Goldfish Swim School – Clarkston

Outstanding place for kids and parents! My 5– and 3-​year-​olds love their instructors. I love how quickly my girls progressed and how accommodating the staff has been. My 3 yo swims pretty well now, but just six months ago wouldn’t go in the water without crying. Highly recommended!

This place is great. Have been going here for a year now and our son is moving along great. Facilities are awesome and he has had many great teachers as he moves up. I feel a lot safer knowing he can swim now.

I can’t begin to express my admiration for this business. The staff is always friendly, the facility is clean and inviting, and I am so happy I found Goldfish Swim in Clarkston!
As a parent of a child with special needs, I am always apprehensive about new situations, but the manager Jamieson, instructor Ely and the rest of the staff have been so wonderful, I am grateful to have found this school for my son. I am happy to say that we are joining the Goldfish «family» and look forward to seeing my son grow as a swimmer, especially for a child who was once terribly afraid of water.
I have read the other reviews about the school and am so glad to add my praise along with everyone else’s here on Unilocal.I highly recommend this school!

It’s nice to know when a local business is intent on making sure their customers are satisfied and are on top of making certain that the service (s) or product (s) they offer meet their customers’ needs, or even better, EXCEED their expectations. Jamieson, the general manager of Goldfish Clarkston, proved that this swim school is one such place.
After my last review, Jamieson, to my semi-​startled surprised reached out by personally introducing himself (and coming in on his day off to do so!) when we were waiting for my son’s next swim lesson to start. He explained he had read my previous Unilocal review detailing my boy’s personal discomfort with the group lessons at that point. In fact, that very morning El Nino was quite upset about having to go in for another group lesson, but it was already paid for so we were going to get our money’s worth, end of story. (I’m guess I am only semi — sensitive on the Mom-​coddling scale, what can I say? :-)
Jamieson offered to do that day’s lesson as a private one to try and see if that might help and, if all worked out well and I was interested in seeing in any positive progress continue, he could work out some additional private lessons at the same cost as the group lessons until The Boy felt fully comfortable. I really appreciated that offer and took him up on it to see if that might help.
Wow, what a difference that 1^st private lesson with Samantha made that day! My son was all smiles and involved in the things his she was trying to teach him. He definitely was having a ball with her as he also did in the next 2 private lessons he had with another female instructor. I feel terrible that I cannot remember her name at this moment, but will update the review later when it comes to me because I like to give credit where credit is due. There is also another manager-​ish type guy who is always very kind to my son and makes him laugh whose name I never caught as well.
After that 1^st private lesson El Nino started getting excited about going to his next lessons. He definitely made progress and his comfort level went way up (even saw him put his head under the water and come up still smiling!). So the temporary private lesson experiment worked and once I get my weird schedule settled between work and preschool to contend with now, I’ll be seeing about continuing group lessons here again soon to see if he can get back on that horse. He had his last private lesson this week. I’d hate for too much of a gap to ensue to upend any progress he’s made thus far.
Thanks so much to Jamieson and all the Goldfish staff for being so accommodating to my son’s needs and making sure our family was happy with the Goldfish experience!

My son has been taking swim lessons there for 4 months and loves it! A warm pool and swim area (90 degrees) is one of the things he loves. Along with the teachers he has had. The staff is also very helpful in any way they can, from rescheduling classes to just chatting if its slow. I have recommend this location and goldfish in general to all my friends and will continue to do so. More that worth the money it costs for lessons. Love it!

This really is a great place to learn to swim. Tried the LOHS for the first few years, but the class sizes limited what my boys could learn. Small class sizes, safety, cleanliness, and great instructors are only some of the things about this place. Would recommend to anyone.