Free Use of Leisure Facilities & Booking Method

Free use of Leisure Facilities

Indoor Leisure Facilities

Badminton courts, tennis courts, basketball courts, netball courts, volleyball courts, squash courts, table tennis tables, American pool tables, billiard tables, sport climbing walls*, bowling greens, golf facilities, fitness rooms*, activity rooms, a cycling track* and dance rooms

Outdoor Leisure Facilities

Tennis courts, tennis practice courts, bowling greens, batting cages, archery ranges* and golf facilities
(excluding camp facilities, sports grounds, as well as artificial and natural turf pitches)

Public Swimming Pools

(excluding Wan Chai Swimming Pool)

Crafts at Water Sports Centres

(recreational kayaks, pedal-driven boats, sampans and colour boats at Chong Hing Water Sports Centre are available for free use by campers only)

* Citizens who book these types of facilities must hold the relevant qualification certificates. For details, please visit the website of Conditions for Free Use of Leisure Facilities

Booking Method

The free-of-charge sessions^{Note 1} will be allocated through balloting. Details are as follows:

Members of the public may make ballot applications via SmartPLAY system as individual users for the sessions on August 1 and/or August 2 in accordance with the above timetable. Each user may only make one application for each date, with each application covering a maximum of three choices. Each application will be processed independently. An applicant may revise his/her choices in his/her application via SmartPLAY system before the closing time at 11.59pm on the respective application closing dates (i.e. July 19 and 20 respectively). Successful applicants will be notified by the SmartPLAY system.

SmartPLAY users who have not been allocated any free session by ballot or have not made any application may book the remaining sessions on a first-come, first-served basis in accordance with the above timetable through the following channels:

(i) "iAM Smart" users: to log into the My SmartPLAY mobile app with priority access to make bookings from 7am.

(ii) Users not using "iAM Smart": to log into the My SmartPLAY mobile app, the official SmartPLAY website, smart self-service stations or service counters at various leisure venues to make bookings from 7.15am; and

(iii) Users aged under 11: as "iAM Smart" is for use by persons aged 11 or above, SmartPLAY users aged under 11 may make bookings through the My SmartPLAY mobile app from 7am.

Each successful applicant will only be allocated one free session^{Note 2} per day, whether through balloting or first-come, first-served booking.

Note 1
No prior application will be required for using public swimming pool facilities. Members of the public may line up at the entrances of swimming pools before the start of a session. Free admission is offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

Note 2
Each session lasts one hour except for the following: half an hour per session for squash courts; one-and-a-half hour sessions for all archery range; two-hour sessions for cycling track (shared use session) at Hong Kong Velodrome and three-hour sessions for the crafts at the water sports centres.