience: Great staff and patrons!

Fantastic experience: Very nice YMCA.

Fantastic experience: There to ref basketball.

Fantastic experience: Awesome place to swim, workout and let kids have fun also!!!

Fantastic experience: Just a great place all the way around swimming pools weight room gym an more.

Fantastic experience: A great place to work out and relax in the steam room or swim some laps in the saltwater pool. If classes are more your thing they have yoga, zumba, aerobics, etc. They're a lot cheaper than the Alaska Club and you're not trapped in a contract either

Positive experience: I personally wasnt too amazed with it there since my son was around 3 or 4 years old, he is now 13. My son and his friends love to go for swimming when they have the chance to go.

Fantastic experience: Love it here, a variety of machines to work out in, basketball court is nice with plenty of balls available. Steam room was nice and hot. Staff was always nice and friendly,

Positive experience: It's an OK gym Jaycob is great help in weight room. I am severely allergic to latex I reached out to management several times to ask to stop using latex balloons in the entryway, not a single call back or response email. I get anaphylaxis from them. Also the blond young lifeguards is on power trip.

Positive experience: Went there to go take a shower with my kids. Had a miss communication with my account because my name kept being missed spelled (frustrating but understandin) Had an account for years under my friends. Apparently she didn't want me under her account, okay no problem ill make a new membership. But the manager wanted to come into the locker room and basically told me to get out and was very rude about it. I understand the situation but she didn't had to come at me with a rude attitude and told me to get out while I was getting dressed with my kids. Was embarrassed in front of my kids and embarrassed that I walked out crying in tears. Love and enjoy coming to this location and so does my kids. Just disappointed that i don't think I'll come back or have a membership when I get treated like that.

Positive experience: Good reasonably priced gym with 2 locations in Anchorage. Only the Old Seward location offers child care, both locations have pools, machines, and cardio stations. Classes offered as well as before and after school programs for kids.

Fantastic experience: This is a good place to work out. The prices are very good compared to the other gyms in the area. They have a basketball court, sauna, swimming pool, and decent amount of cardio equipment and weights. The hours of operation are really convenient and the people that work there are nice. I have absolutely no complaints about this place and would recommend it to anybody who needs a local gym to work out at.

Fantastic experience: Lots of positives for customer service! Weight lifters are above the women's showers, often with little kids so it can be hard to hear at times.

Fantastic experience: Positive: Communication , Professionalism , Quality Great costumer service, no hidden fees and no scamming and no fraud like at AK club

Fantastic experience: YMCA was a nice upgrade from planet fitness for my family and the pricing was very reasonable. Weight room is awesome and they have a pool. You can also go to any YMCA in the country with a membership. Only bad thing is some of the employees are little mask nazis. Also should mention they worked with me for the monthly charge which I am very grateful for. The Y rocks!

Fantastic experience: Great costumer service, no hidden fees and no scamming and no fraud like at AK club

Positive experience: Online pool hours don’t match the actual hours. Please update.

Fantastic experience: Great and clean location. Love the salt water pools and that they have family changing rooms.

Positive experience: They should add water arobics in the evening!! Open swim hours are too late for young families. Very unfortunate!

Negative experience: Well...I have had membership @ the YMCA through our family account, both places I feel don't want me in their facilities...pretty disappointing

Fantastic experience: Lots of positives for customer service! Weight lifters are above the women's showers, often with little kids so it can be hard to hear at times.

Fantastic experience: YMCA was a nice upgrade from planet fitness for my family and the pricing was very reasonable. Weight room is awesome and they have a pool. You can also go to any YMCA in the country with a membership. Only bad thing is some of the employees are little mask nazis. Also should mention they worked with me for the monthly charge which I am very grateful for. The Y rocks!

Fantastic experience: Great and clean location. Love the salt water pools and that they have family changing rooms.

Fantastic experience: After a good ride in the winter...the steam room is what the doctor ordered.. however...it sap all my energy. .lol .so I rode the buss home..lol..

Positive experience: This is a good YMCA, mostly well kept, good weight room and pool. The combo lockers are terrible (I just want to use a padlock!) and there are some facility damages that have gone unrepaired, but it’s still a good value

Fantastic experience: Great costumer service, no hidden fees and no scamming and no fraud like at AK club

Fantastic experience: Mannnn the Y is the business, best gym for the price, has everything you need for a reasonable rate.

