We acknowledge that we are struggling to meet the demand for swimming lessons. This is due to several factors:
Post-Pandemic backlog. The reality is, during the pandemic, nobody was able to take swimming lessons. This has created a backlog that will likely take us the better part of 2 years to work through.
We are not alone in this predicament. Other facilities across the province and country are selling out of their swimming lessons as quickly as we are.
Demand shifts. Prior to the pandemic, most of the demand for lessons was in the preschool levels, which we have the space to accommodate. Since swimming lessons were not available during the pandemic, our swimmers grew up a little and need higher levels that are harder for us to accommodate based on our pool space.
Pool space. While we have plenty of Leisure Pool space for preschool levels, the highest demand levels are Swim Kids 1-3 (Swimmer 1-4). Given the height of most of those participants, there are select places in our facility where we can safely and comfortably offer those levels. So even if we run them every moment of our lesson times, we just can’t compete with the backlog of participants requiring those levels.