St. Catharines Kiwanis Aquatics Centre

Great place for a leisure swim with your child. Library is right there, so they can get some books and play in the library's play center before or after a swim.

There are leisure swim times daily that are accessible to local residents as well as tourists. The pool is warm, clean, the change rooms have lockers, showers all handicap accessible. The lifeguards are friendly and helpful. Great place to entertain the kids or simply relax on your own!

Not sure how the lifeguard in pink shoes got hired but they must have been desperate. He's like a lifeguard natzi. Over the top strict, miserable, rude especially to young children and impossible to pass his insanely strict swim tests.

Leisure swim was very much over crowded with no room to swim. Other facilities complete a true swim test in a swim lane in large pool. Instead you are asked to move multiple times for swim tests, when there is no room to swim. Would not recommend.

I've only been to this facility 3 or 4 times now, bringing my senior mother who has mobility issues, after suffering a stroke 5 years ago, and felt prompted to write a review. So far, all the staff, from the front desk, lifeguards, to the person who took my late cancellation over the phone, have been amazing! You don't see this kind of friendly, cheerful and accommodating service as often as we'd all wish, so I have to give them all a big shout out! Also, the facility provides so much in terms of accessibility... from the seated shower, accessible change and bathroom, and especially the long ramp into the leisure pool with railing on both sides, we were pleasantly surprised at the ease of starting her on a routine to relieve some of her pain symptoms. She is able to park her walker at the edge of the railing, so entry into the pool is a breeze. And I've rediscovered my childhood love of swimming in the process. Thanks to all the staff for making this such a pleasant experience for us:)