This is a religious-based facility. I was forced to stay at this property for nearly one week, as a condition of receiving federal agency work training. Yep, strange.

Both rooms I was assigned (I will explain this further in the review) were unclean, the cafeteria-style food was wretched, and the second-rate staff appears to be largely comprised of international (i.e., foreign) students, all of whom do not communicate well in English, or do not relate to American standards of customer service. (I witnessed two occasions where it appeared that about a half-dozen or so of these workers were accompanying a pair of housekeepers, room-to-room, which I thought was peculiar. Hence, I did not feel comfortable leaving anything of value in my room, during my training-related absences.)

When I opened the door of my first room, in a dormitory style building, an overwhelming sour odor nearly knocked me over. I walked into the room and noticed that a large area of the carpet near the bathroom entrance was wet, and that bath towels were spread out over the wet area. I soon deduced that someone had likely vomited on the carpeted floor, and hadn't made it to the bathroom. I used the telephone to inform the front desk that I could not stay in that room, owing to the smell. Eventually a staff member brought me a key to a newly-assigned room directly overhead; he never even apologized for the fact that I was initially assigned an unclean room.

My second room was also of poor quality. Although I was informed that some rooms had clock radios, mine did not. (Note: the dormitory rooms do not have televisions, nor did my building have an ice machine; according to hearsay, one can “purchase” ice at the facility store.) I discovered that all of the non-bathroom lighting fixtures in my room were equipped with just 52-watt light bulbs. This made reading nearly impossible for me, as the room was quite dark. There was evidence of food residue on the walls, ceilings, and windows, and the heating register was significantly damaged, which added to the visual blight. In the bathroom, I noticed what appeared to be dried human secretions smeared on the walls. (Another conference trainee told me that the security peep-hole glass was missing from his room's door, and that the resulting empty hole in the door had been stuffed with toilet paper.)

The institutional-style cafeteria food served during my stay was unbelievably wretched. It was like the worst hospital food imaginable. Lunches and suppers were greasy. Once removed from the cosmetic effects of the serving line lighting, “fresh” lunch and supper items, specifically the salad lettuce, turned out to be wilted and brown. Breakfast was even more disappointing. It appears this facility serves a manufactured scrambled egg/pudding-type slime concoction, which I couldn't even bring myself to sample. I tried the oatmeal (how do you ruin oatmeal?), and even it had a bizarre consistency, and was bad tasting. I chose a couple of slices of “fresh” pineapple, only to discover that when removed from the cosmetic effect of the serving line lighting, it had brown blotches from being spoiled. I came to the conclusion that this facility uses only poor-quality food ingredients. For my package stay, I paid for a total of 15 meals, but I only ate (parts of) two suppers, one lunch, and one breakfast. After that, I never even entered the cafeteria again. Just the smell(s) of it made my stomach turn. (Which meant I went hungry most of the time, because my room also had no microwave oven or mini-refrigerator. Other training conference participants traveled to either Winter Park or Granby for a restaurant meal and/or groceries. And YMCA of the Rockies would not reimburse for or separate meal costs from the charged lodging package rate, even if one did not eat at the cafeteria.)

The grounds of this facility are equally bleak: the pine bark beetle has killed nearly all the pine trees in sight, and much clear-cutting is taking place. It's looks depressing.

In short, from my experience, YMCA of the Rockies is a religion-based rip-off. It is poorly-managed, unclean, unappetizing, and unattractive. I endured the longest, most uncomfortable week of my life there. I do not recommend it.