I was driving and saw a little sign on a street post saying "Swim Lessons" with a phone number and…read moredespite thinking it a bit odd in our modern day of technology, my gut told me to call. I'm SO GLAD I did. I could not be more impressed with The Swim Academy. For some context, my daughter previously took a full year of lessons at one of those big box schools and still was not confident in the water. We took a break from lessons altogether because I couldn't justify the continuing cost for very little progress and every time I looked up classes it seemed to be the same sort of program we had left. Enter : The Swim Academy! In just a few weeks she has learned so much and grown exponentially, both in technique and confidence! We are recommending The Swim Academy to everyone we know.

Abby was great! My daughter loved having her and she was able to remember the strokes she had…read moreforgotten. She also taught her to be smoother and more efficient.

Absolutely amazing swim school! I have two little kids who hated the water and cried every time we…read moretried swim lessons at different swim school. Since this one opened in Orem, I decided to switch and try again. I'm seriously blown away. Both boys are loving swim lessons! The instructors are well educated and super nice. They use a lot of positive reinforcement which really helps. The owner Austin is also super great. He came up and personally introduced himself, and talked to me about my boys at the first lesson. He even knew who they were. They also have a lifeguard constantly walking to pool and watching. The pool is warm and everything is incredibly clean and well managed. Even though it's a few students per instructor, they treat each kid the same and focus on them one at a time. I've literally never been happier with a swim school.

my daughter has never been so confident, capable, and excited in the pool. she attended swim…read morelessons at multiple facilities and has a fear of putting her head under the water. by class 1 she was diving for objects thanks to the great staff and approach to swimming. she improves every lesson, and now says swimming is her second favorite hobby (just behind her love of drawin). this drastic improvement is due to the skill, approach, and people at Big Blue Orem. the staff are reapinsive, engaged, and easy to work with when we had scheduling changes. it is professionally run! I will recommend this school to everyone.

We've been attending Big Blue Swim School for almost two months, and it's been a good experience…read more Our kids (infant and toddler) really enjoy their lessons and also seem to be learning a lot. The facility is also fantastic--very clean and playful looking; perfect for kids. I'm still a little unsure of how I feel about the business model. You have to pay for the months' lessons up front, and if for some reason you can't make it, you don't get refunded for any lessons you cancel. The money also doesn't go towards the next month's balance; you simply have to do makeup lessons or lose those funds. For a family like ours that struggled to find a consistent lesson time at all, scheduling makeup lessons has proved tricky, but we do have to miss a lesson once in a while. Not sure what the solution is here. I also came by the facility during business hours to sign my kids up, but the doors were shut and locked, even though they were open? Luckily the staff saw me and opened up the doors to let me in, but had they not, we probably wouldn't have signed up. We wanted to visually look at the facility before committing, so a phone call didn't work for us. Hopefully this feedback proves helpful. We're eagerly looking forward to our next swim lesson!

Kendall did a great job teaching my grandson how to swim, she was attentive and patient with all…read morethe kids! Thank you for the reminder to review and good luck to miss Kendall!

I can't say enough good things about this place and the swim instructors. My daughter had no idea…read morehow to swim, but after taking 2 weeks of lessons last year and 2 weeks of lessons this year, she's doing amazing! Usually each session consists of 4 students and 4 instructors. I love how each student gets their own instructor! The pool is plenty big for the 4 separate swim lessons to take place. They have shaded areas for the parents to sit and watch their students. They also have a bathroom incase the student needs to go during the lesson. Lessons are 20 minutes a day for 5 days. It's best to book 2 weeks of lessons, but spread them out. You also need to be quick about registering because lessons sell out fast! I suggest following them on Facebook and signing up for emails through their website. If you don't get lessons, sometimes people sell theirs on the Hunsaker Swimming Facebook page. I'll definitely be signing my daughter up again next year!

Hunsaker Swim has truly changed my sons life. He entered the summer being terrified of water, but…read morereally wanted to be comfortable in the water with his friends. After just two sessions, he was more than comfortable: he truly enjoyed swimming. It was a great swimming and learning environment, very clean and beautiful pool, and knowledgeable and patient teachers who are willing to take the time to learn about the students and adjust the teaching to their needs. I can't wait to enroll both of my boys in lessons for next year!

I was late signing up my 3 year old for swim lessons when a friend told me she heard there were…read morestill openings at this swim school. I was able to email Emily to find out what classes were still available. I was able to get him in for the second week of June, I brought cash to pay for his class. There were 5 other kids in his class that had two instructors. My son hasn't really been in many class settings so it was an adjustment for him to learn waiting his turn and following the group. I feel like they did a good job teaching him and maybe two weeks of lessons would be perfect for him. Parking: When you arrive to the address you'll see the driveway that goes down a steep private driveway. There is a little colored flag that says swim lessons on it but if you didn't see it like me, yes drive down the long driveway past the little playground and camping trailer. There are places to pull off to park or you can park on the north side driveway near the chickens/turkeys. DO NOT use the actual driveway at all. They made that very clear in the email. The swim lessons take place in the backyard, there's a big playground the children are allowed to play on and there is a bathroom available.

I could not be more impressed with a swim school than I am with Utah Swim Academy. My 2 year old…read more(almost 3) son learned to float within the first 8 lessons and is currently learning to dive and do the back stroke. I am beyond thrilled that I can feel safe with him near open water now. The location is unsuspecting but a great facility with plenty of parking.

