★ 5

My kids have learned so much. The teachers are all amazing! Would recommend BigBlue to any friends or family.

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The team at Big Blue has been great to work with! My 15-month old son started in September, and has already started to develop great skills, and recognizes his instructor when we get there.

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★ 5

I love this place!! The environment is always so welcoming here and my daughter loves it! Victoria her instructor knows how to pump her up for her classes and is such an amazing girl!

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I only have gratitude for this school!!! My son has autism, and although it has taken some time, only they have had the patience and love to teach him what he knows, and now he can swim and has completely overcome his fear of water. It has been therapeutic for him. Each week has been so challenging, and only with their help have we been able to help my son achieve his goals. Thank you, Kristie!! She has been with us from day one until now and has always been wonderful!

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★ 5

Excellent teachers, facility, and curriculum! Our kids have loved it from 6 months - 11 years old!

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★ 5

Best swiming class. Very friendly and knowledgeable staff. Orem location is clean and spacious. But most importantly our kids learned and managed to properly swim very fast!

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★ 5

We have enjoyed our experience with Big Blue. The facility is great and their app is great to work with. My kids are learning proper technique and it’s fun to watch them improve.

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★ 5

El personal es muy amable y las instalaciones son muy acogedoras

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★ 5

My son Santiago and I love going every week, he is only three months but the routine is helping his motor skills so much, i know over time he will make a great swimmer

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★ 5

We have enrolled in the new autism swimming lessons. The pool water is warm and the air is sauna-temperature and I can tell they work really hard to make the environment as welcoming as possible so that learning can actually happen. My child has level 3 autism, so, nonverbal. Normally it is almost impossible to get him to go into a new place. But he ran straight inside! In the introduction, the instructor was so patient walking with him around the pool til he was ready to to get into the water. In the first swimming lesson, my child was imitating the instructor's windmill arm movement, not perfectly, but all by himself, no hand-over-hand, and that is the FIRST time he has so obviously physically imitated someone! That is pre-language skill development! At the second lesson, he was imitating the teacher doing the grapevine-hand-movement to scoot across the pool edge (I'm sure that's the official term lol), not perfectly, but still, so significant to his development. Hopefully other families with a nonverbal autistic child can appreciate how huge that is. Aside from learning to swim, these lessons are working on the same neuro-pathway development as ABA therapy and occupational therapy. My child has only been in 2 lessons + the introduction, and we're already seeing huge strides, and I have a feeling he'll be swimming by himself in no time. It will be such a huge relief. I hear so many times that when an autistic nonverbal child has eloped and it ends in tragedy, it's always a body of water. Autistic kids are so attracted to water anyway (hence desperately signing up for the lessons), so I am wondering why this isn't already an official alternative to ABA therapy, that's essentially what it is! I am so glad I found this resource!

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We have loved lessons with McKay! He knows how to support my son with special needs and is encouraging and kind!

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★ 5

Very good at teaching proper techniques and I love the small classes. We tried public Rec center classes once and I decided to never do that again. This place is great!

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★ 5

We’ve had such a great experience with Big Blue. The instructors are super patient and encouraging, which makes learning enjoyable for the kids. They really try the best to make kids comfortable! Our kids have gained a lot of confidence around water which was a key issue for us.

The facilities are always clean and well maintained, and everything feels very organized. My children look forward to every class, and it’s wonderful to see the progress they’re making while still having fun.

I would highly recommend this swim school to any parent looking for both quality instruction and a welcoming environment.

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★ 5

Everyone is super friendly! The management and the instructors were all great to work with.

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Our kids thoroughly enjoy swim lessons at Big Blue Swim School, and they absolutely love their teacher Astrid. She is always so nice to them and is exceptionally patient. She also is very attentative to detail when in comes to working with them on their swimming weaknesses. The rest of the staff here is very caring as well. If you want your kids to learn to swim and enjoy doing so, please don't take them anywhere else.

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Started weekly swim lessons when our little was about 7 months old. Love that a parent is with these smallest ones in the pool. The Big Blue staff have been incredible, class sizes are small, the facilities are clean and the app is great for communicating, rescheduling lessons and seeing our child’s progress. We definitely recommend Big Blue in Orem.

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Big Blue has been an incredible experience for our family! Our kids went from being a little nervous in the water to swimming with confidence in no time. The teachers are not only skilled but also kind, patient, and genuinely care about helping each child succeed. We love the positive atmosphere and the progress we’ve seen — we couldn’t recommend Big Blue more!

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We’ve been going for about 4 months and my baby has learned so much, the instructors are amazing people to work with!

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★ 5

Cannot recommend this swim school enough. My daughter was excited to learn but anxious about being in the water. She has taken some time to learn actual techniques instead of me trying to teach her and it has been worth it. The teachers are so kind and caring. Love coming here.

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★ 5

We love Big Blue! Before they opened, we were looking into local swim schools for our toddlers, but none of them felt like the real deal. Once Big Blue opened, we tried the free trial, and both our kids and we as parents loved it! The structure, the kid-friendly environment, the tempered rooms, hair dryers, and all the thoughtful extra touches really stand out. It doesn’t matter if it’s winter or summer, their place always feels comfortable, and our kids look forward to their weekly class every single time!

