Boys & Girls Clubs and YMCA of Greater Waterville at the Alfond Youth Center

The lack of availability of the basketball gyms and not being able to tell when open gym actually is on their App is frustrating. Their App lists every other possible thing at the Y except open gym. Also, open gym is pretty infrequent when you consider it’s a BASKETBALL COURT. there are at least 9 hoops and the ability to drop down dividers to separate different areas of the gym. I’m a member and rarely am ever able to use open gym. I have to call every time, and sometimes no one answers or someone does answer and they don’t know if there’s open gym. I just got off the phone with a lady that said it would be too much work to update their App daily for the open gym hours. Pickle Ball every day, reliably, why can’t the pickle ballers take a day off and let some people shoot hoops?

The ninja course would probably be great if I had kids old enough to use the equipment. A friend and I went to take our kids to see it, at $15 per kid if you aren't a member. I have a 6 year old and 2 year old. The 6 year old at least got to try a few things but was still a bit small for the majority of the stuff and shes a very tall 6 year old. The 2 year old only played with the tiny little toddler play thing they already had. There should be a reduced rate for toddlers or free entry since there is hardly anything for them to do, and nothing new, in fact they took away things from the toddler age group and increased the rate on them. All 5 kids I came with that day range from 1 to 9, only the 9 year old could use everything, the 6 year old some things, 5 and lower used absolutely nothing new were disappointed the bounce houses were gone and kept asking if they'd bring them back.

After paying and setting up, we went straight for the slides and we were told that due to staffing issues--slides were closed. HA! That's why we were there. A refund....a ticket to come again--would've gone a long way.nnNot to mention the over staffing of a puddle pool that no toddlers were using.nnGeeze.

A mass majority of the staff here is so unpleasant, they act like they hate their job. It’s a wonderful space to workout and the equipment is nice but the staff make it feel like a hostile environment.

Clean, organized, plenty of parking. Only thing that could make it better is a sauna/steam room