Water Babies Reviews

The staff are great and very patient when my little one doesn’t always play ball The classes are fun with different floats and songs The venue is not very family friendly, they don’t seem to like little kids being there and they don’t have enough changing rooms

I have been taking my baby to Water Babies for the last six weeks and we love it! I have seen such a change in her enjoyment in water in just that short time. The teacher, Nina, is fantastic and I feel like she really knows the children and talks you through why all the different activities and are beneficial for your child. Would highly recommend booking lessons!

Laura is an outstanding teacher. We attend her classes at city academy on a Saturday afternoon. Our daughter loves the class and loves Laura

We have been using waterbabies since 2021 when my first was 3 months. We had a number of teacher changes initially but we currently have Nina, whom has experience of 16+ years. Nina has been a consistent teacher now for us for some time and I have also just started my second with her, whom is 4 months. Nina is what makes this, she has so much experience and she uses it to adapt to each child and reassure parents. My girl can be stubborn and when she is not engaging Nina always finds a way to get her involved!! She makes the effort with each child. In the baby classes her experience reassures parents, taking time to explain skills, the value behind them and possible baby reactions. The babies or children are never forced into anything like going underwater and all lessons are fun. The 4 stars is that the venue has been unreliable in the past with pool temperatures but this appears to have been resolved. It really is Nina that makes these lessons, she is amazing.

My grandson loves his swimming lessons and always has fun.There is a good range of activities which have increased his confidence in the water while incorporating safety skills and learning to swim.His teacher is so good and has a great rapport with the children.Would highly recommend.

Water babies has been part of our lives since my first was 10 weeks old. My 3 year old now swims independently and his brother 2 years 4 months not far behind! Katherine is amazing, we definitely have her to thank. The office staff are lovely and each and every teacher we have ever caught up with are welcoming and great too

The classes are fantastic. Claire makes them fun and interactive and Connie is always on the go learning new skills. Connie has a great relationship with Claire and loves her classes.

Fantastic, friendly staff who understand babies and toddlers really well. Very supportive and lessons are always fun 🐳

We look forward to water babies every week and are so happy we started the classes when our little boy was around 3 months. He is now 18 months old and is confident in the water thanks to the classes.He loves each session with Claire who is very knowledgeable, approachable and has a fun teaching style. The classes we attend are in a hydro pool which is nice and warm with great changing facilities.

We’ve been coming to waterbabies for around 15 months and my son (18mo) loves it! It’s the best class we did with him as a newborn and we love coming each week. There’s a clear progression and we can see he’s improving and enjoying the water.

We attended the Jesmond pool class, we found it to be quite unclean, and the class was very overcrowded for the size of the pool at Percy Hedley. I recommend you get changed prior to going to the class as the changing rooms have no private area free from the opposite sex unless you use the disabled toilet due to the layout of the facilities. There’s usually a queue as there’s only two toilets available.

Everyone is always so friendly and helpful. There's always a great and supportive atmosphere at every lesson and it's a great way to spend one on one time with your child.

My poor rate is based on their lack of flexibility when you need to recover lessons different days, their cancellation process, and the conditions of the Perseid School swimming pool facilities. We missed some lessons because we had to travel and because they cancelled one day. We wanted to do it in the same place, but November was fully booked for Saturdays, and they didn’t allow us to do it in December, because we cancelled the subscription. Then we said if we could do it in another place, also close to our home, but they said that it wasn’t possible, they offered us another place instead, which was outside London, 1,5 hours drive from where we live. I think that the reason they didn’t allow us to do it in the closer one was because it’s more expensive. In this case, you should just told us and we would have paid the difference. We ended up loosing 3 lessons, that’s unfair. The facilities in Perseid School in London, are not baby friendly. There is not a proper place to change your baby, or leave your baby in while you dress yourself. There are only two rooms with 1 litter each, a litter is not a proper place to change your baby, but it’s better than the floor, the place where you will end up changing your baby ir someone else is quicker than you and gets the room before you do. We are now doing swimming lessons with another company, and the facilities they use are much better, there are also cods to leave your baby in.

Lessons are excellent with Nicki, she really is such a good teacher and cares for each swimmer individually to their needs! Sometimes, if there are lots of children attending we do have to wait around a little bit, which would be my only criticism with only having 30 minutes per lesson. Communication with the office is really good too. The only part that isn't great, is the venue being in need of a lot of updating, which isn't the fault of Water Babies. The team could do more between classes to clean around the pool and through the corridors and changing rooms.

We have been swimming with Harriet for more than 2 years now and we absolutely love it!

Everyone very carefully about Payment! If we want to stop the lessons need to pay 4 lessons payment more to them. also if we not inform them before stop they says it is a subscription so we need to pay all the due payment until it cancels.

Bad communication, conflicting information sent to parents, correct information sent to a few not all parents, most information we only received from other parents. Teachers can be quite bored, not engaged, in and out and leave me alone. Numerous cancellations. We look to move to other classes with better providers and better teachers soon

We love Waterbabies. It’s the best class we have done together. Not only is R learning, but we are building his confidence as well as mine. We started just before his 1st birthday and he’s just turned 2. I can’t recommend it highly enough. 5*

Fantastic classes for babies. Our daughter loves it, our teacher Harriett is super friendly. Classes are fun and our daughter is absolutely loving her swimming!

We are lucky to have a hydropool for our current lessons before we didn't our teacher is very good however, our lessons are cancelled too often and sometimes with very short notice