Shoreview Community Center

Super Fun! The staff here is great! I explained to them that we were new and just checking things out, they got us moving in the right direction, gave us helpful information for return visits and just made the whole experience comfortable. We had a great time exploring the pools and getting in some fun exercise. The little guy I nanny had soooo much fun!!! He asked if we could come back two or three times on the at ride home.

Great place to take a break for the little kids tagging along for the hockey tournament. The warm air and small & big water slide are a hit! So is the lily pad rope course. Only bummer is the music to the big water slide stopped working right when the water aerobics group came. Not sure why and the lifeguards weren’t willing to help the kids get it back on. They just said try a different song, which didn’t work.

We had a memorial service here and now wished I would have looked elsewhere, for one reason; complete lack of customer service. We were told that we would not have access to kitchen without a licensed caterer and $ 200 fee, which was fine. We were not told we would not be able to get access to water to make coffee, which is not fine. The manager on duty, Tina, was a nightmare to work with the day of the event. when I tried to provide feedback about my experience with Tina I got the impression they could not care any less than they did.
I would not recommend this facility to anyone wanting to have a good experience and by treated as a customer.

Tropical Adventure — odd name for a play area. But then again the kids don’t really care what its called as long as its fun.
Tropical Adventure is a two story behemoth. A ginormous version of kiddie habitrails you may have seen elsewhere. Its designed and built by Orca Coast who apparently do a lot of these (much bigger even)
The kids climb, slide, jump, run and essentially burn up all that kiddish energy.
Works for me.
The cost is not minimal — daily passes are $ ⁹⁄₁₀ for kids/​adults ($ 34 family).
Yearly family memberships are $ 756 for non residents. But, thats less than 18 cents an hour.
They also have a water park and gym facilities but we didn’t go there.

We hosted a grad party here and it was GREAT!
Thumbs up:
affordability by a long shot compared to other community centers
accommodations (think fire place, indoor/​outdoor facility, parks, clean rest rooms, parking. music hook up)
friendly and helpful staff available
bring in your own food/​bev/​liquor (beer and wine permit)
clean, maintained and nature
animals allowed!!!
Thumbs down:
got lost a bit
Will be back again to host more events!

Indoor playground and water park are great, and other com jujitsu center items like gym, fitness center, adequate food options, birthday party and meeting rooms with ample free parking make this a gem of the north burbs. Nearby: library, ice arena, park and trails.

Since joining 7 years ago I am sad to sad things have gone so far downhill I can hardly believe it! The maintenance has deteriorated, unfinished painting, chipped paint, taped signs sliding down the walls, the loss of two great staff who kept the pool and senior programs great! Seniors have left by the dozens, in part because kids have the run of the entire place with little to no constraint! The other day I was told to «go to hell!» by some mothers who were enraged at having their children told «please be careful, this is the eating area, not the play area» and they came over to we 73 and 89 year old grandmothers to verbally assault us! Wow! One of the staff told us «you have to understand that parents today think their kids are perfect». So watch out! It’s not the quality environment it once was!
Disregard the following as it no longer applies! —- This place is truly terrific for kids, adults AND seniors! We are members as are one of our children and their family of three. We enjoy lap swim, exercise classes, but MOST OF ALL — the wonderful people with whom we have met and become friends!
What a great place and great staff!

Places like this are why pedophiles should have to wear GPS locaters…
Sorry Shoreview, but your claim to fame is your community center… otherwise, pretty much everything else in that city sucks.
It seems to me like the citizens tax money could have been spent better on other things besides a waterpark/​gym/​skate park, but maybe I’m wrong… I do know they make a decent amount of money off it so that’s nice I’m sure.
I can remember being a kid and enjoying the water park on those hot days… it was so nice to pay a flat fee and swim for hours, even go down the water slide! The only thing I didn’t like was that the «kiddy pool» was connected to the main pool, and even at the tender age of 7 I realized that enough people already peed in the pool… there was no doubt leaky fecal diaper matter in the water from the toddler area. But no matter, our friend Mr. Chlorine (thanks for lying about it changing colors when you pee MOM) supposedly took care of that!
Summer days and evenings were spent here, until I got to be a little bit older… and now when I want to have fun on the water, I take out a speed boat and tube behind it at breakneck speeds.

I’m new to the Shoreview Community Center but so far it has been great. I use the workout facility and do some Candlelight Yoga on Sunday nights. My wife and I also took our son there swimming once and the pool is unbelievable! I’m also very excited for when he gets older because he can use the huge playground.

My husband and I booked the Community Center for our wedding reception and I am very happy we did! We booked the Shoreview room because of the view, size, and décor. It was a nice space that didn’t need a complete overall to make it look nice. We had very simple decorations (which made set up and tear-​down super easy) and they worked very well in the space because, like I said, it was already a nice space. We had 160 guests, which allowed NONE of the table to be on the dance floor, so no one had to loose their place (no one likes being at that table!).
In addition to it being a nice space, they let US choose our caterer (we didn’t have to use anyone on an exclusive list) and the price was right. It was a little more than I wanted to pay, but I’m not one to want to spend a lot of money and it was just a little more than I wanted to pay ($ 100 more), so it was kind of easy to chew it and I’m very happy that I did!

It’s a water park. It’s a fitness center. It’s the Shoreview Community Center.
This place is one of the best things about living in Shoreview, but you don’t have to be Shoreview resident to use the facilities. They have a pool with a huge waterslide, workout room, two large gyms, an indoor track, and meeting rooms that you can rent for parties. They have swimming lessons, classes you’d find at any fitness center (yoga, pilates, spinning) and personal trainers you can hire to get the most from your workout. They even have free daycare.
My daughter takes swimming lessons at the pool and she loves to play there. They have a shallow area for little kids with a small slide, a couple of swimming lanes, and floating animals for older kids to play on in the deep area of the pool. If you come to use the pool, take note of the open swim schedule because there’s always something going on there.
The pool is always staffed with lifeguards and they are a very well run group. They are mostly teenagers, but they’re attentive and professional. They run surprise drills on them to keep them on their toes. My wife has seen them in action when it hasn’t been a drill and was impressed at how quickly they acted and how each of them knew exactly what role they had in the rescue and what they should do.
The Shoreview Community Center is as good, if not better, than any chain fitness center out there. They have annual memberships as well as daily admissions. It’s a great place for families and a great place to have a gathering, whether it be for a club or a party.