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Semones Family YMCA

3.4 (35 reviews)
Open • 5:00 am - 9:00 pm

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Richard B.

I've been a participant of YMCAs all around the country. I've just moved to Dallas and I wanted my children to learn how to swim. There was a mix up with their registration and the avail of the class but the front desk staff and their supervisor went above and beyond to accommodate me and my children ensuring they had swimming on Halloween. Thank you

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Car window was smashed and personal belongings stolen. Multiple cars broken into same night. According to other patrons, this happens often.

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Smooth workouts, never had a problem with anyone at this gym. Kepp up the good clean work YMCA team!

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“They also offer free child care (up to 2 hours) for infants and up to older kids for busy parents looking for a quick workout.”

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Emler Swim School of Dallas-Preston Forest

(28 reviews)

Preston Hollow, North Dallas

Love Emler! My little has been going for about 4 months and continues to learn more skills each…read moretime and keeps leveling up! His teacher, Katia is fantastic with his age group and we love her!

This specific swim company does a great job of creating an illusion of a "family-friendly" oriented…read morebusiness. I worked with this school for years and I left the company due to numerous reasons. 1. I was responsible for training a manager that would be sent out to a location in Austin. She ends up coming back 4 months later due to how harshly everyone at the Austin location treated her. She was looked down upon because of her skin color, and was told she would never make it to management. I don't believe that the people up in Austin were ever held accountable. Even despite that "holding people accountable" IS one of their core values. RACIST! 2. Let's not forget the make up lessons! At first you could schedule a make up if you missed it. Then, you got a make up token if you missed it. And then, there was no make up tokens, unless you bought them for $15. I happened to have my sibling signed up to swim, and on the last day of the semester he was enrolled in, they had a code brown (pretty frequent in this location). I was contacted by the lifeguard (not the customer service rep or the manager) that they would call me back to schedule a make up lesson and I have been waiting for 2 years now. I doubt Elmer would be willing to offer me the lesson that I paid for! Seems like Elmer went full corporate. 3. This is not a safe location at all! My ex boss's pick up truck was stolen in broad daylight right from the parking lot during business hours! This happened back in 2021. One of my ex-coworkers car window was broken into in 2022. Police never arrived, duh, Dallas. 4. I WAS FORCED TO TAKE A COVID EXAM BACK IN 2020 AND I HAD TO PAY FOR IT OUT OF POCKET. CORPORATE DEMANDED THAT I TAKE A TEST AFTER A SATURDAY SHIFT. I DID NOT GET COMPENSATION FROM THE COPANY. I PAID $400! 5. The final straw. I left the company due to how corrupt corporate EMLER became. Their own core values were violated by higher ups, Haydon Smith and Melissa Magee (don't forget Austin location) to be specific. The "hold each other accountable" is the most hypocritical statement that this company makes its employees recite at the beginning of every meeting. My coworkers mentioned to me that they wanted to form a union, and I agreed. Although, my co-workers, carried this conversation into the staff room, the camera's "microphone" picked up the audio and it seemed like someone was on the other end listening. Bear in mind that it was a private conversation between two adults that are now getting ready to lock the building & go home. It was after business hours, that's a fact. Well long story short, they got fired over the weekend for "low performance". I was not told why, or when, or even given a good explanation as to why corporate decided to sweep people under the rug. Forming a union is an American right and this company aught to get BOYCOTTED for firing people over this. 6. Swim lessons are expensive and will not get any cheaper! This company was bought out in 2022 so it's best to take your kids to a small business instead. Lessons in California are not as expensive as they are here and teachers are able to make more money in California than in this company. This is coming from a conversation I had with someone who owns a swim school in San Francisco while I was teaching their kid! P.S. EMLER will also make you sign a waiver where if you were to go out and teach lessons outside of the contract, you can get sued for this. EMLER really wants all the monopoly. They have a pay cap. They will not pay you more than $20 hr, but they are steadily raising lesson prices? I came to find out that many of my coworkers, neighboring schools, did not get payed for the work they did. For example, I had a ex-coworker (Walnut-Hill location) & was pushed to do management duties while being paid as a porter for 1 full calendar year. I've had my fair share of good moments but this company is not what it used to be, it's corporate greed.

