Great South Bay YMCA: Child Care Review

Really enjoyed lack of humans there. Locker rooms are really well designed. Other ymca need to learn from this place.(east hampton ymca has midget size lockers that dont lock).
Nice equipment, no people, warm water in pool. Yea! 84f vs freezing water in east hampton and patchogue ymca. Cant beat that!

State of the art prison style showers(will add picture) make you feel alert and give you sence of adventure. Soap on a roap comes to mind.

And best part was i pulled my back while lifting cause looked away, at girl running, lost balance and now i get week off of work!

This place is a blast. Definately coming back!

I had the HONOR of visiting the Y again yesterday with the Bay Shore Lions. I say Honor because being a Bay Shore resident and living right around the corner- I felt I knew all about the programs the Y had to offer. Boy was I wrong!!! I learned that the Y offers a program for Teenagers on Saturday nights that averages 240 Teens a night! These teens can attend there free of charge and take classes to keep them off the street for free. They offer them classes to become Summer Camp counselors. They have a Swimming Program called the Eye Insight Program which is for those losing their sight or blind. They have senior exercise classes- which becomes a daily routine to seniors to not only make them healthier- but gives them purpose to get up every day! Their Summer Camp Scholarship Program allows over 200 kids from low income families to have a place to go all day while their parents can go to work.... The list of community driven programs to serve the less fortunate is awe inspiring. This is not just a local gym- it is a giving organization that finds a need in the community and fills it! Kudos to you Bay Shore Y- I couldn't be prouder to have you as a resource to our community!

GSB YMCA offers a wide variety of programs and services all day into the evening, including weekends! As a relatively new member, I appreciate the opportunities available for children, adults and seniors. The facilities are clean and staff have been very friendly and helpful with all of my questions. The YMCA is an experience, not just a gym.
Aquatic center is amazing, with classes for children adults and seniors. Gym has everything you need to work out. I especially like the programs offered for Cancer survivors and Arthritis program. My family have been scheduling our week around programs offered at the YMCA. Lastly, it took a very short time to realize why members seem to look and feel so happy! My immediate impression remains, People at the Y are having fun, at all ages and stage of life .

Love it from swimming to the exercise room it is such a positive enviroment. If you have kid's the are welcome to develop there as well

I AM TRYING TO REGISTER MY SON FOR AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM...BUT ANYONE DID NOT HELP ME...THANK YOU MISS. mellany

Excellent for kids all safety precautions are being taken seriously

WORST MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE EVER!!! I have been looking for a for
A GYM FOR my son and have walked into a couple of different GYMS outside of the city and unfortunately today's experience confirms the reason why.
First, I walk into the office and had to say Hello because there was no one around at the desk. I believe because I am African American male I wasn't greeted with the respect I deserve.

This place is completely horrible and is not worth my time!!!

I give it the maximum of stars great classes.....zumba Sundays with Debra

A beautiful place to trust your children to. After one year taking swimming class my Princess swim without any help. Very safe place

Cant play while the court is completely open on one side. I constantly get kicked out. If u play basketball dont come here

The variety of times provided for swimming is great when you have multiple kids. We have always been able to found a class at the same time and day for each of them. The staff are all kind and lighthearted making it fun for 3 and 6 year olds.

It would be so much better if they would keep an eye on the children. Kids can be real cruel, say mean things and just be bullies especially on the basketball court and i got a membership here so my son can exercise, play basketball, and to help him on his weight loss journey. I wanted a positive experience. Although he is not letting what they say get to him I know it still bothers him. Please staff be mindful of the things that goes on. Bullying should never be tolerated. In school as well as in programs such as the Y. Tell the parents and stop being so passive with the interaction of Children/teenagers. But other than that the front desk evening staff is quite nice.

If you want your kids to run around aimlessly without direction or guidance than this program is for you! Both of my kids went to the after school program for two years. It took two years of my kids constantly getting hurt and phone calls about how they bumped their heads and other kids hurting my kids before i said enough is enough. The staff doesn't understand the kids homework. So most of the time the kids homework is done incorrectly. Every time I went to pick up my kids the staff was huddled around the tables talking while the kids are left to their own devices. After an incident with another child where my son was made to feel like he was a bad person because the lady handled the situation by yelling and screaming at him I had enough! I spoke to the director of the program and after stating he understood what I was saying and he apologized to me he still didn't do anything to solve the situation at hand leading me to pull both my kids from this unsafe and harmfully toxic environment. Parent you have been warned! Do not waste your money!

