Anonymous
On the edge of the city but situated at the terminus of routes 32 and 33, this pool can be easily reached by a fifteen minute bus journey from the front of Osnabrück Hauptbahnhof.
At the facility’s reception desk, you will be given a chipped wristband. Use this (a) to pass through the turnstile, (b) to open and close the locker of your choice in the locker rooms, (c) to pay (unusually in my experience, customers are charged as they leave by reference to the amount of time that they have spent in the facility), and (d) following payment, to exit through the turnstile.
The facility has both conventional open gender-specific locker rooms and – for those requiring a degree of privacy – individual cubicles with separate dry and wet side doors.
At the time of my two visits (6.30 AM), the 50 metre pool had one, single, roped-off lane for instruction. All of the many users of the rest of the pool were lap swimming, deploying all recognised and a few unrecognised strokes, at a variety of speeds from good club standard downwards. Despite this, the pool was unlaned. In the absence of any management-imposed rules, individualism rather than self-regulation was the order of the day, making for a somewhat hazardous experience! While I completed my usual daily 1,000 metres all, barring about 200 metres, was by heads-up breaststroke. Most other users responded in the same manner. I really hope that the management will take the simple step of laning up the pool and introducing some sensible lap swimming rules. Some poolside lifeguard presence would also be reassuring. By all means visit, but if you think that you’re going to get a good ‘fly workout, think again.
At the facility’s reception desk, you will be given a chipped wristband. Use this (a) to pass through the turnstile, (b) to open and close the locker of your choice in the locker rooms, (c) to pay (unusually in my experience, customers are charged as they leave by reference to the amount of time that they have spent in the facility), and (d) following payment, to exit through the turnstile.
The facility has both conventional open gender-specific locker rooms and – for those requiring a degree of privacy – individual cubicles with separate dry and wet side doors.
At the time of my two visits (6.30 AM), the 50 metre pool had one, single, roped-off lane for instruction. All of the many users of the rest of the pool were lap swimming, deploying all recognised and a few unrecognised strokes, at a variety of speeds from good club standard downwards. Despite this, the pool was unlaned. In the absence of any management-imposed rules, individualism rather than self-regulation was the order of the day, making for a somewhat hazardous experience! While I completed my usual daily 1,000 metres all, barring about 200 metres, was by heads-up breaststroke. Most other users responded in the same manner. I really hope that the management will take the simple step of laning up the pool and introducing some sensible lap swimming rules. Some poolside lifeguard presence would also be reassuring. By all means visit, but if you think that you’re going to get a good ‘fly workout, think again.