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My daughter loves taking swimming classes at Big Blue because the instructors always make the classes enjoyable. I'm amazed that in the short time she's been taking classes, she feels comfortable in the water. Every week she makes considerable progress.

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★ 5

My kids were nervous about learning to swim when they first started. Now they are excited when it’s time for lessons. They are confident around water now even if they can’t touch the bottom. Big Blue Swim School is fantastic!

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★ 5

Big Blue Swim School has been a great experience for our family. They teach swimming step by step with clear goals. Each of my children has gained the ability to swim and with beautiful form. Other things they do well are celebrating each childs progress and giving individual feedback.

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★ 5

I 100% recommend this place if you want your child to learn how to swim and be more confident in the water. Instructors are super patient with my son and he has made a list of progress since we joined last year. Facility is also super clean and organized!

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★ 5

We love big blue! Both my children have grown a huge amount in their confidence in the water. Wonderful staff and facility.

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We really like Big Blue. Instead of just a few weeks of swim instruction in the summer (that they forget after a few weeks) it’s nice to have a program once a week where they can review and build skills and actually learn how to swim! It’s also a good fit for families that want all the kids in around the same time. It was worth the higher cost in my opinion

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The teachers are friendly, respectful and professional

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My grandsons and neighbor's son has .enjoyed learning to swim and they are more confident in their self now with the abilities they have learned.

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The school is clean and cute, and the staff are so friendly! The showers next to the pool are easy to use and have shampoo/body wash. My son loves coming here!

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★ 5

I've been taking my kids here for a while now. They're incredible, always willing to help with schedules and days. Their staff is very friendly and knowledgeable. My kids have learned and made a lot of progress in a short amount of time. I think it's the best swimming school.

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★ 5

My little girl is loving it. I highly recommend Big Blue, the location, instructors and environment are the best. I really like how they keep parents informed to what the kids are working on and what they need to pass on to level up.

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Big Blue Swim School in Orem has been amazing for us! The instructors and management really care about the kids. Our grandchildren love going to lesson and have learned so much. If you are looking for a quality swim school this is the place !

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★ 5

Absolutely love this swim school. My son has been doing swim lessons with them since March and it has been so fun and he looks forward to it every week. Alondra is so patient with him and he loves learning from her. She is the best teacher!!!! Cannot talk any higher about Big Blue than I do to everyone!

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I see another low review dealing with the same issue so be warned. Yes my son learned to swim, I liked the instructors and environment, however if you want to cancel you have to let them know 30 days prior or they will charge you and will not issue a refund. A little disappointed we had a good experience but they were so unwilling to work with me when I wanted to cancel and wouldn't refund my money.

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★ 4

Big Blue Swim School has been great overall. Occasionally though we get a teacher that seems more focused on the required checklist of swimming techniques, rather than help a child fine-tune the skills they most need to accomplish to advance.

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★ 5

My son has a hard time with new places and working with new people, especially now that he’s aged out of mommy and me classes so I was really nervous about swim lessons. Big Blue has been amazing with him. Everyone has made him feel so comfortable and he loves coming early to play on the mats and watch everyone. Astrid (his teacher) is incredible with him. She manages to get him to swim and is so encouraging without him even realizing he’s learning critical skills. Now he just wants to know when he can go play with Astrid again.

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★ 5

Love the lessons here! Teachers and staff are all very kind and helpful. My kids have quickly improved in their confidence and capabilities. Love the small class sizes.

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My5 year old grandson has had an excellent experience at Big Blue Swim School! The teachers are experienced and they are very patient. The facility is clean and professional. I highly recommend it for swimming lessons for children.

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My two year old really enjoyed her first lesson! We’re excited to go back!

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★ 5

Wow! I didn't think my kid would make that much progress in a month, but she really is! They push just the right amount and build confidence. Definitely recommend!

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★ 5

Kids enjoy the classes here. I like that it is warm in and out of the water. They keep me up to date online and in person on my kids progress. Easy to watch kids swim through wall of windows.

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I enrrolled my daughter the first month, everything went well, then i went to register her for the next month, because no body came to ask me if we wanted to keep receiving classes or not. For the third month we decided to stop, to focus in her school and i found that they charged me the month without asking, no clue about the schedule or if i wanted, just they took the money amd remaind silent for 1 week. When i found it, they said oh, you had to let us know 30 days prior, said that i'm happy to hear you back... unprofessionals,

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★ 5

I can't recommend this place highly enough. Worth every penny. I love the staff and they have been so great with our kids. We saw improvement immediately.

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★ 5

My son loves his lessons here. Rotating teachers keeps it new and exciting to see who he'll get each week, and everyone has showed a lot of patience. The training seems to be great don't I see a lot of great little swimmers out there. Excited to put my second in next year.

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★ 5

You will never regret putting your child in swimming lessons! For safety and reassurance that your child isn’t going to drown.
My son is 6 and didn’t know how to swim. He’s almost to level two now! He can swim. I’ve been very impressed with big blue. Awesome environment for kids to learn how to swim! My son loves going to swimming lessons.

