nervous swimmer

[ConnorMonaghan 96]

Hi everyone, I'm not a very confident swimmer and I'm swimming with the dolphins as my family have already booked the tickets for it. Just wondering if someone who has been and done it at discovery cove could share what it was like?

 

[CarolAnnB]

You can wear a life jacket if you are not comfortable in the water. We went when my DD was about 6 and she was not a great swimmer so wanted a life jacket. I wore one too because she didn't want to be the only one. It was fine. That is what I would recommend, then you won't have to worry about being nervous and can just enjoy it. It was an awesome experience. Can't wait to go back next month.

 

[westgirl]

I'm a nervous swimmer and I hated it tbh and cried most of the time during the interaction we were on the left of the pool up against some rocks which were quite slippy and had a jet behind it which seemed to push me forward. It might be worth speaking to the trainers beforehand and requesting one of the groups in the middle which were close to The shore and seemed less rocky.

Please don't let me put you off I loved the dolphin interaction but found some of the staff to be very unsympathetic, I'm not sure what I expected but everywhere was much deeper than I imagined.

The park itself is beautiful and I'm sure you'll have a wonderful time with your family but wanted to let you know about the dolphin
Pool.

 

[MinnieLovesMickey12]

When doing the actual SWIM part of the Dolphin interaction you can choose to do a deep water swim or a shallow water swim. DS and I both did the shallow water swim. We got to do the same thing as everybody else only we didn't have to go out into deep water and tread water waiting for it to be our turn.

They also have life jackets you can wear.

 

[mckelvey72]

In the entire place, you are only over your head in water very very few times. As pp said, the dolphin encounter you are in waist deep water the entire time......IF you want to swim with the dolphin you can do shallow or deep water...just do the shallow swim.

In the sting ray pool, the water is not deep, not anywhere I went.

In the lazy river, you get a noodle and float on it. Most of the time you can stand up and your knees sometimes hit bottom when you are floating and a few times you go over deepwater but it isn't for very long and as I stated you have a noodle to relax on.

When we went the new section wasn't open so not sure about that.

You can wear a life vest if you want but I think you will find that you are very comfortable in all the water areas.

It is an amazing place and you will have a blast!!! Do you have time to take a swimming lesson at your local YMCA or something? That is what I did with my then 6 year old...he swam all the previous summer, then I kept him in swim lesson up until a week before we left. So he got a lot more comfortable in the water and swam like a fish the entire time.