Best Gyms with Indoor Pools near Tucson, Arizona

I have been coming to the Lohse Y for lap swimming since 1995. I have never in all of these years experienced what is happening now with the pool. It is a fabulous pool and many people want to use it. All the Y's across the city have adopted a new policy of closing all the pools at 11am M-F with no hours for the swimmers who used to come on their lunch hour between 11am and 1pm. This results in forcing a large amount of daily swimmers to cram their usual 45 min to one hour workout swims into the five hours in the morning when the pool is open. In addition to the limited hours five months out of the year, the new policy is have 4 people circle swimming in each lane. They also have water aerobics classes five days a week for one hour of the five they are open, so during that time there are only four lanes available for lap swimming. This is not enjoyable. I cannot recommend joining this y for the purpose of using the pool. My husband and I, who are both long-time lap swimmers at Lohse Y, are looking into swimming at other facilities We may possibly quit going to this Y entirely because the cost of the monthly parking may be too much when we can't use the pool. This decision is with a heavy heart after 30 years loving this Y. They recently remodeled the pool and in our opinion it has been one of the best lap swimming pools in Tucson. It is truly a shame that the citywide pool director has chosen to turn it into a treadmill of a water workout room.

I'm a Y member visiting from Virginia. My family & I do zumba back home and wanted to keep our fitness activity going here. We attended Diana's zumba class. She was terrific! She was high energy and the routines were fairly easy to follow and fun to do. We very much enjoyed her class, and will try to attend another of her classes before we leave.

I don't go to the Y, but my parents faithfully go to the one in Virginia for Zumba. They are visiting here in town, and we decided to try a Wednesday Zumba night. The instructor, Deanna, is new. Really? Well, she's very good. I picked up really fast from how she led the dance class. Yes, it was that impactful for me to write this review, considering how happy my parents, really my Mom, were. 1st timers, too!

My boys wanted to join the Y for the basketball court and the staff is super warm to them even when I'm not around. Belina signed us up and has been super gracious to us ever since. She treats you like family and makes sure you are taken care of. The staff culture is by design and not by default, great job management!

The Lohse Family YMCA is hands down the best in the city. The staff there is absolutely incredible - they go above and beyond to make you feel welcome. The new equipment - it's top-notch. You won't find a friendlier bunch of people anywhere else. l've been a member for 19 years and would never even consider going anywhere else. Seriously, I love this place. Trust me, you need to check it out. R.Garcia

Overall please with my experience. My children have Kennedy middle school aftercare program and seem to like it. My only complaint is the gym hours could be extended. The Jacuzzi needs a good sanitation and needs to be a lot hotter. The sauna should be much more hot in temperature. The steam room needs to be sanitized and rules need to be enforced. People need to shower and not wear stinky gym clothes into the steam room And believe that for the cost of the membership these changes should be easy to fix.

Scheduled an appointment with the ECE to enroll my daughter. We showed up, granted a couple minutes late because the parking lot is confusing, and no one knew we were coming. It almost seemed as if I was bothering them with showing up- the two ladies in the office weren’t warm by any means, there was no greeting, no getting to know us, no welcoming, just “someone will be by.” Took the tour. It was incredibly rushed because there was a meeting at 9:45 that our guide had to attend (our appointment was for 9 am). She often times came off as impatient as I worked to navigate my 3yo around a new environment. I made it a point to ask about spot availability and made it clear that I needed to have my daughter enrolled in a program in two weeks. She assured me that they had several open spots. At the end of the tour, an application was basically tossed my way as she rushed off to her meeting and we were left in the lobby. Several staff members passed us by while we sat there and there was no hi, hello, welcome. I tried to turn in the application the following Monday (tour was Thursday). I Didn’t really know where to go or who to drop it off to- no guidance was provided when I was tossed the application, so I went into the JCC. The guy at the counter was confused… had never seen the application before. Called the ECE and I was told to schedule an appointment for a tour. I had already mentioned that we had already done the tour and I just needed to turn the application in. He didn’t know what to do with it, so again called back and one of the unfriendly ladies from the office on our tour day came and grabbed it. Again… not welcoming or friendly. But hey, I liked the facility and program… so maybe she was having an off day…again. I asked when I could expect to hear anything and she said “maybe Friday.” I called in Wednesday to follow up on the application and to make sure that there was still an opening for my daughter. I was told that it would be looked at Friday and that they didn’t know if there was availability. I explained that during the tour I was told that there were spots open, and I again stressed that I needed my daughter to start 1st week In September. Again, told I would get a call Friday. Friday at 1630 (today) I call for an update. Left a message and received a call back shortly after. There was a part time spot, M-W but no full time option available. This is not what I was told when I toured, and I was pretty upset that this wasn’t communicated sooner. There needs to be good communication- when it comes to children especially. The fact that NO ONE knew what was going on- from the tour guide who assured me there was FT spots available and I would be able to start my daughter when needed, the 1st week In September, to the unwelcoming office staff, to the JCC front desk, through no fault of his own, was completely clueless as far as the ECE, to the way applications were evaluated once a week on Fridays, to the program director who was unapologetic to the fact that her staff told me there were FT spots open while she communicated only PT spots were available. AND it took a week to tell me that they didn’t have the availability I needed. You can’t run a good organization on broken communication. Processes need to be streamlined, and the staff could benefit from being more outgoing and warm.

