Kingsport Aquatic Center

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1820 Meadowview Pkwy, Kingsport, TN 37660, USA
Added by Jopie, at 25 May 2017

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• Marla Cutler

  05 November 2017

  Love this place. Great to hang out with the family on a hot summer day.

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• Joshua Maddox

  14 August 2017

  Lifeguards are very unprofessional. Managers are completely rude when approached about unprofessionalism of the lifeguards. Immediately in defensive mode as if the customer were at fault. Will never go back.

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• Nicole Carter

  14 August 2017

  The life guard giving my 8 year old boy a swim test ran off in the middle of giving my son his test. Not a single other life guard took over for her. When I proceeded to let a manager know, the manager did not seem to see a problem with this. It is a very UNSAFE environment and I would never recommend this place to anyone. I have been to a lot of YMCAs and this is by far the most irresponsibly ran one.

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• Stewart Millen

  29 July 2017

  Good points--it's got nice pools and other facilities, it's clean, and of course everything is fairly new.
  
  Bad points:
  
  1) No outdoor pool. Especially for the kids and those who just want to splash around in the water and not really swim. The lazy river is not a substitute.
  
  2) More proactive policing of the lap lanes. Too many times the lifeguards just sit there as kids jump into the lap lanes. The easiest solution for this is to simply have an outdoor pool for the kids, and keep the two indoor pools for lap swimmers and for competitions. This is also why I think they should have kept the old Legion Pool open, as a 'just kids' pool.
  
  3) In addition to this, there should be a policy where if more than two swimmers have to be in the lap lanes, no backstrokes or any other strokes should be allowed where one can't see where one is going. I have experienced this problem here and at other pools, some man or woman gets into the same lap lane and does a backstroke and can't see where they're going and crashes into you routinely.
  
  4) While the warm pool water is acceptable, the large pool water is far too cold. I can swim more than 2 hours in the warm pool (and in other pools) but often I have to exit prematurely from the large pool just because I'm freezing.

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• Marvin Dykes

  06 July 2017

  Most staff members are hateful and obviously don't know their job like they try to act they do. We paid $30.00 to get in which is fair considering all that it has for kids..they let us in with a watergun for our 3 yr old grandson which played with it in the water for over 25 minutes before the same lifeguard that was watching him play with it told us we couldn't have it in There! I am very disappointed that they can't communicate any better than that and after my grandson starts crying then they want to apologize and say "Oh, well, I'm sorry about that it shouldn't have been allowed in here" by the same MANAGER that let me in with it. Staff not only are hateful but they appear that they hate their job, and obviously don't have a clue what goes on from day to day. We will not waste our money go EVER go there again and when were asked about how good of a place it is we will gladly tell them that it definately is not.

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• Star Ford

  22 June 2017

  I'm a member of the YMCA so with that being said I get in free I'm a black woman with three small children everytime I enter the building I'm asked am I member every time I go outside I'm asked am I member I have been stopped and told that I need to pay every time I go there is a problem my friend is white and they never stopped her I thought I found a place for my children to play but I was absolutely wrong the Aquatic Center is not for black people

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• Bradley Austin

  18 June 2017

  Rude staff and poeple. No seats at all and when I did find a empty seat it wasn't 5 minutes till someone walked up and said that's mine get out. Staff was no help at all! Save your money and take your children somewhere else !

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• Garrett Page

  11 June 2017

  We usually LOVE this place, but. It is very unprofessional and inconsiderate to change the pool hours for Sunday with no advanced notice or even bother to change the hours online and on the signage at the pool. We were outside waiting for 20 minutes this Sunday with no idea along with the other 30 or so people that the hours had been changed to noon. As members this significantly effects our desire to maintain our membership especially because Sunday mornings are the best times for my family and I to go to the outdoor pool. The majority of your customers are people with children and it can be a major undertaking to get everyone ready, out the door, and covered in sunblock only to be sent home because you guys decided to keep it top secret information that the pool would not open until noon. I could understand if the hours needed to be changed but to do it in the way you guys chose to is unexceptionable. What in the world were you thinking?

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• Tess Dieter

  11 June 2017

  There were so many people it ended up being like people soup. The pool was closed twice for kids pooping in the water

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• Dawn Fritz

  01 June 2017

  Too much whistle blowing by snotty power mad teenagers. Lazy river is pretty but fast. Inside pools are murky Yuck!

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