Ashley SaxtonLocal Guide
Apr 30, 2026
I absolutely love the atmosphere!!
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carlos andrino
Lakeside park with hiking trails, waterfalls, picnic areas, a pool, ropes course & sports fields.
I absolutely love the atmosphere!!
Nice spot
Wonderful for family’s!
Jake at escort night was wonderful! I mixed up the pickup time, and he was incredibly patient—he waited for us and even played with my child until we arrived. Very kind and thoughtful. My kid wanted to come back again!
We chose YMCA Twin Lakes for my child's birthday party - specifically Tiny Town. The birthday staff was helpful, responsive, and enthusiastic from my initial contact until the party was over. Brittanae and her team did a great job walking me through their options and making sure everything went as planned on the big day. They were prepared with anything that we forgot to bring, and took all the planning off my plate so I didn't have to worry about anything. The facility was clean and organized, and the staff was more than capable of handling the chaos of a kid's birthday party. The pictures of the Tiny Town area online definitely undersell how great the room is for kids. The pricing is unbeatable for what you get with the hands-on coordinator service and the facility. They genuinely cared that everyone had a great time, and made it the easiest party planning experience I've had.
Only good thing about this place is the Pilates class, other than that the staff are so rude and snobby, the gym is so tiny with not a big variety of equipment, gross old men and old women have a bad staring problem there and always try and come up to me and ask me personal questions when I’m just trying to enjoy my workout and you have to wait in line to use some of the equipment because there’s not enough equipment, the pool water is nasty, the bathroom smells horrible and there’s always naked women and little girls running around in the women’s restroom which I don’t wanna see and I don’t understand why they can’t just cover themselves with a towel, there were two little kids that ran underneath me while I was lifting in the gym and I almost dropped my weights on them which was scary but why were they in there when there’s a whole day care here, when I asked the staff about guest passes they snapped back saying we don’t do guest passes here and my guest has to pay and then the second time I came with a guest the staff said that my guest doesn’t have to pay he can just use my guest pass which is confusing because last time he had to pay, I tried cancelling my membership over the phone today and the staff member said we can’t do that over the phone and said I have to do it online and then I asked her if she could look up my information because I forgot my login info and instead of saying if she could do that or not she said well you can’t cancel your membership now because the payments probably already went through for this month so I asked if there’s anyway she could accommodate for me to cancel my membership this month because I’m not coming back and she snapped back saying absolutely not and then hung up when I was still talking, I originally came to the ymca hearing good things about their yoga and Pilates classes so I cancelled my planet fitness membership to try this place out and it was an awful experience, never coming back here again and I will be happily going back to planet fitness where I can actually enjoy my workout.
I removed a poor review I had written about pool availability because I realized the issue wasn’t really with the staff, it was with the parents. I’m dismayed by some of the mean reviews I’ve read here about certain staff at YMCA Twin Lakes because they just aren’t true. All of the staff at this location are very kind and professional. That’s actually one of the things that’s had me coming back despite my aggravation with the pools. This facility is the nicest and cleanest of all the Y’s in Central Texas. It also has more to offer than the other gyms. The eGym is an additional, one-time fee of $80 because it requires a tech wrist band and one-on-one initial training. But the eGym is a really nice add to get. Now the pools: I’ll raise this review to five stars if they will just put a larger rules sign with bigger font near the therapy pool. I’m so aggravated with the number of entitled parents who abuse the sweet lifeguards when the lifeguards gently and politely try to reinforce the rules. It’s upsetting to witness. Parents: the therapy pool is a therapy pool! The rules state that kids over five may not enter. The rules state there is no jumping, splashing, or diving allowed. I do not understand the mentality of a parent who goes off on a lifeguard for asking the parent to keep their child from splashing and kicking physical therapists who are doing THERAPY with a patient. The kids have the main pool, the outdoor pools, the slides, and the mushroom waterfall. Why do parents feel entitled to let their darlings also take over a small pool that’s meant for people with disabilities, those recovering from injuries, and seniors who can’t normally access all the other stuff? And parents: when the lifeguards blows the whistle for the ten minute rest time, they are doing their job and enforcing a rule that’s at every single public pool. It’s not okay to ignore them or go off on them when the kids are asked to exit the water for ten minutes. For everyone else: the pool hours and lane availability are best viewed online so that you can plan ahead. A lot of pool classes do take place and that will shut down lanes and pools for individuals.
The gym is small and somewhat dated, so the main reason I joined was the swimming pool. When I enrolled, I was shown the group swim lesson schedule, which appeared to clearly outline lane availability and gave the impression that I could plan lap swims around those times. In reality, that schedule does not reflect the full picture. There are numerous additional “programs” that occupy a large portion of the lanes but are not shown on the schedule provided at enrollment. With only four lanes total, this significantly limits actual lap access. Even during time slots marked as “2 lanes” or “3 lanes,” multiple lanes are often reserved in advance and sit unused, while lap swimmers can still be required to leave because they are technically blocked off. For example, today (a Saturday), the schedule indicated lanes would be closed starting at 7:30 a.m. for an 8:00 a.m. lesson. That effectively allows management to remove swimmers at any time between 7:30 and 8:00 — even if the lane is empty and no class is taking place. I was told to leave at 7:53 a.m., despite the lane not being in use. Only after this incident was I shown a more detailed “accurate” lane availability file to justify the action. This schedule is attached below. While it is technically publicly accessible on the website, it is not proactively shared and is buried in a way that most members would not reasonably find or rely on. When availability is marked as “0” or “1,” it’s clear the pool is occupied. But in the “2” or “3” situations, lanes are over-reserved, under-used, and the real availability is far more restricted than the primary schedule suggests. The posted schedule looks precise, but in practice it understates how limited lap access actually is. That makes it difficult not only to plan workouts, but to fairly evaluate the value of the membership.
They never have enough seats but they build a zip line. Come on Y...take care of your people!
The atmosphere was nice and relaxing
