Santa Monica Swim Center

Toni Baloney 2 weeks ago

Great pools. Helpful personnel. Unfortunately the lift for the splash pool has been broken for over two months. Being an amputee it makes it impossible for me to swim there.

Mike Fallon 3 weeks ago

This place completely blows, especially during the school year. Their schedule is constantly changing with no website updates. Call before you waste your time. They routinely have school sports events which changes their lap swim hours. Too many times we have arrived in the evening to be told the pool is closed until 7 pm for water polo or whatever! Completely unreliable and when it’s open, they usually cram 3 to a lane because the 2nd pool is being used … for an event . Go somewhere else , the juice is not worth the squeeze, plus little to no parking and expensive to boot.

Douglas Stumvoll 2 months ago

I'm giving it a one-star and I have never even been there but after reading everybody else's review it sounds like a big waste of time and money... I was hoping for a relaxing pool where I can swim with my daughter and yes have her hang off my neck if she wants to but since that's against the rules I don't think I will be attending it sounds like a adult lap pool if anything... 80 yearn for the good old days at my neighborhood pool... can't do anything in this town everybody's worried about liability and getting sued... go to is there a Water Resort in Mexico those tools are way more fun!

Lilian Caylee Wang 5 months ago

Do *not* send your kids here unless you're doing Parent & Me or they already know how to swim. We took our 2.5 year old to a Seahorse class today and at one point, he slipped, and was face down in the pool, and the teacher, Gio, was not paying any attention. My husband and I were calling to him that our son was, um, drowning, and he did not react. When I realized he wasn't going to do anything, I ran over and pulled my son's face out of the water. Gio then picked him up and set him on his feet and moved away. He did absolutely nothing to console or comfort our crying child. He, instead, said "if you're not ready for this class, you shouldn't be here." If you are unable to ensure the safety of children or even show them empathy, you should not be working with them in any capacity, Gio. I should also mention that only ONE person apologized to us for what happened--and that was neither Gio nor the woman who worked there and was standing around next to the pool and saw it happen.

Carlos Diazmuñoz 6 months ago

Great facility very friendly staff, just beware of the very serious swimmers. I suggest to use the slow lane no matter how good of a swimmers you think you are. They take swimming very seriously there and you might get hit by a hardcore swimmer with his arm passing you that can cause an injury.