PS - you can buy 'corrected' swimming goggles so that you can see who you are swimming into!
What sort of swimming language is this?
In Geneva I can only call it underwater karate. It is impossible, there is no etiquette and definitely no order, but I just tossed this up to the french ways, ie. no queing, etc... Everyone to fend for themselves and no lanes organised by speed, ability, etc...
Yeah, the last few times I went to Oerlikon, they were doing this, you just have to estimate your speed properly and pick the appropriate lane.
Too lazy to start a new thread and risk being redundant, so I'll just ask this here:
Which days and times have you guys noticed that have the least amount of people in the pool?
Also, where are you located?
Can guests bring a bag with their towels and leave it on an unobtrusive area around the pool, or do they have to rent a locker to put their stuff in?
Zurich: Busy times seem to be before and after work, lunchtimes and Saturday/Sunday afternoons.
Most pools have free lockers, you just need either a CHF 5 coin to operate them, which you get back, or your entry card.
I normally take a bag to the pool area with me which has my towel, and any extra stuff I need (float, fins, etc).
I've stopped using public pools, because everytime I used one, the water always seemed polluted, as I was comstantly surrounded by reddish water.
Is there a heatmap showing busiest times of the week for City Hallenbad (by Bhf Selnau)
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It's a 50m pool, also has a sauna (not used it) and costs 7chf for a swim though multi/abo tickets are available, it's also open ridiculously long hours
Doesn't seem to matter when I go, there always seems to be the same number of people in the pool. (Mon-Fri, lunchtimes trying between 1200 and 1400)
TMI
I swim early in the morning. Only a few other idiots are out and about then, so I get a lane to myself.
Don't worry Sandgrounder. If the swimmers don't get the hint, I just get out of the way.
What time do the children generally swim?
I thought I was doing well to get up and go swim in the morning on a weekday when suddenly some kind of school group of preteens showed up and took over the pool. Is that normal?
Depends on the pool. Some pools are used by the local schools for their obligatory swimming lessons.
In that case would there be a schedule posted somewhere?
Again, it depends on the pool. Check the website or ask at reception?
One of the first times I ever went swimming in a public pool here in CH... I decided to share the lane with my husband, who was doing laps. I myself (not such a great swimmer) was just kind of casually swimming and being careful not to get in my hubby's way.
Then some huge woman (the Bademeister or whatever) comes over and screams at me. I had no idea what she was saying, as it was in Swiss German, but it certainly terrified me. She made me get out of the lane (even though my husband didn't mind if I was in it with him).
This was one of my earliest experiences with how much the Swiss seem to enforce strange protocols.
One of the key things in the swimming pool is that you pee only in the 3rd lane. Some people do it in any lane but that is just rude and dirty.