I cannot say enough amazing things about this swim school! My 3 year old started with zero swim…read moreexperience when she started this summer. In less than three months, she is able to swim underwater. Teacher Mike is so good with little ones. He sings while he teaches the whole time and makes her feel at ease in the water. In fact, every morning when we wake up on swim lesson days, my daughter jumps up and down saying how excited she is to go to swim. I would recommend this swim school to anyone!

Angel is a fantastic instructor who is terrific with small children. Our daughter started lessons…read morewith Angel just after turning 2, and she is already confident and knowledgeable about safety in the water after just a few months. Angel takes care to be friendly with our daughter but also emphasizes the importance of water safety. Angel teaches through examples, songs, and games and strikes a difficult balance between challenging our daughter and supporting her. Thank you Angel!

An awful place. We have enrolled for courses in the middle…read moreof June. First of all we were charged for the half of month. That sounds good. But the first lesson was cancelled. Then we were charged for the next month. And the second lesson on the June was cancelled. And first two lessons in July are cancelled. And they have no return. We'll receive "tokens" which we have to spend during the month. But I have no another time for lessons. So, they just took money and gave nothing back. Where good business.

We've been taking group lessons here for about 4 years. Progress at the beginning was honestly…read morepretty slow--it took around 2-3 years for my child to move from beginner to intermediate. Part of that was likely due to her being afraid of the water when she started at age 4, limited individual attention in a 30-minute group class, and not practicing much outside of the weekly lesson. Teacher turnover does seem a bit high. That said, once we switched to more experienced instructors who gave immediate feedback and corrections, my daughter's swimming improved a lot over the past year. Her age and increased confidence probably helped too. On the plus side, my child made the swim team this year, so overall the lessons have definitely been effective--it just took some time to get there.

I had to update my review. I still stand by the quality which is what begets the 2 stars. They're…read moreclean and well maintained. However I thought their practices around the fee structure were extremely shady. First of all, for a community center you charge a crazy amount. It's meant to be accessible and not an elite club which is what this has turned into. A name change should be well in order if they're not serving the community they belong to. Please note they are a non profit organization. Secondly they will charge you an arm and a leg for classes and membership, they will update your pricing and not give you notice. I think the fact that they don't list their prices on their website are true testament to my statement. I dropped my membership as it stopped being worth the $500 I was paying for me and the kids per month (only one of my kids was doing swim lessons) their swim classes helped for a little and then the teachers were replaced with new ones who didn't care much about the students. I ended up quitting and unless their pricing is more transparent and less elitist I'd rather drive a little bit longer.

Clean, well run facilities, great staff and incredible programs…read more For all ages- toddlers to seniors.

It's the Y. It's not a fancy schmancey, hoity-toity, lala gym. It's a neighborhood gym for normal…read morepeople. Average Joe's if you will. And I love it. We left Crunch after 17 years (well, technically it was Gold's before but you get the point) because I had a female stalker and Crunch wouldn't help me (even with restraining orders). I was wildly unimpressed with their non-assistance. We went to Equinox bc it was supposed to be nicer and it was only a 1 mile walk from our house - fantastic. While it looked nicer, it was not nicer. It's old, outdated and limited. It's stupid expensive. And the hours really, really suck. So after a year, we left Equinox and we were wavering on going back to the Bay Club or joining the Y. Our kids really wanted to work out and the Y was a great option for a family plan. So we joined for them. While testing it out and thinking we might bounce out to the Bay Club, we ended up loving it. They recently upgraded all the equipment to smart equipment and I'm diggin it! I haven't seen these machines since I was at an upscale gym in Houston a couple years ago! I love the price ($185 for all 6 of us, plus it as daycare vs $230/mo at equinox per person and no kids are welcome) I love the normalness of the Y too. I may make great income, but I don't want to be with the stiffs. I want to be where my roots are.

As a Nationwide YMCA member, I've always been treated the same as local members at every other YMCA…read morebranch. Unfortunately, Peninsula YMCA would not allow me to use their towels because they said they don't have enough towels. I think that's a ridiculous reason, especially since towel service is one of the benefits that made me choose the YMCA. I hope Peninsula YMCA reconsiders this policy and treats Nationwide members equally.

