J. Thomas Lovell Jr. Community Center at Legacy Park 901 Bluestem, Lee's Summit, MO 64086

"I went to my granddaughters 4th Birthday Swimming Party tonight and was very disappointed! We had been here before for other swimming parties and just swimming in past years. Tonight there were 2 life guards on duty. One was at the top of the slide. The other was at the bottom of that pool with the slide, sitting in a chair and that life guard was on the verge of sleeping. He literally was LAYING in the chair with his eyes closed!! I yelled at him and asked if he was watching all the LITTLE kids in the heated pool. I was in the heated pool with them, but honestly it did not give me confidence of his abilities! The hot tub was closed and had a sign up. An additionally disturbing part was when I went to leave, there was a man who was closing the pool off and I asked him if he was in charge? When he said yes, I told him about the sleeping "Life Guard" and he said "OKAY". That is all!!! Not I am sorry, or acknowledged anything I said! IF this pool has cameras, someone NEEDS to see how the guards are doing in their job before there is a serious drowning there!! If you go here make sure you personally watch your kids, because I think the staff has a LOT of training needed!!!"

"A wonderful facility well taken care of and friendly always. I feel all I need and want is available. Worth every penny."

"I've had the membership for a week and have gone daily, and I will say the rec center is nice and offers a lot. The only complaint I have is the pool (lap pool) is not maintained well. Yesterday there were so many centipedes and dead spiders in the pool that I had a lifeguard bring me a tub so I could get them all out. I overheard them saying to one another that the vacuum that cleans the bugs from the pool is broken. Today I went in and once again the lap pool was so murky that even with goggles on you couldn't see more than a foot or two in front of your face. About the same visibility as a lake underwater. Not sure what that was about but it's supposed to be clear. It's also extremely salty. They need to get the pool clean, and the lifeguards need to do a better job of keeping other people's children in-line when people are exercising. Every time I go either strange kids are literally crawling on me as I swim or they're throwing balls or googles across the pool and nearly hitting other people."

"We took our 5 and 6 year old grandchildren here to swim. It was our first time there, so we had noted on website price was $9 per person. We arrived around 3:30pm and were told they could only go in small children’s area and that would close for swim lessons at 5. It took 20 minutes to sign in, because we had to sign paperwork and have pictures taken for our one time visit. We had to get out of kids area at 4:50pm per lifeguard as swim lessons were getting to start and then found out they would last until 7. So for less than an hour we paid $36 for 2 kids to swim!!! On further research on website, I saw a month membership is only $22!! It is very poor service that we were not given this option when we signed in. There was not a reason given why we could not use big leisure pool. There was a lifeguard and only a couple of people swimming in the big pool."