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I'm always hesitant to leave bad reviews because I know it affects real people, but there are some things I wish we would have known before we went to Big Blue.

For our kids (8 and 6), it seemed more geared towards swim team skills, but we were looking for more basic water safety and survival skills. If you want your kids to learn specific strokes with exact precision, this is a great place for you. If you want your kid to learn how to survive if they fall in, doggy paddle, float, swim using their arms, I would recommend going somewhere else.

Our kids are pretty hydrophobic, so maybe it was just our kids. But we went for about six months, once a week, paid almost a thousand dollars in all, for barely marginal improvement. Every month or so an employee would come out and ask if we were satisfied or had any questions, and that they expected the kids to move up at some point because they were making progress somehow imperceptible to us, but they just stayed at the same level. Each week, they would swim back and forth across the pool with arms outstretched (so just using their legs to propel themselves) holding on to various floating devices for half an hour, and then we would go home. They never practiced floating on the front or back, swimming with their arms to propel themselves, doggy paddle, jumping in and climbing back out, or anything without flotation devices.

The pros:
It's always quite clean, and the water's a nice comfortable temperature, as well as the air in the room around the pool. There are plenty of well maintained dressing rooms, bags for taking your swimsuit home, hair dryers, showers by the pool, all very nice. They don't allow people to wear shoes on the pool deck, which I think probably keeps it nice, but it also seems to discourage parents from going into the deck some. Additionally, the online scheduling is really easy if you're going to miss a class or whatever.

The facility is great, employees seemed nice enough, but the curriculum was majorly lacking from what we were looking for.

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EDIT 7/18/25:

I really loved Big Blue when we started almost a year ago, but I am disappointed that, once my child moved into Bold Blue from Bright Blue, the training focus changed to only working on being able to kick from one side of the pool to the other; any and all survival skills immediately stopped being taught, and he has not retained those skills on his own, despite my best efforts. Sure, he can “swim” across the length of the 3 ft deep lane while holding a little foam pool noodle out in front of him, but I still don’t feel confident that he wouldn’t drown if he happened to jump/fall into deep water. He doesn’t recall how to calmly get himself into a back float or pull himself out of the pool’s edge, because those skills aren’t practiced in his class anymore; they literally just kick back and forth, up and down the lane for the entire class. They will also have up to four kids in his class at once; not a whole lot of personal attention in a class that costs $31 for 30 minutes.

He has also been taught to lift his head and shoulders straight up out of the water to take breaths, so of course, when he tries to swim across without the pool noodle assisting him, his lower body drops down every time he takes a breath, because he doesn’t have the noodle to push against for leverage. They also haven’t even started teaching him how to do arm strokes so that he *can* swim across independently without holding onto the noodle. Then the instructors tell me he can’t move onto the next level until he can swim across without assistance and without his legs falling every time he takes a breath. You guys have literally trained his body to do that!

I try working on the survival skills with him when we go swimming together, but he stubbornly balks against having a “lesson” with mom at the public pool (and it’s not worth ruining our entire outing by forcing him to) when he just wants to splash around and have fun, which he can still only do in the shallow areas. I feel like these important skills should continue to be taught in the format of a formal lesson, but I don’t know if Big Blue even has the capability to do so, seeing as their pool doesn’t have a deep end to practice them in, that I’m aware of at least.

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★ 5

Big Blue is a fantastic way for kids who want to learn how to swim. The classes are not super large so they get direct feedback from the instructor they also have a lot more room to actually practice the strokes they are learning. All of the instructors are super friendly. I love that I can customize my classes to fit my schedule and also how much my kid wants to progress. (30 minute lessons to an hour lessons)

When life gets in the way, rescheduling a lesson is a breeze.

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★ 5

We have really enjoyed coming to Big Blue Swim for lessons for our 7 year old. My daughter is not only enjoying the lessons but we have seen an improvement in her swimming with each lesson. The instructors are great and they provide an update with your child’s progress through the app so you can easily track yourself. I also appreciate how clean the facility is and that they have plastic bags available for wet suits (they understand us moms lol ). I highly recommend Big Blue Swim School 🏊‍♂️ 💙

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★ 5

Our toddler has been attending Big Blue for several months now. He’s learned great skills and loves his lessons. We started in the mommy/daddy & me classes which were so fun and I know contributed to his love of swimming. As a parent, I appreciate how easy and flexible their scheduling process is and their app is very easy to use. Cancelling and making up lessons when needed is seamless. I’m so glad we found Big Blue Swim!

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★ 5

My son started the swim lesson last year and he had no idea how to swim at all. Now he knows how to blow the bubbles when he puts his face into water, how to scoop and how to kick his feet in the water. He started enjoying swimming. We really appreciate the teachers at Big Blue to make him progress so well!!

