We go to a swim school. We pay $140 a month. DS swim twice a week. They also offer spring, winter, sumer and fall camps. I just signed DS up for spring camp for 5 days for a week. $100 for that week in addition to his twice a week.
Next month he will start swim prep camp for 6 weeks..an hour a week..which is $230..he will still swim his normal lessons twice a week. DS will be 5 years old soon and is doing really well in class and REALLY enjoys swimming. He has his freestyle down, his backstroke, breaststroke but is finding the butterfly to be a bit more difficult.
We paid $85 for 8 weeks for DD through a Parks and Rec program in a neighboring city. The parent/baby/tot classes are held in a warm therapy pool. DS will take a Parks and Rec class through our city this summer, but it is just in the high school pool.
While I was working, I had DS in a swim school. They kept the temp at 85 degrees and there were only 3 children in a group. It was wonderful! It was also $110 a month (4 classes). Needless to say, when the budget needed to be cut for me to stay home, that was the first item eliminated.
Through our Parks & Rec dept. they are ridiculously cheap - $40 for 8 weekly 30 minute lessons during the school year (2 sessions). In the summer they're $30 for 3 weeks of daily 30 minute lesson - that's on top of pool memberships (family membership is $200ish). I love the summer ones b/c it's every day and there are so many it's not a huge deal to skip one.
We have also done a different program led by the swimming coach at a local college - those are $140 for daily 45 minutes for 2 weeks.
Don't let the prices of the P & R classes fool you, I've paid plenty of taxes to get those prices!
Hey we pay ridiculous taxes too and don't get anything like that you are lucky!
It's $136 for 8, 15 minute lessons. It's a one on one lesson. I could take him somewhere else for a little less but the woman he goes to is very intense and does a great job of teaching the kids to swim without any swim aids.
We do private, one-on-one lessons at our Y and are not members. It is $160 for 4 30-minute lessons. If we were members, it would be $100 a month for membership and $100 a month for 4 30-minute lessons.
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Hey we pay ridiculous taxes too and don't get anything like that you are lucky!
Ours are $380 for 20 weeks.
ETA - that's for one class per week.
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