Creekside Community Recreation Centre — Local services in Vancouver

I wanted to start personal training somewhere close to me and since CCRC is across the street from me, I thought it would be perfect! Unfortunately, the system seems to be running very inefficiently. Instead of telling me who was available I kept having to chose a trainer only for the coordinator to come back to me and say that they weren't available. When I asked for suggestions I didn't feel like the coordinator cared or wanted to help. She basically just listed off the names that were left and even after picking one of those I was told that they weren't available. This whole process took two weeks and ended with me asking for a refund. The response I got was "It's too bad it didn't workout". Not very helpful or "community" like if you ask me. Very disappointed with the...

I went to CCRC for work, the staff was young and not in a rush to clear the space for me to set up. They were too busy eating cake and chatting, I even had to interrupt their conversation as no one looked over/asked what I needed as I stood at the counter. Overall it was completed but very last minute. They were sweeping etc from the last party while we were setting up the party I was working.

The center itself was very nice, modern and bathrooms were large and of a decent level of cleanliness. The vending machines were all out of order though, so there was no way of purchasing a drink or snack while I waited for them to...

The fitness area is quite small. The do have a covered patio portion where you can stretch and do bodyweight exercises, but definitely wouldn't be much use in the winter. Only two squat racks that, unfortunately, also double as their bench press... ironically that's what they were both being used for this morning :P Two pleasantly surprising things tho, which is why I gave the third star, they have three cable stations and even have a trap bar for deadlifts! And now that I think of it you could probably even take it out to the patio and do farmers walks with it. Oh, and sadly no "two hour free" or comped...