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Re: Best swimming classes in North Berkeley/Albany?
The pools (yes - TWO pools, one indoors and warm, the other outdoors and olympic size)
are amazingly wonderful. The pools and locker rooms are clean and beautiful, and there
are lots of open hours for lap swim and family swim.
Check the Albany pool site for swim lessons and hours by going to the website
http://www.ausdk12.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=92446&type=d.
Happy to be back at the Albany pool
Re: Baby swiming classes
Re: Infant-parent swim class
Two new Albany pools just opened in February - and swim lessons are underway. The pools
are next to Albany High School at 1311 Portland Ave at Key Route, and are shared by the
HS and the community.
Check on the availability of swim lessons for all ages from babies to seniors, as they
fill fast. I know people who have enjoyed Albany swim lessons in the past, and the
current swimmers seem very happy.
Note: the Albany pool was closed from 2009 until Feb 2012 for reconstruction.
July 2008
The Albany High School pool has a great teacher with a great toddler
class for three different ages. My son loves it. Happy swimming!
Irina
April 2008
My kids both took swim lessons at the pool at the Albany high school
when they were babies and then toddlers. The lessons were really fun
for them, and I do believe helped to get them used to the water. They
are 4- and 6-years-old now and are both little fishes. Here is some
info from a previous post on the subject: The address is 1311
Portland Ave.; their phone is 559-6440. Also
see:http://www.citynight.com/~ahs/community/swim.html.
Liz O.
Re: Pool for handicapped woman (Jan 2005)
The Albany Pool (on Portland St) has a lift into and out of the
pool. They have community swim hours, but I have no idea how one
arranges to use the lift. I'd suggest you look them up on the
web at http://www.enterit.com/ALBANY6640/ to find out.
former Albany pool user
Albany Pool has a swimming class for toddlers in which most of the half hour each week is spent singing various songs together in the pool. As each child must be held by a parent, there is unfortunately not much opportunity for interaction between the children nor for unconstrained expression. Nevertheless, it can be a lot of fun for the toddlers. The class meets on Saturday mornings at 10:30, and I believe that it runs year-round, although it's much more popular in the summer. The park next to the pool has two nice playgrounds, one of which is tailored to toddlers.
My only complaint would be that the class goes really quickly (only 1/2 hour) which is plenty of time but they always seemed to have another class immediately following and I felt rushed to hurry up and get out of the water (we know the results of trying to rush a 2 yo or otherwise hurry him into doing something he doesn't want to do!) Dorothy
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