SwimExpert Reviews 

Our daughter has just finished two years of swimming lessons with her instructor Alex. Over this time her confidence has grown significantly. She started unable to put her head under the water and was very timid. Now, through Alex’s patience she is very water confident and loves swimming under the water. With Alex’s help our daughter has also learnt to swim well and has passed many of the Swim England stages. She even loves swimming on her back and is happy to do so.

Thank you very much Alex for all your help, patience and support. It is really appreciated.

Excellent swimming instructor and very patient with beginners

Encouraging motivating, friendly and professional instructor, who makes every lesson count. Our son has had 2 lessons thus far and has made great progress & is finally enjoying learning to swim 🏊‍♂️.

Omar has been a great instructor for my 5 year old granddaughter. He is immensely kind, caring and manages to make every lesson fun while ensuring she makes good progress. She thinks he swims as well as her favourite pufferfish! We will miss him.

High turnover of the instructors, so many booked classes being cancelled. I have already paid more for flexible plan but all purchased classes have to be consumed within 12 months, so sadly many purchased classes lost without having the lessons. Forget about this company and go for another.

My daughter has ASD and ADHD so can find it hard to concentrate and stay engaged but the teachers have been great at adapting and advising when quieter sessions are available to aid her learning . She has made fantastic progress this year and gained many badges ! Very satisfied

My daughter swims with Hydro Kids for 4 years now and really enjoys the lessons. She gets upset when the swimming is cancelled ;) She always is looking forward to receive a certificate for her next level. Certainly Hydro Kids is doing a good job!

The group sizes are small which is great for the children. The website is great with reports provided each week to detail child’s progress, including percentages of completion for each course and targets that need to be met for completion.

The lead teacher makes time to catch up with parents during the session, ensuring parents are happy with progress and are informed of any changes as the child moves up through the stages.

We have been to a few swim classes and this one is by far the best. I recommend these classes and the Mary Hare location.

We visit the sqim expert sessions at the maryhare school the class is always calm and engaging the children love going and have learnt so much from the teachers..

Previously swam at raddam where we didn't like the atmosphere it was too chaotic and disorganised... but Mary Hare is fantastic it's much more organised and structured and staff are so friendly and helpful.

Good lessons and teachers. Issue ongoing that the pool water is on the cold side, which at times has been very intolerable for my (almost) 6 year old.

Amazing! Couldn’t recommend them enough

Very friendly team, my children are always happy to go swim and you can see how much they improved every lesson.

Great teachers,kids have a good time,but the pool is on the cold side

Ingrid is a very passionate swimming teacher and fantastic with my daughter who is learning so much with her, progressing fast; my daughter really likes her. Thank you

Ingrid c was very patience with me and she is so attentive.
She was very supportive when I struggled,my condition sometimes makes it difficult to do multitasking or forget things she showed me as many time as I needed to see.

Sarah is a really great coach and getting me moving towards goal of being able to swim 1-2km front crawl. Sarah is knowledgeable, personable and tailors my sessions and drills to target specific areas of my technique. I am really enjoying the training and have a sense of achievement at each session. Strongly recommend Sarah to any adult looking to step up their swimming.

My instructor Emma is very professional and patient. I am an older learner and she has been extremely supportive and patient . Thank you Emma. I plan to continue with our lessons.

Our instructor has proved great at engaging with my son and getting him to follow instructions even though he would normally have trouble with this.

He’s made some great improvements over the course of a few lessons and really looks forward to his next lesson.

The lessons are relatively easy to book online but it takes a bit of back and forth on the online calendar to check dates and times, especially when booking a large block of them, which could be made easier.

The pool is quite small but is normally quiet when we go and more than adequate for his needs

The lessons are quite expensive, especially with the flexible option, but have found them overall to be good value for money.

Lessons with Jan M in Bristol have completely transformed my 9 yr old’s feelings about swimming. He dreaded school swimming lessons for days in advance and made no progress at them.

He agreed to a single trial lesson with SwimExpert only but immediately liked and trusted Jan M and was happy to do more.

His progress has been incredible and he now considers swimming lessons to be “fun”. He could not swim at all when he started. He has now done a total of 15 lessons with Jan and can do the full length of the hotel pool using front crawl or back stroke.

The lessons are expensive but Jan’s individual approach and being in the pool to demonstrate and support mean that my son has made more progress in months than I would expect in years with group lessons with the teacher instructing from outside the water. He works hard for the entire 30 minute lesson. He is either listening to Jan’s instructions or carrying them out for the entire lesson.

Highly Recommended

My daughter takes lessons with Jan, who is a superb instructor. Not only is he technically excellent but he is able to convey this skill and experience in a very patient and motivational way. Lessons are packed with practice and teaching. My daughter has learned more with Jan in 30 minutes than she has in weeks of group classes. We intend to continue instruction with Jan - he is excellent - very professional. Highly recommended.