This is the best “best hotel swimming pools in the world” round-up we’ve seen yet. It’s from a design blog, so the focus is on design and form instead of service and function. Most of the properties are small, boutique type offerings in Asia or Europe—no lazy rivers or kids …
This Wednesday we have a mild case of the blahs—still a few weeks til school lets out and summer really begins, but it’s not spring anymore either. It’s the middle of the week, there’s nothing new and all that out-of-the-ordinary going on. Don’t you sometimes wish something spectacular would happen? …
I guess we aren’t the only ones slightly obsessed with hotel pools. It seems come May / June (and then again in August), almost every editorial calendar has a slot for a Hotel Pool Roundup. This one, from Boston.com is mixed–a bunch of ordinary-ish pools mixed in with some true …
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. …
Spending 6 hours at Atlantis sounds to me a bit like flying to Las Vegas for a cocktail, or taking your lunch break at Disneyland. You’d be there just long enough to fully appreciate exactly what it is you are missing. Just a tiny sip of paradise that would leave …
Our very favorite A-#1 travel blogger posted about infinity pools at Bushman’s Kloof Resort, South Africa today. Turns out Geraldine shares our confusion about the mis-use of “infinity” when it comes to a pool with a very clear start and end point. Her awesome info-graphic sums it up quite nicely. …
Immersed in the coldest winter in recent Los Angeles history, we’re cold, tired and living underneath layers of winter doldrums, dreaming of idle warmth and luxurious inspiration. The hotel pool meets the art world in the beautiful city of Barcelona. I’ve never been to Spain, but when I go, I …
Maybe because it’s cold in Los Angeles and we already spent a week in paradise where the weather wasn’t quite as cooperative as expected, today we’re fixated on indoor pools, where natural climate gets no say in the matter. And while we’re dreaming, why not throw in historical glamour and …
For some year-end eye candy check out this list of the 15 most beautiful hotel swimming pools from Architectural Digest. We’ve already salivated over a few of the entries on this site, including Ubud Hanging Gardens and the Amangiri and we’ve actually visited and reviewed one of the pools on the …
Today we are wishing we were here. The 7-acre Oasis Water water park features: An 8-story tower with three water slides; A gigantic wave pool, river tubing, the Wild Cat Springs for kids and a 25-person hot tub, all part of the on-property Oasis Water Park, reserved exclusively for Resort guests. Pictures are from …