Perth HPC — Attraction in Mount Claremont

My twin sons have been in level 3 at HBF Swim School for close to a year & a half now & not making any progress to the next level. Classes seem to have no structure & no feedback provided to parents whatsoever on the children’s progress, or what your child has to do to pass to the next stage. They also seem to change the swimming instructors regularly which I feel is not helpful in grading consistency nor the children’s progression.

I chose HBF Arena as the school they go to conduct their swim classes here. I note one twin progressed to level 4 in a matter of weeks yet HBF are still keeping both boys at the basic level 3 stage. They seem to be doing very basic babyish skills more suitable for a 4 year old rather than a 8 year old. Both my boys are into their 3rd year doing surf club where they can swim over 50m unaided in deep water and HBF have them swimming 5m lengths with a kickboard! I wanted to strengthen their swimming & teach them how to dive properly so am hugely disappointed with them & feel I’m mindlessly handing over lots of money for no benefit & no technique improvement. Perhaps State Swim may have more structure & progression...

Good mid size venue for concerts and other events. When going for big events I highly recommend reverse parking to ensure you can get out easier, especially when in overflow areas on the grass. It would be good if for events they had more flood lighting near grass parking space as it is very difficult to see at night. I have been to several concerts here over the years (alt-J twice, The Wombats, The 1975, Perth Symphony Orchestra to name a few) and always found the sound to be high quality, especially given the venue size. Most recently I have been to two concerts at RAC/Perth arena (much bigger and made for massive concerts) and found the sound there during support acts to be incredibly poor, but HBF stadium and the sound techs do a good job of making sure the quality is consistently high. To mitigate some of the parking issues, if we are in GA Standing for concerts we go to the back near the door during encore so we can rush out and get to the car quickly and usually this avoids the long...

I have been a member of HBF Stadium for 20 years. The staff are lovely. They are professional and helpful. But they also work for an organisation driven by process and PC policy.

Some of the rules the poor staff need to implement are straight from John Cleese and Faulty Towers or the ABC's Utopia. Absurd and silly.

Only last week about 9 seniors we 'dragged' out of the indoor pool because the power generator had temporarily failed.

No threat; water still safe; plenty of natural lighting, but we couldn't finish our swims.

To our surprise, we were then told we couldn't use the changerooms so we could change back into our street clothes. Reason? It's protocol. 70 plus elders standing out the front clad only in one's bathers is not comfortable and could terrify local residents.

This is not unusual at HBF where the staff are not permitted to exercise common sense.

It's a wonderful facility managed by bureaucrats who only understand redtape...