How much are your kids swimming classes?

[OnlyFoolsnMothers]

Appreciate the cost of living but we’ve had two price rises in a year and it’s now £12 per half hour lesson a week. Times 2 children, if there’s 5 weeks in a month it’s costing me an arm and leg. Does this seem steep to what everyone else is paying?

£24 for 30 mins one to one

Ours is £28 for a half an hour lesson so that seems very, very cheap to me.

Ours does have small class sizes though, maximum of 1:4 and we are in London.

We are in France.

Started at age 3 with a private swim school and it would have been 20€ for a half hour lesson (max 4 kids) but I got a Black Friday deal so it was 17.50€.

Now at age 4 he is old enough for club lessons so it'll be about 9€/week for a 40 minute lesson.

Ours is a local secondary school pool, £6.50 per half hour. Up to 8 in a group though, which isn't always ideal.

£8.50 a week for half hour max 8 in group. £20 for half hour private (like hens teeth to actually get though)

£40 a month for a half an hour group class a week, there's 4 years between my kids so only had one in lessons at a time as couldn't afford £80 a month! I worked out i must have paid about £1500 for my eldest over the years 😱 their school recently cut down the lessons they provide (that we still had to pay for!) So its just one term in year 4 I think

£32 a month for one half an hour lesson a week (max 8-10 in a group) plus unlimited swimming.

£35 a month for weekly half hour group lessons. Council pool in West Midlands.

£10.50 for half an hour.

£28?!!!! I’m in London too- I’m shocked

£64 per month for 30mins. Two children, so pay £128 a month 🤢

Mine isn’t in swimming lessons for exactly this reason.

They also insist you sign up for about 12 in a row so it will be £340 or something up front, and then of course you will end up missing loads due to other weekend plans.

And 30 mins ffs - barely in the water.

I just take them swimming myself - not my preference but can’t find a sensible alternative at pre school age.

£28 a month, 30min lessons. Class of about 8

£7 per 30 minute lesson.

Just paid £162 for 13 lessons so £12.40 per half hour, small group, preschooler.

Also just paid, to the same company, £85 for 4 half hour lessons, summer crash course. Then same again for a second child. So those are £21 per half hour. Not sure what difference is really, same place, same teacher, small group, older children, just 4 lessons over 4 days.

Lovely teacher! But just shows the variation in price. 🤷‍♀️

£16.50 a lesson - parent and child in pool. Classes are generally 4-7 children. Not the cheapest but I like the fact that they do courtesy classes to use on a different day/venue when you miss one. And since DH and I work every third Saturday, we would miss a lot, so it suited us.

£132 a month for two children 😩

£32 per month, and that’s a 45 minute lesson every week. We’re in Scotland.

£26 per month for 30 minutes a week. Classes usually have about 8 kids. 1 to 1 would be about £20 per half hour.

Works out to about £5 per half-hour lesson (lessons are weekly but I pay a monthly DD). London, council leisure centre. Age 4+. There are theoretically up to about 8-10 kids in a class but in practice, past stage 1-2, always way fewer than this.

£35 per month at the local leisure centre, 30 minute lessons. So about £8 a lesson. In London. Some of these prices are crazy!

£25 for half hour 1:1 here

£40 per month for one 30 min group lesson per week at local council pool. Usually around 6 in class but has varied from 2 to 8, and apparently can be as high as 10. If classes become higher than 6 most weeks and/or cost goes up again I'll definitely consider alternatives.

£30 direct debit per month all year even though lessons aren’t on in school hols. 1/2 hour lessons once a week 6-8 children in a class. It was £20 a month 6 years ago when my other child was having lessons.

£40 per month, which is for 1 half hour lesson per week. Up to 8 kids in each lesson.

I'm wondering how long to keep them up tbh. Oldest can swim all strokes pretty well now and just spends the lessons swimming lengths. She's never going to be a competitive swimmer. At what point do you just say, that'll do?