Absolutely Great! Privateers has been teaching our 4yr old Grand Daughter for 2 years. We're so…read morepleased with Alec (the instructor)...he is engaging, dependable, fun & has taught our little one how to safely swim, get out of the pool and enjoy the water...we highly recommend and plan to continue...thank you. Chris A.

I reached out to Privateers for private swimming lessons for my daughter, and they paired us with…read moreBethany for our classes. We are so happy that we got paired with her. My daughter is very shy around new people, and Bethany had her comfortable and in the water incredibly quickly. She made a tremendous amount of progress over the course of the summer and loves the pool now! My mom decided to try swimming lessons too after seeing how wonderful Bethany was with my daughter, and she loved her classes with Bethany too. We're so glad we tried this out and will definitely be doing more classes next summer!

I have to say that I had a wonderful experience with British Swim School. It has always been my…read moregoal to learn how to swim as I never gotten the chance as a child and finally put it on my vision board for this year. I remember the first day of class, I was terrified of the water and the thought of floating seemed impossible let alone ever being comfortable being in the deep end. After 3.5 months, I can confidently say that I feel comfortable swimming in the deep end and now perfecting my freestyle all with the help of all the amazing instructors. My primary instructor has been Rowan who I can't speak more highly of as he is so passionate in teaching and does everything he can to make sure you have the proper form and technique. One of the things I appreciate most about Rowan is that he would often mimic what I was doing to understand the cause and effect of my mistakes, which helped guide me toward correcting them. Because of this, I was able to understand why I struggled with different strokes--it really is all about learning to relax your body and become one with the water. Today was my last class with Rowan, and honestly, it was one of the best. We focused on keeping my chin down, my head underneath my arms, turning my palm upward when taking a side breath, relaxing my head to the side, and fully extending both arms for an effective side breath and freestyle. I am going to really miss my classes but so happy that I am now able to float, tread water, jump into the water, do backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. I highly recommend the classes and so grateful for this experience. Thanks again Rowan for being such an amazing instructor and also to Eddie for teaching me the beginning stages of butterfly and for his passion to teach as well!

As an adult learner, I had a very good experience with British Swim School. They operate out of…read moredifferent pools mostly either in hotels or gyms. This one is out of 24 hour fitness in San Mateo. The facility is okay. The women's locker room is not the newest or the cleanest but the pool is long enough for laps. The British Swim School uses one lane and the other two are for gym members. It gets the job done. I didn't learn how to swim as a kid so it's something that I have on my bucket list for years. I finally decided to work on it. I picked a class and signed up on their app. It was very easy. If there are any questions, you can chat with a staff also on their app. They're usually pretty quick to reply. It's easy to manage absences and make up sessions. The ratio is up to 4:1 but I've only been in one class with 3 other students. They're usually very generous with supplying teachers when available. I've been in classes where there are 2 teachers when there are 3 students and they can easily send a teacher home to save money but they don't. The teachers are usually young adults. I've work with several different teachers in my few months with them and they're all very nice and knowledgeable.

Love this local outdoor pool. Heated, separate deep end from kiddie pool. Usually not crowded…read moreduring fam swim for the bigger pool. When kids camp is there, it can be loud. Annoying that women's showers are freezing cold, but the hack is use the outside showers next to the men's locker room. $6 for adults. I love to get my swim in. Yes there are some annoying rules, but it still is a pleasant experience overall.

Lots of unreasonable rules like ONLY white reef shirts and NO goggles covering nose. Even For the…read moredeep end EACH child needs their OWN adult or you have to swim in a 2 FEET DEEP POOL. Showers are FREEZING COLD swimsuit dryer broken so we had to use the hand dryers which took AGES. TRASH IN POOL HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE. SAVE YOURSELF AND GO TO A BETTER POOL!!!

Absolutely 5 stars and highly recommended. Coach Audrey has the patience, skill and plan to teach…read moreyoung kids swimming in the right approach. Best of all, she also makes the whole experience fun. Our kid looks forward to the lesson every week, and we can see concrete steady improvements after every lesson.

Thank you Audrey for being such an AMAZING swim teacher and swim coach! You have such wisdom and…read morecompassion for new swimmers!