Munich Kids

Germans love swimming, sunbathing, and relaxing in saunas. Their network of public swimming pools clearly demonstrates this.  Munich has the best public swimming pool system of any city I have lived in or visited!  There are 19 public swimming facilites within Munich and numerous other ones that can be reached by S-bahn.  For example, Therme-Erding is considered ”the best sauna in Germany and Austria”. 

There are outdoor and indoor swimming pools, and some facilities have both.  Visit SWM’s excellent web site for details of each facility.  Each facility has its own page that lists what is available, hours, prices, and public transportation information.  Prices are very reasonable.  For example, at the Nordbad you can swim for up to 3 hours for 3,40 EUR or for the whole day for 6,60 EUR.  Use of the sauna is extra.  Children up to age three have free admission.  Most of the swimming pools offer swimming and water exercise classes as well. 

Wondering what the conventional practice for clothing is? In other words, will everyone be fully dressed in swimsuits?  Swimsuits are worn in the swimming pools. You may see a few topless sunbathers at some of the outdoor pools, but generally everyone stays clothed in their swimsuits.  Topless and nude sunbathing tends to be reserved for designated, often private, facilities, or for traditionally nude areas in the English Garden and the Isar river.  However, users of the sauna are typically nude.

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