Paula G Manship YMCA

Fantastic experience: Clean, nice atmosphere, free coffee, friendly staff, great!!

Fantastic experience: Love my gym! Couldn’t ask for a better one!!!

Fantastic experience: I love Paula G. Manship! EGym! The walking trails! The tire flip in the outdoor area. The staff are ALWAYS courteous and the facility is IMPECCABLE! It's always clean and well organized.

Fantastic experience: Good place to get some exercise done, very friendly staff!

Fantastic experience: We really being able to go as a family. Using the childcare to workout has been great.

Negative experience: Mens showers are dirty. It's been like this for many years. Members rates increase every year. This is sad.

Fantastic experience: Excellent family Facility. Basketball gym is very nice. More tennis courts than players. Multiple fields and training areas.

Fantastic experience: This is an excellent YMCA!

Fantastic experience: Friendly atmosphere and helpful, nice employees. It's clean and has a variety of ways to work out.

Fantastic experience: One of my favorite YMCA's. This is the one with the lake. I use to take my grandkids there to fish. We love this place. The lake is drying up now. Workout there a few times.

Fantastic experience: Great gym and outdoor rec area

Fantastic experience: All state of the art equipment. The employees are very eager to help you. Their friendliness and knowledge are a plus.

Positive experience: It was nice and clean, class had a good amount of ppl in it, not too crowded. Definitely, a place that welcomes all generations.

Positive experience: The review is for the summer camp. The facility and the program are good, however, the management could be improved. Our daughter complaint about being hit unintentionally almost once a week (and she cried so it was not a gentle touch). I suspect that it was too crowded. Also, kids were taken out to the tennis court even when heat advisory was issued. Finally, the camp counselors are part time and some of them could be better trained.

Fantastic experience: Huge and clean and busy.

Fantastic experience: I love this place! I'm in there at least 5 days a week and everyone is so nice and helpful.

Negative experience: My kids and their dad work out at this gym every day, Suddenly the guy at the front desk snapped at my boys just because my boys didn’t have the card to scan in at the time, he was very rude and disrespectful to my son, he was practically yelling at him. The employees definitely need to be trained on customer service, if they don’t like customers they should NOT work the front desk. After all, the customers are the ones paying their salary. Do NOT forget, NO CUSTOMERS= NO PAY!

Negative experience: Made a lane reservation only for half the pool to be taken up by the swim team. Waited 30 minutes to see if anything opened up and it didn’t. Spoke with the front desk and while kind and apologetic, it seems there are no real systems in place. The lane reservations mean nothing. Totally unorganized and unprofessional.

Fantastic experience: Very clean, good atmosphere, friendly people. Will definitely visit again when I'm back in town.

Fantastic experience: I'm new to the fitness trend, but the Y was a very pleasant experience. The staff was welcoming and so were some of the patrons. Now all I have to do is actually go.

Fantastic experience: Very nice spot so clean and friendly staff got me right in even being from out of state

Fantastic experience: This place is like heaven on earth. Sports teams, multiple beautiful swimming pools, swim meets, summer day camps, gym, outdoors, baseball, I mean the Supreme YMCA of America. I wish I still lived in Louisana just to enjoy it again, my best memories are here. You do not realize what a wonder this place is until you move away.

Fantastic experience: Great YMCA facility with a good offering of group exercise classes.

Fantastic experience: Great clean friendly

Fantastic experience: Great gym! We really love the eGym circuit, which allows you to do a full body exercise in less than 45min! If that doesn’t sell you, there’s even an app that gives you lots of stats about your health, weight, strength, and more! Amazing! Membership is a bit expensive though.

Fantastic experience: I thoroughly enjoy being a YMCA member. The Paula G Manship location is conveniently located and full of friendly staff members and members. Kerry and Genette are the best!

Fantastic experience: Been going here for 2 weeks now and it has been amazing. Super friendly staff and great environment. Everyone attending here is awesome as well.

Negative experience: Out of all YMCA locations if you are looking forward to come and play basketball don’t, The whole summer they had their gym closed off to ppl for summer camp.

Fantastic experience: Had a great time! The Zumba class was alot of fun.

Fantastic experience: Had a great time! The Zumba class was alot of fun.

Fantastic experience: Does anyone know what the current mask policy at the Y is? Since we are not under a mask mandate in LA., I would think the policy has changed at the Y. I had stopped going because I cannot tolerate being "masked up" while working out. Totally unhealthy to not be able to breathe in fresh air when working out! And due to asthma, a mask causes me to have problems getting a full breath. Thanks for a response. I pray to be able to return soon.

