Jack Kramer Club

If I could give them a review below one star, I would. EXTREMELY pretentious and rude!
I am a well educated, classy young woman and when I walked in and tried to speak to the women who worked at the office, they were so rude. They were so condescending and spoke to me as if I was a homeless crack addict. Laughing, scoffing in my face. It was one of the stranger experiences of my adult life. Awful Awful facility.

THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE SUMMER CAMP ONLY:
We are not members and this is our first experience with the Jack Kraemer Club. However, I would like to review the good (and the «needs to be improved») aspects of the SCAT and CAT programs. I enrolled 2 children (ages 6 and 3) in the swim, tennis, arts and crafts camp for 4 weeks; however, we ended up deciding to pull out after 2 weeks. (SEE BELOW). The Club (and Mike who I believe runs the summer camp program) was very flexible and kindly refunded my money (they may been so accommodating because they were happy to see us go…I’ll never know).
PROS: The swimming pool and tennis courts are great. Kids have plenty of space to swim, dive off the diving boards and seem to enjoy the free time. Mike is very flexible and truly does want you to get the most of your experience. They were accommodating of adding private tennis lessons at the club during camp hours, adjusting timing on swim lessons etc.
CONS: This is not a structured camp nor is this a camp where you send your kids for years. You need to stay on top of your children’s activities to make sure they get tennis time, swim time etc. The arts and crafts were OK — but this is not the focus of the camp — so I was less fussed about this. My biggest complaint is that the camp counsellors were young and could have been a little more engaging.
If you are looking for a safe place to send your children to swim and be outside for a couple hours every day, I would choose Jack Kraemer.
** We ended up pulling out because my 3 year old was having trouble settling in due to anxiety around her swim lessons. Evidently, the counsellors were annoyed and complained that she had a few accidents. My only real issue with this summer camp is that if you are going to take 3 year olds, your counsellors need to understand this might happen and not be sour about it. Otherwise, raise your minimum camper age. Being able to send both girls to the same camp was one of my primary requirements. We would have likely chosen Rolling Hills Country Day or another camp if I had known that the Jack Kramer Club is really better suited for 5+.

I got a chance to play a match on Wednesday night at the Jack Kramer Club! It’s a fantastic facility with top notch tennis courts. The lights were bright, so it was a pleasure to play there at night. The courts were medium in speed.
The team we played against had many ex-​USC varsity tennis players on it. The JKC team is headed by the men’s USC tennis coach, Peter Smith!
There’s a small pro shop as you walk in the front door, then there’s a nice size swimming pool (looked like an Olympic size pool). The club has a large locker room.
Also, the tennis facility had a lot of lessons going on and it looked like they had a very good junior tennis program.
I would love to play at the club more often if I was a member or lived in the area. Tennis is the best sport!
Xie Xie!

Had the opportunity to join this club since the school that our children go to was offering a insanely good deal. So far we have enjoyed the atmosphere at the club and the grill/​snack shack has very good quality food at reasonable prices.
The good: Tends to be sunny at the Kramer club when other locations around the hill are socked in with marine layer. Parking and pool access always is easy and never seems to get too crowded. The area is clean and having two real diving boards keeps the kids busy. They have easy access to a small gym overlooking the pool with the bikes, stair climbers, treadmills and other equipment. They also have two large ice machines that allow you to ice down any type of beverage (no glass) in your cooler while you cool down. Also, you can bring a guest (s) and they only charge $ 5 to use the facilities, but if say you bring your Mom or whomever, who just wants to hang out, no charge at all. If you have young kids they have a handball court and you can have birthday parties in that covered area. Open at 6am and close at 10pm, awesome. WiFi throughout club and have a large lounge room with a big screen in case someone wants to catch up on the big game.
The bad: No jacuzzi, which you don’t really need, but would be nice to unwind if you had a long day or finished a round of tennis. Some of the staff at the front desk can be less than friendly. Need to bring your own towel.
Overall, we have tried a few other pool clubs around the area and this one works very well for our family and guests.

Love the Jack Kramer Club. We joined, originally, for the pool for our kids. We had them try some tennis lessons, however, the instructors were not very friendly, and seemed to only want to work with tennis «prodigy’s.» We were equity members, yet did not get priority when it came to lessons, which never made sense. My kids did the Swim conditioning class, but they wanted $ 220 EACH child for my kids to basically swim up and down the pool with someone standing there watching.
The snack bar was always nice. Big salads, nice sandwiches, hotdogs/​hamburgers for the kids, etc. On a couple of occasions, however, I sent my nanny with my son while I was working, and they were less than friendly to her.
We originally paid a LARGE sum to join, (think almost $ 30,000) and have seen the membership prices drop down to under $ 10,000…yikes!!! In the middle of all of this they actually RAISED the monthly dues to $ 285/​mo plus $ 15 snack bar minimum.
Not enough shade, and it would drive me crazy when people playing tennis would drop their bags on the shaded lounge chairs and never come and sit in them.
Loved that they were one of the only places left with 2 true diving boards.
Needless to say no matter how much we like the Jack Kramer Club it was NOT a good investment. We eventually decided just to take a loss and walk away :-(