Roy Blunt YMCA of Bolivar

Fantastic experience: Great place for kids of all ages! My grandsons love it

Fantastic experience: Life guards are very involved and kind with young swimmers and not going crazy on the whistle, as teen guards often are. There is no "after hours" pricing ($6.00 each for young children - same price as adults - so $18.00 total for three of us two hours before close) but the pool and all facilities are super clean. Music being played was not crazy loud and thank heavens NOT 80's "classic rock" music that so many pools play for hours on end. Just nice, tame, happy tunes. We did not use snack bar but lots of people were and they have plenty of tables to sit and snack at.

Fantastic experience: I have had nothing but positive experiences here. I was very surprised that Bolivar has so many people who want to exercise and share in community. This is a excellent facility. I workout 6- 7 days a week.

Fantastic experience: My family enjoys everything here. It's well kept.

Fantastic experience: For $5 to go swimming it not a bad deal. Night swim seems to be the busiest.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful facilities!

Positive experience: Nice facility. Very clean and well maintained.

Positive experience: Music was easy to loud. Can't communicate with kids very well when always having to yell. It's always way to hot for the people not swimming. Also need to address the slippery entrance to the pool with the lazy river. Water is always nice though and overall it is a nice indoor pool.

Fantastic experience: Great place, wonderful staff.

Negative experience: Will update once we are actually able to visit. The aqua center is closed on Sunday... the only day we were able to make it so it can be available for parties. Very sad.

Fantastic experience: I drove here from Springfield. I was not disappointed and plan on bringing my family back soon.

Fantastic experience: OMG LOVED IT! My grandchildren had so much fun (me too) so nice to have good exercise experiences.

Fantastic experience: Other than high prices for stuff, the pool is a good place for kids

Positive experience: Good place for young and kids

Fantastic experience: My niece had a bday party here a couple of weeks ago and it was so much fun! Her party was ocean themed and they happened to have the perfect sea turtle decoration on the wall, right above where we set up. The pool was clean as always, and even though I've been here a thousand times, it's still just as fun as day 1. The rock climbing wall was really hard though.

Positive experience: I attended my granddaughters birthday party held in the pool area. I was impressed with the aquatic center. It was clean and bright, well-staffed with a great layout. The only reason I didn't give 5 stars is because when I arrived I overheard a swim instructor complaining about three being a birthday party and she apparently had to move to accommodate us. She was unprofessional but she was the only dark spot in the experience. I didn't use the workout equipment but did see that they had a lot of machines available and they all seemed newer and in good repair.

Fantastic experience: Cleen life guards great

Positive experience: This is an astonishingly modern facility that really commands your attention. It is open, bright, very clean and welcoming in every way.

Positive experience: Granddaughters basketball game

Fantastic experience: Amazing place for families and friends. Gym and pool and so much more!

Fantastic experience: Classes have helped me so much! Tom Rasor is a really good teacher!

Fantastic experience: Great place went there for a bday party

Fantastic experience: Great

Fantastic experience: Super place 2 get exercise on numerous pieces of equipment and join a class to get that couch potato moving and going again without hurting 24/7

Positive experience: Didn't love going thru the restrooms to get to the pool.

Negative experience: The pool area is not open on Sundays, nowhere does it say this, very disappointing.

Fantastic experience: Awesome place to cool down and

Fantastic experience: Best spot in town to hoop w the fam! They don’t hold the entire gym hostage during fitness classes anymore. Family friendly basketball court with plenty of equipment to play sports (including pickle ball) and a running track (18 laps/mi). Locker room/bathrooms are clean. The staff are super friendly, the sports director rocks and closing shift staff are literally amazing!! At one point I wrote an extremely critical and scathing review about this gym but my experience in the last 8 months have improved by far, so I decided I need to post about it!

Negative experience: The pool is freezing now since city took over!

Positive experience: I work out here and have for a while. It’s kinda disappointing that there isn’t a better gym in town. They have a decent amount of equipment but they’re missing a few things and they have only added things that they already have, just a duplicate of machines. They have plenty of weights and things but they don’t have pull up bars I can use (I’m 5’1) It’s also pretty echoey in there but I like the new treadmills they have because they have fans. No other complaints tbh other than the pool is gross and overcrowded and I can’t use it to exercise or relax. Lots of kids.

