Waukee Family Ymca Academic Preschool is a child daycare & preschools daycare located at 900 Warrior Lane, Waukee, Iowa IA. Find contact info, location details, and similar daycares nearby.
What Parents Say
Reviews describe this as a well-maintained family fitness facility with friendly staff and diverse programming for children and adults. Parents appreciate the comprehensive amenities including pools, gym equipment, and organized activities. However, some note concerns about equipment maintenance, internet connectivity, and overcrowding.
The facilities are not very well kept. Much of the gymnasium equipment is often broken and not addressed for multiple weeks on end. Everything looks very worn and very used. On top of this, the space isn’t utilized to maximize the amount of equipment provided for the amount of members. For the price point of $70/mo this doesn’t make it worth it for me. On top of this, if you don’t cancel 15 days before the end of the month, then you have to pay that next month’s membership fee. Very nickle/dimey and scummy business practices.
If you're a parent and considering getting a membership here because of the pool and family swim and daycare don't bother. They almost always have a wait for either one of those. If you're not going for those reasons you run into the same problem, horrible hours forces everyone in during the limited time they are actually open causing every piece of equipment to be occupied thus forcing you to stand around and wait. Regardless they are all too happy to keep signing people up shoving even more people into the queue. I guarantee this will be a waste of your $100+ a month for a family of 3
I really like the gym, but it’s frustrating that so many machines are frequently out of order. What bothers me most is how long it takes to get them repaired…
Price to quality of weight equipment is poor. For the price they charge monthly, the weight room equipment is really poor (benches with missing seat cushions lol, barbells with loss hand friction, machines with cushion rips, etc). From other review comments I ca read, this seems to be a shared observation. Plus it is always busy, hoping commercial gym competition strengthens in the waukee area!
Facility, equipment, and pool are perfectly fine. However the internet connection is embarrassingly slow and incapable of handling all of their members. If you plan to use Spotify, stream workouts or Netflix on an iPad, etc. I would NOT recommend the Waukee Y as you will be frustrated and disappointed. On the best days when it’s less busy, it’s possible to connect slowly to basic apps, on most days the network won’t allow you to connect at all (see photo). The Y is also oversold and its often hard to get on a treadmill. If they fixed their internet speed and capacity, and added a few treadmills, my rating would be an easy 5 stars.