Bob Bahan Aquatic & Fitness Centre

How can you charge people to get in and then say all the pools have been booked.that's like selling something twice if I did that as a business owner I would be charged with theft or fraud.yet that all this place does. I was there 2 days ago and a life guard was yelling at this poor kid cause he wasn't allowed to swim while other kids were allowed.completely unacceptable!

I have had to revise my review due to the extremely long closures of certain amenities and problems with etiquette at Bob Bahan. The hours of operation are shorter in comparison to other city facilities and this is a huge inconvenience. The city needs to pay more attention and care to this centre.

It is a nice little cozy aquatic centre. Started swim lessons for my 5 yr old and the best thing it wasn't packed with any other classes at the same time.
Educated, humble staff. Good experience overall.

The second time when I came there they told me to come back for swimming registration for kids. But when I got there the one lady in the the front desk, she WAS REALLY RUDE AND I asked her for registration for my daughter, she told me it's already full. But it's already full slighty before 10: 00 clock AM. My question is? How could possibly full already, the lady she was really rude the lady ahead of us. There was another guy he's treated the same way as she treated us. And it wasn't really even busy at that time. Hopefully will accommodating people nicely and not being RUDE.

The red headed life gaurd should look for a new job, not with the public. Been going to Bob for years and always was super pleasent and had meaningful conversations with staff members. Recently I feel like I've been assaulted. Her harassment has pushed me away from city of Calgary pools, I drove out of my way to be supportive of the facility. She was rude, made faces and has a generally poor attitude. My constant request for her to leave me alone only enraged her and cause her to push me beyond normal human tolerance. Going else where is recommended. City of Calgary should reconsider her employment.

Great but my brother was sent to Village Leisure or Lester Center because there was something about the swimming some yea

I had a really good experience I enjoyed working out on all the equipment the staff were both helpful as well as knowledgable.

The swim accessories are very helpful and is accesible always. Pool is close to lockers. Parking is big. Walk-in Programs are good too.

Swim lessons with our young son were great!
Wish the water was warmer. The toddlers/babies in our class were constantly shivering!

Reasonable city facility. It has a pool with an ice rink in a separate building. I used the gym facility and it has a fair selection of machines and they are kept up. It is a bit smaller a room so there are not as many free weights as someone might want.

Very basic facility. Has barebones what you need.

Gym is small, not a lot of equipment. I would like to see more equipment here in the future when they redevelop it and a bigger gym. Currently it is about the size of a medium sized locker room.
Pool is good, has a hot tub and a steam room. Staff are very friendly though.

The hours here are awful, they are never open till 9pm like every other facility. Tuesday and Thursday they don’t open till 12pm and Friday they close at 2: 30pm!? I would understand if just Sunday they are closed, but all of this in combination makes you constantly looking at the hours to see if they are even open.

My recommendation- if it’s super close to you like for me. Then yeah go here, if you can live with that other stuff. But if you have a choice, there are a few better gyms and pools that are not to far from here and go there instead.

Excellent staff and service, except the hot tub which is waiting for a part from Germany for over a month now.

I have been coming here every Sunday morning for years until the pandemic happened. Now that things have opened up, why isn't the pool opening up on Sundays again? Very sad about this, it was a favorite pastime for me and my friends. Please re-open Sundays!

I give 5 star to Michaels, because he was working in the bob brand's reception today for regeneration.
He did his job very well and very nice, polite and very fast.
Thank you Michael

Went to family swim today with baby. Staff was very nice. Water is quite cold. No boats for baby like some pools have. The change rooms have no where to put baby when changing. The men's shower was very cold water and the women's shower was too hot for baby. The family swim was full of lane swimmers which was a bit awkward and no other young kids or babies. But I was told I couldn't bring baby to lane walk even though that's all I would be doing. How come lane swimmers can come to family swim but I can't bring baby to lane walk?

Absolutely, well maintained and friendly staff. Life guards on their game. Different from what I have seen elsewhere.

The staff and patrons are great during an incredibly stressful time. We all want the pools to stay open in the midst of rules that constantly seem to change. I haven't been there in years, but the showers and locker rooms are nice and bright.

Went swimming there during covid. The staff let anything go. Been to other sites but this was so bad. So many rules being broken

Good pool overall, been going here for years. Appreciate that the "deep end" is a dive tank. Excellent class selections. Decent gym. Come early to get in to most of the classes, though!

My only real gripes are one staff member who doesn't know basic chemical safety, and the fact that they never actually do anything about the clowns who let all the steam out of the sauna and then splash water all over the sensor. Also one of the doors in the women's washroom has been busted for weeks.

I have been going her for 15+ years and I can say the staff has been better. The younger staff here tries hard but you can tell they don't won't to have much to do with you. I used to be greeted upon enter and given a salutation as I left, that practice seems to have gone the way of the dodo. Facility is good however.

Staff here are very worst, they are racist and bully public.
Never talk to staffs here, very bad and worst experience. Is there any way to escalate these people behaviour?

They have very nice and friendly staff, as well as instructors and the life guards. The pool is way cleaner then most pools as it is not busy and is good for lane swimming or to have fun as well because it is extremely cheap. I
go there every week and so far, it has been fantastic!

A busy place but they do what they can to make it comfortable. Big lost and found bins at the found desk

Our family has been going to this pool for two years. Up till last month. All the staff were extremely nice. I started taking my little brother who doesn’t know how to swim recently. He was excited to tackle something new and challenging. One morning there was a young woman there as a life guard who (as someone who has dealt with all types of prejudice and racism could tell based off of someones outer reaction to you) did not like the look of us. Smh. My brother was not only wearing a bigger life jacket but he also at one point held on to my by accident and pulled me down. Fortunately I was strong enough to pull away. When I can out from under all I see is this 20 something woman life guard yelling at my eleven year old brother. She was shouting in front of everyone in the pool (there was a pool workout class in session) about why he held on to me and to put on the right size life jacket. All I see is my brother leaving the pool and heading out to the locker room visibility upset and crying. My sister came up to me looking shocked as I was. We stayed in the pool for a bit mainly to give my brother and his little remaining dignity time to calm down. I took this time to access my next step. Do I go straight to the guard or the office and make a complaint? I decided the mature thing to do was complain to the supervisor why a grown women deemed that it was ok to yell at a child. The supervisor was not a lot of help. She kept insisting that my brother was fine and as she spoke to him while we were still in the pool. She insisted that I don’t take make any complaint as the guard will get into trouble. What about the trauma that the lady caused my brother. Also how dare she speak to him without us being present? Rest assured dear life guard our brown skins will not be darkening this fine establishment any time soon.

Every time that I want to go swimming, they tell me that the pool is closed! I wouldn’t recommend going to this aquatic place

The water has no waves. It is so dirty. They dont clean it up. I got a big red infection on the face and the ear. I also got a parisite in my stomach. They were absorbing my nutrients.

Please be careful, some of the staff act like Police officers here.
This place lacks professionalism and attitude.

Great little pool for aqua size classes and swimming lanes. They have a hot tub and weight room too.