Swimming pools are signs of luxury. They are used to entice buyers to buy properties. From private homes, estates, hotels and holiday resorts, swimming pools are prominently featured in their brochures to attract customers.
The appeal of a perfectly built crystal clear pool is very difficult to beat. The only way to beat them is to build a more luxurious one. A swimming pool doesn’t have to be big to be considered as opulent and lavish. Whether its built near the ocean, on top of a building, under a cave or adjacent to a rainforest, a luxrious swimming pool would surely attract visitors.
Here are 12 of the most luxurious and amazing swimming pools around the world that you have to visit.
1. Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge, Tanzania
Surrounded by African rondavels, this huge pool is the center piece of a safari lodge in Tanzania. The infinity pool offers a magical view of the Tanzanian horizon.
2. The Oberoi Udaivilas, India
This fancy pool runs that alongside the luxurious hotel in Udaipur, India. Situated on the banks of lake called Pichola, the architecture is based on a royal palace. This pool will surely make you feel like a royalty.
3. Kempinski Hotel Ishtar, Jordan
The Kempinski Hotel Ishtar’s amazing infinity pool (9 pools) offers tourists who visit the Dead Sea relaxing pools to swim. The pools feature manmade waterfalls and other features. The largest spa in the Middle East is also located in the hotel.
4. Delamore Lodge, Waiheke Island, New Zealand
The infinity swimming pool at Delamore Lodge offers a stunning view. Located just off the coast of North Island, the heated pool is breathtakingly picturesque. Luxurious yachts moored in the gulf dots the deep blue sea to add more luxury to the view.
5. Floating Pool, Lake Como, Italy
This pool is certainly unique. Tourists and visitors like to call this swimming pool as water on the water floating swimming pool. The pool extends from the beach to the surface of Lake Como. Exploiting the natural beauty of the stunning lake, Grand Hotel Tremezzo’s Floating Pool oozes with luxury and beauty.
6. Hotel Caruso, Amalfi Coast
Hotel Caruso boasts of their huge infinity-edge pool that seems suspended in the cloudy Italian sky. Located at the highest point of Ravello on Amalfi Coast, the pool has an edge which mimics the beach. Swimmers will surely think that they are swimming in the world’s most perfect beach. While swimming, visitors will also savor the aroma of beautiful roses that are planted in the pathway to the heavenly pool.
7. Domus Civita Cave Pool, Italy
Just 100 km from Rome airport, tourists can visit the amazing Medieval village of Domus Civita. The village offers caves and tunnels that are absolutely beautiful. Aside from that, a luxurious pool at Domus Civita has been built deep inside the caves. The underground pool can only serve 8 people at most. Swimming in the pool offers lucky visitors a magical experience that they would never forget.
8. One & Only Reethi Rah, Maldives
The Maldives is certainly famous of its beautiful beaches. While the beaches in Maldives capture the attention of most tourists, the One & Only Reethi Rah resorts offer tourists private villas with its own luxurious pools. The picture above features a pool within a pool that seems to be part of the Indian Ocean.
9. Amirandes Grecotel Exclusive Resort, Crete, Greece
Located in an ultra-luxurious holiday resort on the island of Crete in Greece, this Olympic size, seawater swimming pool looks as if it belongs in the grounds of a Minoan palace. Exclusive, exotic and luxurious, it stretches right to the water’s edge, matching the clear blue color of the sea on a clear day. This is a place that dreams are made of. And if that’s not enough, there are more than another 60 private swimming pools for guests to get away from it all. Take your pick.
10. Infinity Pools at Grace Santorini, Greece
One of the features of an infinity pool is to trick your view that the pool go on unto the horizon. The gorgeous infinity pool of Grace Santorini in Greek Cyclades Islands, seems to merge directly into the ocean. This mesmerizing pool is located on the Caldera that offers the beautiful views of the Mediterranean.
11. InterContinental, Hong Kong
For guests at the four Michelin-star InterContinental, they can enjoy a swimming pool that feels like a part of the busy Victoria Harbor of Hongkong. The sparkling crystal clear waters of the pool offers guests a very luxurious and relaxing experience.
12. Hanging Gardens Ubud, Bali
Certainly this tiered infinity pool is one of the most stunning and beautiful pools in the world. Guests of Hanging Gardens Ubud in Bali can enjoy swimming in a pool that seems to hang off a cliff. The pool is also a part of a lush rainforest so visitors can relax under the canopy and sounds of nature.
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