Monett Area Ymca

The 2 sweet girls in the kid room are awesome! The swim rules are a little silly, but some lifeguards are more lax. Great pool otherwise. Great place, we love bringing all the kids!

My daughter and I were in the area waiting for the Amish (I drive Amish taxi). After we dropped them off at the reunion we had time to kill. We we're pleased to discover the YMCA just 2 miles from our hotel. The pool employees were professional, helpful and very sweet. We were pleased to find that they had roller skating in the evening. They too were very professional and helpful. If we return to this area we will definitely go to the Y.

Loved this beautiful YMCA. What a wonderful place for the family to put on a Birthday, which is what we did. Kids had a great time. Staff was fantastic. Party room great. Cost reasonable. Lots to do.

Family un-friendly! DO NOT bring your kids here to swim! The rules are absurd. Kids can only swim if they are either 1) within arms reach of a parent, even with a puddle jumper; or 2) pass a “swim test,” which consists of swimming the length of the pool without goggles and then floating on your back for 10 seconds. When my 10 year old (who has been swimming independently for 3 years) finished the swim test, they said she failed because she was “struggling” (she kept popping up to wipe her eyes, because who swims without goggles??). They also only allow 2 non-swimmers with an adult at a time, so good luck if you have more than 2 kids who can’t pass the swim test! Good grief. They also had the indoor water slide and diving board closed with no explanation, which had been one of the big reasons we came there in the first place. We left after 5 minutes and went to the Carthage YMCA pool instead, where they just let kids jump in and swim. Revolutionary concept, I know.

Our first and last time going here. As others have said, the female lifeguards are rude. Blew the whistle at my kids for using the foam exercise weights (which they literally exercise with) but didn't follow up to say what she blew for. They play inappropriate songs for having children in the room. I have no problem with cuss words, but they were playing ones that were about sex. A song came on that was LITERALLY a whole song about sex and I asked for it to be skipped for that reason, and was just ignored. The sign to measure children's height for the slides is not consistent with what they use to measure once you're up at the slide ( a crooked sharpie line on the railing). I know, for a fact, my youngest is 42 inches, and we doubled checked this on the printed sign, but she was just under the sharpie line, so no slides for us (which was the #1 reason we came here). The pools are really cold. The laps pool are slightly less cold than the kid pool. I had to cut our time short because I just couldn't stand being in the water anymore, and anyone under age 8 has to be within arms reach of their adult. The women's locker room is a joke. There are no hooks or benches to set your things in the shower or in the locker area. They have these small stools that don't fit a full size backpack. They have counters by the sinks, which are right in front of the doors. The lockers are rusty and not clean. The floors are gross. The showers are also a joke. The single stalls are TINY, and there are only 2 wheelchair/family stalls. The shower knobs and heads are super janky and rusty. The water does not get hot, and if someone flushes the toilet, it's just cold for the rest of the shower. The shower head was angled at the wall and wouldn't move to aim straight. We went to the game room after the shower, and it's also a disappointment. Air hockey didn't work, the horse didn't work, and everything else was for older children/adults.