Sports Pavilion Lawrence — Local services in Lawrence

At first I had high hopes for Rock Chalk. I put my kids in sports and my daughter in Gymnastics. Just recently I was told that my daughter had her first miss payment. I had automatic payments and I was unaware the payment was declined. Instead of calling me. They made my daughter sit out 1.45minutes and punished the child. 3 years no late payment. When I confronted the director, he ignored me. Then so I contacted hirer up. She was not sorry. She told me kids start to get kicked from the classes after the 10th. It was the 8th. I told her. 2 days later she band my kids from activities making false statements to band me. No certificate are given for completion of a course of Gymnastics. I had to make my own and ask the directors to sign it. Smh. Sad. My son played soccer for 5 grade and 4th. 4th grade he got a trophy 🏆. But 5th grade doesn't get trophies. My son one the season. And championship game. Still nothing. They over crowd classes. They told me I disrupted gymnastics. Yet they have 3 gymnastics classes at the same time and a ninja all in one area. 20 plus kids. Being greedy. But me asking a question ⁉️ Is Disrupted. Go else where if u want a good time. Another issue is they never have enough coaches volunteer. They make teams,take your payment and then u have to wait for a coach. May miss practices and games in the meantime. They will ask u what kind of team u want coed or boys or girls. But then give u whatever...

The weight room is stocked but cramped, and has two squat racks + barbell with moveable benches for bench press, one multi cable machine, lat pull-downs, pull up bars, leg press, leg extension, back extension bench, bicep curl bench, free dumbbells. The cardio area has recumbent bikes, Spinning-style bikes, ellipticals, a stair climber, and recumbent stair climbers. There is also two large basketball courts, and a walking track. Nearby there is a tennis facility with different hours.

Everything is wonderful here - from the weight room and cardio machines to large basketball courts - except for the situation with bathrooms/changing rooms. There are only three changing rooms on the gym side, and they double as shower and bathrooms, with no stalls- meaning that toileting and showering happens in the same single room, and there are only three toilets/showers for the gym side of the facility. Taking a shower in one of those rooms would be unimaginably disgusting, because by the end of the day they smell like toilet. If I want to use the bathroom I’d go to the other side if I were you, but I would not take a shower here. It’s sad, I guess, because although I know not everyone wants to shower at the gym, some people do. The situation here just makes that impossible.

Overall I have to give 4 stars because if they added more showers or just paid the cleaner more to clean every hour, that would...

Nice clean hotel and the perfect location where our college student lives. Bar at night was inviting and breakfast in the morning was better than water-down eggs. The coffee is great! BUT - no cleaning service? We stayed for 2 nights and there was no refresh to our room. If we had to request it at check-in no from the front desk informed us. We left for the game on Sat. morning and left a tip for the housekeeper thanking her for the room refresh service, but when we got back to our room that night the money was still there and the room was not re-refreshed. The trash can was full & we needed Kleenex. I had hung up our towels so thankful they were dry. Before we had come up to our room I had asked the young lady at the front desk a question about availability later on in the year and it seemed like we had bothered her - so for me to call down to ask for a box of Kleenex, I decided to just let it go! Ever since COVID if you don't ask for a room re-refresh they don't provide, but they still charge a premium for the room! This is a nice hotel - very west of the campus, but better than some of the motels that are so run down close to campus. The small drive might be worth it. Just remember to ask for a room re-refresh if you are staying for more...