Monon Community Center Reviews

Incredible value. Excellent focus on clean. Great fitness center and awesome summer pool activities like the lazy river and surfing area.

Just want to add a little thing that says a lot about the place ... the crew that maintains the windows, keeps them clean, does an A+ job. I hope someone there shared this add to my prior post.

Great community center!!! Nice facility, friendly staff.

Complete exercise area with a variety of cross training machines, weight machines for complete body work out, and free weights, trainers, indoor track, 3 basketball gyms, private and group aerobics classes, and large indoor olympic lap pool, outdoor swim park with surf wave, slides, float circuit, and multi mile loop track through prairie and woods. Rates vary depending on residency and membership.

Really fun! They constantly have swim lessons during open swim which is frustrating. It's okay though. Also always crowded

Excellent facility with well-maintained workout equipment and clean locker rooms. Friendly, helpful staff as well.

Very nice facilities with indoor/outdoor pools, lots of exercise equipment, classes, basketball ball courts and more. My particular favorite is the indoor running track. It's so much nicer in bad weather than a treadmill. However, there are a decent number of people who don't follow the track rules and that can be frustrating at times. That's mostly not a ding on the facility, but they could have staff periodically check and educate errant individuals. Also, as a non Carmel resident (Westfield), I was sad to see the indoor track is no longer free for everyone (as of 1/1/2018), but I understand the crowds have risen significantly and the track is still worth paying a reasonable membership fee.

no body picked up the phone when i tried to call and then i went over there and it said cleaning 1-4 so i came back at 4 and it s members only honestly make it more available on your website or just pick up the phone

Absolutely best community center. Great gyms, awesome water park, and outdoor park. Best part though is their staff. The staff is really friendly and helpful.

Friendly for the most part. Great price for all amenities.

Jack is a great worker. He is very nice and helpful and is always in a great mood.

I hope the thief lady today go to jail for long time ,my wife and daughter seen here stealing all purses and they reported on time so thnx to them.she got caught ,but nobody say thnx to my wife and daughter, come on, management

Not optimal for weight training. Space is tight and equipment is limited and somewhat dated. Many novices with no sense of gym etiquette or basic knowledge--rife for injuries. Equipment frequently not replaced. Administrative staff virtually non-reponsive to customer issues.

I can't speak to much else aside from the water park, but this is one of our favorite summer activities. We typically go after 4 when the entrance rates are discounted and it's a bit less crowded. The lazy river wasn't open on our last visit due to upgrades and repairs being made This place is always very clean and the staff is always super friendly. I appreciate that we are allowed a cooler with drinks and snacks, but their concessions area has decent options at great prices as well! The new playground and splash pad on the west side of the grounds is pretty stellar as well. The layout of the play area is different and interesting and encourages inclusive and imaginative play.

