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THE POOL AT MARINA BAY SANDS, SINGAPORE

Marina Bay Sands, Singapore is often on Top Ten lists of noteworthy hotel pools. The 2,561-room hotel, built for a mere $5.7 billion has become something of a landmark, known most for its Sands SkyPark. The SkyPark is massive with nearly three-acres perched at the top of the hotel’s three, …

MANDARIN ORIENTAL, SINGAPORE, READER SWIM

Here’s a reader swim pic from our International Textile Specialist pal ML from her recent visit to the Mandarin Oriental Singapore. The hotel is right on Marina Bay, with a view of one of the most famous hotel swimming pools in the world—The Marina Bay Sands. Pretty stiff competition for a hotel …

QUIZ: NAME THAT HOTEL POOL!

With all the “10 Best Hotel Swimming Pools in the World” or “The 10 Best  Pool Views” and other  hotel-pool-related lists circulating all the time, we should all be experts by now, right? If you have looked at as many hotel pool photos as we have, you should have no …

BEST HOTEL SWIMMING POOL LINKS

Here are a couple of recent hotel swimming pool links we’ve encountered lately. The first one, from Fox News, via Conde Nast Traveler is pretty surprising. It’s a list of the Most Beautiful Pools. Yes, it includes a bunch of spots that don’t appear on list after list like this. …