You can swim in the indoor pool at Sienna club

I'm afraid there is a penalty involved if you want to cancel your membership during the winter months. I don't remember the exact terms but it's not as easy as you might think.
I cancelled my membership a few years ago.
Good Luck.

ksandt wrote on Nov 30^th, 2016 at 7:58am:


As far as I know, if you cancel your membership and want to reactivate it later you need to pay your membership fees back to when you cancelled. Hence no point in cancelling if you intend to reactivate later.
This is applicable to membership under the same name and the same address so it mostly hurts owner occupiers who have no intention of moving.
Membership goes with the property. So if you cancel now and move in May 2017, you will need to apply for new membership in May 2017 under the new address. No penalty as it is a new membership under a new address.
I have cancelled my membership years ago as the swimming pool was the only "members only" facility I used a handful of times a year during summer months. Now I just pay the day fee at Club Siena whenever I want to enjoy a dip in the pool. The $7,200 annual fee more than covers the odd swimming pool visits during summer months.

I understand the Club membership fee is based on a year round calculation with 99% of facilities available throughout the year. The outdoor pools are closed when it gets too cold and re- open on or before Easter. Sounds reasonable to me. Expecting a discount for the months a pool is closed is just the same as a member never using the pool expecting a discount for not using it. HK$ 600.-- per family is a very reasonable member ship fee, in fact as cheap as (probably) nowhere else in Hong Kong.

Everybody is free to join the Club or not, for 1 month, 6 months or 12 months.

Everybody is free to move to a different area in Hong Kong where a Club  membership is cheaper.

Everybody is free to go back to his/ her home country and join a Club there.

Everybody is free to use any possibly available loophole and cancel/ re- join (although I believe the Clubs are professionally run to make profits so the cancellation and re- joining fees may make such "on/ off" very unattractive).

couldn't agree more, Generic!!! I love such discussions/ complaints.... of people living in paradise , yet so unhappy with themselves that...

Generic ,

I am afraid you have been caught and bowled by MCC. He set you up with a couple of short ones and then got you with a slower one.

Just when we thought the forum was dying , MCC comes out of retirement and makes you wonder why you started the discussion !

OP's question has already been answered. There is no need to cancel membership as Club Siena has an indoor heated swimming pool that is accessible all year round.

The outdoor swimming pools are closed for half the year (Nov 1 to Apr 15).

If anyone is considering de-activating their membership, I suggest reading carefully the PDF below and if still uncertain, you can contact Accounts Department 2238 3161 for any enquiries.
http://www.dbrc.hk/icms/File/dbrc/Membership%20Tariff%20(Sep16).pdf

As to what is worth doing at the club, there's a page on their website listing the available facilities, requirements and fees.
http://www.dbrc.hk/icms/template?series=291&lang=en

De-activation process requires 14 days notice in writing to the club, it will be effective 14 days from the date the club acknowledges receiving your request. You need to settle all outstanding charges.

You must surrender your membership card otherwise the club will continue to bill you for your monthly membership. Also, there's an iffy clause stating that membership can't be reactivated in the next 12 months unless "special approval" is given by the club. But I think there should be no problem if you state the reason is that you will be away for an extended period or something to the effect that you won't be able to make use of the club facilities. I would refrain from mentioning about the pool being closed. As long as the club does not deem you to be troublesome member, they can and will reactivate anytime.

Take note that reactivation within 12 months will incur $1,500 (or more) "administration fee". So at most, if you deactivate your membership for six months, you can save $2,100.

I also think MCC is not trolling, it is a valid and fair opinion to frown that DBers live in a nice place but can never be happy enough. It wasn't directed at anyone specifically.

I, too, think $600 is not too expensive. Consider Tung Chung monthly swimming pass is $300, and bus fare, 15 days is $600 already.

[quote author=6F697A65697C67080 link=1480465528/13#13 date=1480684744]OP's question has already been answered. There is no need to cancel membership as Club Siena has an indoor heated swimming pool that is accessible all year round.

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The thing is HKRI has monopoly over transport in and out of DB. And since the transport costs are not cheap, it kind of forces you to stay in DB and use their facilities whether you like it or not.

MCC I don't think it costs $600 per family monthly, its per adult.

as in "how many free beers are included in the 600?", or how many tennis lessons, or how many meals, or how many...;

or how many free dreams?