Birmingham Family YMCA

Fantastic experience: I really enjoy the pool

Fantastic experience: I've been coming here for years. Really Great Atmosphere and Friendly Staff. Family Oriented & Daycare for your little ones. Plenty of parking and lockers.

Fantastic experience: Positive experience! Lynda's class on Wednesday for seniors is amazing!

Fantastic experience: This is a great YMCA! Everyone is helpful and friendly! The facilities are clean and safe. The pool and lifeguards are great! 5 Stars*****

Positive experience: The building layout is very confusing to navigate, but the yoga class is amazing!

Fantastic experience: Above my expectations!

Fantastic experience: Water aerobics class is very nice and friendly instructors and classmates. The water is warm and refreshing. I enjoy the workout because it builds strength and gives ne a good start to my day. It also gives me energy to get through these winter days.

Fantastic experience: The childcare center here is unmatched. Ms Lauren, Ms. Chelsea, Ms. Marley, and Mr John take amazing care of the kids and you can tell they love it! They remember all my kids names and things they like etc. They make such effort to give mom's a break to exercise! The facility is a bit of a maze and not super modern and I wish there were windows bc there's none in most of the workout spaces. BUT I'd go here every time purely for the outstanding childcare.

Fantastic experience: I love the piol at the Birmingham Y

Fantastic experience: Staff are wonderful. Absolutely recommend going there

Fantastic experience: the Y is a fun place to be at my best friend Evan works there he is my best friend ever for his words and advice and everything thanks Evan, guys if you are looking for a relaxing place to de stress i would recommend the Y

Fantastic experience: Every single staff person I've interacted with has been friendly and helpful, the facilities are sparkling clean and the lifeguards in the pool are also helpful and attentive to the safety of everyone in the water.

Fantastic experience: Truly appreciate the individual studios with various workout equipment!

Fantastic experience: Friendly members!! Great treadmills!! Great sauna!!

Fantastic experience: Love it here

Fantastic experience: The childcare at the Y has been my Saving Grace on my hardest days. It’s been the best thing for my family over the last year.

Fantastic experience: A wonderful place for martial arts training

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Fantastic experience: It's always been a part of the fabric of B'ham. Good location, the amenities are decent and with a pool and great kids program, should always be something to consider for you, family and friends.

Fantastic experience: The Silver Sneakers class is the best!

Fantastic experience: Amazing summer camp program! Staff is extremely caring and friendly. Loved our experience at this YMCA location!

Fantastic experience: Amazing camp. Such happy children and wonderful experiences.

Fantastic experience: Everyone has been super helpful. We are in swim lessons and the classes are fun!! Thanks so much!!

Fantastic experience: Great for a workout

Fantastic experience: Experienced an upbeat boxing moves class that was great. The young man that was the instructor was clear and made it easy to understand the moves.

Fantastic experience: Nice gym at an affordable price for the whole family

Fantastic experience: I enjoy all the classes I attend at the Y, instructors are knowledgeable and available for personal comments on your progress, it's nice there are classes almost every day of the week and in my time preference. I am usually there 4-5 mornings a week and have made several friends. I highly recommend the Birmingham Y

Fantastic experience: My family and I love the Y.

Fantastic experience: Great Staff. Facilities are always clean. A variety of class selections for everyone. Even the patrons are courteous!

Fantastic experience: Great staff...They are especially good with my kids which is very important to me.

Positive experience: I love the warm community that Birmingham YMCA creates! As soon as you enter the front door, you're greeted with a smile and a hello.This Y has innovative kids' programming like cooking to teach invaluable life skills. They provide leadership and teamwork for children and young adults through a multitude of events and classes, not merely those focused on sports. I appreciate the wider range of offerings to engage children and adults.Facilities always clean and welcoming. The women's changing room could use some updating and more windows or sun lights would be welcome, though. The pool is great, the most brightly lit spot in the lower floor.

Negative experience: Some of the lockers in the women's changing rooms were completely rusted inside. The showers don't have any curtains for privacy. Open swim was all lap lanes. Usually places have a couple lap lanes with a large are for "open swim". There also wasn't an indoor track like other locations. This location needs an update, it's kind of gross. Lifeguard was friendly..that's the only reason I gave one star.

Fantastic experience: Great pool hours as well as consistent water temperature. Great staff. Very friendly and responsive.

Fantastic experience: Great staff !! Great workout facillities !!

Fantastic experience: During lockdown last year, the Y switched out their old exercise equipment for all new equipment. The machines are all Qcode accessible. Not crowded earlier in morn which is when I like to go. Wear a mask always and keep my distance from others. Hours are also good.

Fantastic experience: Muitas atividades, especialmente para quem tem filhos.

Fantastic experience: Great staff, plenty of programs and childcare.

Fantastic experience: Great staff

Fantastic experience: Very clean well appointed facility with friendly and helpful trainers & staff. They have so much to offer folks of all ages.

