We LOVE Ms Laura! This will be our 4th summer doing lessons with her and what an amazing transformation it has been from day 1. Having a pool, family & friends with pools, it was so important to me to make sure my daughter had swim lessons and knew what to do in case of an accident. She was a fighter in the beginning with survival lessons, but Ms Laura is so patient, kind, and soothing, she soon got over the fear and floating on her own. Now fast forward to learning actual swim lessons and my girl (3 1/2) is a little fish in the water & so fearless. It's been such an amazing journey to watch her and can't wait to see her learn more this summer! We just had another little girl in January & I'm so excited for her swim journey as well! Anytime someone is looking for swim instructions i always turn them to Bravo swim! read more

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Laura has been great at helping our daughter learn to swim! She has caught on to some things very quickly and everyone is impressed that our two year old can get toys from 4ft down. We will definitely use Laura again in the future! read more

Tried to get swim lessons going for my children. Called multiple times, was sent an email saying she would get back to me, she never did. Not a good way to conduct business! Looks like we will find another place. read more

Communication was seriously lacking. After some delays initially getting on the schedule we had a great first month of lessons, despite having to switch instructors mid lessons (again we understood the situation and I was very flexible and gracious). Then after our first month we were unable to get continuing lessons. I emailed and texted exted (which was asked of me) and never received a call back. read more

Bravo swim did an amazing job with my children. Patient, attentive, and communicated effectively with us as parents on how to continue the lessons safely outside of scheduled lessons. Now, my kids are fish! Thank you Bravo Swim! read more

Laura has really gone out of her way through this pandemic and other struggles to be professional and reliable. Our kids have really excelled and benefited from taking classes with bravo swim. I have so much confidence now of my kids being around the pool. read more

I spoke to Laura once on the phone and a couple times via text. I have 4 kids that need lessons and we had just had a really bad experience with a previous swim teacher. So, understandably we were going to be more cautious when hiring our next one. Private swim lessons for this many children is not cheap so before I dropped several hundred dollars this time I wanted to be a bit more thorough in my screening process. I asked her for references. She said she does not give out other client information. I was not asking for her to give me her clients information without consulting them first. I would never expect that. In fact I would prefer her to give them my contact information. If she is confident in her abilities and know her references would be complimentary then the normal response to that should have been" I would be happy to contact a couple of previous customers to see if they would be willing to talk to you about their experience". However, she just never responded to me again and its been over a week. Asking for references is a common practice. Especially when a lot of money is involved. There is a reason every employer ask their new hires for references. I think there would be a lot less bad reviews and unhappy customers if everyone just did their homework before hiring some one. If I plan to spend a lot of money whether it be for the house , my kids, surgery, etc. I have always checked references and no one has ever had a problem with that. I had a very risky jaw surgery and it was my second time so I was obviously nervous and wanted to talk to a couple patients that have had the same surgery I was doing. My doctor offered it before I even asked him. Again, if you are confident in our abilities there should not be a problem with letting me talk to a happy client. On the rare occasion, I have had people drag their feet or make excuses not to give me references and I have chosen not do business with them. To me, that's a red flag. Update: I see Laura herself or a few friends of hers tried to do damage control after my post with the "positive" reviews. So obvious! Where were these "happy clients" when I asked her for references? She can get 2 people to instantly post a positive review on yelp to counter balance my honest review but she somehow can not find a happy client for me to talk to in over a week. I wish she would just be honest and say that she just flat out did not want to go through the hassle or whatever the reason was rather than straight up lying and saying she was trying to find someone for me to talk to. She had absolutely no intentions of ever calling me back. She said she does not give out client information ....I responded and told her I did not expect that but asked her to give them my information in hopes to talk to someone she has taught .....I got ZERO response. Swim instructors are a dime a dozen. Do your homework!!! read more

I'm not sure what is going on with Robyn's review - who by the way doesn't appear to be happy with anything according to her Yelp reviews. But I can assure you Laura is an excellent swim instructor and I would recommend her a million times over! read more

Laura is an amazing teacher! She taught both my sons, age 5 & 6, to swim in just a few lessons. They went from being afraid of the water to loving it! We have been going to LAura for a few refresher lessons for the past 3 summers and plan on doing it again this summer read more

Robyn' s review is outrages and without merit. What does she think reviews are for. Asking a business to give the names of their clients is not a reasonable request. Your clients do not want to be bothered with customers calling them and wasting their time. Where is the fraud or negligence that should be required for a 1 star review. I will be calling Bravo Swim for swim lessons for my grand daughter on Tuesday. Robyn should get a life and only write fair reviews. She may even be a competitor or ex- employee, but it is obviously not a fair review. read more

Laura is very patient and kind with my three year old son. She also gives me great feedback at the end of the lesson on what he did well and what he needs to work on. She is well worth the money! read more

Bravo Swim is amazing. Miss Laura is attentive and very sweet but encouraging! This is a wonderful opportunity for private lessons teaching a child the safety aspects of swimming. My daughter would not even put her face in the water, much less jump in before Miss Laura! After just one lesson my daughter has made leaps and bounds. This was not my daughters first lesson either; we have enrolled her in countless private and group lessons every summer to no avail. Bravo Swim is a wonderful mix of kind but direct instruction. Like your favorite first grade teacher! read more

My six year old granddaughter has gone to several swim lessons at different organizations. Not one of them could get her to put her head under water and actually swim. Just one lesson with Laura and my granddaughter was actually swimming not dog paddling not hanging on to the side but putting her head down and swimming read more