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★ 5

I am so glad I found Big Blue Swim! My boys are 8 & 11 and have had lessons from other places but they have never progressed in swimming the way they have here and in such a short time too! Big Blue has an incredible systematic way of teaching that ensures proper development in simple steps. The way they teach really develops confidence as the kids can see and feel their accomplishments of moving through levels. Even though the kids may be in lessons with other kids, the swim teacher and the advisors monitor the kids individually so that as they master techniques they are moved on or up to learning the next thing. They also inform the child’s adult of what the child learned in that days lesson. We began with the week long “jump start” series they offered but we will be continuing with them through the school year. All of the instructors have been great! I’m excited for my boys to gain this new confidence in the water! I would’ve loved to discover Big Blue sooner, but am really glad we are with them now! I highly recommend them!

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★ 5

Great experience here with my 5 year old and 1 year old. My 5 year old has made great progress and the objectives for each level are clearly laid out. I love the parent/baby class and my one year old has learned some great water safety skills. Coming to Big Blue is a highlight of our week!

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★ 4

I really liked the structure of this school! It was so nice and my kids loved it. They let us know what skills my kids passed off. Unfortunately I just can’t pay that much for swim lessons right now! I’d love there to be some deals!

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★ 5

Big blue has been a great swim school for my 5 year old!!! I love the flexibility and sheer number of lessons available during the week. Makes getting my son into swim lessons so easy as a single parent! The teachers have all been great as well. Definitely recommend!

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★ 5

We love Big Blue swim school. Addison and Astrid have been amazing instructors to our son. He has enjoyed his lessons. We have been able to use the tools we have learned and used them this summer.

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★ 5

This place is amazing! There super friendly and super nice and clean place

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I love this place! Everyone is always there to help and their swimming program is the best for kids!

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We love big blue! They’ve done a great job teaching our daughter to swim. She’s get the individual time she needs to help her build that confidence in swimming.

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My kids love going to big blue swim school. I see them applying what they learned when we go swimming as a family.

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★ 5

Super cute swim school, the instructors are great at working with multiple kids they still find time to give individual instruction.

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My grandson cried the first time and everyone was so patient with him. The second time he did amazing and even passed off one of the skills. He loves it now. He is learning a lot and having so much fun!

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We’ve had an amazing experience so far. My daughter is almost 2 years old. She doesn’t have a lot of experience in the water. Her teacher, Addison, is so kind and patient. I think they do a great job at creating an environment that feels safe and fun for kids. It’s also so fun to hear my daughter talk about her teacher, Addison, throughout the week. Considering this is something new and that my daughter gets a little nervous, I think it speaks volumes that she talks about it all week long and is excited to go.

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Clean, kind, helpful! Very welcoming

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Astrid is seriously one of the best instructors! She’s been working with our 5 year old daughter and has been so patient with her. We love Big Blue Swim School and plan on staying! The staff is very welcoming and encouraging to both parents and students. Very happy with our experience!

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I’ve had a great experience at big blue swim school! I love how they pay attention to your child and let you know how they are progressing.

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We have loved our experience so far! The whole staff is wonderful and the place is very clean and accommodating. Swim day has become my son’s favorite day of the week. He’s learned a lot and his skills improve each week. They truly do a wonderful job here

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★ 5

Love Big Blue! Always professional! My daughter loves her lessons! Much more attentive than rec center lessons, and small class sizes! I love the confidence they instill in my daughter! Water is always warm so she’s never uncomfortable which is always nice!

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★ 5

Both my kids love it! My younger child acclimated within 2 lessons and made great progress! My older daughter is always excited to come! The staff is friendly and welcoming! I would definitely recommend using Big Blue Swim School!

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Big Blue Swim School has been an excellent experience for my six and five year old grandkids. I highly recommend BBSS for parents (or grandparents) who want to have their kids learn to swim and have lots of fun. The facility is clean, the staff friendly, and the coaches are great.

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★ 5

เป็นโรงเรียนสอนว่ายน้ำที่ดีมาก ๆ เด็ก ๆ สนุกทุกครั้งที่ไปเรียน คุณครูใจดี มีระบบการสอนและการประเมินที่ดี แม่สามารถดูความก้าวหน้าของน้องได้ในแอป การเลื่อนเวลาเรียนก็ง่าย ทำได้ในแอปเหมือนกัน

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★ 5

Las instalaciones son amplias y bonitas, las maestras muy atentas. En general todo está muy bien, solo me gustaría que fueran más clases durante la semana.

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Lauren has done a fantastic job with our 4 and 2 year old grand kids. They absolutely look forward to their swim lessons every week. She makes them feel so comfortable and is very happy encouraging!!!

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★ 5

The place is nice and clean, classes are almost personalized, they have nice equipment and is easy to know that teachers know perfectly what are they doing! My daughter is enjoying her swimming classes so far!

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★ 5

Excellent instruction, great facility! My kids love it, and it’s convenient for me.

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Fun well kept facilities nice staff.

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Quiero compartir a cualquier persona que esté pensando en inscribir a sus hijos que es una de las mejores escuelas de aprendizaje. Mis hijos han tenido grandes experiencias con los maestros y tienen gran confianza al estar en el agua, se divierten y aprenden. Siempre están atentos de poder ayudar a los estudiantes, me gusta la escuela y el rendimiento que he visto en mis hijos. Gran manera de poder enseñarles algo valioso en la vida como lo es la natación.

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Clean facility, small classes, and fun instructors

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My son loves it! Classes are small and his instructor is patient.

