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Hot spring vs. chilly spring
Latest Updated by 2005-03-14 10:10:20

Imperial Hot Spring Resort, Zhuhai

This is a four-star resort, attracting visitors with its unique Tang Dynasty design. It provides a good choice for relaxation, get-together with friends and business meetings.

Open-air hot spring pools recommendation:

**Herb pool: Six types of Chinese herbal medicine are mixed in the hot spring.

**Foot massage pool: The bottom of this pool is covered with cobblestones for foot massage. The additional herbal medicine in the pool will help the blood circulation and also help cure some foot diseases.

**Fruit juice pool: Hot spring is blended with fruit juice changed every 4 hours.

**Coffee pool: Coffee extracts are added to the hot spring to refresh yourself.

**Light wave pool: Infrared ray from 5.6 to 15 cm is sent in the pool to refresh you. It also can protect you from other diseases.

**Geothermy pool: The hot spring is mixed with 40 kinds of trace elements to heat up the stone on the pool floor. You can lie on it to enjoy the heat therapy. It helps the blood circulation, and is especially good for those who have rheumatism and arthritis.

**Fragrance therapy pool: It contains different flower extracts, helping you get rid of the toxins in your body and improve your blood circulation.

Ticket price: 128 yuan(US$16) per person, half price for children under 1.4 meters.

Where to stay: Imperial hotel provides different types of rooms. Standard double-bed room costs 680 yuan, standard suite 980 yuan, suite with extra living room 1,180 yuan, luxury suite 2,380 yuan. Extra bed: 180/per bed. Room service charge 15 percent.

How to get there:

There are two buses every day from Qiaoshe bus station at 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. to the Imperial Hot Spring Resort, and at 11:20 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. from the Imperial Hot Spring Resort back to Shenzhen.

80 yuan per person for a single ticket.

Jinjiang Hot Spring Resort, Enping

The Jinjiang Open-air Hot Spring Resort has exclusive hot spring resources with abundant silicic acid, fluorin and radon. More than 50 different pools there offer visitors a good place for physical therapy and relaxation.

Six special items are recommended:

**Surfing: It is the first hot spring in the nation where you can surf.

**Drifting: Drifting in the hot spring in the annular pool gives a brand-new feel.

**Ice spring: The water temperature of ice spring is between 18℃ to 20℃. Shifting from the cool pool to the hot one is good for strengthening your immunity capacity.

**Therapy pools: Various types of traditional Chinese medicine added to the hot spring are helpful to treat different diseases.

**SPA: It helps relieve your tension.

**Ultrasonic massage pool: The hot spring spouts empowered by the ultrasonic, massaging your body to relax the muscles.

Ticket price: 88 yuan per person.

Where to stay: There are three choices for accommodation, the Hot Spring Hotel, the Hot Spring Villa and the wooden house, with a price ranging from 488 to 5,780 yuan.

Once you check in, you will get two free tickets for the hot spring pools.

Credit cards are accepted.

Ten percent service charge is added in public holidays.

Qingxin Hot Spring Resort, Qingyuan

Qingxin Hot Spring Resort not only provides high-quality hot spring, but also offers various games to visitors, including grass sliding, karting and outward bound. The hot spring there does not contain sulfur and is good for both bathing and drinking.

Recommended games:

**Karting: The karting field in Qingxin has the longest karting raceway in China, which is 1,279 meters long.

**Grass sliding: It is a game just like skiing, but on the grass. The grass sliding area, claimed to be the largest in Asia, has three sections according to the height. The highest section is most steep and dangerous for beginners.

**Outward bound: Now it becomes a popular training among modern enterprises as it emphasizes teamwork spirit. Well-designed projects challenge your physique and help tap your potentials. More than 80 items are provided there.

**Field operations: You may feel like a real soldier in the simulative fight.

Expenses:

**Grass sliding: 60 yuan per person

**Field operation: 80 yuan per time

**Hot spring bath: 90 per person

**Karting: 60 yuan per 10 minutes

What to eat: Chicken cooked in Qingyuan style is a must-eat there.

Where to stay: The lowest price of the hotels and villas is 298 yuan. For Guangdong International Sports Youth Hotel, with a cafeteria, reading room and DIY laundry, 268 yuan is the lowest.

How to get there: You can take a bus in Luohu bus station to Qingyuan with 90 yuan.

This spring is a little chilly. Hot spring is a solution to drive away the chill and enjoy your life. Since Guangdong Province has the richest hot spring resources in the nation, a lot of hot spring resorts emerge in recent years. The following are four resorts for you to enjoy.

Fairyland Oper-air Hot Spring, Zhongshan

Xianmu Fairyland is a large garden-like place with open-air hot spring. It has 38 kinds of thermal springs with the highest temperature of 93℃ and the capacity of 2,000 persons.

This hot spring, belonging to sodium chloride hot spring, contains rich mineral matters such as chlorine, sodium, calcium and magnesium. It helps adjust the human body's mechanics by absorbing the minerals and promote the blood circulation and metabolism.

Recommendation:

**Hot spring pools containing milk, coffee and many other different plant ingredients are recommended, such as Milk Pool, Coffee Pool, Angelica Pool, Peppermint Pool, Medlar Pool, Aloe Pool and Ginseng Pool,

**Other games include drifting, grass sliding and bumper cars.

Where to stay: Green-lake Holiday Village will cost 368 yuan for a luxury double room. Price for an extra bed is 50 yuan.

Children under 12 years old are free to have an added bed.

No additional service charge.

Visitors may enjoy a 30 percent discount if you shop in Xianmu Fairyland Hot Spring.

Editor: Catherine

By:Qin Tian Source:szdaily web edition
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