I’ve got the blues!

This is my old swimming card. Before you can use the pool, you buy 10 swims and put them on the card. Then you scan it at a special machine every time you use the pool. The machine remembers how many swims you have left.

If you also want to use the sauna, the steam room or the spa pool after your swim, you have to wear a coloured paper band on your wrist.

One day, I had no swims left on my card, so I bought some more. The lady at reception helped me, but she took my old card and didn’t give it back to me. She gave me a new one, but it wasn’t a card. 

You can see the new one at the top of the picture above. In the new system, the swims and the coloured wrist band are now two-in-one. This is easier and quicker. There’s a chip inside the band, and it takes one swim off every time you scan it. To scan, you just hold the chip part of the wrist band near the red dot on the front of the scanner, and it tells you how many swims you have left.

You put the plastic band on your wrist, and you can make it as tight or as loose as you want. I like mine tight. It’s very light, and when you’re swimming, you don’t even know you’re wearing it.

I’m happy with my new blue wrist band, so I’ve got the blues.