Killarney Community Centre

I’ve came here a few times. but cannot believe I have not wrote a review!
I’ve only been here for swimming with my son and he loves it.
There are essentially 2 pools, one for swimmers, which as the dive boards and the climbing deal, the other for smaller kids and has wave pull.
The staff are super friendly.
Price is cheap for swimming, Serious like 3 dollars per person.
Pool is huge.
Locker rooms are plentiful.
Bring your own soap and towels.

Been coming here on the weekend the last few weeks for public swim, pretty nice pool. I think it was renovated a few years ago probably longer for the olympics and it looks really nice. The public swim is busy more on the little kids side with the slide and random pool fixtures but the adult side is not too crowded. We usually go in the afternoon to avoid all the big crowds. My gf does the lane swimming but the distance is a little long for me so I tend to stick to the actual pool itself and I swim my own lanes. There are 3 changerooms which is convenient, mens’ womens, and the universal for families. We usualyl share a locker and just wear our swim suits under our clothes so we like to use the universal one. If you forget to bring a quarter you can put your stuff in the cubbies directly in front of the pool so you can keep an eye on it. Obviously don’t bring anything valuable or worth stealing. The most you would find in our bag is Qtips.
There’s a concession too outside if you get too hungry after your swim — I know i do.

My family and I frequent Killarney Community Center for its swimming facility mainly because it’s minutes away from our house. Overall I find the pool just okay. The staff at the front desk are not friendly at all. They seem annoyed with every single person they serve. The change rooms are often pretty dirty. The kids side is a little cold for my young son and I find the life guards a bit ineffective at keeping the older children from being too rowdy and dangerous around the younger ones. I’ve had to intervene myself a couple times and that’s never a comfortable feeling. The slide, diving board, and climbing wall are never open when we go and multiple times the hot tub has been closed. There are a lot of swimming lessons and classes going on at all times so you really have to contend with the noise and lack of space when there for recreation. When it is open, the hot tub is usually overcrowded and no one seems to even come close to enforcing the «20 person limit». Basically it’s just a hot mess. If it were more convenient I would brave the crowds and visit Hillcrest Pool instead.

Pretty comprehensive facility. I’ve used their dojo downstairs, the newly renovated rink and the new pool and I’ve gotta say, it’s a pretty good experience no matter which facility that you use here! Even the people that man the concession are very friendly! Only qualm I have is that sometimes, the floor of the changing rooms in the pool area look like Rapunzel shed her locks all over the place.

We took our baby swimming at the pool and she had tons of fun. We liked that we received the family rate and kids under 3 are free, it was only $ 6.85 for the three of us vs Eileen Daily public pool in Burnaby where I think it almost cost us $ 20. Definitely a kid friendly pool and not nearly as busy as Hillcrest. There was a waterslide for the big kids/​adults and a mini slide for the little ones.
Parking was easy, the only thing that would make this a 5* is if they had larger change rooms.
Love this place, will definitely come here again.

This review based purely on their track, from a runner’s perspective, this is the real deal for a late-​nite run, as the car/​street lights along 49^th & Killarney will shine enough to be safe — esp. when I“m listening to my beloved iPod.
Plus it has the softer clay-​like surface. Though on the north/​west part of the track, it does have a few minor potholes.
Easy parking inside, along the fence.
Can get busy after dinner w/​the folks in the area doing their walking laps.
Just come here when I feel guilty after polishing a Dairy Queen peanut buster parfait or fried chicken at Duffin’s ;)

I’ve been here since the Olympic upgrades and it is nice that there is something within 20 minutes walk. With upgraded facilities it is now my go to place for a lot of things like swimming, skating, community events and sometimes their gym. The pool is a major attraction for me as there’s a lane for me to do my aqua aerobics and an area for leisure swimming. My only issue with the pool is the collection of mass amounts of hair that is accumulated on the floor of the ladies change room. The prices are very decent for pool packs. The customer service is very hit and miss.

