Mount Pleasant Community Centre

Love this little place ! Great gym facility great library! Everyone is so friendly! Take dance classes here as well! This is your one stop for all things fun!

This is a great find for parents with babies or toddlers out there.
Mount Pleasant Community Centre has a spacious, open space, drop in play time for kids. There’s soft mats, jumbo building blocks, feet peddle cars, slides, see-​saws and even little picnic tables for snacks.
It’s only $ 3 per child and you can let your little one run wild! Well, please make sure to keep an eye on them as well, but this is a wonderful space to let your little one burn off some energy as well as have fun.

This is for the fitness center.
I give 1 star for the mainly friendly staff.
The rest is simple — its atrociously small and packed with meat bags who grunt WAY louder than they need to, slam their weights WAY too hard for attention. A lot of them tend to be 16 year old boyzzzz who come in flocks and hog everything while they stare at their post pubescent muscles in the mirror.
The place generally smells of stale B.O.
The towels that they use are old disgusting rags I dont even want to touch… but its good gym ettiquette to at least make an effort. though I cringe every time I have to do it.
They don’t have a stair mill which is a huge bummer. They have 2 stair climbers which are less effective and one of them doesnt really work as well as the other.
They have a bunch of equipment which is sketchy — the hamstring curl, which creaks and seems like the cable is going to snap, and the reclined leg press which SERIOUSLY shouldnt even be in there, the weights wobble and Ive stopped using it altogether because it freaks me out.
A few machines are always out of order. The coverings on a couple of pieces of equipment are torn and frayed. There is dust and grime on everything.
Why do I go here? Because its close by… hopefully another gym will be built in the area soon to accommodate the huge demand (mainly of high school boys wanting to swing weights around). Too bad the facility is so small.

New is usually great here, especially in this part of town to revitalize the area.
On the weekend here for niece’s bday, have to say I was impressed by facilities here. First, in the big gymnasium, all the bikes, ladders, balls, mats, and the jumping air gadget for the kids to play in.
then upstairs for the real party and food, a private room facing Kingsway with all the natural light coming in. Also a commercial grade kitchen and exhaust fan in the back to use too (but we didn’t).
We had about 12 tables set up for kids and their party hats/​balloons.
Pretty reasonable rental for 2 hours $ 100.
Paid underground parking but some free side street parking.
And love the automatic doors.

I just use the fitness centre facilities here so can’t comment on the rest of the offerings. It always seems busy so I take that as a good sign. The fitness equipment is a bit dated and I’m not a fan of how the room is set up, but I’m only there for a workout so can overlook those things.

I’m only going to review the fitness classes and the library because I’ve never used any of their other facilities.
I work in downtown but live in burnaby so in order to fight the dreadful rush hour traffic I decided to work out right after work. I could use some toning up so kill two birds with one stone right? Anyways I decided on this place because I figured it’s outside of downtown so parking should be easy and since it’s a community center it would be cheaper. So the monthly group fitness pass is 32 dollars which is a quite affordable. However they don’t offer many classes (people doing 9 – 5 pretty much hv only 4 classes a week they can attend). There are no weekend classes n the variety is very limited. They do offer classes like yoga and pilates but they r not included in the pass n you hv to pay separately for those and they are not cheap.
Anyways I do quite enjoy the classes except the Tuesday ones because there’s a new instructor and sometimes I feel like he doesn’t rly know wat he’s doing. It feels like sometimes he’s making it up as he goes along. The other instructors are pretty good tho. I do like the boxing class on Wed at 630 and steps on Thurs at 530. Those instructors are balls of energy! I just wish they had less cardio because I hv bad knees. I’d love to see some yoga and pilates added to the list of courses offered.
This place is also very much in need of more showers for the downstairs bathroom. There is only 1!!! 1!!! Considering there are usually about a dozen or more people per class I’m not sure how they expect us to shower w just one shower. Luckily I think ppl got sick of waiting so no one really showers there anymore but I definitely need to shower after every work out.
I checked out the library a couple times and it’s not that big but it was pretty good. I love the free wifi and the staff were friendly.
I agree w other reviewers… Where is the pool?

I predominantly use the fitness facility here. The staff are always friendly, and the facility is clean and new. It is a little on the small side (at least in comparison to somewhere like Hillcrest)., and there isn’t a huge amount of cardio machines. During peak hours (5 – 7 or so) it can be a bit of a wait to get on a machine.
There is a decent library at the community center. The café downstairs is also quite nice (and has some fantastic baked goods). Finding parking around the community center can also be a challenge, unfortunately.
Overall, if you are looking for a basic gym facility to complete a workout, I’d say this place can most definitely meet your needs.

Came here last night to get some cardio and weight training in after work. My visit was a bit of mixed bag the Front Desk staff were great, but the locker room at this location is just too small for the size of the fitness centre some of the lockers are broken it be better if the lockers had built in locks.
Two of Treadmills were out of order and some the weight machines could use a little TLC. Overall the floor needs through sweeping. Staff could remove some of paper signs posted all over the place telling you what you can’t do at the centre.
During my visit a trainer was helping a guest learn how to use the equipment. This was good sign. Sadly I watched a Manager in office talk on the phone call during my entire workout. I hope he was trying to get the tread mills fixed or staff and money to give the place a good sweeping and mopping. If he had any extra time maybe you could look into installing a a couple of gender neutral change rooms to to reduce the stress the undersized men’s room and to allow trans-​gender people to use this centre in respectful manner. With a little work this location come become a Five Start Fitness Centre.

