How to get on our email list

All correspondence is best by emailing alohaswimming@gmail.com Email and in writing helps us avoid errors in scheduling matters

Please get on our email list by emailing alohaswimming@gmail.com Tell us your children’s names, ages and swim levels and write your name on this email

How To Register

1. Full payment is required with 3 forms in HARD COPY to register.
2. Open, read and sign the Registration/Liability form. This is how you choose your days and times and instructor.
3. Open, read and sign the entire policy form for detailed info that you are obligated to abide by and help you make informed decisions.
4. Open, read and sign the pool rules form.
5. For appropriate class placement we need The registration form filled in correctly and thoroughly with any other info you need us to know noted on the form.
6. It is best to register early but not more than 3.5 weeks in advance of each new session.
7. To renew another session, use the renewal form.
8. Our busiest times are, April through October M to Th 230-630pm. Try sign up early in the season to avoid the crowds.

Registration Due dates

We accept registrations no more than 3.5 weeks before each session starts. No registrations accepted before that please.

Late registrations, less than 7 before the session starts, get left over times or placed on a waiting list and must pay by cash only.

You will NOT get a tentative schedule to review, but will be emailed a final schedule.

Where to Register

1. All 3 forms are required in HARD COPY are required 1 time each new year
2. Full payment is required with the forms
3. The renewal form is required when you continue to the next session
4. Mail or bring in the forms and full payment to:
   (DPAC) Dana Point Aquatics aka Aloha Swimming
   34232 Camino Capistrano
   Dana Point, CA 92624
5. 5. Registrations and payments may be put in the Black mailbox on the pool deck or the US mailbox on the curb in front of the business anytime as it is a lock box.

How classes are formed:

When all registrations forms and payments are turned in, we match students by age, ability, days and time frame and instructor that you requested. This is a time consuming process but it gives you control over the days, times and instructor you want or need.

We try to keep siblings in back to back classes or around the same time. If we cannot accommodate your requests you will be given options of other days, or other times or other sessions. If you forward it to another session you will be first on the waitlist. We will never keep your payment if we cannot find you a spot in the session, days or timeframe you requested. Please review the policy form on how to get a refund or roll your payment to another session. Review the Cancellation, Refund and Makeup on the policy form as we charge fees and have deadlines for refunds, cancellations and non illness makeup’s or fees for not following protocol.

You will be emailed your scheduled swim time

1. Everyone is placed on the waitlist in order that we receive your registration and payment.
2. 2 weeks before the start of each session we begin the scheduling process.
3. 1 week before the session starts you will be emailed a tentative schedule.
4. The weekend before the session starts you will be emailed the final schedule.
5. The week before each session starts, we get lots of late registrations so we wait to send the final schedule. Sometimes this helps us fill classes so please be patient with the process.
6. When you receive the tentative schedule, 7 days before the session starts. This is your opportunity to make any changes. Contact us ASAP to make changes.
7. When the final schedule is sent there is a $25 fee to change your scheduled times and days due to the added administrative work it takes to do so.
8. If you signed up and did not receive a tentative schedule email us immediately.
9. The final schedule will go out by the weekend before the session starts. No changes at this time.
10. The first day of class we evaluate the students to make sure they are in appropriate classes. Make sure you write in your child’s correct swim level. If you signed up for the wrong level you might be obligated to move to another spot. And might be charged a $25 administrative fee to adjust the schedule. You will be notified by email if we need to make changes.

Waitlist

1. Everyone is placed on the waitlist in order that we receive your registration and payment.
2. If all the classes fill before we get to your registration packet on the waitlist, you will be notified by email. Sometimes we have late cancellations and can work you in late in the process or can roll your registration to the next session. You will be first on the waitlist if this occurs.
3. If you cannot roll into another next session we will give you a full refund.

Renewals

1. Once you have secured a spot you can keep it as many sessions as you like.
2. Have priority of day or time changes if you turn in your renewal form and payment 14 days prior to the start of the following session.
3. It is ok to skip a session or 2 for breaks, vacation etc. Just turn in your renewal form and payment when you are ready to start again.
4. Please include the renewal form with your payment and note any changes on the top the form by writing CHANGE . Renewals have priority of days and times as long payments are turned in 2 weeks prior to start the new session.
5. Late payments may lose your spot.
6. Renewals will be placed on the same days, time frame and instructor unless we cannot find matching partners and you will be given options or you need or want to make changes.

Payments

Full payments are required with the forms to be worked into the schedule.
Zelle to alohaswimming@gmail.com
Check to Dana Point Aquatics
Cash in an envelope with the forms or renewal notice
Check to Amy Polacheck if she is your instructor
You need to notify us by email to alohaswimming@gmail.com a minimum of 10 days in advance of each session if you need to make any changes or cancellations to be eligible for a full refund. Late cancellation forfeit a refund but can pay $25 administrative fee to change sessions.

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Illness/Covid Precaution Policy We would like to keep it less crowded in the pool and pool deck area for safe spacing. ABSOLUTELY NO ILLNESS of swimmer/parents/siblings/spectators. This includes Fever, Runny noses, Coughs, Sneezing, Contagious Diseases, Open sores, Diarrhea, etc. and any recent exposures. Email us the night before or morning of each of their absent days and we will gladly give a makeup/s when they are 100% better. Please review the absence makeup policy on how to schedule makeup/s. Face shields are required for parents in parent and tot classes. Teachers wear face shields while teaching within 6ft of children. 1 parent per student allowed in the water for parent and tot classes. No more than 1 spectator on the pool deck during your Child's lessons. However, only 1 car allowed to be parked in our parking area per family. Siblings must be seated at all times during swim lessons or if there is pool space available, you can pay the $5 per person swim fee for them play quietly, monitored by you, away from the classes and instructors. Do not enter the pool area more than 5 minutes before the start of your scheduled class. Children are allowed to get in the pool 5 minutes before the start of the scheduled class providing there is pool space, they play quietly away from the other classes and instructors and you are monitoring them at all times. When class is finished no lingering in the pool or pool deck area. Ear infections Can be common if you do not take precautions after each swim. Bacteria can grow if you do not dry the excess water. You can buy swim ear drops or make your own. 50/50 vinegar and rubbing alcohol.