Next time you want to book a leisure facility, just reach for the phone or go online.

You can now enrol in Leisure & Cultural Services Department recreation and sports programmes by quoting your identity card number by telephone or via the Internet. You no longer need to register as Leisure Link patrons.

The change is part of the department's continuous effort to provide customers more convenient booking channels and better services.

An enhanced computerised system allows people to use either their identity card numbers or Leisure Link registration numbers to make bookings.

Existing Leisure Link patrons will not be affected by the new arrangement and those who still wish to register with the Link can do so.

The telephone booking hotline (2927 8080) operates from 7am to 9pm daily. The online booking service is available 24 hours a day at the ESD life website.