Water Babies Reviews

Water babies consistently offer fun, lively and imaginative swimming lessons, which is teaching water safety skills for children while they have the BEST time. Stanley (3yrs) is still talking about his Saturday morning lesson with Gillian “the brilliant pirate”- he loved hunting for treasure and diving for gold coins.

Sami at Waterbabies is fantastic - our 2 year old son looks so forward to going swimming and tries brave new things to make her smile! The pool and facilities at meadowside are good too

Okayish experience so far. The instructor is quite good and friendly and the class seems nice. But, they have cancelled 3/12 classes in the first 3 months, the changing room at my center (Bridge school Islington) doesn't have a functioning shower, the pool water wasn't warm enough for 1 of the classes resulting in my daugher shivering midway through the class, and the class often starts 5-10 minutes late due to previous class overrunning.

It's really fun! My daughter and I have great moments and she is enjoying it a lot. It's nice how they teach safety things in the swimming pool.

We’ve just finished Cupar’s first year at Water Babies and honestly, it’s been the best thing we’ve done! Our teacher Jen is amazing — so lovely and makes the classes really fun (even when the little ones are having “one of those days” 😂). It’s been brilliant seeing how much confidence Cupar has in the water now. We’re gutted it’s finished for summer but can’t wait to get back! Would 100% recommend to any parents thinking about it.

Our instructor Kim makes every week a great experience for us and our daughter. The lessons are both fun whilst creating important skills and confidence in the water.

The lessons are incredibly well organised and flow well. I feel my little one is safe at all times. Our instructor Liv is brilliant. She makes it fun and put you at ease if you’re ever anxious about a new. Me and my son are really loving the swimming lessons.

My baby really enjoys his swimming lessons

A lovely class. My daughter started lessons at 7 weeks old and has always enjoyed them. Never any tears. Very knowledgable instructors. Our teacher knew all about baby development and took extra care with my daughter as she was so young. Would highly recommend.

We love our splish splash experience with Water Babies at Pedmore — Anne Marie is absolutely brilliant! She’s warm, encouraging, and truly brings out the best in the babies (and the parents!). Our little one gained so much confidence in the water, all thanks to her gentle, expert approach. We also have catch up lessons with Emma at the Mercure west hotel and she also is great! So friendly, helpful, and welcoming — she went above and beyond to make us feel at home.

Friendly, helpful, fun and exciting Everyone is so friendly and helpful you can tell they know what they’re talking about before you even swim. Ivy absolutely loves her lessons every week with hannie

We really like water babies they have been so accommodating to the changes we have needed. Ross our teacher is so helpful and if you’re not sure what to do he will explain it again.

We love our water Babies lesson. Having Austim I felt so welcome. The teacher so friendly and welcome.. my little one grown so much confident in the water in last year. Get so excited for his lesson each week Thank you Laura v , Becky r and Becky e you all help little man so much in the water

Abi is a fantastic instructor who clearly loves her job. She is kind caring and makes every lesson fun

We have been attending Water Babies with my daughter since she was 8 weeks old and now 2.5 years later she still loves it! Her water confidence is amazing and the skills she has learnt will set her up for life. The instructors and staff are all fantastic too and make you feel at ease.

Friendly staff and the emphasis on developing key safety skills.

It was really great experience

We started swimming with our LO when she was 6 months old. Straight away we loved the experience of being in the water with her! The classes were well-paced and fun. The teachers have been welcoming and so willing to be aware of the needs and feelings of the individual child. At first our LO loved the water, but as she got bigger she became more nervous about being in the pool. This was never an issue for the teachers and they were always willing to go steadier with our LO, listening to what she needed. We've had several teachers over our time with Waterbabies, due to changes in our circumstances causing us to have to move pools. WaterBabies have always done their best to try and accomodate what we felt we needed - helping us to find lessons that worked with LOs nap times and meal times. Though we are having to stop going to Waterbabies for now due to our own individual circumstances, we wouldn't hesitate to recommend them to anyone looking for a swimming class for their little ones!

The lessons are fun but we don’t seem to be getting as much under water practice as we used to

Rude teacher, poor facilities and same thing every week. I joined the Nuffield Friern Barnet water babies but I ultimately left because I found the tutor Carmel to be rude and occasionally passive aggressive. She forced my son to change his outfit when he was crying and had a go at me for not wanting to immerse my head underneath the water saying I have 2 strikes left. What should have been a fun experience has left me and my son traumatised beyond repair. Also they make you pay one extra month if you want to cancel! No changing facilities for babies either - just a repetitive boring walking around in circles every week. Also spoke to other mums that left they all mentioned it was because of the tutor including my friend Charlotte who said she bullied her too.