North Melbourne Recreation Centre

Fantastic experience: Amazing the oval is big and nmfc of course

Fantastic experience: Really nice and helpful lady at the reception

Fantastic experience: we can do

Negative experience: Small gym. Staff who are uninterested in helping people who are training, they hide in a little office. You could break your back and they’d just close the door. Awful music, 80’s or rock, because that is what the PT on shift prefers vs what should be played at a gym to motivate people. Plenty of people spending more time in their phones than exercising. Every venue that the YMCA takes on ends up like this. Carlton Baths is the same, staff are very unpleasant and act as though they are doing you a favour when you speak to them. On 24/01 there was a bloke sitting on a bench reading a book meanwhile others cannot use that bench so he has a place to read between sets on another machine. The staff on shift couldn’t care less. Welcome to another facility trashed by the YMCA.

Negative experience: Very poor gym culture. Patrons and staff are territorial about the shared equipment and snap at you when you ask them how many sets they have left. Management is weak and unhelpful. I got into several quarrels about this (including with two aggressive *staff* members who were monopolizing the machines) until I finally left.

Positive experience: Gyms a little small but manageable, there’s no longer accessible lockers for fitness passport users and the toilets and change rooms need to be cleaned more thoroughly. But two of the receptionists are an absolute pleasure to speak to Georgia and Kayla and may have convinced me to start a membership with your facility’s.

Negative experience: The gym is small and crowded. There is no time limit or rule that people must take turns, so folks camp out on the very limited machines doing social media etc. This leads to member conflicts, which management does nothing about. Trainers have priority in access to equipment. A trainer may monopolise a single machine for half an hour or more, servicing a sequence of clients, even if there is no alternative machine. The gym has no stretching area and no dedicated parking lot for members. It can be hard to find on-street parking during weekdays and when a game is on in the North Melbourne oval.

Fantastic experience: Great place to exercise

Negative experience: Poor customer service. Extremely rude staff. Will not visit again.

Positive experience: Great futsal field but no lights on a Saturday night, super disappointed to have to cut the session short. No info on when the lights are on.

Positive experience: Advertised online that there is volleyball court available for hire, turned out no. Needed update on their website. Staff on the phone is polite and nice.

Positive experience: Great facilities. Fantastic classes. Can't complain. A bit slow to process requests.

Positive experience: Ok

Positive experience: Ok

Fantastic experience: Picked up our member merchandise and was met with one of our AFLW players Aileen. She was very helpful and friendly to talk too. Love the club.

Fantastic experience: A venue with quality facilities for a range of indoor activities

Fantastic experience: Great

Negative experience: Was hoping to join up for a gym membership but the facilities are tiny. Included in the membership is the pool access but that's in another building up the road. Not interested in training then getting dressed to walk up the road for a swim. Will try else where.

Fantastic experience: The ovel is of highest quality grass is perfect and is in a nice spot it is just fantastic to play on.

Fantastic experience: Love the spot. Football/Basketball artifical grass field. Big footy field next to the court.

Fantastic experience: Great place especially when the Roo's win

Fantastic experience: Has very good covid plans

Fantastic experience: Swimming pool and staff are always great. Nice and simple.

Negative experience: The worse gym in Melbourne! People here are only money grabbers, and they do not care at all about their members. The gym is small and overcrowded, not worth the money at all, stay away!

Fantastic experience: I really like there.

Positive experience: What a great Place. Was impressed with the access and quality of the Basketball Court.

Fantastic experience: The gym is well equipped with friendly and helpful staff. Great atmosphere

Fantastic experience: Whenever I think about the gym, first and the foremost thing comes to my mind is “Listen to the iron, it can change your life” So a proper gym should have free weights, machines and an aerobic section for cardiovascular exercises. So I prefer this Recreation Centre. The trainers are very friendly and gives proper instructions. This is my favourite gym!!!

Fantastic experience: 很棒的体育俱乐部，尤其是击剑俱乐部

Positive experience: It's changed a lot. Modern and well set out.

Positive experience: Great location, great staff, tiny Gym :( , perfect oval, very inclusive group fitness classes. Low on sport bunnies with pony tales skins and coloured laces or guys with tight pants or beards glued to the mirrors and high on friendliness. Good hours could do with year round out door pool opening hours.

Negative experience: Not a good gym.

Positive experience: Might want to mention the pool is : 1. Outdoors (came up for an indoor search) 2. Closed for winter Pretty easier to mention to save everyone some time here and there.

Fantastic experience: This is the home of VIC Fencing

Fantastic experience: Excellent facility. Great customer service. Would use again. Thx to Marc and the team!

Fantastic experience: Fantastic place. Not just for recreation.

Positive experience: The centre is pretty good overall but the gym is below average.

Fantastic experience: Awesome facilities and very friendly staff. Highly recommend.

Fantastic experience: clean pool, nice grounds. low key, i like it

Negative experience: The staffs are okay, but they are dishonest, They say it closes at 9pm and in the end when we get there at 7:45 they say they are about to close at 8pm

Positive experience: Come here for jow ga kuen in the basketball court arena. Room is brightly lit.

Fantastic experience: Great instructors for cycle/rpm!

Fantastic experience: some nice place

Fantastic experience: PSA: Gym and Pool close at 5pm on Christmas Eve