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I have decided to update my review of the Swim Academy (and the JCC) based on recent events which…read moreresulted in our family rejoining the swim academy. Shortly after my initial review, the JCC replaced a key leadership position in the aquatics department. We decided given the change that we would be open to coming back and we have been very pleased upon our return. Key changes we have noticed are : - Instructors are consistently showing up - only 1 substitute so far and it was communicated in advance and the reason for their absence. - The instructors appear to be very focused in the water on the kids the entire time. No more talk / complaining about JCC politics or employer dramas that was taking away from instruction - time in the water - this was a big one. We were consistently only getting about 75% of the instruction time that we paid for. My kids are in the water 5 minutes before their lesson and ready to go. If the instructor is 3 minutes late to start, they should stay 3 minutes extra. This is currently happening, as it should. We appreciate the changes made from the top-down and I wanted to make sure that my review reflected this effort(s) being made.

Best place to learn to swim. My daughter used to scream in the water - no confidence at all! I'm…read morejust a few short months, she is now up to the 5th level and I can barely keep her out of the water! This mama has found peace during the summer thanks to LKSA!!

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Caruth Terrace, Lakewood

One of our kiddos has been going here all year. They are super accommodating and I love the…read morefishbowl setup where parents can watch their kids swimming! Super nice waiting area and as a plus it's also got a tumbling gym so I'm sure you can get 2 kids busy if you have them! I also love how they make it easy to make up classes if you miss one with other options. The instructors are friendly and the ratio of kids to teachers is always reasonable. All in all a good spot to send your kiddos for some swim lessons!

Pick somewhere else! Enrolled our kids here for 10 months so they could learn swim safety and not…read morejust drown in a pool. After month 4 we wondered why they didn't move up a level, were reassured it was normal, so we waited more months, still no testing to even see if they were ready. Then the instructors kept changing and we realized they were teaching our kids the same stuff they learned on day one every time they changed instructors for the class. Turns out they "weren't keeping track" of what the kids knew and after 10 months and $3,500, our kids still can't tread water on their own and were never tested to move up to level 2. They told us the kids "lacked confidence in the skills" when they've had 20 hours of swim time now and just weren't even taught the basics of basics here. They only let you unenroll via text that they ignore you on and then demand 30 days to unenroll you which is another $340. This place is a mess of mismanagement and poor safety. After 10 months my kids should know something.

British Swim School at LA Fitness - Las Colinas

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I hope I'm not leaving this review too prematurely, but as a mom I am absolutely impressed with…read moreBritish Swim School. We previously tried the Y and had a pretty terrible experience, and there honestly weren't many other options in the area. I'm so glad we decided to give British Swim School a try because I couldn't be happier with this choice. I've seen my daughter progress so much in such a short time and her confidence in the water has improved tremendously. The instructors are patient, encouraging, and really know how to work with kids. I truly wish we would have come here a lot sooner. Highly recommend to any parents looking for quality swim lessons for their children!

We've been going to British Swim School in Grapevine for about 6 weeks, and it's awesome. My son is…read more5 years old and at the Minnow (water survival skills) level. It's been a very positive experience. First, the locations and times are super convenient. My son takes lessons at an LA Fitness that we already go to a few times a week. They offer swim classes on weekends (even Sunday) and evenings, which is much better than other programs we'd looked into. (I work downtown...I can't get to some random person's home on Wednesdays at 4 pm.) The instructors (Travis and Connor) are super professional--responsive to calls / emails, organized. Classes are structured around specific skills. But they're also great with kids. They're playful, patient, and do a nice job calming nerves and handling occasional uncooperativeness. I occasionally lose my cool with my kid's antics, but the instructors never do. The skills and activities are super age appropriate and targeted to kids. They have names like "blast off," "torpedo," and "monkey crawl" that preschoolers can remember. At the Minnow level, it's all about being safe in the pool: getting in, getting out, back floating. Being comfortable getting underwater, so the kids are equipped to move to a floating position and call for help if they ever fell in a pool by accident. They practice jumping in (with support), coming up into a back float, and staying there as long as possible. My son loves practicing his skills when we go swimming for fun. He's gone from not wanting to get his face wet to loving being underwater. He also loves the classes and looks forward to them. I highly recommend this school to people of all ages!! They work with babies through adults at different skill levels and we've always found it to be fun and well organized. Also a great value for the money.

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