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. Please no registrations accepted before that.

Renewals forms need to be turned in 2 weeks in advance of the new session starting.

Late registrations, less than 10 before the session starts, get left-over times that are available and must pay by cash or zelle ony as it will be too late to process check payments

Late registrations possibly may 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. 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.
6. In Person. Please make an appointment if you would like to come in to bring your registration form and payment. Gates are locked when no classes are going on and we don't want to miss you.

How and when classes are formed and scheduled:

Classes are formed by age, swim levels, time ranges, days and instructors that were requested. This is a time consuming process but it gives you control of the approximate schedule you want or need. We try to keep siblings in back to back classes or around the same time as best we can depending on availability.

Renewals get priority over new registrants and may continue for numerous sessions so EVERYONE is put on the WAITLIST until each session is scheduled with the renewals first.

As registration forms and payments are being turned in, they are placed on a waitlist in order that we receive them.

2 weeks before the session starts we add the renewals back into the schedule for the new session.

1.5 weeks before the session starts, the new registrants are added to the schedule based on available spots, age, swim level, days, time range and instructors they requested.

Late registrants are added to the schedule in the left over spots or add them to open spots to fill classes.

Tentative and final schedule emailed

Make sure you are on our email list. If you haven't ever emailed alohaswimming@gmail.com with your current email address, please do so with you and your child's full name, age and swim level.

1 week before the session starts, we email the tentative schedule for your review.
You must email within 2 days if you need changes to this schedule. We may have made an error or you may need a late schedule change. We will try to accommodate without a fee within this 48 hour range of the email sent.
There is a $25 fee to make schedule changes after the 48 hour deadline.

By Saturday before the session starts, the final schedule will be emailed with all the final additions and changes.
At this time any schedule change requests may not be possible, but we will try.
After the final schedule is emailed, there is a $25 fee to make requested schedule changes.
After the final schedule is emailed there is a $50 fee to forward your classes if you request to forward your payment to the following session.

Waitlist

1. Everyone is placed on the waitlist in order that we receive your registration and payment.
2. This does not mean you won't get in the schedule, it means you are in the waiting cue in order until the scheduling process starts.
3. The higher up on the waitlist the more chance to get to your schedule preferences.
4. Our busiest time is mid April to Oct between 2:30-6pm. So try to give us broader options on your registration form during this time or schedule earlier in the season to secure your times
5. It is rare when we cannot get everyone fitted into our teachers schedule however, if your registration packet is low on the waitlist and we cannot accommodate the days and time range you requested you will be notified by email and offer you other day or time options.
6. Sometimes we have late cancellations and can work you late in the process or can roll your registration to the next session. You will be first on the waitlist if this occurs.
7. If you cannot roll it into a future session we will give you a full refund or give your check back.

Renewals

1. Once you have secured a spot you can keep it as many sessions as you like.
2. Renewals are subject to slight time changes each session depending on the schedule process.
3. Renewals get priority of available day or time changes as long as you turn in your renewal form and payment 14 days prior to the start of the following session.
4. Late renewals may be subject to losing your days or time depending on the current schedule process.
5. It is ok to skip a session/s for breaks, vacation etc. Just turn in your renewal form and payment when you are ready to start again. But you will have to get on the waitlist for available times again.
6. The renewal form is required with your payment and note any changes you want and circle CHANGE on the top of the renewal form.
7. Renewals will be placed on the same days, time range and instructor preference unless we cannot find matching partners and you will be given options in the new session schedule.

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Illness/Covid Precaution Policy ABSOLUTELY NO ILLNESS of swimmers/parents/siblings/spectators on the pool deck or pool at anytime 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 may be required for parents in parent and tot classes. Teachers wear face shields while teaching within 5ft of children. 1 parent per student allowed in the water for parent and tot classes. 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.