Matt Jimenez Community Center

So we decided to have my cousin’s 18^th birthday here. First of all they had so many rules and regulations that it’s seriously just ridiculous to even party here, you definitely can’t enjoy your party because there are so many things you can’t do at this place. Just scheduling with them I was already disappointed, and now came my the day of my cousin’s birthday.
1^st off when we arrived there at 4:15pm the people that was supposed to have all the tables and chairs out was literally just starting when we got there. We were scheduled at 4pm so technically everything should’ve been out and another thing was the pool table even that they didn’t have the board on top of it so that it’s just ready for us to decorate and what not. Then there were this 2 large table right upfront that had multiple lost and found shirts on it, like seriously disgusting and it seemed like they had no plans whatsoever of putting it else where. Then I had to deal with 2 lazy guys that all they did was play video games, watch TV and rush us on cleaning up so they could go home.
We were scheduled to be here till 10pm this guys were already rushing us at 8:30 pm that we needed to be out by 10pm. Like seriously how can you have fun when there are 2 guys nagging and rushing you to be done with your party. Then their telling our DJ’s that they have to stop playing at 9;15 like seriously.
If I had another choice I definitely would’ve chosen something else. Super mediocre. I’d rather pay more than to ever deal with this people ever again. It was definitely a nightmare.

I love MJCC never had a issue here. I love the summer program $ 65 for 10weeks who can complain. The camp is ran by Cheryl and she runs it with a iron fist. Everyone respects her the kids love and adore her. All the staff is early teens to mid 20s and i haven’t had any issues with them all are great.
I even did a birthday bash party here and loved it. It was a video game party so that worked out for 200 bucks all the kids got to play all the video game systems parents played pool and ping pong, for a extra 100 you can add cake and pizza. Brought my own decorations the day before the set up for me no issues.
We love this place and will forever support it

I’ve attended a party here before and it seemed okay. I decided to throw my daughter and son’s party here. I was looking for something different and simple. I read the Birthday Bash description and thought-​this might work.
All I can say is that the staff there are not helpful, HARD to get a hold of, and not knowledgeable. One of the funny things about the staff is… I must have spoken to 3 different people regarding my events and all had said 3 different things. If this is part of the Hayward Park and Rec. you should only deal with them NOT the staff at MJCC. I was hoping that having our parties here would be less stressful, I was wrong. :(
My husband said it’s a great place, idea, however, just not worth it. We’ve had other venues that were worth it. I don’t think we’ll be hosting another event at MJCC.
Make it a little easier. here are our Pros and Cons:
PROS:
great concept
own parking space (small one)
bathrooms are close
kitchen was available
games/​consoles to keep your guests entertained
CONS:
staff is unreachable and unhelpful
ice machine didn’t work when we were there
staff that was assigned to us during the party was rude
no air conditioning

I came for a birthday party here, and I was NOT impressed.
The concept is really nice. The big room, with the video game room attached. But when my friend told me her experience with this place, any thought I had to rent it for my son was gone. There was two teens sitting at the front desk ‘supervising’ the party. They kept walking over telling us ‘you cant do that’ and ‘i don’t know’ seemed to be their favorite.
At the end of the party, we would told that they cleaned up. That all we had to do was clear out our belongings. So thats what we did. Fast forward to a couple days later, my friend told me she was charged a cleaning fee.
Basically, you’re better off having your birthday party at a park. Or at home. Or not at all if you’re only left with Matt Jimenez Community Center.

Seriously its a really nice place but the staff is F*cking PATHETIC. They are so Damn unreasonable its is not even funny. I feel like they show you a good deal and then they keep coming up with more and more shit to charge you with. From what I hear this would not end up being a good experience so I would pass on this if I were you. Or just check it out and when you end up mad thats on you

My friends and I rent out Matt Jimenez Community Center for their 2 full court basketball courts for 3 hours for $ 150 and every experience has been great. The only knock to this place is that sometimes some of the lights are dead.

This review is for the MJCC Halloween Carnival only (not the haunted house as I opted not to go).
I took two young children to this community Halloween carnival, thinking it didn’t sound half bad with free admission and 25 cent games. I have never been so wrong in my life. The one word I would use to describe this event would be «depressing». The minute we walked into the Center, we were greeted with a wave of warm, humid air that smelled like gym socks.
The whole carnival was in one room the size of two school classrooms. Along each wall were the games, manned mostly by indifferent children whom I can only assume were all patrons of some sort of after school program. Each game was 25 cents, yet I actually felt like this was a huge ripoff. Kid’s were crammed into lines for games not worth the wait, to try and get tickets for the prize table or candy. (Which, by the way, turned out to be little Jolly Ranchers — ONE Jolly Rancher as a prize for waiting in line, playing a game and winning it. NOTE: There is a high probability that you will get absolutely nothing for playing. If you lose, you lose. No consolation prize!!) Please tell me, Hayward Parks and Rec, that you can afford one tiny piece of candy as a consolation prize next time!
Long story short: We waited in a stuffy, smelly room in long lines to play crappy games in exchange for a tiny piece of candy or ticket to spend at the prize table for a prize not even worth the 25 cents we played for each game.
I have no idea why anyone would come here of their own free will. I dragged the kids to this one because I had seen it advertised in the local paper, and I found myself apologizing to them all the way home.

So my preteen son is just OVER having parties at chuck e. cheese, or super franks, or pump it up. He’s all about the video games.
Browsing through unsolicited mail, I stumbled over an ad for Birthday Parties at the MJCC. My son and I decided to check it out, and he fell in love.
It’s a good sized hall with:
–2 pool tables
–a ping pong table
–and get this — a video game room. It’s a room with about 5 TVs, each having a video game console: the wii, ps2, xbox, game cube, (i dunno what else really, cuz all my son was concerned about is the ps3 — which they had, but didn’t have any games for… yes, that’s right! they have games for the consoles as well! — but feel free to bring your own!) And couches/​seats all around. it’s a pretty cool concept if you ask me.
–6 tables and surrounding chairs for guests to dine.
Anyway, here’s what’s really great about this place…
–for $ 200, you can rent the place for 3 hrs.
–You can arrive 30 minutes early to set up (when we got there almost an hour early, they let us set up anyway.)
— THEY provide the table cloths, the balloons and streamers for decoration. THEY set it up. THEY take it down.
— They have an ice machine with the large buckets to keep your beverages chilled.
–for extra money, they go all out and provide the food, drinks, plastic ware, paper plates, napkins, and even the cake!
–Their bathrooms are very clean.
–The staff is STELLAR! And I dealt with 6 different people. They were all friendly, helpful, and efficient!
Here’s my small nit-​picky (but not a big deal) complaints.
— parking lot is a little small. There’s plenty of street parking tho.
— they could’ve told us about the ice machine.
— they could’ve told us about not having any games for the ps3.
Nevertheless, my son had a BLAST! and all his friends looked like they did too… and there’s nothing more heart-​warming than seeing your kids happy. It makes ME happy. It makes me wanna write a 5star review for this awesome place!
Thanks MJCC for making my son’s day.

This place is pretty cool in terms of playing basketball here. There is and indoor as well as outdoor court. I’m not quite sure on who gets to play in here though. I’ve only played in this gym because of the Filipino basketball league, Filcom. The court is pretty nice and yeah if bored and like basketball there’s usually games on the weekend and there pretty quick paced and entertaining. So it’s enjoyable to watch. For more info in the league the website is
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