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Minto Recreation Complex - Barrhaven

Gym Recreation center Public swimming pool Arena

One of the Most Reviewed Gyms in Ottawa


Address

3500 Cambrian Rd, Nepean, ON K2J 0E9, Canada

Website

ottawa.ca

Contact

+1 613-727-2683

Rating on Google Maps

4.50 (1.2K reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Monday: 6 am to 10 pm
  • Tuesday: 6 am to 10 pm
  • Wednesday: 6 am to 10 pm
  • Thursday: 6 am to 10 pm
  • Friday: 6 am to 10 pm
  • Saturday: 8 am to 8:30 pm
  • Sunday: 8 am to 7 pm

Featured Reviews


Frequently mentioned in reviews: nice (13) swimming (9) clean (8) great (7) pool (7) facility (6) room (6) staff (6) change (6)
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  • 4/5 Randy J. 8 months ago on Google • 82 reviews
    Nice complex, the parking is far from the door but acceptable. Nice bright rink, very nice sized dressing rooms, and very clean throughout. It's a long walk from the ice surface to the viewing area. Warm enough for shorts
    12 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Drew H. 5 years ago on Google • 92 reviews
    Beautiful facility. Here for a hockey tournament and it must be great to have such a neat facility available to residents. Two ice pads, gym, pool, exercise room, etc... Very clean and well kept as well. Architecture is nice with all the window space.
    6 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Tamara J. 1 year ago on Google • 269 reviews
    Great arena complex. Lots of accessibility. The staff are fantastic and incredibly helpful. The place is always clean. Only thing I would change is that the vending machines aren't stocked well enough, they sell out so quickly and take forever to be refilled. And one other thing when the league was booking the ice time you would think the city would put the sledgehockey team on the accessible ice surface at minto the accessible rink is the south one and we play all out game and practice on the non-accessable rink the north rink. Don't know what happened there but it should have been the other way around.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 FotisCanada 4 months ago on Google • 217 reviews
    Full complex. Two hockey rinks. A pool, walking track, gym and Community space. Soccer/football field and small park outside. Well located in barrhaven with ample parking
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 KH 4 months ago on Google • 256 reviews
    This place is very nice and has everything you need to have a good workout. The only drawback is that the accessibility and layout are not as intuitive as it could’ve been. For example, you cannot access the walking track from the weights room. Parking was not that easy to find. However, whatever they had were fantastic. It’s a very family friendly environment. The place was spacious, clean and modern. The staff were friendly and helpful.

  • 5/5 Victoria R. 4 months ago on Google • 97 reviews
    Parking can be limited at times, but it's a big parking lot so there are often spaces way down at the back of it. Clean facility, friendly staff. We use it for swimming lessons and public swims and have been satisfied with both!

  • 5/5 Natalie S. 6 months ago on Google • 24 reviews
    It's a nice community center. Open swim is nice, water is clean, lots of room in the change rooms. Their work out room looks nice and they have a walking circle above a gym.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Lady M. 1 year ago on Google
    Great place to play Pickleball, wish they had more time slots of course as love the sport. Place is always nice and clean and sure like the fact that if short a player the staff will jump in so makes fun for all.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Paul M. 1 year ago on Google
    Nice rec centre with indoor pool and ice rink. We took our little guy here for swim classes and the instructor Aydan is great. Water was nice and warm when it was -27C outside with windchill. Front desk staff friendly and helpful as well.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Randi S. 11 months ago on Google
    Wonderful pool. But this city of Ottawa venue needs to have drinking fountains in the large lobby area. Residents only option for water should not come out of a vending machine.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Jennifer L. 3 months ago on Google • 12 reviews New
    It was very nice and as clean as it can be with a tournament going on with people in and out on a stormy weekend. I liked the layout and it seems like there is a lot to do there.

  • 5/5 Dabere Collins A. 3 months ago on Google • 9 reviews New
    This is a very comfortable and relaxing place to spend that gym time every day. Lots of nice people and the Minto team are great. If you wanna feel at home while burning those fat off, come to Minto Barhaven

  • 2/5 Christopher R. 1 year ago on Google
    The ice was very soft, it's 13 degrees outside but the ice surface was very poor. The showers hardly had water coming out of then. A disappointing morning skate.

  • 5/5 Sirine El A. 3 months ago on Google • 8 reviews New
    Shout out to the lifeguard Aiden. He's an amazing instuctor and the progress my 5 year old made in only 3 swimming sessions is incredible. Thank you Aiden!

  • 5/5 Z y. 8 months ago on Google
    This is THE best community centre in this world. During Sundays preschooler swimming time, they even play kids fav songs. My son is so happy swimming here.

  • 5/5 Tash G. 1 year ago on Google
    Pool is great, thankfully they were able to change most of the shower curtains in the Ladies change room. I will suggest maybe talking with the lifeguards about they're manners. Some speak to the kids very disrespectfully.

  • 5/5 Kevin W. 9 months ago on Google
    Great place to go swimming or to do several sport activities. A very nice and modern facility. Love going here with the kids!

  • 1/5 Sarah A. 1 year ago on Google
    Facility itself is clean and well maintained **BUT** registration process is horrible! It's a nightmare for parents who have no other option but to register with the city! They refuse to hire people, they refuse to pay higher wages, therefore we parents have to suffer! Don't even get me started on the "day of registration"! It's worse than "hungry games"! City says, "we fixed the website"! Sure you did, all the classes get filled within couple of seconds, but again for "only those who can log in"! Not to mention the website boots you out and puts you in the queue! By the time you come back to "my wish list" the classes are already gone! This all happens within a minute, less sometimes.... This is beyond pathetic!

  • 3/5 Neil H. 1 year ago on Google
    Everything is nice except the pool is way too warm for swimming. I guess to serve most people especially elderly it has to be warm, but if you want proper swimming exercise I would not recommend. I have been using a swim team shared training pool in the past in the past few years in another city, as a switch this pool is way too hot for myself. Your body overheats easily after a few laps, I tried to keep swimming regardless but felt worse and had to stop.

  • 3/5 Darryl B. 1 year ago on Google
    Seems like a nice facility - but chaotic and disorganized. I showed up this evening (Monday) for adult volleyball - for which I had pre-registered online and received confirmation emails for, only to be told that with little warning the schedule had changed and it was now volleyball for kids. Schedule changes are bound to happen, but they have to be combined with proper notification of everyone effected.

  • 5/5 Amanda H. 1 year ago on Google
    This is always a great place to go for recreational activities. The staff are not always the friendliest, however the facility is wonderful and very well maintained. Parking does fill up quickly. The universal change rooms are great when with the family, and there are lockers you can use and boot storage in the main change room entrance. This is a great place for all sorts of activities from swimming to hockey, to badminton, to weight lifting... There's even a track above the gym/courts.


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