Things to do in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (OH): The Best Spas & Wellness

Reviewed By reginapromenko12 - New Brunswick, United States

There are numerous reasons to praise the Natatorium and its management team and personnel for doing a good commendable job for making this place a good health center. They allow visitors to fill out a comment card for making suggestions or registering complaints. Responses are often provided. The community should be proud for having such a health center. For a community this size we are lucky. It is the reading material that provides guidelines and information about good health for me. Nat News is a welcome source of studies published and written by personnel there for distribution each month and they should be praised for doing such good work as it is a worth while publication. Additional reading material is there too. The Hospital provides reading material about its contribution to people's health. There are many places for people to sit down and wait for others aside from the coffee shop that has had different names. The availability of television sets in the exercise area on the second floor and elsewhere for watching programs has converted the Natatorium in to an information center too - not to be dismissed. Too much loud shouting and yelling and hollering and screaming by people playing basketball in the gymnasium basket ball court area makes for most unpleasant visiting especially for other people trying to walk or run above around the indoor track. The management must ask and tell the basketball players to stop yelling screaming and hollering and shouting so loudly and so often. It is as if the basketball players are participating in a tournament. On certain Sundays there is a group of people assembled in one of the larger indoor room like areas for a program called "Dance Your Soul". The organizers promote the program with excessively loud music and the door is not closed. The organizers allow far too much loud music to penetrate the corridors and hallway leading into the lobby and entry way for the Natatorium. The recorded music is far too loud. Volume should be reduced and the door of the room should be closed. Management should regulate the noise level of that group and ask or tell them to close the door. Lower the volume of the recorded music. For many other activities that get my attention and participation the Natatorium has much to commend itself. Organized activities for several groups can be arraigned. Smaller rooms are suitable for providing practice space and group participation. Walking or running around the indoor track is worth my time and the indoor track itself has become and remains a most essential part of making the Natatorium a quintessential part of exercise program for most people. Much flat floor space upstairs is available for people doing numerous exercises. Hours of operation are most convenient for me and so many others. Western Reserve Hospital with its medical components together with its health program does offer an essential service that should not be dismissed. It is a supplement to the Natatorium and brings its reputation in line with established standards of community service. Alignment with so many parts of the community's efforts to promote good health make the Natatorium a most vital part of the community especially when schools are considered. Comprehensive array of services make it a place to be. The food available at the coffee shop should not the primary reason for visiting the Natatorium. Yet it does have its merits. Programs for younger children and older adults and adolescents are available. Neptune and Poseidon Rooms are there for particular reasons. Racket and hand ball courts are there too and should be used. Various alternative games can be assembled for utilizing parts of the gymnasium floor space. Scheduled time frames allow the visitors to make good use of that space. Sometimes I wonder if too much basketball is permitted on the basketball courts. Volleyball competition and the like might be a better way to utilize that same space at certain times of the day. Pickle ball has made its appearance there. Indoor sports that girls and women play might deserve more time on the same gymnasium floor space. Numerous exercise spaces contain many forms of tread mills and the like. Help from Natatorium personnel is often available at the service counter on the second floor. A most valuable contribution is the information about weather forecasts and daily water conditions all presented on an electronic board near the elevator. Clocks for timing activities should be readily recognized as valuable for their purposes. Auxiliary exercise room below the indoor track level are most necessary and convenient for enabling several groups to participate in group activities because of it size and therefore can accommodate many groups with varying size or purposes and personnel dimensions. In many spaces can be found exercise machines. Occasionally the music is too loud in the entry way and upstairs around the indoor track. Volume should be reduced and regulated. Rest rooms are clean. Weight lifting gets much attention in many places especially on the first floor with strength building. Swimming pools - all four or five of them - do serve a vital purpose with or without the sliding boards and related games for children and others. Therapy pools are needed. It is the large parking space outside that deserves praise. Keeping the Natatorium open until later times each day is most welcome. Early admission also. Locker rooms have the added feature of complimentary lockers and should be praised and utilized. Locker rooms are cleaned and well maintained but can be crowded at times. Not always sure where the entrances of the locker rooms are to be found. A most important feature of the entire establishment. Elevator is essential. In the NAT NEWS each month a small space is set aside for praising personnel. Access to the pool area is promising from the locker rooms. Shallow pools are most essential for all groups. An extra bench or sitting area in the area around the indoor track would be welcome. A large well maintained facility is still learning about how best to serve the community. A few improvements could or should be introduced.