Germantown Life Enrichment Center

This review is for swim lessons only, as we don’t use the other facilities. After experimenting at most of the area pools (YMCAs, W. Penn Charter are just two) in an attempt to get our 7 year old competently swimming, we saw a deal on swim lessons here and decided to try it. I had heard amazing things about the instructors from other parents in the area. We were accustomed to very young teachers who coddled our son, never quite pushing him to that point where he was swimming on his own. The instructors here are different-​they are in it to get the kids swimming and are serious about their jobs. After 5 lessons, they had him swimming. We also put our 2 year old into lessons here-​same deal. Other places have kids that age blow bubbles and sing songs while their parents twirl them around the pool-​there isn’t any real instruction. The instructor here was playful with them but also determined to get the kids closer to swimming independently and did more than just treat the lessons like they were time to mess around in the water.
Lessons here always run on time, which I can’t say about the Y. Everyone who works here is friendly and professional. The only downside– there doesn’t seem to be any heat in the locker rooms.