My son loves his lessons with Water Babies! He wasn’t sure at first and the instructor was understanding and adapted the activities to suit him! The courtesy classes are a good system for catch ups, a... See more
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Charlotte adapts each lesson to the pace of each individual child in the group, makes me feel comfortable in the pool to support my child and you can see she knows each child well. My little girl love... See more
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We have been going to Portland College for 4 months now, Lindsey is our teacher for our 7 month old and she’s amazing! Watching our babies confidence grow in the water has been beautiful. Now she’s... See more
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From the phone call I made to make enquiries to the lessons my daughter has, every experience with water babies and all of the staff have been great. There are regular emails updating me of what's... See more
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About Water Babies - Notts & Derby
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Our vision is a world where the physical and emotional development of every child is fully supported and nurtured from birth.
Our premium baby swimming classes are taught by the highest trained baby swimming teachers in the world.
Water Babies takes little ones on a journey of aquatic discovery, teaching core aquatic skills, water safety, and swimming strokes, igniting their imagination as they learn.
With lessons available across the UK, Water Babies welcomes babies from birth to five years old to learn a skill for life.
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Water Babies Office, NG22 8NF, Kirklington, Notts & Derby, United Kingdom
- 01636 815 567
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Michelle is the best!
Our instructor Michelle is absolutely amazing. So lovely, friendly and knowledgable and helps make new mums feel at ease. Her lessons are fun for the adults aswell as the babies! It always feels so personal! Our favourite time of the week!

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Waterbabies is my favourite baby class…
Waterbabies is my favourite baby class of the week with my 5 month old!
I can’t believe how much he has learned and progressed in the water already and it’s making me more confident too. Our instructor, Hayley, is just a joy! She’s so supportive and understanding and my little boy loves her! Couldn’t recommend Waterbabies enough.

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Water babies
Water babies has been amazing for my little girl. She’s come on leaps and bounds in the water, I don’t know who enjoys the classes more me or her lol. Can’t fault water babies from top to bottom admin staff are super helpful and friendly and the instructors are amazing

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Waterbabies 5*
Our Son has been attending Waterbabies swimming lessons from 9 weeks old and absolutely loves them. The hydropool we swim at is perfect and clean! We did get moved to another pool for a short period of time due to building issues which wasn't ideal but it was quickly resolved! Our Son thoroughly enjoys his swimming lessons and we do believe his development has come on leaps and bounds since starting them. We cannot rate Waterbabies enough - thank you.

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Lacks customer experience
Sessions are cancelled every month without 24hr notice. Instructors show favouritism & on many sessions the instructors excersices exceeded the guidelines of 4 submersions in one session. This is a session of babies under 1 year.

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Great
Good swimming instructors, my baby now loves swimming and looks forward for the swimming class every week.

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Amazing for beginner swimmers from young ages
My two toddlers come swimming every Sunday, they can't wait to see their teachers and they've learned so much from these lessons. Highly recommend it 👌

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The classes are amazing
The classes are amazing, very well structured, with good use of equipment, and very well tailored to each age.
I just haven't given 4 stars for the following reasons:
1) The changing facilities in Nottingham (Mercure Hotel, Sherwood) are no good for babies. It a very small facility with only one changing table and very little space. When we finish class and you have all those babies wet and needing to get changed, it becomes very crowded and most end up changing the babies over a towel on the floor.
2) Although there is a structured programme where each student achieves their skills in their own time, and this is recorded in your login site, we don't get any explanation regarding the programme, what the skills and "treasures" mean (they fancy names of the sort of "cloudfish cove"), and I don't really know what my child is doing well at and where she needs more work.
3) The price is just really high compared to any other swimming class (over twice as much as most)

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great classes
great classes , great trainer at portland college. l recommend this to anyone who wants their children to learn how to swim

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Water babies under water photoshoot
We had underwater photos taken with Waterbabies and what a lovely experience. The team were so professional and lovely. They made me and my little one feel very relaxed and we got some fabulous photos from the shoot! Well worth the money and we can’t wait to get our photos printed and up on the wall:

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Patient and friendly teacher, we have great fun!
My baby has attended since he was 8 weeks old. Swimming is a life skill and Water Babies build up theses skills each week even from the age of 8 weeks. I know in time my boy will bea confident independent swimmer and safe around water. I can't thank Michelle enough, her praise, patience and bubbly positive attitude brightens even those harder days with a small baby. Michelle is such an asset to Water Babies! Thank you!

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Underwater photo shoot
We have recently attended an underwater photo shoot, our first one to be precise.
Although we haven’t received the pictures our experience was a great one, the team in the pool made my little girl feel so comfortable she did an amazing job going in.
Thank you for the experience guys xx

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Careful about the payment options!
Everyone very carefully about Payment!
If we want to stop the lessons need to pay 4 lessons payment more to them. also if we not inform them before stop they says it is a subscription so we need to pay all the due payment until it cancels.

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