Jurong West Sports and Recreation Centre

There is no excuse not to say healthy and active with the Jurong West Sports and Recreation Centre within your reach. With Singapore being known to advocate a healthy and active living, it is no surprise that this recreation centre manages to attract people effortlessly.
My main active regimen is swimming and the gym. And for a few dollars, I get to unlimited access to the pool or gym equipment-​whichever I fancy at that time. Sometimes, we play tennis at their courts, located at the rooftop (please reserve prior to using the courts) and I think we made a mistake in playing under the sun (I’m the person who’s out of the sun by 11am). So I highly recommend that you play on those open courts at sun down.
What I love about this recreation centre is that it’s quite accessible from the Pioneer MRT station, crazy affordable per day rates, and unlimited use upon payment-​no monthly membership commitments needed.

The rec centre has the only sheltered public swimming pool in Singapore. That in itself is enough to encourage many to visit just so not to have to worry about the unpredictable showers. But realistically if you live in the far west, this is the only swimming pool you have close to home. It is walking distance from Pioneer MRT station and has lots of other facilities such as gym, courts, a track and popular restaurants like Nihonmura. There are even waterslides at the pool but talk about awkward when the missus and I decide to take a ride on the slides — the only adults amongst all the kids… but being a public pool, the toilets are really nothing to brag about and that’s probably why we never went back to swim again.