I arrived at the weightlifting center, eager to experience a stimulating workout to help germinate rippling musculature but made a mistake by going into the men's locker room. As I approached, I didn't think much, assuming it was like a normal locker room, a place to change, shower, and release human waste. I opened the door and was met with a man, about 60 years old who was fully naked and standing in the open, staring at me with a diabolical stare emerging from his dilated pupils. I attempted to ignore him, looking down but he called for me, telling me that he was locked out of his own locker and was unable to retrieve his clothes. He wanted me to get a monon worker to unlock the locker for him. I complied, walking to the weightlifting desk where I expected an employee to be. To my amazement, nobody was there so I had to walk to another desk, which took about another minute. I told one of the workers, who seemed to suffer from social anxiety as he didn't seem to maintain eye contact with me and also had poor posture, possible rupturing his spine and damaging his thoracolumbar fascia if he were to maintain that posture chronically. I lead the man up the stairs to the gym, feeling awkward on the way up as he made no effort to initiate any conversation and walked very slowly. I lead him to the scene of the accident which luckily he was able to solve quite easily so I went on with the rest of my day and headed to the sinks. I arrived at the sinks as a horrendous stench began to permeate my nostrils, which smelled like a mixture of rotten rectal discharge mixed with severe body odor. I started to feel a bit dizzy, but pushed through it as I headed to the urinal. I wait to use a urinal as a fully naked man begins to start shaking frantically at the urinal, moving his hand quickly back and forth. I'm not sure if he was attempted to pleasure himself or dry himself but I decided to go use the stall instead. I entered the stall and the protruding smell starts to get worse, and I shift my view to the toilet where a heaping pile of feces sat, half of which was not even in the toilet and was piling over the edges. At this point I was not very surprised but was immensely disgusted and dissatisfied with my experience so far. I found one of the janitors who luckily said he would clean it up but felt sorry for him as that would be very difficult to clean up. As for the man who made the mess, hopefully he would see a gastroenterologist . I left the locker room, happy to be able to get out of that place. I entered the weightlifting area, which was very crowded but was luckily able to get on the leg press machine. Two forty five pound plates were already present on both sides but I needed more so I grabbed one and put it on one side but as I went to grab another one a teenage girl grabs the forty five on the leg press and takes it to deadlift. I approached her, already in a poor mood, and told her that I was using that. She acted surprised and sassy and even made me take the weight back from her. She seemed to assume I wouldn't be strong enough to lift the weight I put on. While I leg pressed she kept staring at me, but tried to hide it and she did not do that too well. After I finished leg press, I went to squat and after I warmed up I loaded three 300 total on the bar. The whole gym seemed to stare at me, like I was some kind of celebrity. I was not sure if they had never seen someone squat 300 pounds or if they were just obsessed with my physique. Either way, it was a bit distracting but fortunately didn't harm my workout. I finished squat and arrived at the hamstring curl machine. While curling, I was unwillingly forced to listen to a conversation between a seventy year old man and a twenty year old man discuss their sexual desires with women. The old man was obsessed with fat women, and even discussed the aftermath, such as rectal seepage which didn't sound too pleasant. I finished my workout and left, feeling dissatisfied but also entertained. I will contemplate whether buying a membership or not in the future.

I work here but besides that I love it! Loads of fun programming for all people all the time. Come us in fitness soon!

First time here. Purchased a lock from here that jammed up and couldnt get to my items. Park closed early due to severe weather and couldn't get someone to cut the lock off! Stood there until all of the staff was leaving. Spent my day at park by the lockers. No refund offered either. Wont come back.

Great Gym and facilities, great outdoor pool, BUT...
Getting more and more overcrowded year after year to the extent you can t enjoy these things.

Please expand or open additional locations. Nice job not escalating prices to address overcrowding though!

Can't wait to go back with the kids when I have more time.

Cool place to hang out, work out, swim, and do many other fun activities. Classes and summer day camps are available at a reasonable price.

This place is pretty awesome. They have all of the amenities that you would need. Basketball courts, a large weight room, a track, many cardio machines, classes offered all the time, two water parks, child care, a pool and they even have plenty of events to go to, and much more. The place is kept up very well and is very clean. Good value for your money.

Me and my family remember the pools to packed in the summertime people from the city and everywhere come the gym cool steam room

Great price for a great work out center. It almost seems too good to be true. The pool is fantastic, good variety on work out equipment. Haven't tried the basketball courts or the classes but they look fantastic as well.

I m so glad I joined the Monon Community Center. I love the campus and the included classes.

Can't believe they raise the price of membership again to pay for all these unneeded useless unimprovements. The only people who benefit from this are the contractors and perhaps the managers got their cut too.

Great place for a workout,play some basketball or swim. Was a member for two years and enjoyed the place and the people who work there.

It used be a great Aqua park, (2015) but this season is crowded and full with mostly non local residents, predominately African- Americans. I have concerns about the park crowds and in the future I won't be visiting.

My go to trail after a long and stressful work week. Quiet in the morning.

The water park here is phenomenal. Great place to hang out with family and friends.

Great place to get excercise, take a class, meet people and just have fun. The employees are wonderful and the center offers an incredible diversity within their membership base

Fantastic facility and indoor walking/running track

I've been enjoying the Monon Community Center and bringing my kids here for over 5 years and I'm always pleasantly surprised

Their water park is great for kids in the summer. Great gym, sauna, and indoor track. Modern facilities and easy access to the Monon trail!

