Water Babies - Bristol & Bath Reviews 52

My daughter started water babies at 9 weeks old and we have both thoroughly enjoyed every single lesson so far. Our teacher, Hannah, creates an incredibly calm environment where I feel absolutely safe and confident in introducing my baby to new swimming skills and experiences. My daughter loves the songs and movement and is perfectly happy to try new things in the water. A lovely weekly activity which is setting her up for a great foundation in swimming and water safety. Couldn't recommend highly enough!

I highly recommend Water Babies! My little boy has been swimming with them since he was 4 months old and he is now 2 years old — and we are definitely not stopping anytime soon! Watching his confidence and love for the water grow has been amazing. As a mum, I couldn’t ask for a more supportive, caring and fun environment. The teachers are wonderful with children and every class is such a lovely experience for both of us. Communication with the office has always been excellent and the whole team is friendly, helpful and professional. We absolutely love it!

Wilfred’s core strength and coordination has vastly improved thanks to his swimming. As well as him really enjoying being with the other babies and the swimming rhymes. Our coach Abi has been amazing at helping us progress, as well as teaching Wilfred water safety and to enjoy the water. I definitely recommend waterbabies to my friends and anyone else with a little one

Lovely staff and my toddler loves it!
We've enjoyed our swimming lessons since starting when our son was about 8 months old. The lessons and engaging but also focus on safety. Would highly recommend.

Chelsi at Freeways is an amazing teacher, full of energy and great swimming teaching knowledge for babies! We love the classes!!
Also had Poppi for a few catch up lessons at various locations and she is also amazing

My child’s been to so many swimming lessons and doesn’t naturally love the water but is really getting on well at water babies, Abi is great with the kids and makes them feel comfortable in the water, he’s progressed more here in the last few months than ever before!

Recognition for Chelsie at Freeways Bristol, who teaches my sons swimming sessions.

He has been attending Water Babies since he was four months old, and during that time we’ve had three different teachers. By far, Chelsie has been the best teacher we have had.

She is incredibly friendly and welcoming, which immediately makes the sessions enjoyable and relaxed. Chelsie always takes the time to help and guide me, whether that’s showing me the correct way to hold my child or gently correcting us if we’re not quite doing something right. She does this with so much patience and positivity.

Her encouragement with him has been amazing to see. She is so good with him and has helped build his confidence in the pool so much. The progress he has made since being in her class has been really noticeable, and it’s clear how skilled and passionate she is as a teacher.

I just wanted to write to acknowledge Chelsie’s amazing teaching skills and to let you know what a positive impact she has had on our experience at Water Babies. She is definitely the best teacher we have had, and we feel very lucky to have her.

I have been taking my daughter to Water Babies at Church Farm with Jackie for four years now. My daughter is so confident in the water and Jackie has been so adaptive to mine and my daughters needs, supporting us through periods of regression and joining us in celebrating her achievements. I wouldn’t take my children anywhere else.

Hannah is such a talented teacher and understands the needs of each child completely and sympathetically. We would highly recommend

We love waterbabies! We started when our little one was just 8 weeks old. He absolutely adores water, and has always had fantastic body strength which we are sure must be in part due to swimming. He happily goes underwater, and we have recently been on holiday where we took him in the sea and practiced some of our WB exercises which he absolutely loved. From ‘jumping’ waves, to swim position kicking.
We think swimming is a vital life skill and are so pleased we signed up.

Reviewed in exchange for a prize draw entry

Water babies captured memorable images of me and my 9 month old can’t ever get these images this good anywhere else the experience was amazing and the team are just fab with all the babies will defo be doing another shoot 👍

The highlight of our week. Every lesson is so enjoyable and we have already learnt so much!

My babies favourite time of the week! She’s learnt so much in 3 months of going, we stayed her at 3 months old and she understands when to hold her breath and not to be frightened to go underwater

I knew we wanted to start swimming lessons early, and we had our first lesson when O was 10weeks old. The first lesson was I nervous but was very quickly made to feel welcome. I was not happy and cried for 27mins of a 30min class and my anxiety was increasing, however I was reassured and encouraged to come back…. I’m so glad we did! Several lessons in now and O absolutely loves it. She hasn’t cried since the first lesson. The teacher Poppy is so lovely and calm, we look forward to the end of each week now knowing we have swimming. Highly recommended if you’re thinking about it but undecided.

*Reviewed in exchange for a prize draw entry* but a true reflection of our experience so far.

Our little boy has been going to waterbabies since June when he was 3 months old and has gained so much confidence in the water as well as having fun and making new friends! Craig is so patient and encouraging.

Terrible support
It's expensive, the teachers are good but make sure you don't work and don't get ill.
They say they offer catch up lessons, I had notification that the one place I could visit stopped hosting them, then they have no update for a year and no further communication until they were chased.
I broke my wrist andy husband tried to call them to sort out lessons, they didn't pick up the phone and failed to call him back.
You'll lose money.
If you're cancelling, you have to use tokens before you can stop which means they string you along, without catch up availability all the while paying for something you'd like to stop.
If it was just for the teachers, 5 stars.
For the business negative 5stars.

Lovely setting and fab teachers. My son is really becoming confident and loving each session in the pool.

Our children love their swimming lessons with Hannah at Harry’s hydro. Would highly recommend and we have had really good customer service on the phone to Waterbabies whenever we’ve had to call them as well.

We have been with water babies since 2020 with both our children. From the teachers in the pool to the office staff everyone goes above and beyond. Our boys are so water confident and know how to be safe in the water. Water babies are fantastic! Thank you!

We love going to our swimming lessons together, it has helped found stronger bonds between myself and my son. His confidence has grown and he loves being in the water, his teacher is amazing and he gets excited when he hears her voice as we walk in. I love that we learn water safety as well as swimming skills. As a not very strong swimmer it has helped me feel confident around water. I have booked onto the under water photo shoot and can not wait for that, all the products iv brought from water babies have been amazing too good quality and true to size. We just need to collect all the fishes now as my son loves when they come out 😃