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My daughter has had a great experience at Big Blue over the last year! We love the small class sizes and individualized attention. Everyone really cares about helping her improve!

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Mi hija de 20 meses disfruta mucho de sus clases en la piscina, lo recomiendo mucho

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My kids have thrived here! It is a welcoming environment and I feel my kids are getting better with their swimming skills every week!

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★ 5

We started here about a month ago and love these lessons! Such better instruction than any of the rec centers we've been to!

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It's a great facility. Big Blue worked with my homeschooling needs and helped me get set up paid up front and adjust some scheduling things along the way. I like the structure of learning at a child's pace and set up for having similar levels in their own lanes. It's very well matched to the child's needs.
Very professional and I appreciate the organization and how stretched the flow of going into class and out to shower and change is.

Instruction wise note that it starts your children learning forward on their belly swimming, obviously after working on breathing and such. If you prefer them to start learning to float in their back then try another swimming instruction group. The rec center had back/floating instruction first in semi private swim lessons not sure on their normal lessons. We are trying big blue and we will see how it goes with a new swimmer learning the front crawl first. Both have their pros and cons.

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★ 5

I really love to see my daughter progress since we started with big blue school. It’s been amazing!

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Big Blue is AMAZING! I love how the staff makes my daughter feel comfortable & confident in the water. They also make sure that my daughter is having fun. I love how I can see my daughter's progress on the app & I love how the staff talks to me individually about her progress. Sometimes the sessions are one on one. If there are other kids in the session, each kid gets equal opportunity with the instructor. I would highly recommend Big Blue to any kids that are leaning how to swim.

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★ 5

All personnel are really kind and personable. The swim instructors always greet our daughter with a smile and have made her feel safe and cared for. Our daughter has made incredible progress in the 6 months we have been attending. Facility is clean and has a play corner where our smaller daughter can be entertained while the older one swims.

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★ 5

Our kids have progressed so much in the last year! It’s been good for them!

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Love Big Blue Swim Orem! We have been going since our daughter was 6 months old, and now at 2 yrs old she is learning so many valuable skills both in and out of the water! The facility is clean and the staff is amazing! They even have a little corner to buy essential swim items if you forget something!

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★ 5

We love our swim lessons! The swim instructor is so patient and kind towards our little one.

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Went to big blue for about 8 months. My son is 7 and started from the beginning phase. He will be ready to start the Orem swim team this summer. He made a lot of small progress and now is a confident swimmer. Thanks Big Blue.

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★ 5

We love this place. Everything from the staff, to the pricing, to the immaculate cleanliness, it has quickly become a highlight for me and my family. 10/10 would recommend to everyone.

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Both my boys (ages 4 and 6) had no idea how to swim. My 6 year old was progressing really well. He learned his strokes and with practice got better and better. The classes only have up to 4 children, but I did notice that he did a lot better the less children there were. My son has add and gets bored super fast, so he needs one on one time. Luckily for us, at the end of the year, the classes ended up having only him or sometimes one or 2 other children. If they still kept having 3 or 4 children I would have put him in private lessons with someone here. He definitely progressed faster when he was on his own. My 4 year old isn't progressing as much. He seemed to be stuck with his back stroke for a long time. His teachers are very patient and friendly. This place was 10 times better than the rec center we went to for swimming lessons before.the staff are friendly and the place is clean. I love that I can watch my boys through the glass easily. I definitely recommend this place.

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★ 5

We love Big Blue Swim School. The facility is clean and inviting. The teachers are all amazing and great with little children. It has been a wonderful experience for us. Definitely recommend!!

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We love big blue swim! We recently Moved to the area in July and started at the Swim School. My girls love it! The teachers are so informative and kind!!

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★ 5

The instructors are very patient, communicative and kind. My daughter loves going to her lesson every week. Also facility is very clean and well maintained

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My daughter has been swimming with Adriana. She is absolutely amazing and her ability to teach efficiently and effectively has really helped my daughter. The staff is super friendly and welcoming!

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We have loved Big Blue. I like the ease of entry, it’s 1 minute and my kid is already in the water. And less than 5 minutes after class we’re back at the car. So much easier than lugging wet kids and other littles through a rec center. I also like the ease of scheduling missed classes, it’s awesome that you can do make ups.

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My experience has been amazing. The staff is always kind and helpful and they listen to people’s feedback and do the necessary changes if any. My baby loved every minute of each class and us too. She started at 3 months and now is 7 months and I think it has helped her be very resilient

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We’ve been really pleased with our experience so far. They really do a good job of updating the parents on the progress their kid is making. My little girl always has a blast with her instructor and feels really comfortable. Would definitely recommend big blue to anyone!

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★ 5

I really like the experience; they dedicate time to each student. The teaching method is good, and communication is excellent. My daughter loves it! It’s a great swimming school!

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★ 5

Excellent school, my daughter has learned a lot. She has good teachers. I recommend it 100%

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★ 5

My son enjoy it, we started when he was 5 he’s been learning a lot ! The trainer’s do a pretty good job their kind and patient with the kids, they kept you updated on your child on how he’s doing as well on the app.

