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| - I had never heard of Safe Splash until I saw a gift certificate option at Costco. I went home and looked at the website and thought I would give it a try. We needed a swim school for our 3 year old where the parent would not have to be in the water. One "issue" with Safe Splash Las Vegas is the locations and days/times of classes. They are very limited. I ended up having to drive 30 minutes away to attend a level 1 class. 60 minutes in the car round-trip is a lot with small children! The first instructor we had was a novice and not great. I was nervous and disappointed with the way the instructor handled the children/curriculum. I considered dropping out of Safe Splash after the first month but then decided to voice my concerns to a manager, who truly made me feel a lot better and offered to switch me to a different level 1 instructor. We made the switch and that instructor - with many years of experience - was more in line with what I was looking for/expecting and so we stuck with Safe Splash. In just a couple months, our 3 year old went from not wanting to float on her back or to blow bubbles on the surface of the water to actually putting her head under, blowing bubbles/holding her breath, and kicking for a few feet! Her progress with just one time per week classes is truly worth the investment. At one point, we had a substitute instructor, Johnny, who apparently was a former full-time instructor and now just subs. He was AMAZING and if he were teaching full-time again, I would have my child in his class stat. I wish the other instructors trained with Johnny and took refresher courses periodically with him. My main concern with the two instructors we have had, (more-so with the first one than the second), is the lack of "discipline" or expectations of the children. Toddlers are a tough crowd but when you have a few of them on the castle in the water or on the edge of the pool deck, it is important that the instructor demand no splashing, no goofing around, no jumping, etc.. The students can learn just as much from watching a peer as from the instructor him/herself and I feel like Johnny was the only one who set rules before the kids got on the castle and followed through with them throughout the half-hour lesson. Like I said, my child has shown tremendous progress in such a short period of time, right at the start of her 3rd birthday, so I am pleased. A solid 4 stars. But the limited times, locations, distance, and weak discipline/expectations made it impossible for me to rate it as 5 out of 5 stars.
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