Fantastic experience: Very fun to swim and enjoy time with the family!

Fantastic experience: This place is off the chain! Soooo cool

Fantastic experience: Awesome place to make friends and gather the family

Fantastic experience: Nice pool and workout area. Equipment is good quality but the girls locker rooms could use some cleaning more often.

Positive experience: Gym could use another squat rack, but other than that great facilities.

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out. Reasonable prices.

Positive experience: The place is awesome, but they close the aquatic part for half the year.. I don't see how you can have "aquatic" in the name. Right now it doesn't open until may.. I want to add yhe aquatic play place is indoors. I would rate it higher if closing it were to change.

Positive experience: Nice workout area's. Only wish they would put the "good" mats out for us to use. Shower area could be cleaner. The employe's are very helpful and friendly

Fantastic experience: Great place to continue rehab after PT,

Positive experience: I will no doubt give a 5 star once I get to experience the pool area. At the December Craft show everything was perfect. Clean, roomy a top notch.

Fantastic experience: Wish they were 24/7 and had a few more equipment options. But its a great little rec center for the community with nice staff. Hopefully I'll be around during pool season next year, I've heard great things!

Fantastic experience: Such an amazing facility to have in the Bolivar area. There is always plenty of staff so I'm not worried about my young swimmers.

Positive experience: It's a gym and activity center

Negative experience: Place was great! Life guards did amazing! Music was HORRIBLE!!!! Lots of little kids listening to dance club music, what message is this sending? " get down on your knees girl", so belittling to these kids who are trying to figure out who they are! Song after song,I WILL NOT be coming back image a world that taught " respect yourself and others "

Negative experience: The pool is always closed and front staff act bothered to answer the phone or anything else for that matter. Prefer not to visit again.

Fantastic experience: We went here for a birthday party. This place was awesome! We had A-blast.

Fantastic experience: Clean, plenty of workout options. Also swimming is included for open swim days, or adult swim days. Nice family center.

Positive experience: Great pool area however I wish they had a larger swimming space.

Fantastic experience: The best!

Positive experience: The y staff is super nice and we liked how clean the shower area is

Fantastic experience: Great place for kids!

Positive experience: The Y IS SWEET !!!!!!! Mary IS THE BEST !!!!! TALK to Willie there re COMPETITIONS !!!

Fantastic experience: Staff is very nice and helpful

Fantastic experience: Clean with a variety of aquatic options at a reasonable price.

Fantastic experience: Great family fun !!!!

Fantastic experience: Pools are clean, and the water slide is fun!!!

Fantastic experience: I've lived in Bolivar for a long time and have never been here until this week. We had a four year olds birthday party here and there was something for every age to do.

Fantastic experience: Omg if you have little ones this is a great place to take them. Took my 3 year old granddaughter and we had the time of our lives.

Fantastic experience: Love coming here

Fantastic experience: Great for spending time with the kiddos or letting friends play

Positive experience: Friendly! Great class options. Just wish the hours would get extended.

Positive experience: Absolutely love this place. So much fun for the whole family, affordable and has so many things to do while there.

Fantastic experience: I love the place it’s so fun you can go down slides and swim without a crowd it’s amazing

Fantastic experience: Great place to be!

Fantastic experience: My son visited the pool for open swim on Saturday. It was reasonably priced for him to get in at $6. There were approximately 10 lifeguards for everyone's safety. He said the men's locker room was clean and large.

Fantastic experience: $6 a person's bit high to go to the pool

Positive experience: There gym is really nice, and the staff is very helpful.

Fantastic experience: Not only do we attend yoga every Monday and Wednesday, but the ladies are incredible at the front desk! Mary is so friendly, and the instructors are so informative!

Fantastic experience: Pool is big!

Fantastic experience: Love it! This gym is my happy place I can go there, work out like crazy and I never get judgmental looks or anything, people are very friendly and the trainers are very kind! I haven't been to any classes yet but I'm sure they're just as wonderful! 10/10 it's kept clean as well!

