Mike's co-workers have told him about an amazing gym facility called Club Mundet. So, we walked there on Saturday morning, from our condo in Polanco. This place is more than a gym. It is a country club, without the golf course. It was AMAZING.
They had 8+ clay tennis courts, probably another 8 hard courts, several restaurants, the largest water slide ever seen outside of a water park, a kid pool, an olympic sized adult pool, a weight machine section, a kid village with indoor jungle gyms and a theater area, walking paths, green space for kids to run or people to practice their karate, a huge soccer field with stands, and a large fitness center, where you can run on the treadmill, take a spinning class, or do yoga/pilates/zumba, etc.
People spend their whole weekends at Club Mundet. It was fantastic.
As soon as we saw the kid's pool, Annie started chanting "swim, swim, swim Mommy swim"... I didn't even know she knew the word swim!
Her zest for the pool almost made Mike and I pull the trigger to join...which we would have, if it weren't the price!!! It was a $17,400 peso joining fee (approx $1,500 USD), plus $4,000 pesos a month (approx $330 USD), and another $50 USD per person to get your membership card.
I couldn't get past the joining fee. If we were going to be in Mexico City for three years...I might have considered it, but $1,500 USD for 9 months potentially is a lot, where we'd already be paying $330 monthly.
The $330 is a lot per month by itself! But, due to the pool and kid activities available, I may have stomached it!
The people that we saw there seemed to love Club Mundet! The teenagers were having a great time playing tennis and soccer, while the old men lunched at one of the many restaurants! There were kids in the pool, parents sunbathing. Valet parking. You felt like you were at a 5 star resort! And, it basically is, without the golf course and the hotel!