I’m giving this place 4 stars for the pool, ice rink and how many happy kids I saw. We’ll talk about that stuff first.
The pool is the main attraction here. They’ve got a large play area, and in the main pool 75% was dedicated to leisure swimming. They had 3 lanes in the other 25% for swimming laps, a stream room and a hot tub both of which were exceptionally hot :-) and the whole place was swarming with smiling kids — i mean, geez, they’ve got so much play space, diving boards, even a water slide! Made me wish I was 12.
Didn’t see the ice arena, but i’m sure it gets good use if the pool is any indication.
The fitness centre lacks, wants, and needs. No rack, not much weight (i’m not a muscle guy and they didn’t have enough for me) and a really tiny space crammed with machines. They have 5 treadmills, which is more than Brittania or Trout Lake or False Creek, all of which are at least twice the size of this place. Not my first choice for weight training, but that’s not what this place is geared towards, so it’s not as though they missed their mark

Underwhelming is the best way to describe the Killarney Community Centre swimming pool programs and facilities.
The facilities are so-​so. The pool is okay, the leisure pool is okay. The hot tub is really sub-​par — too small and the jacuzzi jets hardly have any pressure at all.
The one redeeming feature at the pool is the steam room. It is always hot (sometimes even verging on too hot). But it’s the only reason I go here.
That’s because even though I live not quite 10 minutes away, I don’t use the pool for fitness activities because there are no deep water fitness aquafit classes there. There have not been any offered there since I’ve lived in this neighbourhood since 2004. And I have asked on more than one occasion if they ever plan to add them — the answer is always «no.»
Neither do they have a «length swim» lane designated for water running, like some pools do.
The locker rooms — at least the men’s locker room — also suffer from a design flaw that does not allow the water to drain properly, so the floor is always very wet. And anything you drop on it … well, you can figure it out.
I only go to the steam room there on the rare occasion I can’t get to Hillcrest for a workout. I go there after participating in a low-​impact aerobics class at the nearby Champlain Community Centre. The CCC does not have a hot tub or steam room so I head to Killarney to ease my body strains from the dry land fitness activity.
I can’t speak to the other aspects of the facility or programs, as I’ve never participated in them, although my companion, the Divine Ms. K., does enjoy the belly dance classes she’s participated in there. However, that is not a program run by the centre; rather, a room in the centre is booked by another organization for the activity.
But the pool — well, it doesn’t make me drool.
Sorry, Killarney. This is the aquatic facility I’m least likely to use in Vancouver and area, at least of the five or six I’ve been to more than once or twice.

This is the place I hit up when I need to vent out my frustrations by working up a sweat.
They have step, dance aerobic and other adrenaline pumping classes throughout the day. I don’t pay attention to the other times since I can’t get to those classes, but I usually do the 6:00PM ones. The 6:00PM classes are available on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays, but make sure you check before going in case they change the times.
The instructors are high energy and make the classes fun. Laughing burns 40 calories so on top of my workout that would be what…540? Every little bit helps!

Vancouver is very well endowed with public swimming pools of all shapes, sizes and ages. Most have their strengths, and all have their weaknesses, but Killarney is one of the best for family fun. It has a genuine, if modest, water slide and a large warm shallow splash pool with a fast-​flowing ‘river of mild peril’ for the smaller kids to enjoy. But it also has a reasonable sized regular pool for laps and diving. Finally, it comes with the obligatory hot tub and sauna complete with old people in saggy swimming costumes straight from central casting.
Like most of the newer pools, Killarney has a purpose-​built family change room area. Unfortunately it’s so popular that it’s often hard to find an empty cubicle for changing — particularly the ones with the private showers. However, it beats having to take the boys into the mens room which, in common with men’s change rooms everywhere, has a resident population of creepy-​looking guys. Or perhaps it’s just that all men look creepy when they’re naked.
I’ll stop now before I put you off it. It really is a great place.

Killarney is my go-​to cardio place when I don’t go to boxing class. I feel comfortable there & everyone is pretty friendly! They have renovated a lot and it looks way nicer & cleaner now. It’s always busy & bustling with families and it’s just an overall great community centre.