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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: What are your experiences with swimming pools in China?
I've just signed up to a local swimming pool and hope to shed some of the pounds I put on over the winter. What have been some of the crazy/funny things you've seen or experienced in swimming pools in China? I'm a little apprehensive I must say.
Parents holding up kids to pee on the edges of the pool so the pee can run back down.
In our community pool. The rules of the roads also apply in the pool, that is go in any direction you want, and if you don't look you don't have to give way
The lifeguard pours in a 25 kg drum of chemicals at 10 minutes before closing time, regardless of number of swimmers.
dont run into kids, they will accuse you of throwing them in or hitting them and shake you down for 20000 rmb.
I love to swim..... and we have a very good pool here .... but I also love HOT TUBS .. and they have no hot tub at my local pool..so I don't go...............assholes ,,,,,,,,,,, hot springs think they are big time and charge 100RMB per visit............. shitty hot springs...... I'd pay 15 ...not 100............pool is 35 and decent but without the hot tub, not a good experience for me
I didn't know I was in for a shocker to see a bunch of naked ladies in the shower, no doors, no curtains, nothing. They don't feel embarrassed at all.
Unshaved legs & armpits, naked kids, kids peeing in the gutter just next to the pool, a crowd of people soaking in the pool, so there's no place to swim, ridiculous number of life saviors, but everyone was wearing a swimming cap.
Thanks for asking that. Someone is taking me swimming with them this weekend... Now I know what I have to look forward to!
I've only been to a pool in a 5 star hotel, can't remember where, but nice place and pool. I had to buy a bathing cap even though my hair is almost shaven. Pool was empty, then some Chinese guy came in and swam a lap and started horking and spitting in the pool, swam another and horked. I got out and just watched him with discust. I went down one floor to where the lockers were and I could still hear this gut horking. I grabbed the attendant and just screamed at him about the pig in the pool and how can I swim there. He ran up to the pool, I left.
I saw a blowup doraemon floatie....other than that nothing much!!
I can imagine it would be like swimming in a toilet.
Me and the gf went to one last year. It was one of those combo deals...pools, showers, spa, massage, etc. First, they wouldn't let me in the pool without first buying a swimcap. I looked out into the pool, and yep...everyone is wearing one, with most of the ladies having half or more of their hair out of the cap anyways. So whatever, I buy one. Then, they don't want to let me in because of my swim trunks. They were the typical board shorts that come down to my knees and don't give away all the details of my manhood like those Chinese speedo-ish swimwear. They thought it was some kind of joke, and that my swim trunks would just come off when I jumped in the pool? Anyways, I refused and got in the pool. My gf refused to wear the swimcap, and just sat with her legs in the pool...all the while the "lifeguards" were balabala-ing with her. A pretty miserable experience. Better off to go to a water park. Sorry for the brick of text, my work computer stopped letting me make paragraphs and replies on here. Awesome.
easyrider:
Does that mean that there might be a rule that says I have to wear speedos?
Scandinavian:
In our community pool speedos are not required, actually the sign with rules for the pool only says that a cap is needed, the cap is also the only rule that is enforced. there is another dumbass foreigner in the community I live in that is 100% bald, but very hairy. the lifeguard will yell at him if he doesn't wear a cap, but not say anything to kids peeing into the pool (there is an excellent bathroom right next to the pool)
Re: easyrider. It's possible man...or it could have just been that one place we went to. I never get any flack about my trunks at the various local water parks. It was only at this joint. If they try to give you some shit, just yank on the shorts real hard to show they aren't coming off. Make sure you've tightened the elastic band properly before commencing this demonstration
I've had mainly negative experiences in swimming pools here: adults hocking flem right into middle of the swimming lane, perverts staring at western girl in swim suit, piles of dead skin at the bottom of the pool which was clearly not cleaned in months or years, too much chlorine and chemicals in the water, no separate kiddie pools so an entire pool of loose-bladdered kids...etc.