Fantastic experience: Great basketball program. Our grandson really enjoyed it!!

Negative experience: They need to get their act together. Their coaches don’t show up for practice or games. The uniform shirts were given out after two games were already played. We played a team on our third game and they still didn’t have their yet! If you go into the building to ask them about any of this, they know NOTHING….. I think they have been a round long enough to have all this under control by now.

Fantastic experience: Best friendly professional service.

Positive experience: Just signed up

Fantastic experience: I love all of the activities and the exercise equipments. Staff is wonderful and extremely helpful.

Positive experience: Spin classes are nothing like they were, precovid…but overall a great gym

Fantastic experience: Friendly,clean, staff tries to help.

Fantastic experience: Great family gym.

Fantastic experience: Good vibes here knowledgeable guide ex pained e gym( can't wait to try it). They assume a lot knowledge so ask questions.

Negative experience: me and my partner came in workout and it was to busy for us so we left but we had already checked in, so we double checked with the front desk to make sure since we had checked in and did not workout would it be okay to leave since it was so busy, she said no problem, me and my partner went out to our car and a few minutes later the desk receptionist followed us out to our car to get our license plate number, it was so disturbing me and my partner immediately left because she kept walking around our car, a very racist atmosphere here

Fantastic experience: I love it it here. The ladies in the child care are so good to my kiddos and the classes are taught by knowledgeable and friendly people. Everyone is super friendly and it’s like having another family

Fantastic experience: I’ve been going to the Y since retirement in 2012. The staff is friendly and helpful. My favorite classes at present are Chair Yoga and Light and Lively with Jo Rose as instructor.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful Facilities. Great job, EBR Recreation

Fantastic experience: Great work out experience. Clean, new equipment.

Fantastic experience: Very helpful and friendly lady at front desk helped with all my questions & was very patient & kind to my son and my granddaughter who was being challenging. I look forward to being able to get into our memberships.

Fantastic experience: Good to see that this location has renovated the flooring of the weight lifting area along with weight machines themselves. The lady/greater at the front was very helpful as well.

Fantastic experience: Great equipment, currently renovating, friendly staff and patrons

Fantastic experience: Great facilities, clean pool, fun classes

Fantastic experience: Fantastic gym, friendly staff and great facilities. Proud to be members!

Fantastic experience: Clean facility and friendly staff as always.

Fantastic experience: Love the water aerobics!

Positive experience: Nice

Fantastic experience: Very nice facility

Negative experience: If there were a “zero star” to give, I surely would. We were signed up for the YMCA basketball course for the 2 present summer months. The scheduled practices were expected to be every Tuesday evening with games scheduled on Saturday mornings. The coach that we were assigned to missed a total of 3 practices thus far as well as a Saturday game. Again, summer is a very short season so this was nearly half of the time we expected. Concerned about the lack of participation on the coach’s behalf, I emailed the director of the sports program, Phillip Williams, to inform him of my concerns which in turn he told me that basically in so many words was not the YMCA’s problem, but instead the problem of the coach who I must keep in mind is not being compensated for her services being that she is a volunteer. However, because the payment was made directly to the YMCA it is also a poor reflection of how their programs work. If you are paid for something and you aren’t supplying that service, what are you even charging for? I’m beyond disappointed and in the future will not be using the YMCA’s services any longer. I advise anyone looking for a sports program to first do your research before paying your money towards it, especially at the YMCA since we now know that due to their coaches being volunteers there isn’t a contract demanding that they participate in practices or games. Instead they are able to choose what and when they want to participate with the paid program. $120 was flushed down the drain so be sure you know what you’re signing up for before using the Y.

Fantastic experience: Great time at girls peewee league basketball

Negative experience: Long story short.. I signed my daughter up to take swimming lessons for the mornings.. The first day we got there Sarah Kelly told me we have to come back in the evening because there was no one to teach my daughter at the time. I asked for a refund Sarah Kelly told me it will take 5 days so at this point it’s been 3 weeks. Sarah Kelly gave me the run around and ignored my calls and messages. So I had call my bank and do a dispute for the transaction to get my money back.

Fantastic experience: Good swim meet!

Positive experience: Nice facility, but a bit difficult for grandparents to get to back field! Stairs, uneven grounds, mud holes!

Fantastic experience: Fantastic staff. Great facilities!!!

Fantastic experience: Always have a very pleasant experience here.

Positive experience: Love lettin them out inside and outside around the pond here

Positive experience: A good place to exercise & use their special machines. People seemed to be happy and engaged. My first visit of this place.

