Seen reading: NOTHING Overheard: “Get the groom another! Actually, after 18 holes in this heat, he needs 3! Stat.” The pool at the JW Marriott in Dessert Springs is quite the scene. If you’re young, wild, and free and looking for a party in the desert, this is the place …
Is this not the coolest cat ever? Check out this Express piece about an actual cheetah hanging out by a hotel pool in Cape Town, South Africa. Here’s a photo from the story: It’s the Hopewell Private Game Reserve. The photo on their web site showing a photo of an elephant cooling off on property …
A couple of new Apps are popping up that allow users to purchase day passes at local hotel pools. Sweet. Anything that helps us make hotel swimming pools more accessible warms our hearts (and cools our toes). Download Daycationapp to buy day passes for hotel and resort pools, spas, and other hotel …
Seen reading: French Vouge, Real Food/Fake Food by Larry Olmsted Overheard: Lots of French and English accents! It’s not an official Disney property, but Marriott’s Village d’lle-de-France is so close to Paris Disneyland that we’re going to lump it together with Disney properties. In fact, it overlooks the 27-hole course at …
It’s the first floating hotel, with a pool, and it’s in Paris, on the Seine. Sounds like heaven, right? Check it out here. The pool looks amazing, of course. I just wonder if we would get seasick?
So, you’ve decided to brave the political uncertainty, instability, and threat of Zika to see the games in Rio? Here are 5 of the hotel pools you might want to swing by between events: 1. Hotel Fasano is in the Zona Sul at the apex of two fabulous beaches (Ipanema and Arpoadqr). The rooftop …
We were in London recently but sadly, our hotel did not have a pool. We wish we’d seen this piece from Forbes.com about hotel day spas in London. All of the hotels mentioned but one have pools. So, for the price of a spa treatment, access to some of London’s nicest …
Here’s a piece from The Telegraph about an ultra salinated pool near the Dead Sea in Oman, Dubai. The pool at Six Senses Zighy Bay sounds super interesting. The saline pool isn’t quite as salivated as the Dead Sea, but contains enough salt to make it “super-buoyant and a glorious place to bask.” …
Check out this link to the U.K. Daily Mail post about the world’s deepest hotel swimming pool. It’s called the “Deep Joy” or y-40 pool and it’s in Monegrotto Terme Italy, which is about a half hour from Venice. It’s the world’s deepest thermal water pool and goes down 131 feet …
Overheard: “I’ll go up and turn on the flat iron, you come up 45 minutes before the cocktail hour starts” Seen reading: Ted Talks, The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking, Chris Anderson On a weekday afternoon, it’s extremely chill at the pool at the Ritz Carlton, Marina Del Rey. …