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October 2023 by Anne S.
This is a beautiful facility with many options to suit many needs. The staff is friendly and cheerful. But for these 2 issues, I would have given 5 stars: 1) The parking can be really challenging. When there are special events you can expect you will not find a place to park. To make it even more challenging, a good many parking spaces are blocked off. Today I gave up after circling 4 times with at least 6 cars in front of me doing the same thing. I forfeited my class. 2) As a lap swimmer, I do not like that during designated lap schedules, the lanes are sometimes blocked to lap swimmers for private lessons. Even worse, all too often a lane is taken up by leftover aqua class participants who stay to bob around on their noodles and chat. On days when the rest of the lanes have multiple swimmers per lane, the noodle bobbers should be ousted to open the lane they bob in. That never happens because they seem to be protected. I often wonder what would happen if I or other lap swimmers tried to swim laps during the aqua exercise class. Hmmmm....
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September 2023 by Karina M
My daughters attended camp Wydaca for the first part of the summer and second part at a summer camp run by the Edgewood Country Club in River Vale, and after being able to compare to another camp, I have to say this camp is well run, organized, safe and the amount of activities the kids do is absolutely worth the money. The camp at Edgewood was more expensive and seems to include more activities, but it was poorly run and so disorganized… We were happy with camp Wydaca, but recognize even more so now the value of a well run camp! The drop off/pick up is the only area of improvement, but overall this is an excellent camp! The counselors are very nice and senior management knows what they are doing. Highly recommend to any parent
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July 2023 by Vince
We love the YMCA and have been going to the one near to our home for years. It's unfortunate that their policy does not look into military families who move around constantly. We are in transition to our new location and in this time would like to have a gym for the family to go to. The YMCA only has yearly memberships and no monthly for visitors. I would use a military facility gym but that's 80 miles away.
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July 2023 by Susan Olkusz
I am a member of the Wyckoff family YMCA, and have found it to be an excellent place to exercise, swim and socialize. The staff members are outstanding!
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April 2023 by Katie Eidschun
I enjoy working out there wonderful staff is a great staff member are very good to me and everyone treat us like sister.
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December 2022 by Xavier I.
It's a great gym overall! Mice, clean equipment, usually quiet. Perfect for your everyday gym goer
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August 2022 by Javier Castellote
Thanks YMCA. I appreciate the warm feel of the staff and the truly helpful purpose of the organization.However I also think a few things need to be improved:- Messy website.- Pool schedules are very inconvenient to me. They have 2 pools and still everyday there are several windows of time bigger than 2 hours that don't allow any lap swimmers in either of the 2 pools. If you don't check the schedule before heading there you might go back home 50% of the time.- Not very modern facilities- No official program for advanced swimmers- No triathlon club- I don't see much advantage being a member and joining programs or activities, they are almost the same price and gives you no sort of priority in registering.Thanks though, I might join again if it makes sense.
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August 2022 by Katherine Pioch
This facility used to have a wonderful set of programs for adults with disabilities, now their treatment of adults with developmental disabilities has been infantilizing, many have left. They had full grown adults playing "Simon Says" while waiting to use a room. They are no longer sensitive to people with sensory sensitivities like the lights and volume of music, they no longer include these adults in the talent shows, and they are impatient and inattentive. I don't know what happened here but I'm so disappointed.
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June 2022 by Cara Galorenzo Parassio
Couldn’t be more grateful for Ms Laura and Ms Effie! Enrolling our daughter was the best decision we have made as parents!
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February 2022 by Carol J
My 11y old daughter had started taking swim lessons there. Pools are very clean, very good teachers, she loves going every Saturday.
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December 2021 by Brad C.
The childcare is absolutely horrible. It seemed okay but staff turnover absolutely destroyed the place. The director does not know what she is doing and made several very questionable hiring decisions. We're out now and things have gotten much better.
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December 2021 by Haley J.
Camp Wydaca is not a safe place to send my kids, in my opinion and experience,. I deeply regretted sending them last year, and I will never do so again. There are MANY instances where my children did not feel physically safe or nurtured. For example, the very first day of camp, they did not allow my preschooler to go to the bathroom because it was too close to pickup time. When I called to address it, they admitted they did that because they're "short staffed" at pickup time and if my child was accompanied to the bathroom, there would be no one else to watch the others at her table. Outrageous! My son was also hit a few times and called names by other kids in his group, and when I called the director to address why he didn't want to go to camp and cried every morning, she berated ME for asking if he was bullied, and proceeded to shut down my claims after a 10-minute "investigation" (it was 10 minutes from the time she spoke to me to when she called me back - I checked my phone log). She was very nasty and just defensive. 30 years of being director, she's probably seen and done it all and just can't be bothered to deal; it's time to retire if you just genuinely don't have a crap anymore. The young camp counselors are far more understanding and receptive to having a conversation with a parent who is concerned for their child's well-being; any of the more seasoned, high up staff members (leaders) will immediately get defensive when you approach them to talk about any concerns you have. My child was also forced go to into the lake when it was unseasonably cold (it was a weird week last summer when it dropped to high 60s overnight), so I can only imagine how cold that water was. He said it was so cold that his legs ached, but his camp counselors said everyone MUST get into the lake and did not allow him or other children to get out of the lake. When I spoke to them, they said every child must go into the water when it's lake time, no exceptions. Don't get me started on them getting my preschooler to go in way deeper than she was comfortable (up to her neck), which endangers her well-being given that she does NOT know how to swim! You would think that's common sense safety, but I was livid when I found that out. Are they going to wait for a child to drown before they change their policies?! Camp Wydaca is an absolute cattle drive - so many children in and out, not to mention the painful pickup and dropoff procedures. But in our personal experience, Camp Wydaca gets away with a lot because there are very few summer day camps that are in Bergen County. It's an absolute shame that complacency plagues the top-level leadership of Camp Wydaca.
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July 2021 by Syndel Sendas
Terrible staff - Extremely rude over the phone and incapable of answering a simple question regarding the membership.
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March 2021 by B S.
This review is mainly about the gym at the Ymca. I had been going there for years and I eventually got into weight lifting and less of a focus on cardio. I haven't gone since COVID started and I have heard about how they are taking precautions for members who would like to workout now but if we are being honest here the gym is so SMALL! last year was the breaking point for me. Only one squat rack and smith machine. most men there don't even know what reracking is and just come to close if you are doing a workout and there's no space to workout at all! The money you pay monthly to workout here isn't worth it. The fact that the machines are slightly outdated and the cardio area is so tight. You cant even stretch without having your butt in someone's face! This is an okay gym if you mainly do cardio and a little bit of abs at most. If you are someone who is into weight lifting or targeting muscle groups than this place will not be a good fit for you, it will hold you back from reaching your goals. The tight spacing of the machines and the machines aren't updated. I don't recommend unless you wish to pay 30 dollars a month to just do cardio.
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January 2021 by Jean Sanders
I LOVE the Wyckoff Y. After being a member for 20 years at the Ridgewood Y - I am switching. Wyckoff cares about it's members and have instituted a very fair and organized lap swim lane registration process. And has also not raised rates in the middle of a pandemic like Ridgewood did. Hooray for Wyckoff!
