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    Bear Paddle Swim School - Marlton

    Bear Paddle Swim School - Marlton

    4.0(28 reviews)
    5.1 mi

    Our daughter has made remarkable progress in a short time, thanks to the well-structured program…read moreand the caring, dedicated coaches. The front desk team is always friendly, flexible, and incredibly helpful when it comes to scheduling make-up classes. A special shoutout to coaches Maribel and CJ --they've been exceptionally professional, patient, friendly and consistently encouraging. Their clear instruction and positive energy have truly boosted our daughter's confidence and swimming skills. I also highly recommend the Summer Clinic Program--the daily evaluations really accelerated her growth and gave us great insight into her progress. It's a safe, supportive, and fun place for any child to learn to swim.I highly recommend it to other parents!

    The instructors are generally good and our kids have learned a ton - which is the point of lessons…read more However, they are constantly rotating or changing instructors which has been challenging for our youngest. Her current instructor is beyond amazing though. Our biggest problem with Bear Paddle is the facility. It feels disgusting. I understand the locker room will be wet, but the floor always looks dirty too, and it doesn't feel just wet, but slimy. It smells like strongly of urine half the time, and sometimes feces. Which leads me to believe they don't clean well enough and they likely need their drains cleaned. The floors in the changing rooms have gunk buildup. The walls are filthy. They need a professional cleaning service to clean multiple times a week, the floors need an acid wash and to be disinfected everyday. The walls need to be cleaned. I don't want to sound harsh or nit picky, I just don't think it's asking too much for cleanliness to be a high priority in a facility where kids and families change and expose their bodies to water, floors, benches, etc. Particularly for what they charge, considering they don't offer more flexible payment setup options. I don't want to keep my bank info on file, and the fees for cards are obnoxious---the tuition never seems to stay the same month over month either. Again, really do love most of the staff and instructors--and I love how far our kids have come by going here. But I'm to the point where we are probably going to have to switch schools, because I can't risk my young ones by exposing them to whatever is going on with that locker room.

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    Bear Paddle Swim School

    Bear Paddle Swim School

    3.0(2 reviews)
    6.5 mi

    The front staff are friendly and helpful. Makes the start of the day nice when people are friendly…read more The teachers and lifeguard are very professional. My granddaughter did not know how to swim but now she does and she's so comfortable in the water. My grandson was always happy in the water but now he knows his strokes and swim lessons really added to his knowledge. They also are very accommodating with make up classes. I'm glad we have Bear Paddle here to help kids.

    Be aware of this place! The staff is friendly and it's decently clean place. This place is weird…read morebecause every week you have a different swim instructor. Some swim instructors are OK and some aren't. The biggest pet peeve I have with this place is they never return your phone call and never answer the phone. They usually have two secretaries working at the front desk, so why is there two telephones but nobody will answer.!?? Second pet peeve is they unexpectedly cancel your scheduled class time and they won't notify you. For example: Last week there was a problem with the pool chemicals and they needed to dump in a bunch of soda ash to bring up the pH levels or something they said like that. The next day it was still super cloudy, and my child had to swim in it. After words, my child could not stop coughing because of accidentally drinking some of the water. The day before that, all classes were canceled because there was a serious problem with the pool chemicals. I wound up, traveling all the way down there because they didn't notify me in enough time to say the class was canceled. So when I went to the front desk, they told me on the following week on Monday, they were gonna give me an extra half hour for that canceled lesson. So here it is.. I go to the place on Monday and the place is all closed up! I never got a phone call, a text message or an email stating why the school was closed. I left a voicemail message explaining my concerns about what happened and why they were closed. I'm more than likely certain 100% guarantee that they won't call me back because they never call you back! Also, when my husband was setting up the swim lessons, they told him that if there was any problem with them canceling appointments, they would refund money. I feel like this won't even honor that especially with the way they're acting here. This location in Turnersville is acting like a fraudulent place. This place just loves taking your money, but they don't care if they cancel your classes and you wind up pay for a cancel class. Also, they love talking sh*t about other swim schools in the area- how they're no good, but bear paddle of Turnersville isn't any better! Whoever is the management running this swim place is doing a poor job!

    Bear Paddle Swim School - Turnersville

    Bear Paddle Swim School - Turnersville

    1.3(12 reviews)
    6.5 mi

    Had a really awful experience at BPSS at the Turnersville NJ location. Donna specifically, at the…read morefront desk. She told me that my daughter had a a ton of makeups and we had well over a month to use them. At our next class she tells me nevermind - I'm now out over $100 because of HER miscommunication. She didn't even try and work anything out. She was just extremely rude. The instructors are also all so young and let my 3 and 5 year old go under multiple times. My poor 3 year old is traumatized of water now. Just overall not a great place. And really terrible customer service. Take your $$ elsewhere.

    **** Be aware of this place!**** The staff is ok and it's decently clean place. This place is weird…read morebecause every week you have a different swim instructor. Some swim instructors are OK and some aren't. The biggest pet peeve I have with this place is they never return your phone call and never answer the phone. They usually have two secretaries working at the front desk, so why is there two telephones but nobody will answer.!?? Second pet peeve is they unexpectedly cancel your scheduled class time and they won't notify you. For example: Last week there was a problem with the pool chemicals and they needed to dump in a bunch of soda ash to bring up the pH levels or something they said like that. The next day it was still super cloudy, and my child had to swim in it. After words, my child could not stop coughing because of accidentally drinking some of the water. The day before that, all classes were canceled because there was a serious problem with the pool chemicals. I wound up, traveling all the way down there because they didn't notify me in enough time to say the class was canceled. So when I went to the front desk, they told me on the following week on Monday, they were gonna give me an extra half hour for that canceled lesson. So here it is.. I go to the place on Monday and the place is all closed up! I never got a phone call, a text message or an email stating why the school was closed. I left a voicemail message explaining my concerns about what happened and why they were closed. I'm more than likely certain 100% guarantee that they won't call me back because they never call you back! Also, when my husband was setting up the swim lessons, they told him that if there was any problem with them canceling appointments, they would refund money. I feel like this won't even honor that especially with the way they're acting here. This location in Turnersville is acting like a fraudulent place. This place just loves taking your money, but they don't care if they cancel your classes and you wind up pay for a cancel class. And to add- Today 7/22/2925.. I went down there to figure out why this week my child's classes are all canceled. They changed their store hours without notifying me that some problem or issue has happened. On here it states that the store hours close at 12 PM, but I physically went down to the place so I can talk with the front desk to get everything resolved, but the building was already closed at 11:20 AM and the store hours written for this week on the store window shows for Tuesday that it closes at 11:30 AM. My child's scheduled swim class time is 12:45 PM. So why can't this place notify me that the class has been canceled and/or moved to another time? So my child has missed a swim class today and yesterday because of them messing up and canceling our time scheduled that was planned from the beginning. **FYI: the picture below is the schedule for 7-20-25 through 7-26-25

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