Best swimming options for a 1-week visit? Confused about the health cert situation
Visiting Beijing next month and trying to figure out the swim pool situation.
From what I can piece together, all the well-known public pools (Water Cube,
Yingdong, the university ones) require a health certificate that involves a
photo and blood pressure check on-site. Has anyone here actually gone through
that as a foreigner? Was the staff English-speaking? How long does it take?
Alternative: are there hotel pools that sell day passes to non-guests? I've
seen Kempinski and Fairmont mentioned but the prices online vary wildly
(¥200 to ¥400) and I can't tell if those are current.
Final question - if I just want a treadmill and some weights for 45min, what's
the move? Lefit/Supermonkey both seem to require a Chinese phone number which
I won't have.
Appreciate any pointers from people who've actually done this.