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British Swim School offers swimming lessons for kids and adults, starting as early as 3 months. Located inside LA Fitness, we're open year-round and welcome both gym members and non-members. You can learn to swim when you’re ready and continue until you’ve mastered the skills. We use gentle teaching methods and a survival-first approach to help swimmers of all levels become safer and more confident in the water. Our safe, fun, and effective teaching methods have made us the preferred choice for parents and students for over 40 years. Our confidence-building curriculum and small group swimming classes provide a consistent format and structure with one-on-one attention for each swimmer. Private swimming lessons are subject to availability.
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Phil Warner
★ 5
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V Kedzie
★ 5
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Pam Knepper
★ 5
We have been doing swimming lessons here for a little over 2 years and we love it! Our daughter has been especially helped by Mariana!
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Star X
★ 2
NOT FOR ADULTS who are serious about learning how to swim. I paid for two months' worth of swim lessons. Most of my lessons were either individual or two students to 1 coach. Going twice a week during the first month and then once a week during the second month totaled about 12-14 lessons, and the only thing I learned was how to float on my back while doing backstrokes! For two months of lessons, you'd think they would have taught me something new?! NOPE, I spent 2 months floating on my back doing backstroke. Ridiculous! They never covered any other swimming techniques—a waste of money. The coaches are young high school students who do not know how to teach and are inconsistent with their teaching/swimming technique. Swimming instructors are newer and do not know how to teach.
I felt like the swim coaches spent most of their time talking to each other and not so much focused on the swim lessons. So often, they would start the 30-minute lesson 5 minutes late and try to end it 5 minutes early. So basically, you pay for a 30-minute lesson that you never get.
I would not recommend this place for adults who want to learn how to swim seriously. Go elsewhere.
**Response to the owner comment—no, this review is for the correct place: British Swim School in South Elgin. This is exactly how inconsistent and terrible the swimming lessons were.
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Manisha Khatri
★ 5
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Karthikeyan GT
★ 5
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Sujay Patel
★ 5
Nice location. Nice teaching staffs
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RINA SUVAGIA
★ 5
Jaysen is an amazing instructor. I have been learning swimming by him for more than 6 month.
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Cherry Pishdadi
★ 5
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Bimla Shrestha
★ 5
Highly recommended! Awesome & patient instructors❤️
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Amy Kaitschuck
★ 5
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Richa G
★ 5
My kids love going to BSS. Mentors here are amazing and I love it how they keep and eye on every child in the group. It basically been an amazing journey. Thankyou BSS team.
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Jamie Dunmore
★ 5
Good teachers. They make learning to swim fun for my daughter.
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Shauna Harlan
★ 4
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Caroline Steffen
★ 5
Great program with fantastic instructors!
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Mary Sheils
★ 4
Too loud for me (70 year old grandmother) and too hot. It was a nice pool for the children receiving instruction there. People at front desk were very nice.
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I R
★ 3
Once at the shark level or higher, the instructors don’t get in the pool with the kids. They only verbally correct the kids (mind you this is while yelling in a pool area that’s loud and echos). I like when they are in the water showing them like the other levels. Also I don’t care for the 5 min playtime which takes away from swim time at this level. Myself and other folks have given this feedback. The instructors change pretty frequently with management hardly at this location anymore. Personally I think the quality has deteriorated.
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Ishani Patel
★ 5
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Nina Drew
★ 5
Amazing teachers and staff!
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Jen S
★ 5
Monica and the rest of the swim instructors at British Swim School are amazing!! I can not say enough good things about them. They are engaging, they are able to calm the fears of the children in their care. They do survival skills in and around the water every so many weeks and they kids learn so much! If you are looking for somewhere to send your kids too this is a wonderful place to go!
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Guillermo Ortega
★ 5
I never got the opportunity to learn to swim as a kid. I've always wanted to learn but life has always gotten in the way. After returning from vacation last year, I made it my goal to learn to swim.
I've been going to British Swim School in South Elgin now for about 8 months on and off. In looking for schools, scheduling was my biggest issue. British Swim School has been very accommodating. I am able to reschedule my classes with just a few hours of notice.
All the instructors are very friendly, professional, and respectful. Learning to swim as an adult was not an easy thing for me at the beginning because of my age and fitness level but all the instructors see past that and are there to genuinely help you.
If you're an adult who never learned to swim, I highly recommend British Swim School, especially their South Elgin location!
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Krystal Glass
★ 1
The cost for classes has risen by $55 per month in one year. There is no justification to this cost as most of the instructors fail to properly do their jobs. They don't have the kids follow basic swim instructions if there are more than 2 kids in a class. The instructors can't handle multiple children. It took almost a year just to move my child up one level, which is too long. I highly recommend looking elsewhere. We moved swim schools because the price kept raising. The cost is not competitive to the other swim schools around. You're getting ripped off.
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J L
★ 5
Amazing swim school. My kids have made so much progress. We liked it better than goldfish.
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Archana Ravishankar
★ 5
They are slowly opening up the pools and although the South elgin is not open , we were given options! I decided to try the pool at the instructors Ms.Monicas residence! The pool was extremely clean and warm and Monica is careful scheduling classes so no other kids were there when we went! Monica was wearing a shield through the class! The kids enjoyed and I am super comfortable continuing this !
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Malik Asiatic
★ 5
Staff is taking all the steps to make sure that the visit is safe due to covid 19
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Jeremiah Garcia
★ 4
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Preet Aujla
★ 5
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Michelle Applebee
★ 5
My daughter (5 years old at the time) was a screamer when she started. She cried when asked to float or put her face in the water. The instructors were patient and supportive. They built up her confidence and trust. Today at 7 she was just moved to swim team. Wow what a difference. Can't speak highly enough of the instructors we have had.
We've had a great experience. They have fun events every 8 weeks or so and other loyalty bonuses.
Thanks BSS!
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