The Oakville Swim Academy

I never do reviews , but I guess this time I have to. I really had a great first session experience for my son with this swimming Academy.From the manager , staff and instructors... My son's first instructor was Sarah and she is phenomenal!!! Despite of my son's learning difficulties, Sarah was able to manage and teach my son the beginner's skill....That made us enroll again for a second season. Unfortunately, this time everything was a mess. I am just hoping next time the management would encourage the instructors to talk and learn from each other in handling students especially if the kids changes instructors due to availability. Sharing of teaching experience would be beneficial. Because there are some strategies that work and some don't for children. And scheduling for make up classes is so hard,so frustrating!

Great place in general, clean facilities and environment and seems great for kids to learn. For adults, not so much - the instructors are very young and not adept at teaching adults, left there and started at another training school where they have licensed instructors dedicated to adults and I am making better progress. It is a lot harder as an adult to learn swimming if you don't train your body to execute the fundamentals first (breathing, strokes, staying afloat) etc. My recommendation is to stick with teaching kids or get more experienced instructors to teach adults as well - it's not the same and it's fairly expensive.

We went for parent and tot program. The water was too cold to the point that in one of the sessions parents and kids were all shivering. The building and supplies are pretty old. The teachers are teenagers or very young adults who are inexperienced and really have no clue how to teach toddlers how to swim. The customer service is rude and unprofessional.

We registered our 4yr old daughter for a program that started in September 2021. Her coach is so attentive and patient. Sometimes teaching an excited 4yr old can be difficult, but each week my child progresses in her skills. The facility is clean, the employees are consistently awesome. I feel like my daughter is learning so much. We get great feedback from the coach and deck supervisor. They really make it a personalized experience. I am so happy we decided to go with the Oakville Swim Academy for her lessons. We will continue to enrol her in subsequent seasons. Highly recommend.

My son has made a lot of progress since starting with Oakville Swim Academy. The lessons have equipped him with the proper technique and developed his confidence to take up competitive swimming. I'm so impressed with the instructors and customer service, that I have enrolled my daughter too. She was grown from a reluctant participant to a little fish, thanks to the patience and preservation of her instructors. I highly recommend OSA!

We do parent and tot here and we love it . Facilities are great, staff so friendly, COVID protocols above and beyond the minimum requirement, we signed up for a second session☺️

My five stars goes entirely to my sons teacher Summer. She is fantastic with kids and is patient. She got my 4 year old beginner son to be so comfortable in the water doing his back floats, front floats and encouraged him to try them on his own. Even though he went under and wasn’t able to do it perfectly she kept encouraging him and it brought him to jumping in the pool after only 7 lessons, going under and getting his face wet. The only thing that’s upsetting is I would like him to continue lessons after his 2 weeks hopefully with her, but they are fully booked for the fall, and I’d like him to have continuing lessons without any breaks in between so he doesn’t have to get back on track months later when/if spots open up. So now I have to shop around somewhere else and I really really don’t want to :_(

Our teen really enjoyed the course (bronze med). That includes the content and also Simon’s teaching style, which was fun and engaging.We appreciated the way the program was organized and the facility was managed. We will be going back for additional courses! Thanks Simon and Maya!

We enrolled our 4 year old into 2 swim seasons at the academy. She loves the water and had no hesitation in any of her lessons, in plain words she was an ideal student eager to learn. Unfortunately, the instructors routinely change and do not build on already acquired skills. These were kids teaching kids and the caliber of lessons provided left lots to be desired. The one positive was that the front management took my feedback and attempted to help. At the end I was still very much frustrated with the quality of lessons and I just asked for our daughter to have the ability to float at the very least. We did not even accomplish that in 2 seasons. The lessons are way too short, these were also private 1-on-1 lessons.

We absolutely love OSA. My kids both progress so well with every session we book. The instructors are sweet and very good with children. The facility is spotless. We wouldn't go to any other swim school