Negative experience: My first time at this location most staff not friendly but the guys near the pool were, they invited us to get in the pool. I have a family membership but this location not family friendly. I was told I have to bring my own basketball, also the little kiddy room my 5yr old and 10yr old couldn’t go in there because a staff member said no one in there to watch the kids. I didn’t feel welcome at all, I left right away. This location is around the corner from where I live but I’d rather go elsewhere.

Fantastic experience: Great place to workout with the family.

Fantastic experience: My family and I enjoy a lot this location. They have classes for kids, swimming pool, daycare and different classes. You will enjoy it

Fantastic experience: The Paula Manship YMCA has an awesome staff, the facility is clean and inviting with very updated equipment. There is a program designed to meet all age groups and needs. Great location also! I recommend this location for your total fitness needs.

Fantastic experience: The guests who attend the Y are respectful and polite. They understand that I go to work out and not socialize.

Fantastic experience: Great facility that includes tennis, swimming, baskerball, and practice for baseball. Staff are helpful. There is child care. And the weight and cardio equipment are good. A nice place to stay healthy.

Fantastic experience: Very clean...love the staff! Very friendly! Enjoy the exercise classes....get a good workout.

Fantastic experience: I am much impressed by their friendly staff who mainly work around the swimming pool. What a great facility!!!

Fantastic experience: This is a great Y location. The staff is friendly and helpful and the classes are energetic and rigorous.

Fantastic experience: Really good. They are under construction and by the looks of it. This location will be top notch.

Positive experience: At 5:15 it was busy. Half of it seemed under construction.

Fantastic experience: Wonderful facility servicing Greater Baton Rouge

Fantastic experience: Small staff but they get the job done .

Positive experience: Good fitness center.

Fantastic experience: This is a great Y location. The staff is friendly and helpful and the classes are energetic and rigorous.

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out..friendly staff!

Positive experience: The Manship YMCA has the friendliest staff— they are always willing to help when needed. The equipment/facilities are also well kept. Would definitely recommend this Y!

Positive experience: Clean with lots of strength training equipment.

Fantastic experience: Ball

Fantastic experience: Great facility and staff. Membership gives access to so many programs for adults and kids. Great value and return for my dollar.

Fantastic experience: The people that work at this YMCA are helpful and friendly. I enjoy the great variety of classes, and upgraded work out equipment. The YMCA cares about its clients and the community.

Fantastic experience: CLEAN! Spacious with plenty of equipment to work out on. Friendly, helpful staff.

Fantastic experience: The Summer Camp and pool have been excellent for our twins!

Fantastic experience: Great variety of equipment. I enjoy the classes! The staff is very helpful and friendly - especially Autumn at the front desk!

Fantastic experience: Great exercise classes! Especially Brooke's, Margaret's and Julie's! Overall very clean exercise equipment and friendly staff at the check in desk also.

Fantastic experience: Best gym in Baton Rouge. All the equipment you need, pool, basketball, tennis, and friendly staff too!

Fantastic experience: Lovely location!! Lovely people. Ms. Courtney and Ms Yvonne were so so helpful!!

Fantastic experience: Always very clean including the restrooms, never too crowded and staff is very friendly and welcoming!!!!

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, great for kids, beautiful pool and an amazing cardio area sure to keep you entertained!

Fantastic experience: I workout here about 4-5 times a week. the facility is always clean and the staff is always very friendly!

Fantastic experience: The most versatile gym I’ve ever attended. Very helpful and friendly staff. Clean facilities.

Fantastic experience: Most Friendly Members and Staff!. My first encounter was a warm and friendly greeting by the front desk staff. I went to the Manship Y to continue Zumba with Tania who is an awesome instructor that moved from Pennington to this Y. I have continued to do Zumba at Manship because their Zumba instructors are so motivating that you forget your exercising. We have a great group that has developed into many friendships. If you been wanting to try Zumba this is the place!

Fantastic experience: This is my favorite Y in Baton Rouge. The facilities are clean and well maintained, staff are friendly, and the parking is easy.

Fantastic experience: Staff is very friendly and helpful. Workout equipment is up to date and well maintained. Overall, a great facility.

Fantastic experience: I'm not yet a member. These people were nice enough to allow a couple Cub scouts to complete some swimming requirements for a small fee. Extremely helpful staff and my membership status should soon change.

Fantastic experience: My son played basketball and soccer here. Coaches were very nice and gave attention to all kids. Great environment for kids to be introduced to sports.

Fantastic experience: The Manship YMCA is a fun, friendly, and very comfortable place to stay active and keep moving! I love the Active Older Adult class; it seems more “active” than “older” and Jo does a fantastic job of pushing us to do our best while making it fun and welcoming for anyone who comes.