R. Richard Bittner Downtown YMCA — Local services in Davenport

This is the nicest Y I've ever been to! I'm a visiting member from Des Moines. The staff here is great! They've been so very helpful. There appears to be childcare here as well, though I'm not sure what those hours are.

I love that each floor has something different to offer. The pool is on the ground floor. The cardio machines, spin studio, basketball court, and e-gym are on the second floor along with some weight machines. The track and free weights and more machines are on the third floor along a terrace overlooking the Mississippi River. The machines and other equipment are super modern unlike other locations. I also like that some of them keep count for you. Very cool that they use washable towels here to wipe everything down instead of paper towels.

Most notable to me is the e-gym. You're set up with a trainer who will assess your goals. You get a fob to connect to the machines which will prepare the machine at the weight and reps that your trainer has set for you. I've spoken to several members that use the e-gym and they all agree that it's made a huge difference.

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Absolutely LOVE Bittner Y! I frequent this location even though I live closer to Bettendorf loc. The track at Bittner is better and Mark Barnes Latin/Hip Hop class is AMAZING! Unfortunately, for the last week, the a/c seems to not be working in the mezzanine room where class is held. Today, we needed to prop the doors open today as there was no air movement. Josh/COO walked by and closed them. I left class and told him it was brutally hot in that room. His response is not what I expected and his customer service skills are lacking. I recently retired from an almost 20 year sales career. If I spoke to customers the way Josh did, I’d lose business and/or my job. Josh abruptly responded to me that the doors needed to be closed since they couldn’t hear the phone at the front desk due to the music being played in class. I reminded him that it’s been 1 week since the a/c hasn’t been working. He replied “we’re working on it!” How about maybe calling Schebler, Gabrilson, or TMI to come out and repair? I’ve been a member of the Y off & on...

The new location Butter looks great! Tons of items with basketball courts, racquetball courts, variety off exercise classes, a whole room for biking classes, still with track to walk/run, weight machine, elliptical and treadmills, etc. Only items wish were slightly different is I wish the treadmills/ellipticals on second floor were facing the river for some views or even some tvs instead off facing the pool area. The weight machines next to them are in the area where to see the view but almost all off them are turned away from the view. And then the only other item is I wish they would have kept their deep end in the pool. Now it's only 4.5-5 around half what it was before. Which probably great for liability reasons for them. It is very clean and the machines are all socially distanced and last I see sign still requiring face masks to walk through hallway etc. Just keep in mind they can't control people that go into sauna room that don't always distance...