Member Testimonials
Has a lot to offer and is easy to access.
Facility hours, layout, cleanliness, etc are all good.
I found the staff to be helpful and always very pleasant. The equipment is top notch and the atmosphere is the best I have experienced as compared to other similar facilities. I would highly recommend Gordon ymca to anyone interested in improving there physical fitness.
Great aquatics center and classes offered for kids
Swimming & pickleball
Variety of places to work out and bathe. Shower and hot tub.
I play pickleball there, but it is more than just exercise---the pickleball group has become family.
I love that the staff is friendly and helpful. I love that it is a safe place to work out.
The fact that my membership is free makes all the difference to my husband and I. Our retirement income would not be adequate for a standard membership. We were part of the original members of the facility when it opened, but had stop when you had a price increase. I am able to do my PT here as well free of charge
Coming to the Gordom Family YMCA a win/win for me. The staff at this branch are particularly friendly and accommodating making my experience here really enjoyable.
From the time you walk in to the time you leave, the atmosphere is one of friendly acceptance. The staff greets you cheerfully, and are helpful when help is needed. I use the weights. The equipment is in good shape and up-to-date and there are enough machines that I rarely have to wait for any. The locker room is clean and there are plenty of lockers. I watched this building grow from ground-breaking to completion and was there the day it opened. I've been very happy with our Y.
Please put one more fan in the upstairs rooms! So hot!
I loved the self defense/boxing class by Brandon Anderson! Really fun, and a great class! I think branding it as self-defense wasn't entirely accurate because it was more the basics of boxing, but I absolutely loved it. I'd love to do more
Clean, friendly family environment!
Excellent greeting, instructors
Clean , lots of choices to stay healthy
Clean facility, friendly staff!
It is clean and well-equipped. The staff are friendly, helpful and responsive
Staff Sephanie Montague
The swimming pool
Everything! The Pool especially!
I have very bad knees and am trying to get to my goal weight to have full knee replacement on both knees! It is so refreshing that I can do water walking and I have zero pain while in the pool! I don’t understand why but I am not going to question it!
I think the staff is great!
Love the facilities and the staff. Saunas are a great plus. Wish there was a cold tub then it would be the PERFECT gym.
Best place ever
I love the options of classes that are offered. I live in Puyallup and prefer the Sumner Y over the one closest to my home.
I love everything about this gym. It has been a great experience overall for me and my family. That being said I have a negative experience that needs to be shared. I have never written a negative review in my life but this was called for. Even several bystanders, including another instructor, that told me to write a complaint. This is only about one specific instructor. We had a toddler swim class with “Mrs Eileen”, and older woman who was our class instructor. From the moment the class began she got up in my 1 year old face and made him cry. He normally loves swim lessons. She was splashing him in the face even though he doesn’t like it. He would stop crying once she left him alone and then she would come back and get in his face (literally a few inches away) and he would start screaming again. She got mad at my husband when he said he wouldn’t dunk him under the water because it makes him upset and he’s just not ready for it yet. We go up to his chin, and other instructors have been fine with this. At the end of class he was crying and I took him away to console and play with him to try and calm him down. She came up behind me and grabbed me by the shoulder, got in my face (again a few inches away) and told me “the worst thing I can do as a parent is to console him like that”. I kindly Told her that “crying it out” is not my parenting style and I didn’t appreciate her telling me how to parent my crying baby. This interaction deeply upset me and she wouldn’t let it go, stating she’s been teaching swim for X years and she knows best, etc. Once she finally left another mom came over to me and told me that she scared her son as well and did the same things to her at a different lesson. Again, I am not one to usually complain but I truly do not think this instructor should be teaching infant swim lessons. She may be fine with older kids, but not young toddlers who are just getting comfortable in the water. Children need to be comfortable and not traumatized by the water. I am a pediatric nurse and mother, and know how to work with children and this woman is not appropriately treating a 1 year old. It really saddens me to have this experience and because of it we will be pulling my son out of his swim class, and hopefully we will have a different instructor for the next set of sessions. Again, besides “Mrs Eileen” I have nothing but good comments for the YMCA, All of the classes we have done and the other instructors we have met have been phenominal.
The staff are friendly and helpful. How clean the facility is kept. Ii enjoy the different swim exercises classes offered . I like 4/5 of the instructor’s due to the great overall workout an are easy to hear and follow.. I do not attend the Thursday am swim exercise class because the instructor is a nice lady but hard to follow or hear a not as physical workout as the other class. I actually attend the YMCA in Pyullup which is closer to my home because they have good instructor !
I like the diverse amount of exercise classes that are available. I enjoy the lighthearted and welcoming greetings I get from the staff every time I come in to the YMCA.
The walking track, kids programs, group classes
Friendly staff and nice place
Its clean, the staff if friendly/helpful/the price is right and you have enough equipment to go around.
Everything! The friendliness the size the different classes. It’s got it all!
Senior classes and time of day offered; friendly Y staff; cleanliness of facility