Private club with 10 tennis courts, 4 pickleball courts, fitness and swimming pool. Pickleball Open Play is currently exclusive to Swell Goleta club members. Tennis camp and clinics. 6 hard courts and 4 Har-True clay courts provide the perfect setting to hone your skills and enjoy a friendly match. One of the best pools for kids and lap swimming in the Santa Barbara area. 6 hard courts and 4 Har-True clay courts provide the perfect setting to hone your skills and enjoy a friendly match. From engaging junior tennis clinics that ignite a passion for the sport in young players to exciting inter-club team play for adults.
The Club offers a distinctive level of luxury and comfort, state-of-the-art fitness equipment, spotless exercise areas and vast array of workout options. Comprehensive range of fitness options under one roof, from state-of-the-art equipment and dynamic group classes to specialized programs like pickleball and swim lessons.
FACILITIES
Open-Air Performance Center
Heated Lap Pool
Heated Recreational Pool
Two Outdoor Hot Tubs
Cold Plunge Tub
Group Exercise Studio
Dedicated Spin Studio
Reformer Pilates Room
outdoor courts
Six Hard Courts, Four with Lights
Four Har-Tru Clay Courts with Lights
Women’s and Men’s Locker Rooms with Saunas, Steam Rooms, and Showers
We enjoyed being guests for a family pool birthday. The place is clean, well maintained. Loved the fact the pools have salt instead of overwhelming chlorine. Now, it's very pricy to join, specially family plan is very steep. The website has no price range. That's annoying. Most of attendees where respectful to each others in the pool and outside. However, some adults randomly swim in the kids pool. Maybe a sign to educate them to stay in the adult area. Something was broken or down and we were informed that only members can order food. That was annoying. Had to leave eat and come back.
Stephanie Young: ★★★★★
We have been coming here for about 10 years. I love it! We bring our kids to swim in the pool, and we go in the hot tub. We often get food at the Cafe. I've done the spinning classes while my kids go to the mini muscles class. We play pickleball and we also work out. There is so much to do and we often see friends or neighbors. It's been a great family activity, we plan to continue coming!
Towel Pros: ★★★★★
Have been members three different times. :) Decided to rejoin because it gives our family at least a place to go and exercise and leave the house. Staff is still extremely friendly and the amenities for the price are very fair. Cafe is also set to open and sitting in the sun, next to a pool with an ice tea is not a bad way to end the day...bonus, I don't have to do maintenance on a pool at home this way. :)
Neutral Reviews:
C Wilson: ★★★
You take the good with the bad. First is the good: It's an excellent place for a family with kids, especially if you live in the area. There are two pools which are both outside, this allows for the pool that the kids use to be nearly always available. That works really well for me, as I can bring my boys and there are almost always kids from the neighborhoods that they know and can play with. For me when I go alone I can swim laps without worrying if it's the right time of day. The rest of the facility is decent, although in a larger metro you can get equivalent club memberships for half as much or less. But this is Santa Barbara and the competition is the YMCA which is, sadly, so poorly run (especially for families, ironically). The issues I have have more to do with the management. Calls into the club about billing questions or facility reservations have gone unreturned. It seems like every week or two I get an email about part of the facility being offline for repairs or other functions. Mind you, I appreciate the facility being kept in repair, but there seems to be no strategy on this at all. Often the repairs are scheduled in prime use windows instead of non-peak. They also don't seem to be well co-ordinated, where the pool might be closed for a period then the adjacent lockers, then their laundry is broken (where they don't opt to use a service in the mean time) and so on. Finally it's pretty traditional. Tennis and fitness and swimming. They've updated some of the fitness but there are no rock climbing or other fun activities outside of the pool that some more modern clubs have. In any case it's still my gym, which given the high cost is saying that I consider it the best option for my family. Still, there is much room for improvement and I'm not sure I will renew after the contract period.
Negative Reviews:
John Stivers: ★★
My family, and I personally, have been members of the club for over 20 years. First the bad, it is not.a world class facility. Only one squat rack and the lap pool is smaller than regulation size. Also, you have to pay extra for a locker, unlike Lifetime and other gyms. Pretty mediocre place for athletes, but if you really are an athlete you will be so focused it won't really matter. The cafe is mediocre to excellent. The management is generally nice but one of them is very strict and good at keeping everything in order. There is also a $15 dollar fee for when you want to bring in a guest like a friend or a visiting family member. They could use another power rack in the parisi. Most of the desk workers are very polite and friendly.
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Stephanie Young: ★★★★★
We have been coming here for about 10 years
Stephanie Young: ★★★★★
There is so much to do and we often see friends or neighbors
Towel Pros: ★★★★★
bonus, I don't have to do maintenance on a pool at home this way
Lilit Jermagian: ★★★★
Loved the fact the pools have salt instead of overwhelming chlorine
Lilit Jermagian: ★★★★
Something was broken or down and we were informed that only members can order food
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