I would recommend the Briggs Community YMCA to anyone who wants a welcoming and comfortable space to practice movement and exercise. It's a beautiful facility and I always look forward to my visits.

Spacious and welcoming. Clean. Parking is sometimes a challenge.

Mikayla who led Chess club and assisted in Pokemon club is the best! She helped my son Arlo learn the basics of Chess with patience and fun. She was also a shining light of enthusiasm for the children in Pokemon club. Mikayla absolutely deserves recognition!

You leave feeling better than you did coming in. Passing a smile along to others makes a world of difference.

lgbtq affirming, no or very minimal tvs, pool

We did one day of t-ball- there was no structure, no plan, no guidance for the kids

The children swim class schedules and offerings seem to get jerked around and changed with poor communication coupled with changes that feel like solutions that go look for problems. As a family with multiple children we work hard to align schedules and need options to do that. Current direction in swim program makes it literally impossible.

I'm likely to recommend this to a family member or friend because people are so nice, & they have a lot of different activities for people to do, & the locker rooms are so big that there's a lot of space for people to change.

The swim suit spinner in the women's locker room breaks every month. How about having three spinners so that one would always be avaialble.

I usually go to Plum because it's closer to my house but come to Brigg's for different hours and the pool. And the occasional unique class.

There was minimal structure and no instruction at times. Different teacher each class. Class even got cancelled one of the days with no explanation.

I usually go to Plum Street but I was running late so I went to Briggs. Several weight machines had teen boys just sitting on their phones, doing LONG rests between sets so I could not get to some machines without just standing around for a long time. It was uncomfortable and makes me not want to return. I will go to Plum.

Booked for the birthday party and the stuff messed up the room. Really disappointed in their attitude and lack of communication…

My child struggles with kid zone. I feel like if the employees had more training in early childhood development, they would be more likely to be able to help children feel comfortable to go to kid zone.

There have been multiple times that some of the employees don't seem interested in being there and being with the children. Some have seemed resentful for being assigned the kid zone.

I asked for months and months if not years for the concept 2 to be fixed. I used the Y as my main spot for winter training. All the membership fees that we spend and a single rowing machine couldn't be fixed in a timely manner. This is why we switched to The Valley. So many NEW and NICE rowing machines in pristine order.

Great scheduling, clean space, kind, cordial help

I enjoy being greeted in a very warm and inviting way. The staff is always willing to answer my questions and help me to feel comfortable in a very accepting atmosphere. Being older, I have difficulty hearing/understanding the instructor calling out her instructions during the exercise class; thinking an intercom system would be helpful.

I'm mostly coming for the yoga classes. I would like more time options for yoga, particularly on weekends and after 6 pm on weekdays. I can't make daytime classes for yoga on weekdays due to working from 9-5 m-f. I meant to add this to the plum street survey but the attendance for the classes I've gone to has been fairly low there, which makes the classes just a tad bit more awkward to attend.

The main pool temperature is too cool and I am looking for other options to go for water exercise. And lately the room housing the main pool is too cold as well, women’s showers are gross with cracked tiles and black old. Often not cleaned of gobs of hair.

It's great but I really don't want the pool more crowded.

Briggs and Plum are both great.

Good value for the money. Lots of options for classes and equipment with two locations in Olympia Friendly and helpful staff.

Friendly greetings as you enter. Everyone is polite. Clean facility with many options to choose from.

This is kind of a bogus question. There's only one YMCA in Olympia

Rec swim hours are too few. Please open lane in the activity pool during swim lessons.