I want to be clear. I like the staff that works with the children but the front desk is not good.

Things seem to be unorganized and they give out the wrong information.
Melany Knows what she is doing and I like her program and she also knows how to talk to people.

The front desk staff don t know the systems work.

My complain is about Sandy Lena. I just had a conversation with Sandy Lena and she was extremely rude to me and yelled at me on the phone because her system is so primitive, I was complaining to her about the fact that the girls at the front desk told me I was enrolled in automatic payments when it turns out that I am not and it has to be redone every school year when I finally tracked down Sandy Lena on the phone after 3 days of calling her and 2 voice messages she said to me that I have to go back to the front desk and complained to me about going on and on about the situation, horrible customer service and a huge lack of professionalism. I am pretty much begging them to get me credit card information setup and they are treating me worse than someone who doesn t pay on time. At least I have google to record someone s mistreatments.

I hope someone coaches Sandy Lena and the front desk staff. I guess I have to go back to the front desk and deal with this again and let them know that Sandy Lena said to refund my late fee because they made a mistake ohhh what a nice primitive customer service. I am being bounced back and forth for a payment.

Mostly I just swim now, but I have also held my son's birthday parties at the Y and he did all his swimming lessons there when he was younger. I like the friendly atmosphere, the people I meet, the friendly staff, the location, and the connection with the local community. I see the Y as a positive force for a lot of people and am glad to be a part of that!

One of my main complaints is the basketball courts are overcrowded. At times my son has to wait thirty minutes on a very long line. The Y should consider building an extension of another basketball court. The workers should not kick everyone from the courts so that that can play against each other. Don't bother to bring anything valuable because it may get stolen.

Awful customer service when i called in and they automatically took my money out my account $52 and i wasnt comming to the gym!!! And they saying i cannot get a refund for service i didnt use... thats stealing.. i will never use these people again... and their description is a lie about unprofitable!! I hear planet fitness is waaay better and they do not take your money out when you are not active at their gym.

I am very disappointed with your services because a worker name Kareme took a picture of my license plate and wouldn t tell me why ... if I was another person I would have called the cops but I didn t

My Children started at the YMCA in child care when they were 2 and 5. They have done everything there from learning how to swim to summer camp. They have attended camp and eventually become counselors there. They are now 17 and 20 and consider the YMCA a second family.

Do not bring your kids to this place. Horrible environment. This has to be one of the biggest scams going. Always asking foe donations. The guy that runs the gym John completely doesn't understand how to run a program. Over priced memberships. Go else where!!!

I don't know what people are talking about them being theves there are lockers . I mostly play basketball and hit the gym very good

I find it a very friendly, very encouraging environment and I totally enjoy working out with Maria. The facility is spotless, the equipment in great running order, and I find it meets my needs very well.

They are great .for the time being they are helping me out a lot . I need they services and nice friendly staff . thank you . YMCA

Great facility, great people, great staff... overall fantastic organization!

My youngest daughter and I joined a couple of years after it first opened and have benefited from scholarships to membership, preschool and summer camps when my income was low. It is frustrating to read the low reviews by so many ignorant people that don't understand the Y is a non profit social organization that uses the donations and fundraisers to offer programs and scholarships to those in need. Unreal how ignorant some of the one star reviews are! A couple, made me wonder if the problem lies with the poster's attitude and not so much with the Y's. Everything has room for improvement, no one is a super star of 5, but people need to be more clear in their reviews. One of them, in the low star bracket, I wondered if that person was talking about the Y at all. Anyway, once my daughter got into regular schools, we continued to benefit from the fitness programs for over 20 years! I recently got to try BOGA which is a new fitness class on a board while tethered in the pool. FUN! Give it a try and stay involved!

LOVE THE BEFORE & AFTERCARE PROGAM. THE Y MAKES IT EASY FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE PROGRAMS OFFERED TO BOTH MYSELF AND MY SON.THE SWIM SCHEDULE IS A BIG PLUS FOR MY LIFESTYLE.

This is the stupidest Ymca I ever been to full of racist people that always have stupid Beef with ever one there . The fitness center is horrible and disgusting the person who owns that place should be asham of them self s and need to get fired for it. Over all the place sucks I wouldn t recommend being there