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★ 5

La atención es genial

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★ 5

The quality of the teaching is exceptional. The method is consistent across teachers and the children become really compentent before they pass to the next level. The place is spotless, the team is friendly and communicative. They are very flexible with makeups. I highly recommend Big Blue.

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★ 5

Kind and competent instructors
Very clean and professional facility
My kids have made so much progress!

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★ 5

small class size, very clear expectations on what needs to be accomplished to pass a level, skills are broken down so that they can be well understood, the skills taught are very important for good swimming technique

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★ 5

We love Big Blue! My child has learned so much. The instructors and staff are great. It is easy to follow progress using their app.

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★ 5

These guys have great instructors, small class sizes and works well with my family's sometimes unpredictable schedule.

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★ 5

Facility is great, staff is friendly! My kid loves it!

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★ 5

I think Is really helping My son and allá people who work there are really nices

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★ 5

Great teachers, great to work with when questions about your account come up, and they’re super patient with my very mischievous toddler.

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★ 5

Great place, all super organized. We love Kayla, she is great teacher.

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★ 4

Two lessons so far for two of my kids and I’m happy with them. They seem to have a very week organized system with specific goals for each class. Multiple instructors, in and out of the water watching your kids progress and explaining to the parents what they’re seeing and how to improve. Anxious to see in a couple months if my kids are better swimmers

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★ 5

Love Big Blue! They are very accommodating and have a ton of class times to choose from. As a former swim instructor, the teaching approach is different from the methods I was taught but I really enjoy the way the Big Blue program works. The class sizes are usually small (from what I have seen) which gives more attention to each student. The teachers are great at explaining the skills and adapting to the child’s needs. There is always a manager available to check on students and pass off stars and give updates on student’s progress to the parents.
James is a fantastic manager and is amazing at keeping me in the loop with my daughter’s progress.
Addison is a great swim instructor and my daughter loves her. She is kind and calm with the students and makes the lesson fun.

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★ 5

My son has been attending Big Blue Swim for a month now and absolutely loves it. The staff is friendly and supportive. His instructor has been so helpful and knows how to teach young children. The parent waiting room is open with easy view and lots of space for my other son to run around.

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It’s a been a great opportunity to see the growth in my daughter who has a very strong will and short attention span. I also think the time in the water fills our sensory needs perfectly.

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★ 5

Professionals who teach with love and care.The instructors are amazing!

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★ 5

My oldest son has loved big blue! We love watching him progress!

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★ 5

I have been very impressed with Big Blue Swim School. They have a very clean facility, organized instruction and feedback, and my little swimmer is making great progress because their program. Not to mention they have a very happy and friendly staff too!

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★ 5

Great swim school. It is super convenient to have both of my sons be able to take their lessons at the same time. The teachers are patient and fun. I would highly recommend them!

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★ 5

Great facility, staff. Son wanted to sign up for lessons after trying the free first lesson.

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★ 5

I absolutely love big blue! My children have excelled in the water in such a short period of time. I highly recommend this swim school to any parent.

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★ 5

My son has been going to swimming lessons for a year now. He learned so much for this year! And he still goes there with pleasure :) Also wanted to mention friendly stuff in Big Blue Orem!

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★ 5

We've been very happy with big blue. Our son learned quick and his class size was small. I think this always depends on what day and time you choose. Clean facility.

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★ 3

Did for about a year. Not the best but time in the water was good.

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★ 5

We have loved bringing our little one here! It’s a great swim environment, and we love that baby swim allows mom or dad to take the class with them! Would recommend to anyone

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★ 5

My daughter has found a love of swimming from coming here! They have many great teachers who really care about your child learning. Highly recommend.

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★ 5

We LOVE coming to The Big Blue Swim School! Every teacher has been so great and our kids are constantly smiling during class! We have already seen such great progress in the few weeks we have been here. Thank you for giving us such a great experience with swim lessons! Highly recommend!

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★ 5

The staff and instructors are friendly and helpful.

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★ 5

Cora cannot wait until Fridays at 3 when she has her swimming lesson at big blue. Her progress has been slow and steady and she loves it. Her attention span can be short but her instructors are so patient and I can tell that they really want her to succeed

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★ 5

We’ve had a great experience here. They have really helped my son grow more confident in the water. He improves at each lesson and always has so much fun!

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★ 5

The lessons are very personalized, my child gets individual attention but also loves the peer interaction, and the staff is very encouraging and accommodating. I love to see them cheer kids on as they pass their levels.

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★ 5

We have been going to Big Blue for a few months and have been SO happy with it. Our boys have made really great progress. The facility is clean, has a great viewing area, and doesn’t have the loud echoing sound that many pools have. I appreciate that the groups are small and that my kids have specialized attention because the teachers aren’t split in so many different directions. They do frequent check ins with me on the progress my kids are making and the app is very user friendly. 10/10 recommend. 👍

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★ 5

Big Blue has been so patient with my son who had a huge fear of water. After a few months he is now thriving and over came his fear of the water. He is able to swim in the pool with no floaty. Which is huge for him!

