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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. …

INCREDIBLE HOTEL POOLS LINK

Trip Advisor compiled some “hotel swimming pool eye candy” for your cold and stormy February enjoyment. Check it out here. Personally, we’re coveting a swim in that Sardinian infinity pool that really does appear to go on forever (Hotel Costa dei Fiori). Links in the article take you to Trip …

NEWS ROUNDUP

These aren’t all hotel pools but many of them are—some of them mentioned or soon to be mentioned on this site before. But it’s a nice summary in the Atlantic about the growing trend of cantilevered or suspended pools. And I’m glad it points out which images are renderings for …

HOTEL SWIMMING POOL GOLD MEDAL

  Hotel swimming pool as Olympic tryout facility? This is very cool. Apparently in the 1920s, the Women’s National Amateur Athletic Union Swimming Championships were held at the pool of a St. Augustine, Florida hotel. Now it’s a restaurant, Cafe Alcazar. But back in the late 1800s, it was called …

HOTEL SWIMMING POOL HERO – COOPER DAVIS

This is my absolute favorite news story of the summer. An 8-year-old kid is swimming laps at his hotel near Disneyland when he sees another kid on the bottom of the pool. He dives down underwater and brings the kid up and to the edge, where his father starts doing CPR …