Swimming Club fees

[Jonas25]

If your child attends a swimming club I am interested to know what the fees are? I have been offered 2 x 1 hour sessions for £88 which seems quite steep but my estimations may be outdated.

Are they one on one or sessions?

Group sessions. Mixed age but my DC is younger (6 yrs).

We pay £60 a month and my son can swim for three hours a week. So 12 hours for £60. Group sessions obviously.

88 for just the 2 sessions? That's quite steep, although swimming pool hire isn't cheap and it's maybe a paid coach (as opposed to a volunteer).

Mine is £225 per term for one hour long session so yours feels less per hour than mine.

The only thing I’d caution slightly is that hour long sessions for a 6 year old will feel quite hard going at first. You might want to look at one or shorter at first to ease in. My 8yo was exhausted when she went from 45 minutes to an hour- took her a good 6-8 weeks to build up some stamina and not flag at the 45 minute mark.

Is that for lessons or a swimming club?

The swimming club here is ridiculously expensive. I'd be expecting an Olympic athlete out of their prices. This would be in line with that.

For swimming lessons £44 per lesson seems way beyond anything round here. For small group lessons (6 children max) we paid £25 recently and that is seen as pricey round here.

I do agree that 1-hour is probably too long and my DC probably wouldn't make it through the whole session. In terms of both concentration and stamina.

£360 for 12 lessons. Max 6 in a group. So that works out at £30 per half hour lesson. That's for beginners. For advanced swimmers it's £360 for 12 but they're one hour sessions.

Swimming club? Leisure centre group lessons?

Swim lessons by a swim club?

I'm assuming as it's 2 x 1hr a week it's an academy type swim squad with a swim club?

That's £22 a week so £11 an hour?

Out swimming club charges £47 for the same amount and that's not the lowest swim squad.

For that price our swimmers get 10 hours training in pool and 1 hour land training a week and are usually 9-12 yo.

My DS swims 18 hours, 3 hours land training and sports psychology sessions for £148 a month.

So yeah - for a 6yo that seems a lot of hours and pricey!!!

We pay £36/month for a 30 minute weekly class at the local council centre in London. Approx 8 kids per class.

£45 a month for a 30 minute lesson each week.

This is for development squad as a pathway to competitive swimming. So not just swimming lessons.

Standard swimming lessons are £44 per month for one 30-min session per week. So on that basis it is reasonable value (2 x 1-h sessions for £88) but I am also comparing with swimming clubs who offer multiple sessions per week for a fixed fee.

A development squad at 6??

That's what it'll be called if it's learn to swim stages under a swim club.

Tbh the standard of learning will be higher than council run because they are teaching kids to swim with the outlook of them competing in the future and maybe going on to compete at national level.

You cannot compete at licensed meets L3 and above until 9yo but you can hold in house galas and IME the small kids love them!

Still very expensive compared to what ds swim club charge - and they are a good club who produce some really good swimmers in their teens and a few who compete at international level as adults.

The club I'm involved with has a junior development squad but that's aimed at ages 9-11. Other local clubs have similar.