Williams Farm Recreation Center

Williams Farm Rec is a gift to the residents of Virginia Beach. My family and I have been coming here for the last three years. For less than $ 250 per year we get a beautiful pool with water slide, climbing wall, lap lanes, an aqua track and a sprayground. An indoor track (you have to run around 10 times to hit a mile), gym with plenty of cardio, weight machines, and a decent amount of free weights. My only complaint about the gym is they only have one set of cables and one squat rack. It’s consistently busy so if you want to do any heavy lifting you’re definitely going to be fighting for space. No biggie, we’re all adults that know how to share, right? They’re only three lanes for lap swimming, expect to share lanes when it’s busy. The facility is always very, very clean. Gym memberships can be expensive. Planet Fitness is going to run you about $ 40 more per year than a rec center membership and you won’t get the pool or basketball court. Definitely worth the money!

We celebrated out daughter’s 7^th birthday party here. It was a blast, she enjoyed it and everybody was having fun. The place overall is clean and new

I have reviewed most of the rec centers in Virginia Beach since I am at them regularly. This review is way overdue. It appears my time here will pick up and that is fine by me. Williams Farm Rec is going into their third year and second to newest one in the system to Bow Creek.
This center offers some unique extras that most do not. Let me touch on them since many are already familiar with the Virginia Beach Rec Centers. The big one is location, it’s close to the Norfolk line and pulls in residents from our sister city. Another is the awesome skate park, no additional charge. In their aquatics they offer a water slide, outdoor play area and even a rock climbing wall. They upstairs gym has a track, not to mention a ton of free weights. An extremely nice family benefit are the single room changing areas, some with shower and some without.
All the other things you would expect like basketball, meeting rooms etc. are here. They have do have a smaller footprint than the three larger ones of Bayside, Great Neck and Princess Anne. I do not recall an activity room with games here, but it is possible I missed. So smaller space in key areas is something to keep in mind. I would like to highlight the pool. There are only two lanes for lap swimming. A benefit to this pool is it’s handicap accessibility by wheel chair that can be easily pushed in. A negative is the young pool has a whole lot of cracking that has developed in a short time. The caulk to repair looks unsightly. This would be a MAJOR cost to fix the cosmetics and I don’t expect they will unless it becomes necessary.
Since it is almost new you expect it to be nice and indeed it has been well maintained these past few years and I applaud the staff at this location for upholding the beauty and integrity. I would recommend this center if the location works for you. Other than that I would choose the most convenient rec center unless the unique items I highlighted set this apart. The Virginia Beach Rec Centers are a treasure for our community. Princes are subsidized for citizens and should be considered over alternative privates gyms that are much more costly.

Nice and clean community center with an upstairs running track, preschool camp programs, mini youth room, large workout area, 2 large gyms, & skate park across the street.

I am so delighted that my friend and I found this place. It’s a great and family oriented fitness facility. Everything that you could ask for is here. And guess what, there open the entire week except holiday.
One thing that I love this place, it has an awesome ambience and friendly environment.
Staff’s are very attentive and helpful too.

A great facility for improving your health. First rate exercise machines, pool, and basketball court.
They offer monthly and yearly rates.

I am solely reviewing the skatepark, which by the way is AMAZING! I am mostly a street skater and I spent my time mostly in the park section. Plenty of bumps and rollins provide a nice variety of obstacles to skate. The clover in the middle of the park is official!

Williams Farm Rec Center is a much needed addition to this part of Va Beach. The pool is a kids playground. They have an outdoor splash park and a playground of sorts inside too. But there are still 3 swim laps for adults and an aqua track, which I love. When the pool schedule lists exercise or limited space for open swim that aqua track is open for those who want to use it to exerise. The aqua track is small curvy/​circular track where the water pushes against you for resistance. It’s a nice little workout for those who have bad joints/​knees/​hips/​etc. They also have a big waterslide, which seems to be a hit with kids. The gym is upstairs and they have a track around the gym facilities. They have plenty of cardio machines, but you need to sign up for a 30 minute slot. The free weights and machines are open and don’t need to be signed up for to use. The basketball court is large and they are plenty of group fitness classes, if that’s your think. Bootcamp anyone? They also have pre-​school programs and classrooms available. You can even have birthday parties in the pool area!

This recreation center is awesome and wish we had one that I know of in Chesapeake, We attended a birthday party and the rooms are large with more than enough space to play around. Great center!

Um… bomb!!! This recreation center needs to be the model of how all recs in the area should be!
Indoor waterpark, game systems, library, workout equipment, mini kitchen, meetings rooms, workout classes… state of the art facilty!
It’s great here!
Cheap membership and cheap day passes… if you are not a member you can come here for $ 5 a day and have a grand time!
I had my daughter’s 7^th bday party here (pool party). I was able to use the party rooms for a great rate. I was able to bring in my own décor and food for my guests… great!!!
I received a lot of compliments on the décor from guests, staff and bystanders.
This was great first time and we will definitely return. Friendly staff!
Oh yeah, there is a cool skate park and playground area (for toddlers) outside… bomb!!!

So glad this place opened here! I love this new facility — great fitness area, skate park, clean locker rooms, but the best part for the kids is the indoor swimming pool. It has a rock wall, kids playground and water slide! The boys loved it! All of this for a yearly membership of only $ 29 per year for each child and $ 81 per adult for the year. Cheapest membership!