MIT Recreation

While in boston for the marathon, i wanted to do some low impact cross training, so decided to walk over to mit (about 1/2mi from my hotel) and use their rec center. the student rate is $10 for the entire day, and since i was a part time student elsewhere, i qualified for this rate! i have to say, this was a stellar facility, large, with fitness center, aquatics, and even an ice rink! since i just wanted to swim, i headed straight to the locker room, changed, and headed to the pool. there was not one, but three pools total, each of them sparkling clean! although i had to share a lane with

Very poor customer service, and watch their billing. I'm part of the MIT community, but it's still extremely expensive. For the amount one is forced to pay (and the membership fee increases are extremely steep) it's better to go elsewhere after the first year. Luckily I was able to warn co-workers about the increases, and how MIT Recreation are not vey upfront about this after your first year membership converts to monthly. After carefully reading their own contract, they agree, and my coworkers have since also ended their monthly membership on account of this. Overall, I think

I have been using facilities of MIT recreation for two years and so far everything is satisfying. This is my favorite sports place in Boston.

Service
Open for public. You can purchase day pass or other membership at the front desk. They also offer some sports drink and MIT sports shirts.

Lockers and sauna
I love this place because of its convenient and spacious locker space in DuPont. There are always open lockers for daily use if you don't rent a locker. There's also a sauna room in the locker room, which makes showering after work out much more refreshing and enjoyable.

Fitness

It is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hot in the rockwell CT.
no A/C at all. And nobody would help you if you accidentally hit the volleyball to the ceiling and could not get it out of the net.

To every one who loves swimming: go to the MIT Pool!! It’s one of the best. You can make a guest membership online beforehand. At the front desk, you pay for a day ticket. Enjoy!!

My daughter had a swim meet here and this is easily the best swimming facility we visited this year. The pool itself is can venous and is a true Olympic size pool. There are plenty of seats and one of the best score boards I've seen. The one downside is that parking nearby wasn't very easy with many events going on at the same time.

I think it's hilarious a review below posted about the horrid towel lady. I went this weekend and I put my ticked in and she looked at me and straight yellasked me if I PRETENDED to put a ticket in.

It seems MIT rec knows this lady has a habit of being nasty and they might encourage it.

If you want to go swimming, professional swimmers will heckle you. It's quite horrible. It's always packed. The women's locker rooms allow young boys up to 7 years old in it and it is quite uncomfortable to change because they watch you.

I used plenty of University gym's before and

Great facilities, swimming and all kinds of sports if you are in.
Great chill out place if you are looking for a evening fun time outside. Go for swimming or find a match of your choice to watch. You will be lucky if you can find an official match going around with MIT and some guest team visiting.
Practice matches are fun to watch too.

If you are paying the price without being a student it isn't recommended. These are my issues with the gym:

1. The hours are poor, and it closes anytime MIT closes - holidays, etc... they just love being closed.... always closed, if it is cloudy they may be closed, it is ridiculous - especially since the few times students have to work out if class is cancelled then the gym is also closed, or even on holidays - It seems to be closed every single random holiday - are with severely shortened hours (opening up at 2pm) and then because of the severely shortened hours and the fact students don

The pool is top notch. A bit expensive for the guy off the street but the best option in Cambridgeport for total fitness.

Great facilities. Lots of machines. The pool is amazing. 4 basketball courts which can convert to other sports such as volleyball too. Changing rooms and showers are also great but take your own lock for the lockers

It is probably the best Swimming Pool for swim competitions in Boston area. There are enough space for spectators, huge display for results and convenient place for rewarding of winners.

Great rate for MIT and Whitehead Institute members. This facility has pretty much everything I need for my training, a great swimming pool, a two-floor fitness center, indoor and outdoor tracks, saunas. It's always clean, and the staff is very nice. They provide cheap massages and nutritional counseling of quality as well.

This site was host to the MA state science fair and provided excellent service.!!we could not have had better hosts!

In particular , the campus police did a great job. One officer stayed all night to guard the student projects and was always gracious.

The facility was well run and a compliment to the MIT campus.

The membership is rather expensive if you are not a student, but the Z-Center is a nice place. There is a good amount of cardio and weight equipment. The multi-purpose courts are often set up for different sports at different times, so check the schedule. We like playing badminton there, but it's popular, so you want to show up early to claim a court, and you're limited in games you can play so the next people waiting can jump in. My favorite part about a DAPER membership, though, is free access to the Johnson ice rink. The ice rink is open mid-October through mid-March, and all DAPER

Gym is not worth going to unless you are a student. They want 20 percent down for the year up front and they have all kinds of pointless rules and fees for no reason other then to take your money.

Don't join this gym if your looking to get into swimming and other activities not offered at other gyms go to a ymca instead.

Very we'll equipped with diversed choices. I like the steam room the most. It has high enough temperature and feels clean. I enjoy the powerful shower head a lot because it feels like a message after steam room.

I go there for the group classes and I can tell that the zumba and step classes are great. Particularly the zumba instructors are amazing!
However, there are two bad things to consider:
- afternoon classes are really full and it is really difficult to enjoy the class because you spend the time trying to figure out where the instuctor is. After more than a year in the gym, the managers do not seem to worry about the customer experience. If it were not for the instructors I would have already considered leaving. I would recommend managers to increase the number of classes offered because compared

As an MIT student, this place is pure gold! Other than the after-work-rush, there are always machines/weights available, the pool is a great temperature with plenty of lanes, and I got a locker after only a week on the waiting list. Plus, it isn't full of meatheads so I don't feel like an out-of-shape slob when I go - there is quite a variety of folks working out!
Hours are usually awesome except during holidays, which is the only real problem I have with this gym.

I've been a member for many years. I typically just use the Z-Center pools; they're about as good as it gets. Unfortunately, the showers and locker rooms are poorly maintained; towards the end of the day they can be downright filthy! Membership prices are the same, regardless of what time you use the facility, so there's no excuse for not cleaning it regularly throughout the day!

It took a long time for me to "win" a locker in the Z-Center. Unfortunately, many lockers remain unused- for years -as evidenced by the thick layer of dust visible through the sides. It's

Oh MIT Zesiger center how I heart thee. After surveying the gyms in the Boston/Cambridge area, I returned to the gym of my undergraduate years. Why?

For Alumni the cost is 25 to 50% less than other gyms in the area, and you get so much more! Not only do you get the standard set of cardio and weightlifting equipment, but an olympic sized pool, an ice skating rink in the winter, several full sized basketball courts, and racquetball courts.

Like all gyms, it gets crowded in the after-class/work period of 5-7, but even then there are still a few machines open. Before and after that evening rush

Being an MIT-staff type with a membership, I've been able to use this gym a few times, though it's not nearly as convenient for me as Alumni, which is why I'll probably be switching gyms after my membership runs out in August. Furthermore, I had issues trying to get them to actually take my membership fees out of my paycheck, as they didn't process that part of it for four months.

The pool is nice though, and the machines are better than I've seen elsewhere.

MIT has an unbelievable workout center. And, unlike most colleges, it isn't just for MIT students. Anyone can use it! For just five bucks as a student, or ten as an adult you can have full access to all of the facilities. The track, the squash courts, the hundreds of machines on two levels and of course the massive Olympic sized pool. They open early 6 a.m. and close late 9 p.m. This facility is truly unbelievable and it s is incredible that MIT will let anyone use it. Definitely try it out. This one's a 10!