Warrenton Aquatic and Recreation Facility — Local services in Warrenton

Not necessarily a bad review, I feel some things need improvement, just some constructive criticism is warranted here. We just had my sons birthday party here. I was told I’d have 15 minutes to decorate beforehand, but I didn’t. When I arrived downstairs the party before ours was still there. Come 5 minutes before my booked time I went in the party room to set up around the young man cleaning from the previous party. Our guests started to arrive as I’m still putting together my sons party. That was very frustrating. The young man kept apologizing and I let him know it wasn’t his fault, it wasn’t but there needs to be some sort of timeline in place that’s kept by employees. You have your own “personal host” though I didn’t see mine after he handed me the wrist bands but the party host should be reminding parties of timing to keep things flowing appropriately so they aren’t rushed out and the party next isn’t paying for time they don’t get. Second issue, your host needs to place every single wrist band on each person who’s swimming. Ours did majority of the kids but we had a couple stragglers so I put them on. And then I realized my son, the birthday boy never got one so I put his on as well. There was a red wrist band and a blue one. I didn’t know the significance of the color, wasn’t told. I put on whichever came out of my pocket. My son got red. We decided to use the party room for all the party stuff before letting the kids go swim as there wasn’t a time line on swimming like the party room. A few minutes after being in a life guard yells out who’s this child’s parent. I speak up, that’s my son. Well an adult needs to be within arm reach of him. Ok sure, but why. Grant you, if I’m not literally right there my eyes are. He sees my confused look and explains because he had on a red wrist band he needed to be within arm reach. I spoke up and said oooh I didn’t know. I put that band on him I’m sorry I wasn’t aware. So I said he’s fine that’s my fault. We went on. Clearly, my son was old enough for a blue wrist band. A little while later my husband comes and asks me to switch wrist bands because they keep blowing the whistle on my son and yelling out “who’s child is this” because he wasn’t directly beside an adult. So I did, I get it now. Fast forward a little while later and I see my husband getting upset with one of the employees. Come to find out the same life guard who said it was a good idea to change his wrist band was now continuing to say that because he had a red wrist band at one point he still needed to be in arms reach of an adult. What kid having a blast wants to be glued to a grownup instead of playing. He’s not a baby or even a toddler. Again, He’s clearly old enough to have the blue band. During their conversation my husband asked for a manager several times but was told they aren’t available and it wasn’t going to happen, basically. I won’t elaborate on my third issue but I will say that it’s great they employee teenagers, not many will. However, teenagers lack life experiences, trauma training, reflexes, etc. I feel that 1 adult, management should be on duty on every shift. I don’t mean sitting in the middle room with all the windows chatting, I mean physically on the floor with the life guards. I am a seasoned mama and when you have many children around water I feel flustered because I can’t keep my eye on every single one, mine or not. Again, I’m not leaving this review to be a negative review, more of constructive criticism in hopes this venue stays around for the children. My 3 issues had no bearing on my birthday boy because he had a blast, even with them constantly...

Clean pools and friendly staff. Ample lifeguards on duty in all areas.

Play area for kids has slides, tipping water buckets, water rockets and a couple of spill over water falls from adjacent the dunk pool (for the large water slide). It's zero entry with some in ground water fountains at the edges. Enough to keep the little ones busy.

The play area connects to the lazy river and whirlpool. Next to the lazy river are some benches with jets to sit and relax. And adjacent to the benches is a very large hot tub (only age 16+).

Family lockers and family bathrooms with showers make it easy to shower and change with all of the children and is also recommended for use with children who identify as a different sex than given at birth (rather than the larger men's and women's locker rooms).

Competition pool in adjacent room has marked lanes for exercise with open areas on each side for playing catch or basketball (a hoop is on the near side). Pool depth is from about 5'-almost 12'. Not recommended for children without direct supervision.

Adult swim happens about every 45 minutes to allow lifeguards to take breaks (the blow the whistle). All children exit the pool and adults can stay in the pool or hot tub for that 15 minute duration.

Admission is slightly more for out of county residents.

Some general rules to follow:

No running No glasses or goggles on the big slide No floats, balls or balloons allowed in waterpark Goggles and masks can be worn Life jackets/puddle jumpers can be worn No arm floats Balls are allowed in the competition pool (only in...

Went to the WARF today (Saturday) to spend time with our kiddos. What a horrible experience. The pool was filled with very rude people who were being loud and ignoring the life guards. There was a large group of women in the pool fully clothed, even though the lifeguard told them no clothes allowed in the pool (they were not wearing full body swimwear, they were wearing actual clothing). There was a large man sitting in the life guard chair, although he was told he couldn't sit there, and just crossed his arms and ignored the lifeguard like he was some kind of royal alpha male. Their children were running around and going down the water slide in groups as the lifeguards constant whistling was being ignored. All the civilized people were just looking at each other very uncomfortably. Complaints to the front desk were ignored by the 2 girls who worked there. Kids and their adult parents breaking the rules and doing dumb stuff in the play area while the lifeguards did absolutely nothing. My kids were uncomfortable and wanted to leave. Terrible. Would not recommend going on the weekends as there have been a lot of non Fauquier residents there on...