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★ 5

We LOVE Big Blue! Their facility is phenomenal (changing rooms, showers, hair dryers, etc) and their staff is so kind and encouraging.

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★ 5

Me encanta. Súper recomendado es un lugar limpio,la temperatura del agua es la adecuada para los niños son amables y siempre están al pendiente del progreso del niño

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★ 5

My kids have loved learning to swim at Big Blue. They look forward to their class each week. They have progressed so much faster since joining Big Blue, and it has given us so much peace of mind to see them becoming confident swimmers.

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★ 5

Great facility, excellent staff. Have taught my child so much with the time he’s been there! I would strongly recommend to anyone.

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★ 5

Great place with great teachers

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★ 5

Been taking our 4yr old here for over a year. Really like them. He's doing well and looks forward to going. They are easy to schedule with (unlike some others) and have great structured learning and teachers. Not the most budget option, but as usual, you usually get what you pay for.

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★ 5

Me encantaron las clases para mi hijita Victoria. Ella aprendido mucho y recomendaría las clases para sus hijos. Ella está feliz asistiendo . Su maestra es Astrid y se hizo entender perfectamente en español e inglés

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★ 5

Clean facilities and really friendly and informative staff.

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★ 5

Teachers are great and patient!! My daughter has made great progress in a short time!

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★ 5

Love how thorough the instructors are in the class.

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★ 5

We love Big Blue! My daughter improved her swimming abilities SO much in only a couple of months. I’m very confident in their teaching methods and I highly recommend the Orem school!

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★ 5

My son has been taking swim lessons for several years. I like how Big Blue focuses on each swimming stroke’s technique. He has been improving and becoming a better swimmer.

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★ 5

Amazing staff! Always welcoming and extremely patient with the little swimmers! Swimming here at Big Blue is the highlight of my daughters week!
The facility is also extremely clean and well maintained. They scrub the pool walking space every day.

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★ 5

We love Big Blue swim!! Our kids have grown so much confidence and swimming skills. We have loved all the instructors and would recommend Big Blue to anyone!!

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★ 5

Both my kids love it at Big Blue!

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★ 5

Staff it great. My daughter is making good progress.

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★ 5

Best swimming school. My kids started to feel confident after the first couple of classes.

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★ 3

We really liked it at first. Our kid loved his first instructor but they changed instructors on us multiple times. Not to say the next few weren’t good but it would feel like we were starting over on his progress. Our son is more wary of water and having to get comfortable with new people isn’t what we wanted to focus on during his swim lessons. Also a couple times we weren’t even given a heads up about the switches. His current instructor is great but we just received another email that his instructor is changing… again. We are going to take a break and maybe try again next summer.

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★ 2

I am really disappointed in this place. My children attended swimming classes for 4 months, during this time I observed how the staff showed discrimination towards people with Hispanic features, even the teachers who were obviously also of Latin origin. I don't recommend this place.
In many classes they waste your time, so that the child does not advance. For the cost, I think they should be more professional.

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★ 5

Excellent experience. Staff is fantastic.

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★ 5

Big Blue Swim School has been an absolute splash (get it?) for our family! Our two boys have gone from floundering like little fish to swimming with actual technique (and occasionally even in a straight line!). The instructors here have the patience of saints and somehow manage to keep a pool full of kids afloat—both literally and metaphorically. Watching them coax out real skills while handling splashes, cannonballs (don’t worry, no diving is allowed), and occasional underwater cartwheels is nothing short of magical. This has been a legit experience and our boys look forward to their lessons each week!

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★ 4

I'm generally very happy taking my 4y.o daughter here for swim lessons. Her regular instructor Savannah is really fun, friendly, patient and good at teaching her.

Not 5 stars because they have no place to give negative feedback or anonymous complaints. Today my daughter had a make-up lesson with Samantha and she should NOT be working with small kids. She was very impatient anytime any of the three kids didn't follow instructions perfectly or got a little distracted. She benched two of the kids (including my daughter) without telling them why they were in trouble, and without giving them warning. She told me that it would be for 5 minutes, which is a ton of time when lessons are half an hour long, and it really isnt helpful when the kids dont even know what they did wrong. She wasn't friendly to either the kids or the parents, and she lectured me about practicing at home. The advice was helpful, but her delivery was condescending and rude. It felt like all she cared about was teaching the lesson, not the students. My daughter is enrolled to learn swimming, but having her excited and having fun is priority for my family. This is the first time (and we've been enrolled for half a year) she's asked how much time is left before she can go home.

So, if you don't like this place because you work with Samantha, try working with another instructor.

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★ 5

We love Big Blue! My daughter has advanced so much in just a few lessons. I love that it’s a quiet environment and she gets the attention she needs. No overcrowding of classes and coaches are wonderful.

