Hi, Im looking for a place to go swimming in chiangmai, somewhere I can chill out by a pool during the hot season, but without booking into a hotel, maybe someone knows of a hotel that allows non guests to use their pool for a small appreciation or an open air public pool.

Hey

Read this thread and check my post out in it, about the 700 year old stadium!

Swimming Thread

Hope this helps, let me know!

Ash

Yep, cheers ash i'll try that 700 year stadium, and i'll give the orchid a go as well, sounds like I can get a cocktail or two by the pool at the orchid, always like to have a bit of a buzz on when i'm putting a few laps in.

The Prince Hotel is not to far from the Thapae Gate area and you can go there for 70 baht a time.

It is clean and a very pleasant place to hang out with a restaurant as well.

There are always a few lads messing around in the moat - they certainly look like they are enjoying it and the best bit is that it's free!

There are always a few lads messing around in the moat - they certainly look like they are enjoying it and the best bit is that it's free!

Yeah great idea, I suggest my bath suit (see avatar) for a safe swim

The Prince Hotel is not to far from the Thapae Gate area and you can go there for 70 baht a time.

It is clean and a very pleasant place to hang out with a restaurant as well.

It has been over 20 years since I spent my afternoons at the poolside of the Prince. It use to only cost maybe 20B and if you were a regular and bought some drinks and tipped the staff nobody bothered to collect the daily fee. It was quite a funny afternoon scene as many of the girls who worked the few Farang bars of that era also spent the afternoons there drinking and gossiping. But I remember it as being a rather small pool area compared to the Orchid.

OK , thanks for all the sugestions, think i'll give the moat a miss though but i'll certainly be checking out the rest. cheers paul