It is a wonderful place. My only issue is that fitness class providers are way too forceful. Some attendees are very fit, I am fit as well but I got hurt in every class I went, they start hard and no stretching, some of them actually go pretty crazy with the speed. I resorted to go to acqua fit, but the lady that was on Tuesday was the very same one that does another class where I got injured. Although many were happy with the acqua fit class, most did not follow, her routine was not apt for the pool. The other two acqua instructors on Sunday and Thursday do get it right. Too bad I will have to skip Tuesdays from now on

Unsanitary facility. My child was eating small crumbs off the ground as he was a week prior when i abruptly stopped by to pick him up early. For them to allow toddlers to eat left over food particles off the ground in the first place raises red flags! Your child can be eating anything whether edible or not and they could care less ! Filthy

Awesome gym with great views of Tucson, friendly staff, great new tennis + pickleball courts, childcare options are family and schedule friendly. Great smart COVID protocols and the building feels safe to visit.

The changes being made are clearly from faculty who don't lift weights. Most recent changes are new plates replacing perfectly clean/fine plates. The new ones are cheap, don't have rubber coating, have sharp edges that can cut you, and lack large enough holes for grip. There are far to many ellipticals. This space could be used for specialized equipment like a belt squat, jammer, squat rack, etc. Things that need replacing don't yet we get new weight racks that are bulky and not improving the experience of the gym. People do whatever they want in the squat racks, preventing you from using them. The hours need to change. The gym closes for every holiday even uncommon ones. Often closed during football games and random employee training days. Overall a month is removed from your membership without you knowing. Parking is pretty horrible. You either pay for special parking with a an expensive semester pass or pay road parking if you're lucky enough to find it. Most of the surroundings lacks shade so when it's over 100 your car will just bake. The neighborhood is shotty too so don't leave things in your car. Overall the gym is pleasant on the eyes and has the basics. The management is clueless in charge of equipment is clueless. The gym is over packed most of the year so equipment is hard to come by. People constantly break the "rules" and nothing is enforced. It's closed too often and the list goes on.

The U of A Rec Center is a nice setup for NYS volleyball games. Note that you always need to check if it is a game day for football or not. If so, parking is a nightmare. There are two hour spaces around the center on the street, but no one seems to follow that on game days.

Great wheelchair basketball game but what about the blatant sexism? The men get to play in the main court but the women’s has to play in the Rec?! How is that fair and balanced ?! Shame on you for this

Unbelievable! We called them TWO days in advance and asked if the field would be available to reserve on Friday. They said it was not possible but that they would still be open. They neglected the fact that the field was CLOSED only on Friday. Online it said it was open aswell. We drove all the way down to south rec just to discover it was closed. EVENING RUINED and an hour of our time waisted.

Disclaimer-Non UofA student review-I toured the rec center when I was visiting campus with a younger sibling, so I can't vouch for how it is during the semester. However, I do attend a Power 5 school in the Midwest and the this rec offers far more amenities and equipment than my campus rec center does. It was also clean and modern, but had some renovations going on in the student entrance when we were there. A lot of the feedback other student reviewers have (ie too many cardio machines and not enough weights) is very similar to my complaints about our rec center. Apparently there's now a rec center in the honors dorms (at UofA), so that might alleviate some of the foot traffic. I'd say though if I showed my university friends this rec center and asked them which one they'd prefer, almost all would pick Arizona's. That's my two cents! -RCJH