Fantastic experience: This is a fabulous soccer program for beginners.

Fantastic experience: First time here, kinda weird that they asked me all my personal information except the SSN. I was surprised at how clean the place is, most pools/gyms/sports complexes I've been to are filthy and likely to collect germs. I don't have any complaints only good remarks. Update: Been going here for a while now, I love it. The place is clean, staff are awesome, and the equipment is taken care of, in working order.

Fantastic experience: Good people working there, the pool is real nice for laps and just enjoying,,,

Fantastic experience: Cool

Positive experience: Friendly service. Clean. A good place to use up some pent up energy.

Negative experience: Refuse to allow me access to Atwood military lounge. Was hung up on. Will be posting all over social media. I have never been turned down. Disgusted with ymca

Positive experience: Taking every precaution, the YMCA on Lake Otis is clean, friendly caring staff. I appreciate a much needed workout on the machines. They could separate the very popular machines, like ellipticals, place less popular machines in between so more people can use them, rather than the ellipticals being side-by-side and thus some unusable

Fantastic experience: Great gym for knee replacement rehab...

Fantastic experience: 100% loved it everyone was so nice and very helpful I plan on going back very soon

Fantastic experience: Our family loves the Y. Helpful staff, good gym equipment, and great childcare (the ladies who work back there are awesome). The saltwater pools are great. I have sensitive skin that can't handle the chlorine so that was a huge plus. Also, membership rates are really reasonable.

Fantastic experience: Nice updated facility. Pool is on the chilly side for me.

Fantastic experience: They really helped me when i needed it i appreciate them alot

Fantastic experience: I liked that there were several lanesto swim. And it was not busy.

Fantastic experience: In my opinion this is the best gym in Anchorage for the value, the vast amount of equipment and services they have and provide. The fantastic customer service, you know who you are!!! It can not be understated how this facility is helping me change my life!!!

Fantastic experience: It is friendly happy place. Very welcoming!

Fantastic experience: Make sure you.follow covid * policy But thee YMCA is A great workout place For thee older folks Low income disability And offer great payment rate What A great place to do P.t upstairs At thee Lake Otis location

Positive experience: Clean, great customer service and good variety of workout equipment.

Positive experience: Its tii bad they dont prorate membership. Thank u tho

Fantastic experience: I mainly use the Lake Otis location, and I absolutely LOVE their gym. I love all the things they offer at such a reasonable price. My children come with me often and I am able to work out while they are in the rock gym or in the daycare section, I trust my children with the staff there 100%! All so friendly and show true passion for my needs anytime I need assistance. The winter hours are awesome for my children for open swim, we are able to swim before or after dinner for as long as we want verse typical 1 hour- 2 hour open swim time increments at other places. I can't say enough about the YMCA. You can clearly notice the changes they make and take their customers feedback seriously. I always recommend them to my friends whenever they ask about referrals to a local gym!

Fantastic experience: I've been here 4 times with my mom and sister so it is awesome

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out. It has exercise equipment, A swimming pool, sauna, free classes with a membership. There is lock already on the lockers. Free tea and coffee and super friendly staff. There is also a low income application if you need that. It's the best gym in Anchorage! Maybe even the best in Alaska!

Fantastic experience: Love the YMCA. They have great instructors and a wide variety of classes to choose from. Prices are reasonable and they offer child care at the Lake Otis branch. They have classes for Adults AND children. Can’t love this place enough.

Fantastic experience: Wonderful staff and a very community centered atmosphere. The equipment is great and recently updated and renovated.

Positive experience: Get staff

Negative experience: I really do not like the loud radio, complete with commercials, in the public wieght room. And the large exercise class makes it hard to get to equipment

Negative experience: Only one star for Soutside Dimond YMCA. Very rude management staff. No one follows the rules: there are people who go in the pool without taking a shower, or swim with clothes on. And also in the hot tub, people go in it naked. Speaking of the hot tub, it hasn't been fixed for three whole weeks! This place is very filthy, unclean, and really unhygienic! We found a used pad in the women's locker room on the floor, and the whole floor in the steam room was covered in hair! In addition, there was a woman sitting down on the floor in the locker room, who was dying her hair. Maybe the laundry drier was also broken, because the towels they gave us were wet and soggy and a had brown patches! Everyone does wat they want, and again they don't follow any rules at all! I am very disappointed about this place!