Very friendly employees they nake my day everytime i go air conditioning is great its kinda small but a perfect size

Okay swimming space today12/03/17, but watch for these black ladies with tons of kids, they steal towels. The only ones to leave and now my towels missing. My poor baby and I had no towels

I've been visiting the Community Center about twice a month for the past year. The clean facilities, cordial staff, and adequate equipment/amenities creates a pretty welcoming environment. They host a wide array of activities and classes for those interested. The open gym and friendly atmosphere keep me coming back!

Good place to spend time with the family and friends.

I am not a member to the Monon but I use the trails and walkways quite often ... I walk inside the center to use the restrooms and it's always clean

Great value for money, excellent facilities, good place to park and jump on to Monon rail trail , have to wait to get a slot during weekend peak hours for parking

Carmel can really be proud of this recreational facility plus the surrounding park. How many rec centers have exercise equipment, swimming, basketball courts, dance classes, and great trails to walk surrounded by nature. You can go fishing also! Plus lots more.

I really enjoy working out here, and can always find something to do - even if it is crowded. I am very happy with the new fitness class schedule for this season, as it has more class options in the evenings! Really excited about there being multiple barre classes now!

One down side is that when it is crowded, there isn't much space to do free weights or any routine you may want to do. It would be great if you could access the classrooms that aren't being used at that time, if you like to create your own workouts that might require a little more space.

Lot of amenities, everything is well maintained. Very friendly staff and a lot of reward for your membership fees. Highly recommended!

Quality is going downhill, especially in fitness center. Already the most useful entrances are blocked, requiring users to move from any point to a single entrance. Recently, one of the staff members was very incompetent. A cranky old man was already harassing the gym-goers, and complained I was hogging the assisted dips/pull-ups machine. I was on a finishing set after doing 3 before of a simple leg exercise, shown to me by a trainer. I walked away after each set, allowing others to take a set of their own if desired. The staff member proceeded to tell me I was not allowed to do that, for whatever reason. The cranky old man then took the machine and I was left flabbergasted that a employee of a fitness center would not allow me to complete my exercises and had no knowledge of this exercise.

Just sprained my ankle tonight and the wonderful staff members did a lot to accommodate my situation. They handled the situation with upmost professionalism and wheeled me out to my vehicle safe and sound. There were five members who were all attentive to my injury, one was olly, I believe sarah was the other one, I believe she s the front desk manager if not mistaken, Ashley, and a sweet girl whom I believe was a lifeguard

Good indoor track and water park. Really good place to go to have fun or if you just want to get a really good workout also has good summer things

My favorite thing is the flowrider this summer will be my 3rd year and I can't wait

Very good fitness center including swimming with clean environmental

Great gym and lifestyle center for families. Reasonable membership fees and no long term contracts.

Everyone I ve encountered who works here is always friendly and helpful! Love that there are so many classes included with your membership.

This is a very nice gym! Great facilities and staff.

Great place to work out and also take a class and learn something new.

I visit every once in a while to take the kiddo swimming. They changed the prices and now charge each parent to watch your child swim. 30 dollars to have your child swim for an hour or two is a bit pricey. They pride themselves in community but it's apparent they only cater to one demographic.

Beautiful state-of-the-art center & outdoor waterpark. And the grounds are amazing. Driving in from the east entrance is reminicent of driving into the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore beaches!

The nature walks are great!! And the amount of classes and things to do at the Monon Center is astounding. Plus all the wildlife there keeps the walks interesting.

I've been to hosted events at the center and it was clean and well run.
Today I took the kids to the new park at the west entrance. It is a very modern climbing park with lots of levels and activities for all age groups. One of the best parks in the area.

It is a nice facility but their personal trainers aren't the best and the KidZone hours completely black out afternoon workouts or group classes/events. Staff is hit and miss. Some are helpful and others are either clueless or to busy to answer questions.