Negative experience: I'm just so sick and tired that there's always something with the pool... And now I can't get my money back.

Fantastic experience: Pool is great ! Staff is excellent.

Fantastic experience: NA

Fantastic experience: Very nice. Well equipped, well maintained , clean and pleasant.

Fantastic experience: Very courteous staff!! My wife and I have enjoyed our workouts there.

Fantastic experience: One my favorite ymca's to go to. Kinda small but never is too crowded and there are always machines available. I just wish it had a steam room, but it still gets 5 stars.

Fantastic experience: great pool, etc. great staff. Opened on Sun, during a pandemic. The Best!!!

Positive experience: The weight room is small and the range of equipment is limited. Wouldn't recommend for intermediate-advanced skilled gym goers.

Fantastic experience: I really enjoy this location and the programs, staff, and facilities. I signed up for a pass in January. When I reviewed the policy there was mention of being able to bring guest, but no mention of fees associated with it. A major plus in my consideration to join. However, when I brought a guest to use the facilities with me I was asked to pay a fifteen dollar fee to allow my guest to join me. This will be the reason why I will cancel my membership after one month of use. I don’t like hidden fees and the fact that my guest have to pay when there is no mention of this fee on the website doesn’t sit well with me. Great ymca, however I don’t like being misled about my membership package. I will be cancelling as soon as the month ends.

Fantastic experience: This is a warm and welcoming place. Helpful, supportive staff.

Fantastic experience: Wonderful staff and facility

Negative experience: Their pool schedule is always a mess and not up to date. Recommend calling before you go swim to make sure the lap swim pool hours they posted are correct. I’ve attempted to swim here 4 times. 4/4 times the lap swim times have been different than what was posted on their website/ posted schedules. Very frustrating.

Fantastic experience: I have been training for 10 years at the Birmingham Y. I think my trainer Flavia is great and I like the whole staff, as well as the other attendees.

Fantastic experience: Excellent Martial Arts Program, especially Aikido. Great for everyone

Fantastic experience: I highly recommend the Birmingham YMCA, great staff, clean workout environment, great trainers and classes.

Fantastic experience: Just a great place to go workout without a lot of fanfare. Great staff!

Fantastic experience: I’ve been a member of the Boll YMCA for years but recently left downtown Detroit. The Birmingham YMCA has been a welcome substitute. Although not as updated, the space is well maintained and clean! Equipment is readily available when I visit in the mornings.

Fantastic experience: Everyone is friendly and the location is clean.

Fantastic experience: Awesome place for individuals and families. Staff are knowledgeable and super friendly. Membership prices are more than fair. YMCA is the place to be!

Fantastic experience: Excellent pool, professional staff and welcoming environment. Clean and convenient.

Fantastic experience: As always the YMCA is superb. Have been too several in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. Always a wonderful experience.

Fantastic experience: Everyone at the Birmingham Family YMCA is super nice and helpful. They know me by name and make an effort to say "hi" anytime I'm in. The classes that I go to, Barre with Danielle and Cycle with Teri are very well taught. Clean facility. Well maintained machines and weights. The weight room gets a little crowded sometimes, but there's always a treadmill free.

Fantastic experience: A great place for families. I have one daughter in gymnastics and the other loves to freestyle workout,swim and go running. Myself I love we can all do something in one location. Staff is friendly and helpful!

Fantastic experience: Very clean with Covid protocols in effect. It is great to workout again and I felt safe with social distancing equipment, everyone wearing a mask and plenty of sanitize spray bottles around. The Birmingham Family Y always was and will be my first choice to stay fit and healthy. Come see for yourself.

Fantastic experience: Everyone on staff is very friendly; the facilities (locker rooms), while older, are very clean; I'm usually there 3 days a week to swim and use the weight machines. I like having the ability to reserve a swim lane, though it would be great if this could be done online rather than over the phone. I appreciate the masking, social distancing, and cleaning. I've only been a member for a few months, but I've really enjoyed it..

Negative experience: Everytime I come here a class has been canceled. Horrible update the website so people won’t have to drive all the way to the location. This has happened multiple times

Fantastic experience: Friendly and welcoming environment and great variety of classes and activities.

Fantastic experience: Love the Birmingham YMCA. The building is older - but the staff, fellow members and activities are great. Plus, the Y is a great cause and it feels good to support the community. Highly recommend checking it out!

Fantastic experience: The Birmingham Family YMCA is truly one of the most welcoming, positive, inclusive and encouraging gyms I have ever set foot in. My children and I are always greeted by smiling faces, and the facilities are always kept tidy and well-maintained. When we have questions, they are answered thoroughly, and we are always encouraged to try out new classes and programs. We love our time here and I would recommend this to anyone looking for a stress-free place to move your body and be part of a great community!

Positive experience: Very clean. Feel perfectly safe. Adhering to social distancing and everyone wearing masks. It's great to be back!

Fantastic experience: Friendly and welcoming environment and great variety of classes and activities.

