The best swimming centre in Taichung!

Find­ing a swim­ming pool, or at least a decent swim­ming pool in Taichung is quite a feat if you don’t know where to look. I found this great place where it’s pretty decent and cheap. A good com­bi­na­tion if you don’t have all the money in the world and you per­haps want to swim or relax on a fre­quent basis. Swim­ming is the epit­ome to trav­el­ling and you need to at least have an expe­ri­ence of some sort swim­ming wher­ever you are in the world.

This swim­ming cen­tre includes a pretty decent spa along with other swim­ming options. Although, when I went to Dong Feng Swim­ming pool, it seemed as if it focused mainly on the relax­ing side of things. So per­haps after work or on the week­ends you can go to this place for the sole pur­pose of relax­ing. Or if you need to exer­cise then swim­ming is the per­fect exer­cise as it prac­ti­cally exer­cises all of the mus­cles in your body.

I rec­om­mend this place 100%! If you have kids then this place is per­fectly ade­quate to accom­mo­date them. In fact, they have safety gear for kids who want to swim and they have shal­low pools where they can swim safely with­out the worst occurring.

Although, the kids can be some­times quite annoy­ing when they splash water every­where with­out the con­sid­er­a­tion of oth­ers who are try­ing to actu­ally relax; after a hard day at work or some­thing. I’ve had this on a few occa­sions where kids were try­ing to swim in the spa sec­tion; where peo­ple were try­ing to relax. The two don’t fit together.

If they want to swim, splash around and what­not, well then, they have a huge swim­ming area specif­i­cally for them to do that. Who could blame them though, as they designed the swim­ming areas poorly in that respect, as they built a small play­ground area for kids too nearby to the rest­ing and relax­ation area. — How­ever, the two are con­nected, mak­ing it hard for kids not to dis­turb and gen­er­ally be kids. That’s a huge flaw.

I digress that it isn’t much of an issue. On the odd day, you do get a large amount of kids in the swim­ming cen­tre, how­ever I believe that most days the swim­ming cen­tre gen­er­ally doesn’t have that many kids and most are peo­ple of the older generation.

The price

The price is prob­a­bly the biggest fac­tor when it comes to decid­ing whether or not this type of relaxation/exercise is too expen­sive or not.

For me, one ticket to gain entry into this place only cost me $100NT. (Although, for this deal you have to pay $500 and also have a stu­dent ID upfront and you get 5 tick­ets) There are other mem­ber­ship options, which I’ll find out about. How­ever, for this spe­cific deal, I used my stu­dent ID when I was study­ing some Man­darin at Feng Chia Uni­ver­sity.  If you have a friend who’s study­ing at a uni­ver­sity or who is a stu­dent and can prove it, then bring him along and you’ll also pay the same price as me. Oth­er­wise, I believe the cost for a sin­gle ticket for those who are not stu­dents costs around $200NT. — Although not much dif­fer­ent in price it can soon add up, so I would try to find a stu­dent to come with you and you can pur­chase as many tick­ets as you want, or even a one month mem­ber­ship deal; all based upon the same pric­ing a stu­dent would pay if you bring along some­one who is a student.

You check on this swim­ming centre’s web­site for more information:

http://www.dongfeng.com.tw/about_us/index.php