Great little library.
Nice big gymnasium.
Great fitness facility.
Lots of fitness classes.
A nice-​enough café.
A rather large gathering of people in the entrance area due to the comfortable chairs.

This is one of the nicer community centres that I have been to in a while. I am usually here for their amazing library which always seem to have what I want. Plus it is close to my school on Main St. I have not been to the gym upstairs but I do know that the basketball court in this centre is quite large. A pool would be nice though.

I already wrote a review for this place, but under the old MPCC heading (which appears exactly the same)
I’ll save the cut-​and-​paste job for later and just put the appropriate star rating.
And the old place was better. Less pretentious, less crowded, better parking, had a pool and racquetball courts, and served Community needs, rather than catering to those driving in from somewhere in west Van or wherever.
They should change the name to Mount Pleasant ComMutiny Centre, the way they sold out the locals.

Oh hell, why does it have to be SO close to Foundation? Nachos, people. Those damn nachos be callin’ my name errday — ‘specially on the days I decide to get my late-​afternoon workout on in the gym in the MPCC.
But I digress.
As far as Vancouver community centres go, this place really is just okay. I mean, the library is a HUGE leap forward from that sad, stank room in the Kingsgate Mall (what was *with* that? Kee-​riste, Kingsgate is a magnet for all that is strange and slightly off in this city, and the library served as a holding cell for the weirdos who are attracted to this kind of nonsense), BUT it’s still not even close to being big enough for all of the families, students, and good-​for-​nothing reading-​types in the area (you know who you are).
The aforementioned gym, however, is actually pretty good, er, decent. Unlike my beloved West End CC, this little guy offers not only new equipment, but lots of it. And lawd knows there ain’t no hipsters using those treadmills, so I got me options.
But like I said, those gaddamm nachos ruin errthang.

Let me get this straight, west van, full of its wrinkled, wizened, evil eyed rich old misers gets a huge community centre but Mount Pleasant, full of young families, gets a half assed attempt at a community centre, with apartments slapped onto the side?
This is the best you could do Vancouver?
I am giving the city of Vancouver half a star for being so slow in building this and being so short sighted as to make the community centre so small, this place wont support our growing community in 5 years, mark my word and city council knows it, they have the olympic village nightmare to deal with and frankly, they dont care about the people of Mount Pleasant, lets be honest.
I give the facility itself a good score because though its too little its still great to have. I often take shortcuts through here and its nice to see people reading books, playing in the gym etc.
Makes me wish I was a billionaire and could have bought the new condo development beside the centre and turn it into one giant extension, WITH A POOL!
If the city cared they could have done so much better than this.

I recently decided it was high time to get my butt in shape and purchased a 10-​pass to the Mount Pleasant Community Centre. I was really excited to go here, because it’s shiny and new. I like shiny new things, especially if it involves people being sweaty and gross. The less sweaty gross buildup, the better.
First off, for service, I would give the staff four or five stars. Every gym employee I have encountered has been friendly, helpful and professional. No hotdogs on this staff, or at least not that I have encountered.
The great service does not make up for the serious shortfalls, however. I am a novice female gym-​goer, and for all the mustering of willpower it took me to actually go to the gym again, they don’t do much to make me want to come back.
The change room is really, really small. The actual change room part is a very small rectangle with a wooden bench along three side. Any more than three people in it at once, and it gets tight and awkward. Change rooms need an allowance of personal space. On the fourth side is the glassed-​in shower area. The actual showers themselves have stalls, but the entire change room area faces the shower area. No privacy whatsoever.
The cardio room has a terrible layout. You cannot watch TV if you want to use the treadmills, as they are right under the TVs. The cardio room is very small, and all of the machines are often in use, especially at peak times. You can’t book the machines in advance though, but you have to write down your name when you are about to go on a machine, which doesn’t seem like the best system.
I don’t even dare venture near the weights as this point. The weight room is fairly separate from the cardio area, and I never see women in there. It seems like a hangout for groups of young guys who don’t really seem to actually use the machines, but just sit around. I just don’t feel comfortable using those machines, so I doubt I will continue going once my 10 pass is used up.

I was really bummed out when I finally came to check this place out, the gym is really small — same size as the old one but twice as busy. I don’t know if its because of the location or what but I also noticed quite a few dodgy looking types i.e. bums in the building and in the library which kind of put me off. The library also has huge lines to use a computer so its best to book one in advance from the VPL website to avoid waiting around all day for one!

Someone at Unilocal changed the address to the old centre, so at this moment it’s incorrect. Here’s the correct address until higher ups at Unilocal get it fixed:
1 Kingsway, Vancouver, BC V5T 3H7
Phone 604−257−3080, the phone above still works, too.