My 16 week old and I attend a fantastic Little Splashers class offered in South Edinburgh, at a…read moreprivate pool. There are several classes offered in various locations around Edinburgh such as Portobello High, Abbeyhill Primary, Forrester High, Broughton Primary and one in the Borders as well. Classes are small, there are five babies in the one we attend, and the instructor is fantastic. She engages the babies really well and uses song and movement to get them used to the water. She builds on the natural reflexes they have to help them swim and it's amazing to see the babies who are 5 and 6 months old and have attended before, kicking away and even swimming to the surface after a dunking. I also believe it's the best value for money in baby swim classes offered in Edinburgh which is always a plus!

From the owner: Little splashers is a unique baby and toddeer aqua sensory class which focuses on water confidence…read moreand learning to swim using all the senses through specialist sensory equipment. Suitable for babies x from birth to 4 years

The teaching staff are great. However, they often have hiccups that require you to move your…read moreschedule around and expect you to have a lot of grace with them. They dont return the grace, I made an error booking the wrong makeup session and was told I couldn't move it. Despite it being a session that had been moved on the day and I notified them with an hour of noticing the error.

I will let you know right away: the star rating is a result of an issue I have based on trans…read moreconsiderations. I tried this gym with a daypass and forgot to bring swimming gear, so the review is mostly of the gym space. Let's start with the good and okay: the gym floor is huge and open and they've filled it with a very diverse set of equipment. The free weights area is large and though I'd have liked more squat racks, at least they have dedicated bench press racks to avoid double duty. They also have a "platform" for deadlifts and Olympic lifts, though that area is small and the platform units feel flimsy and not very solid or flat and the plates are mostly not "Olympic size" which means you HAVE to use the 20s to get a decent height of the bar for deadlifts. They have a great bunch of functional gear, but it's all spread out across the gym floor which means it can be annoying to try to set yourself up for a good HiiT session, but I was able to improvise and do a good one anyway. Big fan of the tyre, more like that please! The upcoming remodel and kit upgrade looks amazing from their info videos, and I would have loved to try it out once that's all in place! Now, here comes my soapbox: I am trans, genderqueer to be precise. I don't feel fully comfortable in men's changing rooms any longer, and prefer ungendered spaces. Puregym Waterfront, where I work as a PT, have two accessible shower rooms that are not connected to the gendered changing rooms and are open for trans members to use. At Nuffield, I am completely without this option. They have cubicles to change in and the showers are opaque stalls, but I'm sure you can see how that's by no means a sufficient solution for many non-binary people or trans folk who have not completed a transition. The staff seemed sympathetic to my situation, but there was little they could do to really help me here, so trans folk should be aware before they come. If it wasn't for this issue, I'd have been happy to recommend Nuffield as a gym, and I'd have been happy to work there as well. As it is, I will not consider joining as a member or otherwise as long as the changing room situation remains as is.