The World's Coolest Hotel Pools!!!

England’s first indoor swimming pool, the 40-foot-long Bagnio in Lemon Street, Goodman's Fields in London, opened in 1742. King Ludwig II of Bavaria built the first-ever wave pool with electrically heated water and light, in his Linderhof castle in 1879.
In the U.S. the earliest public swimming pools were small indoor pools built with the intention of encouraging better hygiene among the poor. By the 1920s, the American public pool had become a large public place of amusement and recreation for thousands at a time. Home swimming pools became popular in the U.S. after WWII and Hollywood films made the backyard pool an important status symbol
All of this historical stuff is really rather exhausting when all we really want is serious pleasure – superior amenities, spectacular views,impeccable details, breath-taking eye candy. Let us know where such pools are, so that we can let the rest of the world know, too. By Tuija Seipell

We really do take swimming pools for granted. Lounging poolside at the hotel, swimming a few laps at the health club, or dipping into the Jacuzzi at the spa — we are used to pools but we want them fabulous. Scary-blue tubs with tepid, chlorinated water just don’t do it.

While you are at it, you might be interested in some history of the pool. Bathing pools, of course, predate swimming pools, and we have all heard of the lavish and sophisticated ancient baths. But the swimming pool has a long history, too, dating back to ancient times.
Already in 2500 B.C., Egyptians knew swimming as an organized activity and depictions of swimming from India are equally old. Ancient Romans constructed artificial pools for athletic training, nautical games and military exercises. Swimming was also part of boys’ education.
Extravagant swimming pools with live fish entertained Roman emperors, and gave the pool its Latin name piscina. Ancient Greeks did not include swimming in their early Olympic games but they did practice the sport and built swimming pools as part of their baths. The first heated swimming pool was built in Rome in the first century BC.