Negative experience: Update - I had only good things to say until my daughter starts getting sick, after being in childcare for just an hour, my kid sneezed 18 times in 20 minutes after I picked her up and had a runny nose. They are exposing her to something and I can't get management to respond to my inquiries. Before drop off, my daughter had no runny nose or sneezing for 4 days at least. We have a dog and walk around with the pollen, etc. That's what they tried to tell me when I brought it to their attention. At any rate, the excessive sneezing and nose running would not start if she picked up something after only an hour of exposure. 06/03/2019 This gym is awesome because you get so much out of your membership. Great showers, lockers, always working athletic equipment with free weights and machines, a good sized pool too. There are some free classes if you want and community potlucks sometimes. The childcare is great for parents. The ladies always take good care of kiddos.

Fantastic experience: nice court. nice staff

Fantastic experience: I go to the Y for my aurthritis class the instructor is very nice. The exercises are great n specifically geared for those suffering from arthritis. The people there are nice.

Fantastic experience: This Y has a salt water pool, and it is well managed. Steam room is now open, and the varied exercise equipment is well maintained. Roomy locker room has plenty of showers, and is also clean. Free towels for the asking. What’s not to like?

Positive experience: Decent gym and roomy workout area.

Negative experience: Second star is for the building & pool only! I went to join the YMCA, however, experienced Unwelcoming staff, lacking basic knowledge about the YMCA membership, wasn’t even offered a tour.

Positive experience: The YMCA recently upgraded and remodels a lot of the building. Enjoy bringing the kids to B Ball. They also have Gym equipment and pool.

Positive experience: I was a member of the Lake Oatis Y and loved it, but it was not close to my house. So, when I saw the diamond Y opened I was thrilled, until I went. It is the stereotype of a Y. Unclean, with dingy carpet everywhere. They charge 15 for a day pass and if you decide you want to become a member after the day they do not apply the 15 to the month. The staff were not as awesome as the Y across town. Kids were running wild and jumping and diving into the small pool, wild, out of control. And I love kids! I was there with my 2.5 year old and thought the life guard would have attempted to encourage pool etiquette. I did like that the pools were Much warmer than the other Y’s. And my two year old of course loved it and didn’t notice any of the things that annoyed me. I think with more staff training and a few upgrades this place has a lot of potential. They need to work out the silly pricing details, like the one I named above. And they do punch cards, but they use a 1/2 punch for toddlers, even though a toddler is free with a day pass or membershipjust thoughts. Not the worst, but not the best.

Fantastic experience: Great place, clean, good equipment, nice staff. You'll enjoy your experience with the family.

Positive experience: It needs an user all update

Negative experience: Desk workers are rude and are always disgusted at everyone

Negative experience: Bad customer service and rude front desk workers. Half the things at the gym are broken most the time. When the gym was closed for over 2 weeks due to flooding no refunds were made.

Negative experience: Used the YMCA for after school care and summer program and would not EVER do again. Staff was on their phones or talking with each other instead of watching the kids. A few of the kids should have been kicked out for fighting or cussing, and don't call DAVE or KARI to resolve the incidence cause they would not call back. A few times I had o go up there and the two knew nothing. For the price I paid I was sadly disappointed in the companies lack of care, guidance and support for the youth. One star is being generous.

Positive experience: All I can say is Wow! This isn't my normal gym but its super close to my house and I dropped in for a quick visit/workout today for the first time since early last year. Last time I was hear everything was fairly worn out and ran down, the whole place was just kinda dingy. Since then it has been given one serious overhaul! When I went in today the whole place was laid out different. The old worn out gym equipment has been fixed or replaced with all new top line stuff. The view of the mountain from huge glass Windows while working out on the second floor is second to none! Words fall short of the differences between this place last year and its current state!

Positive experience: This facility rocks! Staff is friendly, locker rooms well maintained an very user friendly for people with hectic schedules. Added bonus it on the #2 bus route. Yay!!!