Idaho Falls Family YMCA - Idaho Falls, Idaho

Patti-Lynne E.

We've found a place that not only encourages personality growth and development, the directors and camp counselors let my daughter put on a concert without any advance notice!
We'll hold on to these memories forever. Thank you YMCA team!!!

R.K. T.

Specific to child care here- Horrible since Matt left. Everything is chaos. new lady Mary in charge is non-approachable and rude. All the kids here seem to get sick all the time and the staff does nothing about it other than shut the whole place down and making all families suffer the consequences. They don’t seem to know how to clean/ disinfect. Children get away with hitting other children constantly and staff gives “warnings” but never does anything about it but yell at the kids repeatedly. We tried to give this place a chance after our favorite director Matt left but we can’t be happier that we removed our grandkids from this place!!!

Joe W.

Great place for kids to participate in sports and learn a variety of sports. Sometimes it can be tough to find a parking spot though. I’d love to see a couple more benches added for seating during the games too.

Keshia H.

Save your money for a place where they know what they are actually doing! If I could do a review without stars I would. I am extremely disappointed with this place. From day 1 it was so unorganized, and chaotic. On top of that they don’t have enough coaches for all their sports. During the last game there was no staff or referees, the parents had to do it all. Finally a “coach” from the Y finally shows up 30 minutes late with the supplies, and was on her phone the whole time. I will NEVER have anything to do with the Y or suggest this place to anyone.

Ryan H.

Most disorganized sports programs I've ever been involved in. The sports programs are so poorly ran it's a joke. Avoid wasting your money signing your kids up for anything thru this branch. Stuck with city or private ran programs.

Alora C.

This is the sports specifically. Don’t know about the rest, but the sports have been awful from the start. The last few years there were never any coaches, you would show up and a parent would be like I guess I’ll coach. I thought it’d be different this year with the new sport director but it’s worse. My husband signed up to coach my son. He did the training and background check they now require. We have called and called to get his teams info. Looking online, they placed my son in someone else’s team and hubby didn’t get a team at all to coach. They still won’t answer their phone or voicemails. It is a complete joke. The pics in the place aren’t accurate. The gym is falling apart and there are no places for families to sit and watch. The first games of the season are today, my husband clearly isn’t a coach and my son won’t be playing here.

ileana S.

This place is horrible! The staff are all too laid back and the male teachers are too friendly with the children! Especially Mr. Stevie! I had to file a police report due to the inappropriate behavior of the male teachers and the management is ok with it because they are all friends rather than keeping things professional and having boundaries with kids that are not yours. Be careful where you leave your kids because this place is not safe.

Samuel W.

My wife and I signed our boys up for T-ball last year and they had a great time and we did too… we signed our boys up for soccer this year and had their last game today, I don’t know what happened… maybe it was a change in sports directors, I don’t know, but this year was terrible!! It was complete chaos from start to finish!! We had a parents meeting and we were told that the fields would be marked so that you would know where your kid would be playing, and we were told that the jerseys would be there.

First day of soccer and the fields were not marked, parents were wondering around trying to figure out what to do and the staff were not helpful at all. My wife even asked about one of our sons jerseys and they told her that they didn’t know what happened to them that they couldn’t find them, so we waited for a minute, I went and asked they told me that they think that they gave them to someone else or someone came and took them… that first day, I wasn’t impressed at all…

It’s been complete chaos every Saturday since! Unmarked fields, confused parents, and staff that aren’t helpful at all and just sit in their camping chairs in the shade having a grand time while us parents are left to try and sort things out… today was the last soccer game and almost everyone was gone. Today was the first time one of the staff was actually helpful and helped organize two teams.

I’m very disappointed in the YMCA. I didn’t pay for this… my wife and I won’t be signing up our boys through the YMCA anymore. If we are going to pay money for sports, it will either be through City of Ammon or Idaho Falls or if their school provides it, but, we won’t be wasting our time and money on the YMCA anymore.