LCSD's heated swimming pools open in winter

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The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) will provide heated swimming facilities in 28 swimming pools under its management throughout the territory for public use during winter (i.e. November 2023 to March 2024) to enable more people to continue to exercise. The department calls on swimmers to keep public swimming pools clean and hygienic and mind their safety while swimming.

The list of swimming pools providing heated swimming facilities during winter can be found in the attachment. Of them, individual swimming pools will be temporarily closed during certain periods for maintenance works. Details are as follows:

Swimming pool	Period of temporary closure
Wan Chai Swimming Pool	December 1, 2023, to January 20, 2024
Kwun Tong Swimming Pool	January 2 to February 21, 2024
Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park Swimming Pool	February 1 to June 30, 2024
Victoria Park Swimming Pool	February 17 to April 17, 2024
Sham Shui Po Park Swimming Pool	February 25 to April 15, 2024

In addition, Tai Wan Shan Swimming Pool, which is without heated swimming facilities, will be open daily from 6.30am to noon from November 1 to 30, 2023.

For details of the opening arrangements and the schedule of the weekly cleaning operations of the public swimming pools, please visit the following website: www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/beach/swim-intro/swim-location-hk.html.

Ends/Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Issued at HKT 11:00

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