YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County — Local services in City of Kingston

I love the youth farm initiatives and many other community programs this YMCA does. My main issue is with the pool and workout facilities.

It is extremely difficult to get a pool reservation and the new reservation system has made this even worse. You always have to share a lane with other swimmers which makes it impossible to practice certain strokes. The cancellation window in the system is also two hours before, which many people miss. It should be reduced to 30-60 minutes before, as sometimes you show up and the pool is half empty because people couldn’t come, but they also couldn’t cancel their reservation to give it to some one on the wait list.

I wish they would either increase their pool hours or expand to add another pool to their facility. I have been to several other YMCAs and all of them don’t even require swimming appointments, you can just come as you please. Some had more than one pool. They all also had swimsuit drying machines and lockers with digital locks built in, which this one does not have.

Many people are only members of this YMCA for lap swimming in the pool. I just hope they can find a way to invest in that a bit more as there is obviously demand between lap swimmers, open swimmers, swim teams, and...

It is very difficult to get swim times.

I think it is time for the YMCA to add more hours for the pool.

It is especially hard to get times on the weekends. Pre pandemic the YMCA pool was open a lot more hours both weekends and weekdays and we also have more swimmers now since we are getting the folks that would normally swim at Bard College or other places that have not reopened.

I think you are loosing members with it being difficult to get times.

Also I am ok with continuing to have to schedule times, but there are far too many time the pool is fully booked and I show up for my time and the pool is not full, also the reverse is true mostly on Sunday mornings people show up with time booked and cannot get in the pool since every lane is occupied. Most times when this overbooking is happening the is someone using a lane for a private swim lesson. So if you want to continue to have folks schedule times it needs to be policed better, which I know is hard.

My flexibility for getting swim times, is not what is was now that I am going into the office a few days each week. I used to be able to fit times in between my meetings for work now it is before...

This Place opens up whenever they feel like. If the wind blows in the wrong direction this place will close. They Sent out an Email saying they would open at 10 only to never opened at all. if your employees do not like coming to work just say so! mind you, every other gym was open. And the roads were fine. Ended up being a line of cars and people at the door waiting for them to open to no avail. A lot of people were upset. Went to PF and got a pass for the day. For the amount of money this place isn't worth it. on top of that the machines and equipment are outdated. Only real major benefit is the pool and ball court.Its pretty dusty, meaning needs a better clean. Inside the lockers are nasty ,the weight room mirrors are broken! so on and so on. Hadn’t been there in years and figured to give them a try. Definitely will...