The most exceptional hotel pools

The swimming and therefore pool season too is already open. But not all pools are equal. We present some of the most breath-taking pools in the world to you here. Caution though, there is an acute danger of getting the urge to travel!

Marina Bay Sands Hotel, Singapore

Three hotel towers that carry a huge ship on the roof, which is in reality an infinity pool – where is this sight? This spectacular pool, which offers a breath-taking view over Marina Bay and Singapore’s skyline, is situated on the 1.2 hectare “SkyPark” at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel. Hotel guests swim in this pool on the roof on the 57th floor at just under 200 metres high and in fact right up to the edge of the skyscraper. By the way: this is the highest infinity pool in the world.

Avalon Hotel, Gothenburg, Sweden

The Avalon Hotel is situated in the centre of the Swedish city of Gothenburg and offers its guests a swimming pool on the hotel roof. Nothing unusual, you’ll be thinking now, right? What’s special about it is that part of the pool protrudes over the edge of the hotel and has a glass floor. Giving swimmers in the pool the feeling of floating and/or swimming in the air.

Som hotellgäst har du tillgång till vår terrass mellan kl. 12.00-18.00 under perioden maj – september. Något som är speciellt med vår pool är att en del av vattnet ”svävar fritt” över Kungsportsplatsen. Poolen håller runt 24 grader och är 7 gånger 3 meter samt 1,3 m djup. Vi ser fram emot att träffa dig till sommaren! As a hotel guest you have access to our terrace between the hours 12:00 – 18:00 during the period May-September. Something that is special about our pool is that some of the water “floats freely” over Kungsportsplatsen. The pool is about 24 degrees and is 7 times 3 metres and 1.3 metres deep. We look forward to seeing you this summer!

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Ubud Hanging Gardens, Bali, Indonesia

Swimming in the middle of rice terraces? It’s possible and in fact on Bali in the breath-taking panoramic pool at the Ubud Hanging Gardens. The pool landscape extends over several levels and hanging gardens. The Hanging Gardens Pools are called such as they “hang” directly above the jungle. Anyone who is in the pool enjoys incredible natural scenery round them as the hotel is situated in the middle of the jungle in Bali. And if you don’t want to share the pool, every single villa has its own infinity pool.

San Alfonso del Mar, Algarrobo, Chile

When you swim in this pool it is very possible that a sailing ship might glide past you. Yes, you heard right! A pool like an ocean – the largest hotel pool in the world belongs to the San Alfonso del Mar holiday resort in Chile. The “sea” on the Pacific in Chile’s Algarrobo is as big as 11 football pitches at 1,013 metres. 250 million litres of water are required to fill the huge eight-hectare lagoon. Long distance swimmers definitely get their money’s worth in this record pool.

Golden Nugget Hotel, Las Vegas, USA

To get noticed in Las Vegas and stand out among the mass of hotels and attractions, requires something really pretty extraordinary. The Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino definitely offers this with its pool that is known as “The Tank”. What initially looks like an aquarium with sharks is actually a pool with an enclosed area for the animals. The shark pool is therefore in the middle of the pool landscape. Swimming guests can slide right through the drifting sharks in a safe plexiglass tunnel. Well, would you simply jump into this kind of pool?