Great Neck Recreation Center

Was down on vacation great place to swim in expensive for a day pass love the pool I live in Boston ma the Boston athletic club cost twenty dollars for a day pass this is a great deal for the money I am going to Virginia beach every year when on vacation found a great place for lap swimming

Nice building … Had a issue but the staff cleared it up for me.

I could not imagine now living in a city without an offering of recreational centers, that’s how spoiled my family has got by these. Cost for city residents is very minimal and worth every penny. The center has went through a renovation of several areas including main entrance, lobby, basketball court. Parking is usually never a problem and over flow is at Great Neck Park.
Great Neck Recreation Center is located off of Great Neck Rd. You will need to drive down Shorehaven past Cox H. S and just beyond Great Neck baseball field.
Both of our children learned to swim in this pool through their «learn to swim» lessons offered throughout the year at a very inexpensive cost. Most of the swimming instructors have been both excellent coaches and gifted in working with young children. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of getting you children in the pool by 3 – 4 years old with all the water we have in this area. The Aquatics Dept in all of the VB Rec Centers have open enrollment in late Summer for ages 6 – 18 if your children already know how to swim. It is called «Winter League» and the individual rec centers compete against each other in swimming events. I have been involved in this for several years with my children and recommend. Also the cost is dirt cheap for the amount of instructions they get Nov — Jan.
The lobby area has two pool tables. The rec center offers a game room for kids. There is also air hockey and a basketball game like they have at Chuck E Cheese. For the older kids an electronics game room is more selective hours offers Wii, Xbox 360 and some other type of games. This area seems to more busy than the Bayside location. The gym is a full court basketball court and is also has multi uses. There is also a Sportswall that is utilized for footballs and other games. At times they will pull a curtain and have BB on one side of the gym and another activity on the other.
The centers most utilized area is the cardio room and weight room. The most upgraded equipment is on site, it’s just not as plentiful as many would like and there can be lines.
The center also offers many after school program, we have never used it but know through neighbors it is a hit. There are lots of other programs offered by the VB Rec Center System, but what I did was shed light on ones that I was most familiar with. Like I said before, our family could not imagine a life without these wonderful facilities in our area. The Great Neck Recreational Center is clean, has wonderful dedicated staff and offer a variety of programs that any family could benefit from.
If you have yet to check them out, or the others in the VB system I encourage you to do so. Just my opinion, but this one is slightly nicer facility wise than BS Rec.

If you have been to the Bayside Recreation Center, you’ll find the Great Neck one VERY familiar. They are practically identical.
So, see my review of Bayside. I have not taken classes here but my daughter did swim lessons, which are a great deal and she got a lot out of it.
Also, we went swimming there one time and one of the lifeguards saw her trying to get up the courage to dive off the diving board for the first time and so she helped her out and coached her until she finally did it, which was awesome.