Indoor swimming pool

Does anyone know if there are any public indoor swimming pools in Taipei? Much thanks!

Not a complete list… but should be a good start

tealit.com/swimming.htm

and don’t forget your swimming cap… Even shaven headed blokes like me with more body hair than Burt Reynolds have to wear a cap, but they don’t legislate for a hairy chest…

Welcome to Taiwan :wink:

That’s fantastic help Funk500, thank you! :slight_smile:

There is also a decent pool near zhongshan MRT station. The place is called zhongshan yundong (sports) zhongxing (centre?)

Lovely, thank you Tyc00n. :slight_smile: Would you also happen to have any idea if theirs is an indoor pool? Unlike 99.5% of the Taiwanese female population, I am hardly afraid of tanning. I just have a nasty reaction to sunlight exposure after say, 2 hours. :frowning:

Yes its indoors. B1. My only problem with the place is:

  1. no electronics in the pool
  2. the water is a bit warm for me at 30 degrees

But other than that, its also got steam rooms and saunas and a gym upstairs thats 50NT per hour.

[quote=“Tyc00n”]Yes its indoors. B1. My only problem with the place is:

  1. no electronics in the pool
  2. the water is a bit warm for me at 30 degrees

But other than that, its also got steam rooms and saunas and a gym upstairs thats 50NT per hour.[/quote]

electronics in the pool? did you mean a currents and man-made waves? :laughing:

how does anyone swim in 30degrees water?? :s

may i know if they charge steam rooms/saunas/pool per entrance or by the hour? thank you

In my opinion, the best indoor pool is at NTNU on Ho-Ping E. Road next to the track field (situated at the T-intersection of Jin-Shan Road).

It’s Olympic-size (50m long), multiple speed lanes. Got good relatively clean showers. Lockers for free (for longer-term members) and even a heated pool (sort of like hot springs) in the basement, as well as shallow pool for training those who are just learning to swim.

Can pay on daily basis, or by monthly (N$2200), quarterly (N$6000), half-year (N$11000) or full-year (N$20000). After 3 years of membership, there’s a 15% discount, so full-year at N$17,000. Open 7-days a week.

Plus, some of the nights you get to see the college swim team or swim club in action to get you more motivated.

Yeh, thats the one near Guting MRT right? I checked it out last weekend. Its freaking impossible to get to. Takes far too much time walking from the MRT to get to the pool to be told that I don’t have ID.

Well F’em. ZhongShan is way more convenient. At least for me.

I hear yah. Since I’ve been in Taiwan for more than a decade, that way back when, this pool was nearly the only decent year-round large pool in Taipei, and hence i’ve been swimming there since about 1998. Now Taipei City has developed into having a lot more district pools for the public. Even back in my NTNU MTU days, I once swam regularly in the “fen-bu” campus Olympic-size pool on Roosevelt (past Keelung intersection). Haven’t been back there in more than a decade. Wonder what it’s like now?

[quote=“Tyc00n”]Yes its indoors. B1. My only problem with the place is:

  1. no electronics in the pool
  2. the water is a bit warm for me at 30 degrees

But other than that, its also got steam rooms and saunas and a gym upstairs thats 50NT per hour.[/quote]

I like this one too. It’s easy to get to, lots of food in the area and big clean pools.

My problem is the rules are very strict. My son, 3, was wearing surf shorts in the wading pool which isn’t allowed. They came over with a pair of speedo tyes and asked us to buy those instead. Also a 6 month old baby was with us and kept taking of her swim cap and time and time again they told us to put it back on her.

Yeh I agree…they’re Nazis and I’ve lost my temper more than once with them. Now if I go with friends I deliberately flaunt the rules to annoy them, by doing things such as everyone changing to the left lane…

Hmmm. I guess rules at a swimming pool are not to be followed then.

I’ve been part of that swimming community since 1998, and I will tell you that all the workers (older ones and the students) are very nice and want to keep the swimming pool in clean shape. If that means everyone wears a swim cap, then so be it. About once or twice a year, they shut down the pool for 1 week for full cleaning. They even reimburse members for that time out by adding it to the end of their card’s time limit.

The students of the PE department there also teach children how to swim and I’ve seen many children over the years shown significant improvement. At the end of the day, if you do not like rules, then this swimming pool is probably not suited for you, which is neither good nor bad in my opinion.

The workers/students there have gotten to know me fairly well, and they even have actually helped me out over the years. Many times, I’ve forgotten my swim cap or my swim cap suddenly ripped and I’ve gone over to borrow one from the card counter. Same thing with goggles. Have forgotten them many a times, and they’ve happily given me a pair to use. If you get to know a PE student, then you likely can get the “deals” on the swimwear or accessories.

I’m sure you’ll still say “F them”, but they have to keep those rules, because it is a university pool on a university campus. I’ll take this pool over some of the other ones I’ve heard of any day, because most of the members there are multi-year members and know about lane rules and staying to the right as the “foreigner comes slicing by”.

Cheers.

There’s an indoor pool in Yong He, on Zhongshan RD, one block south of Sogo. I can’t remember what bus you have to take. You can get 10 tickets for 1600 nt.

There’s also a pool at the Long (dragon) Men (gate) Middle School at the intersection of Jian Guo South Road and Hsin-Hai Road (near Ho-Ping East Road). I know it’s open very very early in morning, because as I drive by on my way to work at around 5:15am in a taxi, the locals are walking into it. Never been inside, but should be pretty new, because that school’s campus is rather new (few years old). Quite nice looking campus, too, for a middle school.

[quote=“CTaitung”]Hmmm. I guess rules at a swimming pool are not to be followed then.

I’ve been part of that swimming community since 1998, and I will tell you that all the workers (older ones and the students) are very nice and want to keep the swimming pool in clean shape. If that means everyone wears a swim cap, then so be it. About once or twice a year, they shut down the pool for 1 week for full cleaning. They even reimburse members for that time out by adding it to the end of their card’s time limit.

I’m sure you’ll still say “F them”, but they have to keep those rules, because it is a university pool on a university campus. I’ll take this pool over some of the other ones I’ve heard of any day, because most of the members there are multi-year members and know about lane rules and staying to the right as the “foreigner comes slicing by”.

Cheers.[/quote]

Yes. Fucking retards. If they wanted to keep the pool clean, I’ll give them some tips:

  1. 30 degrees is way to high for a lap pool. Decrease the temperature to ~23 degrees and you reduce the bacteria growth rate, but hey, suddenly the swimmers may actually have to start swimming to increase their body temperature rather than bobbing along.
  2. increase the chlorine content and / or salt levels to reduce the bacteria growth rate
  3. stop obsessing over hair in the pool which is completely harmless and instead focus on the people hocking up phlegm into the drain. Don’t these people realise the water is recycled??? :loco:
  4. The rules just don’t make any logical sense whatsoever.

Logical sense is oftentimes lost is Taiwan, and there is no fancy GPS to find it. It’s a culture thingy.

Here is a theory:

Europe / Australia

  1. Logic
  2. Law
  3. Face

US

  1. Law
  2. Logic
  3. Face

China / Taiwan

  1. Face
  2. Logic
  3. Law

Japan

  1. Face
  2. Law
  3. Logic

You came up with this? I like it.

I didn’t actually. A genius friend of mine living in Taiwan did. I only came up with the Japan one.