Fantastic experience: I Loves me some Zumba❤‍♀️

Fantastic experience: This is a nice facility to be at. Great gym. Lots of activities for kids.

Fantastic experience: Now named Bolivar Rec

Fantastic experience: Great pool with a water slide, zip line and kids splash area

Fantastic experience: Everything is terrific and staff was polite and helpful and nice

Negative experience: Roy Blunt YMCA closed last year due to covid and was sold to the city of Bolivar aquatic and rec center. The reason for hating the YMCA is because it no longer exists in Bolivar Missouri.

Negative experience: There’s some girl here that looks like dora explorer telling us to do her job and being extremely rude

Positive experience: Fun for kids but not alot of places to sit well watched the life guards are young and can keep up with all the hyper kids so safety is a plus always alot of people but that's cause the kids love it they do ok st keeping up restrooms small amount of food not to over priced but a hop from any fastfood your want you can come and go all day good music friendly staff

Positive experience: The aquatic center was very humid. I don't know why they don't open the roof to lower the temperature. The smell of bleach is also very overpowering. The life guards are very observant. They jumped in and saved a kid who couldn't keep above water. The facility was very clean.

Positive experience: Lots of petty crimes happening here by unsupervised middle schoolers. If you use a locker, bring a lock. This is not a babysitting service and your kids might just end up in more mischief than they should if used as such. With that being said, this is a great place for families to kick back and have a good time. I gave it only 3 stars because parts of the pool have fiber glass sticking up off the floor and I have gotten plenty of splinters this year, I hope they recoat it before next season. Lifeguards do a great job keeping kids from drowning and kids can always find an adult to assist in an emergency, but the locker rooms is where most of the bad stuff goes down. The Lifeguard's job is not to keep your middle school daughter from making out with or leaving with a highschool guy, which happens far too often here. It is assumed if a kid comes alone, they can leave alone. Kids probably get up to less mischief here then at home alone, but there has been as least one drug dealing related arrest here this year. Management does the best they can to keep petty crimes down, it is simply a result of parents treating the public pool like it is a daycare.

Fantastic experience: Amazing place for such a small town. My granddaughter loved it.

Positive experience: Great Staff

Fantastic experience: It's a wonderful place for fun and family!

Fantastic experience: Great place, friendly staff. Enjoyed it.

Fantastic experience: The place was extra clean! Cleaner that it Used to be.

Negative experience: Closed Permanently

Positive experience: This placed is closed currently but should reopen in the future. I was there to.work on the mechanical systems. Still have to upkeep an unoccupied building. It looks to be a very nice civic center with a basket ball court, dance studio, tons of workout equipment including some free weights. Pool tables, ping pong and other games and accessories. Child day care facilities with the attached indoor pool someone else runs.

Negative experience: Zip

Positive experience: Decent place to workout, but they're more pricey and the hours can sometimes be a pain to work around. It can also get crowded in there really quickly, so if you're people shy in regards to working out, this may not be a suitable place for you.

Fantastic experience: I have been to a significant number of gyms and workout centers in 3 states. I can't believe that little Bolivar,MO has one of the nicest facilities I have been in.

Fantastic experience: Gr8 pool for the kids

Fantastic experience: Had so much fun and didn't cost a fortune.

Fantastic experience: Wonderfully Something for all ages. Very Presonal. Helpfully in Your Needs.

Fantastic experience: Awesome and inexpensive for an entire day of swimming. Summers place to be when the lake is flooded

Fantastic experience: Beautiful pool, the gym has good equipment, and they can watch your kids while you work out or enjoy the water.

Positive experience: Nice place

Positive experience: My family loves this place, they always have fun. The lifeguards always do a good job keeping an eye on everything and keeping it safe. I only wish they were open more in the fall.

Fantastic experience: Great atmosphere no humidity . Kids enjoyed cheap lots of fun

Fantastic experience: Took the grandkids and had a ball!

Positive experience: It was epic, I'd rather not see kids doing fortnite dances tho