Indoor swimming pools in Berlin

Can anyone recommend an indoor pool? I'd like to swim a few days a week, preferably closer to the Charlottenberg/Wilmerdorf area.

Here is the link to all the swimming pools: Berliner Bäderbetriebe

Thank you!

I'm in love with the Landsberger Allee Schwimmhalle (I've been swimming there since November). It is clearly a former DDR training facility. There are 2 massive 50-m pools and much of the time one of these is entirely open to the public (sometimes a few lanes are blocked off for team training). It's not cheap but it's worth it. And it's also right by the Ring-Bahn so easy to get there.

My doctor tells me swimming is good for my foot/ankle, so I guess I'm going to try out the Schwimmhalle Fischerinsel (a short ride on the M48 from my place).

Aren't your fingers a bit pruned by now?

Schoeneberg Stadtbad is excellent, lovely changing rooms and a really modern 25m pool with other smaller pools/jacuzzis. Mitte Stadtbad is a very interesting 50m pool not far from Oranienburger Strasse. Wilmersdorf Stadtbad is also good.

Charlottenberg and Neukoelln have lovely old fashioned interiors and both have FKK swimming sessions.

Neukölln Stadtbad is great. FKK swim on weekend nights is fab, open to all genders (and particularly friendly to gay cruising). I'm a bi female and it didn't bother me. Nice eye candy. ;-)

Er, strictly for swimming, I have found the Spreewaldplatz facility near Görlitzer Bahnhof to be fantastic. Wave pool, sauna, whirlpools, kiddie area, etc. etc.

Does anyone have any idea if there is a demand for swimming teachers in Berlin?

Does that include individual adult instruction? If so, why not post your details (e.g. experience, certifications, specializations, rates) here on Toytown or in the (needs-a-better-design) ExBerliner. So many Germans know how to swim from quite early, so maybe this is less for them then for us non-natives.

A friend of mine has a baby, and he and his partner take their baby to Babyschwimmen each week. Seems to be a lot of available classes though, so if you are a fluent speaker...

I'm in love with the Neukölln Stadtbad ... dull hetero me never knew about the FKK swimming weekend nights



I like it for never being full and being absolutely gorgeous. the fact that its just 5 minutes from my place makes it perfect for swimming after a long day - great for the perfectly deep sleep.
Swimming backstroke there offers all the eyecandy i need ;p

You hetero boys love your own, er, backstrokes too much! ;-)

Well, now that i think of it, isnt loving oneself a bit homo after all? Its a man caressing a man after all ... hmmmmmmm guess i'm a bit bi then, too

Its just that my gay side is very very faithful

ROFL

Nothing wrong with man-love, I just recommend cheating in this case!

Nah, I like my life simple, and its complicted enough with the chicks ... having sexuality potentially interfer with my social relations to one half of the population is complicated enough, I am thankful there's people where sexuality can never even begin to become an issue. A man needs a safe haven. Well, obviously not everyone, but this one does.