Negative experience: I joined over a year ago. The locker rooms were outdated at the time and overall the place seemed a bit gloomy. I did receive a message they were updating the locker rooms. The open swim hours were not work or family friendly. I attempted to cancel my membership but they did not allow cancellations over the phone. There is not a way to cancel electronically either, terrible! Parking is HORRIBLE which is the main reason I have not been able to cancel since I am often traveling with an infant.

Negative experience: Not too bad, except for the pool. Consider there is no pool as you never know when you can swim. They only have a few hours in the week when it is really opened and it is in the middle of the morning on weekdays, how convenient!! Plus they sometimes change the schedule without notice. Very very bad Edit: pool schedule is still only for children or retired people, not people working during the day. All in all the $110 family membership is way overpriced for the service. Them being the only ones to have regular power shutdowns in the area regularly is also questionable. Will cancel membership.

Fantastic experience: A Great place to visit

Fantastic experience: My son has participated in programs here from age 5-11 and loves it

Fantastic experience: A Great place to visit

Positive experience: Clean, nice staff, pool.

Fantastic experience: This place is so enjoyable, the staff is the GREATEST !!!!! EVER.

Fantastic experience: I am currently a stay at home mom and love this place. All the staff members are super friendly especially those in the child care center. I have a association membership and can go to a few different locations but choose to go to Birmingham (even though Farmington is closer to me.) I highly recommend this place. I am able to workout while my son gets to socialize with others his age. Can't stress enough how great the staff is!

Fantastic experience: Support your local YMCA to provide opportunities for kids to play Sports!

Fantastic experience: Such a great place in the community for sports and fun. The kids love it here!

Fantastic experience: Love there pool, staff and people that we meet there. I've developed new friends also enjoy going there.

Fantastic experience: Enjoyable basketball experience. Lots of little kids running around and that added to the fun for my young nephews.

Positive experience: It is good and the place has many fun activities but the pool is really dirty and needs cleaning up

Positive experience: I’ve been to this gym since I was a little kid. The staff are nice some of the employees and members basically know us, but there are improvements need to be made. For instance the adult locker room which you have to be 18 and up the same with the work out room (the lockers not all of them are rusted on the bottom, the carpet has a smell when it’s wet, when they put in the new carpet it did not last that long. The sauna needs an update for instance “completely fix the door so you don’t have to slam the door to close it”, the floor of the sauna is dirty pieces are missing. Most of the shower heads don’t work properly and some of the hooks are rusty. They do need to change the furniture in the woman’s locker room they are dirty and the TV is useless the picture is bad and there are no decent channels to watch when working out. A long time ago there were more choices of channels to watch. Now for the unnecessary changes to the work out room, like changing the weights and machines that were perfectly fine, for instance they got rid of 4 weights that I always used every time I came to the Y that was oftenly used. It’s also uncomfortable to change in the ladies locker room when there are underage kids that are supposed to use the kids locker room (excluding kids that can’t be left alone).

Negative experience: I expected more.

Positive experience: Facility is older and needs updating and the layout is very strange. That being said, it has everything you need (treadmills, free weights, open gym time, lots of classes, pool, locker room). The staff is fantastic- very little turn over and I feel like we know most of them on a first name basis and vice versa. We love the child watch staff. As a women, I do not feel intimidated using the free weights. Judo instructors are world class (there are people that dive from Canada to train here). Yes, it is older but that probably keeps it less busy too.

Positive experience: Old design from the 1960s, clean, nice people present. Good swimming pool. Parking available.

Positive experience: Decent equipment, men's showers need repairs, steam room frequently out of order, no spa/whirlpool

Positive experience: Great place for working out, sauna and family fun.

Positive experience: This YMCA has a friendly staff and a fair number of machines in the Wellness Center. The locker room is dated and the lockers are rusty. There is plenty of room to renovate as there is an unused space with a sofa and tv where no one ever sits. Locker rooms are downstairs and workout rooms are upstairs which is a little inconvenient.

Fantastic experience: Great place

Fantastic experience: Nice group of kind friendly volunteers.

Fantastic experience: Great amenities for the cost. Friendly staff.

Fantastic experience: Nice place to get a Good workout in be it solo or in a group

Fantastic experience: Fantastic summer camp for the kid! She loves it here.

Positive experience: Kind of old and in need of an update. Staff seems helpful most of the time, but but they are contending with an out of date computer system and business model. Pool area is ok and kept clean as are the lockers/locker room, but everything shows wear and tear.

Positive experience: Has a Gym, Pool and Basketball court

Positive experience: Not the largest YMCA but good enough to play basketball in

Negative experience: I had a very poor experience with them. Even we paid the fee for my daughter, who was on their Girls On the Run program. They kept calling us that we haven't paid the fee. We had to send them the copy of the paid check image twice. I wonder why they don't check with their own bank to verify who paid or not. It seems to me, their billing system is a mess, and very unprofessional. We don't want to deal with them again.