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★ 3

We’ve been coming to big blue swim since they opened back in 2023. We liked it a lot in the beginning but haven’t enjoyed it as much recently. The facilities are nice and they have lots of seating space, even a counter with outlets if you need to work. They have plenty of changing rooms, and bags to put wet clothes in and hair dryers. The floors feel and look really dirty in a lot of the common areas but for the most part it’s relatively nice.
Most of the teachers are kind. But some lack patience with the kids and would get easily annoyed with kids being kids. In the class we ended in my kid was one of 4 kids between 4-6 in the class to one teacher. This was frustrating because the lesson is only 30 minutes and with 4 kids there was less time spent teaching than wrangling the kids to listen.
During each lesson the kids are working on pass of items to move up in swim levels. Sounds great but not a great method on tracking it. The teachers don’t normally have notes of what each kid needs to do and what pass offs the kids have left. We’d waste so many lessons on the teachers doing stuff we’d already passed off before they would realize we didn’t need to work on that anymore to pass off. Lessons were also wasted when your kid is ready to pass off but No one that can pass off is available so you waste a whole lesson and can’t move on because no one can pass off. You pay by lesson so that is frustrating.
We just canceled and I don’t think I could recommend it for the price, it was pricy for the lack of attention and wasted time that happens every lesson.

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★ 1

Nice facility, but I have had multiple issues with communication from this company. Maybe my expectations on professionalism are too high. For the price, you can get the same level of professionalism from the Rec center.

Update: After a month of reflection, I can now add this. This company only communicates for their needs. If you have an issue, you have to text but if they want you to take down your review, they will contact you at opening the next day. They won't talk to you about your account until your spouse comes for the first time, in which case they will gaslight them and confuse your kids, an embarrassing situation. Then if you don't take down your review or discuss it with them at their convenience, they will delete the 2 classes you have already paid for off your account. I highly recommend you do everything possible to stay on their good side or they will punish you. Better yet, try one of the many other schools. I really like Utah Swim Academy for its smaller size.

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Updating my review because although we love it, we have one big issue with it! Their lessons expire, so between a new baby and frequent travel and illness, we have lost 4-6 lessons that we don't get back. That is a LOT of money for us right now, and ultimately one of the reasons we decided to stop going for the time being. Lessons shouldn't expire when you've already paid for them.

Additionally, we have emailed and texted on the contact info provided and never hear back from anybody. Communication is very difficult unless you go in person.

We LOVE big blue swim school!! We love that it's indoors so we can go year round, we love the changing areas, the free WiFi and parent area, the showers, how small the classes are (personal instruction) but most of all we love the progress our daughter is making!! She can swim a lot better on her own than when she started a few months ago! We recommend this place to everyone!

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★ 5

The perfect place for studying how to swim! My 4 years old son likes it so much! They have great system with skills for each level! And my son has just passed the first one! He loves his teacher Alondra , and he will miss her. Alondra is so kind and patient! We appreciate her help so much! The best first swimming teacher ever!!!

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★ 5

We took my daughter here for about a year. She’s 8 years old. She can now swim really well. Thank you!! We want to come back soon to have her advance even more ;)

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★ 3

My toddler’s class always had a rotating instructor, some were good some were bad and it wasn’t until we found Alondra that we requested her in our new schedule for our kids. In July 16 they changed my son’s instructor to Shay and it was the worst class my son has ever had, she didn’t follow the routine, skipped my son’s turn and added the floaty backpack on a kid’s chest when they were trying to practice floating. I didn’t bring it up because the next class we had Alondra again but in the last 2 weeks we had Shay again and her classes still don’t have a routine and she doesn’t talk to the kids right. During today’s class in the next lane from where my son was there was another instructor teaching older kids, I think it was Taiza? Anyway, she was very rude to all the kids in her class until one girl in her class started crying so her mom came in the pool area and asked what happened, they just brushed it off saying she was having “an off day” and then the instructor continued the class with a more gentler tone because a mom was there.
My son has had classes with Janna before and she also seemed so careless and as if she hated working with kids.
My baby has had his class with Jessie for a while and she is awesome! So I’m leaving 3 stars because Jessie and Alondra are great

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★ 5

We've been attending Big Blue for about 6 months. We do one weekly lesson. At first it was a little rough. The school was new, we didn't know what to expect, but mostly my son gets panicked when water touches his face.

Whether by chance or planning they had two teachers his first lesson and he was able to do it solo. They had this kid dunking his own head like it was nothing. I was very impressed. The next few times his teacher kept changing and it wasnt bad but I didn't feel like he was progressing as much.

I found out I could choose a preference of teacher and they'd try to schedule them for his slot. At that point it was clear he was excelling more. I'm writing this review now after about a month of Finn being with another new teacher. I wanted to compliment them on their staff. Ty is his current instructor and he has been fantastic. My son loves his lessons with him. Ty is very good at managing multiple kids at multiple levels, and he is engaging and kind.

This is why I'm giving Big Blue 5 Stars. Their staff is kind and works hard to help the kids learn and feel comfortable, but also push them to do hard things.

Good job team.

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★ 5

Buena escuela de natación

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★ 5

This place is amazing!!!! The swim program is wonderful and our granddaughter is loving her lessons and her teacher. She gets the same teacher each week, which makes her super comfortable. She counts down the days to her next lesson.

The facility is very clean and bright. It has a great vibe to it. The waiting area is LEGIT. The staff and teachers are so friendly.

Cool thing with Big Blue is their app. It’s very intuitive and gives live updates so we can track progress.

We love everything about Big Blue!!

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