The 'Ostbad' also houses a sauna and has a salt-water pool area - both I did not check out…read more I only tried the main swimming pools. Which were alright. There is one basin of 25 Meters length for swimming, a deep basin with diving boards (3 and 1 Meter) and small basin for children and non-swimmers. Showers, dressing rooms and the pool hall were clean when I was there. Building wise, there are a couple of corners where you can see some rust oozing out of the concrete and stuff that shows the age of this swimming pool. It's generally not a charming place to be and the low concrete ceiling above the pools does not help in that regard. In the main pool, there are no lanes - so swimming there is one big mess and everyone is getting into everyone's way all the time.

Hallenbad Hiltrup is a decent small swimming pool. 2 Stainless steel basins, one for swimmers of 25…read moreMeters length and one for children. They have one lane set aside for what they call "performance orientated swimmers" (and apparently you can be "performance orientated" AND slow at the same time) but the rest of the big basin is a free for all. A System that overall doesn´t work well in my experience, but when I was there the whole pool was quite empty so there was enough space for everyone. There are also disco-balls and colored lights on the ceiling - so I reckon they are having a pool-parties there now and then. For the Lockers you need a 1€ piece and the showers are separated for men and women. Negatives? Too few hairdryers and those that are there are not height adjustable. So taller (or shorter) people than what they envisioned (1,70m is my guess) will have a hard time blow-drying their hair. Overall a pretty functional, small & clean suburban swimming pool.