DIVE CUBE City Diving & Hotel

Tucked into the heart of Taichung, DIVE CUBE City Diving & Hotel bills itself as Asia's first indoor dive hotel — a place where the ocean is recreated inside the city. Its centrepiece is a 21-metre-deep diving pool, built with cave and shipwreck designs to create an immersive marine space you can enjoy in a stable, safe environment unaffected by weather.

Courses and who it suits

As a PADI 5 Star IDC Resort with 15 PADI instructors, DiveCube covers a wide spectrum of training: PADI Scuba Diving, PADI Freediving, the PADI Mermaid programme, and EFR First Aid. Whether you're chasing your first certification, freediving, or trying the mermaid theme, you'll find a path here. Nitrox is available, along with equipment sales and scuba, kids', freediving, and scooter (DPV) rentals.

On site you'll find a training pool, classroom, aquarium/deep pool, retail shop, accommodation, food and drinks, parking, air conditioning, and free Wi-Fi. With a resident dive club and conservation activities, DiveCube makes diving part of everyday life — right in the middle of Taichung. Mandarin is spoken.