It seems odd to me that I'm one of the only ones to leave a poor review here, but all I can do is…read moretell my honest experience and let you decide what you'll do with your kids! We arrived for our first lesson for my 20 month old and I was surprised to see the school is just in someone's back yard. There were two instructors in the pool and no one else from the business around, so after a bit of confusion, we just sat by some other parents and waited our turn. What we saw was horrifying. Both infants in the water were screaming and crying, just desperate to get out. The poor mom next to me was holding her face in agony watching her baby scream like that. In fact, all the parents we saw there had that same agonizing look on their faces. The instructors didn't even seem phased. They must see that a lot, because they just kept going, stone faced with the kids. Eventually one of the kids just started violently vomiting in the water. It was not pretty! The instructor again didn't even seem phased and just took a net and scooped up the floating pieces at the top of the water. Ummm gross! When it was my sons turn I took him to the water and he started playing with some toys. I was hopeful he might not cry the whole time! After he got in, he too started screaming and wailing to be with a stranger in the water. I can understand kids don't like that sort of thing, but it just seemed like the instructor was awful with kids because all he did was, with a monotone voice, say "it's okay. You're okay, etc" which obviously did nothing to calm my child. After 18 agonizing minutes of watching my child's jaw shake from crying so hard, I went to the instructor and asked if that was normal. He said it was, and it usually isn't until the 5th or 6th lesson that they learn how to float and stop crying the whole way through. These lessons are $30 a piece, so getting to 5 lessons would be $150 of your child screaming, choking and wishing they were anywhere else. That night my poor toddler had nightmares all night long! There were snacks for the kids to eat at a table nearby, but they all cost money and you needed to Venmo to take something. The whole vibe of this place is just off! Kids screaming and vomiting in the water, cold instructors who don't seem to care or know how to calm children, and a crazy hot backyard with barely any shade to sit under. (We actually had to sit sideways to avoid the 99° sun during the lesson) it's not worth the money I paid upfront to go back to any lessons. I would definitely not recommend this school to anyone. I'm sure the peace of mind of having your child learn to swim or float is invaluable, but I'll do it somewhere where the journey isn't such a scarring experience for the child and parents alike.

We enjoy swimming here. The front desk is always helpful. The facility is always clean.read more

I love my neighborhood and want to love this place... but it feels gross to take my kids swimming…read morehere. I do not recommend bringing kids here. It is cold, rusty and badly in need of an update.

Awful experience for our very new beginner and very shy swimmer. We did the trial lesson and it…read morewent fine. Decided to sign up, and the next lesson was a disaster. We had a different teacher this time because it was different time. This teacher was incompetent and not experienced teaching children starting from knowing nothing, and not being comfortable with swimming. I walked in with my son and took him to his lesson and told the teacher it was only his second leson, he is very beginner, and also super quiet, meaning he probably wouldn't talk to her. I proceeded to go to the parent area after leaving my son with her. Five minutes after saying this, she proceeds to put his face underwater without his consent. My son is not ready for this. He can barely blow bubbles. Last lesson the teacher did not do this. She understood his silence meant he wasn't ready. This should have been in his record that he cannot hold his breath under water, what his last lesson was like, where he is at, etc. At this point my son is screaming crying, since he cannot hold his breath, he breathed in water when he went under by someone he was forced to trust to teach him the survival skill that is swimming. I rush in there to find out what happened. I asked if she got his consent for going under. She said he did not say anything, he did not nod his head yes or no. Meaning he gave no consent since he is extremely shy. She thought him not saying anything was consent! She thought that it would be okay to dunk his head after getting no response and seeing how timid he was! SILENCE IS NOT CONSENT! Total lack of awareness. Obviously he was not ready to go under water. The deck supervisor was there and she was very condescending saying the top of his head wasn't wet. Like that excuses the fact he is coughing up water sobbing! The very top of his head wasn't wet, but he went underwater without knowing how to hold his breath, causing him to breathe in water, and choke. And she tried to excuse that and invalidate what my son is going through. I immediately took him out of there and spoke with a manager. The deck supervisor proceeded to follow me and again argue and make excuses while I spoke with the manager. I had to tell her stop arguing with me- her attitude was completely uncalled for and unprofessional. I demanded I refund for what I had paid and told them to cancel the membership for I would never return. My son is still crying while all this is happening, he cannot calm down until we leave the building. The manager handled it well and refunded our money, and said it shouldn't have happened. I am astounded there is no communication on where a child is at in thier skill level? And no consistency between the first and second class? Why is this teacher using her hands to put my son underwater when he is not ready, while the teacher last week went slow and never did that, only poured a little water on his head with a toy to get him used to the idea? Awful awful experience overall and I'm so sad my son had to go through that. I feel immense guilt I left him with someone who made him feel unsafe and in danger. He has this negative experience on his swim lesson journey so this has set us back on his progress and willingness to continue else where with swim lesssons. Other parents with brand new swimmers need to be aware of the inconsistencies and lack of communication, as well as instructors with very little experience working with children who are nervous and shy, and starting brand new. Also, this instructor was not the one we signed up with too- it was a different name when I signed up. So be prepared for inconsistency in instructors as well.

Non transparent pricing led to me being charged 175 after taking a single class that didn't work…read morewell despite canceling the next day. The manager was very rude saying how my wife and I were telling different stories, pressuring us into taking other classes, not being clear on whether we would get refunded the extra 120, and then literally hanging up on me