12 Cool Pools You Wish You Were Swimming In Now

It's gone from warm and pleasant seersucker weather to hot as hell outside. It's slogging through air so thick you need a machete and a shower every time you step outside hot. In times like these, you just want to laze in a pool. Specifically, in these positively perfect specimens.

While you're not picky, and you'd probably splash around in any body of water that presented itself, there are some really amazing pools out there, in resorts all over the world. These are some of the most unbelievable:

The Amangiri Resort is located in Canyon Point, Utah, and its poolcurves around a giant 165 million-year-old sandstone rock. It looks quite literally like you're swimming in an oasis.

Image credit: Aman Resorts

If you were staying at Uruguay's Playa Vik Jose Ignacio Hotel, why would you even hassle with the beach when you have this unbelievable infinity pool at your disposal?

SEXPAND

Image credit: TripAdvisor

The Reethi Rah Resort in the Maldives might have more than 50 pools on the property. But this adults-only lap pool is especially lovely. It's kind of hard to tell where the pool ends and where the ocean begins.

Image credit: Reethi Rah Resort

Orange County's Portabello Estate has bilevel crazy swimming pool action.

Image credit: Portabello Estate

You have to take the elevator all the way to the 57th floor of Singapore's Marina Bay Sands Hotel to get to the amazing rooftop pool. Apparently, it's the highest infinity pool in the world.

Here's what it looks like from the ground:

Images: Marina Bay Sands Hotel

This beauty is the Anatara Golden Triangle pool at Chang Rai Thailand. Bonus: there are also elephants there that you can hang out with.

It's even more idyllic at dusk:

Image credit: TripAdvisor

The Library in Koh Samui, Thailand has a pool unlike any we've ever seen. Nope, it hasn't fallen victim to one of the seven plagues. The water looks like blood thanks to red mosaic tiles.

Image credit: Library

Not all of these cool pools are in hot locations. This bad boy is the water feature of Hotel Villa Honegg in Ennetbuergen, Switzerland.

Image credit: Hotel Villa Honegg

This pool looks like it's on the surface of the moon. It's not. It's at the Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort in Abu Dhabi.

Here it is during the day:

Image credit: TripAdvisor

The Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel & Spa is one of only 39 castle hotels in Italy. It also has the country's best pool, overlooking the Gulf of Salerno.

Image credit: KNSTRCT

The Lucala Hotel is in Fiji, so it already has the scenery going for it. But it also has this series of amazing glass-sided pools that feel like human aquariums.

Image credit: KNSTRCT

The Six Senses Yao Noi Resort was once a rubber plantation. Now it's a luxury getaway that commands ridiculous panoramas of Thailand's Phang Nga Bay. Plus, the pool has a slide. Who can argue with that?

Image credit: KNSTRCT

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Bat-dorkULeslie Horn

Ok Leslie, now you did it! Because of you and this cool article, I am officially ditching work and going back home, where I will take my nephew's inflatable pool, put it on the roof of my house, fill it up, bring up a six pack, some good music and ditch this infernal heat.

And I will be looking forward to the WTF'ed look of my neighbors, and maybe a couple of cops. A minute ago

casenULeslie Horn

The only pool I want to be swimming in is a pool full of Benjamins! amirite?!

But seriously, these are super neat pools. Though the red mosaic one would freak me out. I would constantly be wary that I might be swimming in someone's blood...22 minutes ago

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DickRickULeslie Horn

AS beautiful as they are, I still have this fear that I would find a band aid floating next to me in at least half of these pools13 minutes ago

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Friday, July 12, 2013

12 Cool Pools You Wish You Were Swimming In Now

The Amangiri Resort is located in Canyon Point, Utah, and its poolcurves around a giant 165 million-year-old sandstone rock. It looks quite literally like you're swimming in an oasis.

If you were staying at Uruguay's Playa Vik Jose Ignacio Hotel, why would you even hassle with the beach when you have this unbelievable infinity pool at your disposal?

SEXPAND

The Reethi Rah Resort in the Maldives might have more than 50 pools on the property. But this adults-only lap pool is especially lovely. It's kind of hard to tell where the pool ends and where the ocean begins.

Orange County's Portabello Estate has bilevel crazy swimming pool action.

You have to take the elevator all the way to the 57th floor of Singapore's Marina Bay Sands Hotel to get to the amazing rooftop pool. Apparently, it's the highest infinity pool in the world.

Here's what it looks like from the ground:

This beauty is the Anatara Golden Triangle pool at Chang Rai Thailand. Bonus: there are also elephants there that you can hang out with.

It's even more idyllic at dusk:

The Library in Koh Samui, Thailand has a pool unlike any we've ever seen. Nope, it hasn't fallen victim to one of the seven plagues. The water looks like blood thanks to red mosaic tiles.

Not all of these cool pools are in hot locations. This bad boy is the water feature of Hotel Villa Honegg in Ennetbuergen, Switzerland.

This pool looks like it's on the surface of the moon. It's not. It's at the Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort in Abu Dhabi.

Here it is during the day:

The Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel & Spa is one of only 39 castle hotels in Italy. It also has the country's best pool, overlooking the Gulf of Salerno.

The Lucala Hotel is in Fiji, so it already has the scenery going for it. But it also has this series of amazing glass-sided pools that feel like human aquariums.

The Six Senses Yao Noi Resort was once a rubber plantation. Now it's a luxury getaway that commands ridiculous panoramas of Thailand's Phang Nga Bay. Plus, the pool has a slide. Who can argue with that?

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