Swim Up Rooms

Captain Chaos said:
So, the Wife wants a swim up room on holiday this year.

Any decent sites to filter these out? Looking for Greece / Portugal as a location for the summer holidays (bit late I know).
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Don't see the point myself. I've seen them on sites I've been to and it just means you have to stay in your room all the time to use it. They are too small to actually swim in as well.

Good for a toddler maybe that's about it.
 
danlightbulb said:
Don't see the point myself. I've seen them on sites I've been to and it just means you have to stay in your room all the time to use it. They are too small to actually swim in as well.

Good for a toddler maybe that's about it.
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There are two types generally, private pool, which is more like a plunge pool, and access to eg a lazy river type affair which is what the better resorts tend to have

However that said I wouldn't personally use one, prefer to be on higher floors than ground. Unless someone manages to defy gravity ;)
 
danlightbulb said:
Don't see the point myself. I've seen them on sites I've been to and it just means you have to stay in your room all the time to use it. They are too small to actually swim in as well.

Good for a toddler maybe that's about it.
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The point of them are generally for couples that want to spend time together in private. That and you dont have to hunt down a lounger round the pool. I dont tend to swim in the pool anyway as I tend to use it to cool down and being near your room, everything in close to hand
 
We booked Atlantica Holiday Village Rhodes with a Deluxe "swim up". Looks half decent from reviews on Yootoob.

It's a decent sized pool for the deluxe rooms only and we can watch our boy swimming from our balcony if we want to.
Was recommended by a mate who went a couple if years go so thought we'd give it a punt!
 
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gort said:
We booked Atlantica Holiday Village Rhodes with a Deluxe "swim up". Looks half decent from reviews on Yootoob.

It's a decent sized pool for the deluxe rooms only and we can watch our boy swimming from our balcony if we want to.
Was recommended by a mate who went a couple if years go so thought we'd give it a punt!
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Went there the year before covid, my son was about 10ish and it was best of the HV's we have been too. Swim up onto the main pool and it was a perfect mix of sun and shade. You can sit and relax and watch the sun bed wars from your own balcony. I hate the all inclusive holiday but it was near perfect for young kids and relaxing.
 
Done both types and wouldn't do the private small pool again as just not big enough to swim in, just felt like an oversized plunge pool.
However the one we had in Turkey was not a private pool but the deck fed onto a lagoon for the swimup rooms and also meant a swim up bar and good to swim or just relax in.
 
danlightbulb said:
Don't see the point myself. I've seen them on sites I've been to and it just means you have to stay in your room all the time to use it. They are too small to actually swim in as well.
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I think you're talking about very different things.

OP is talking about the sort of hotel where rooms back onto a pool complex or part of it, ie. you can walk straight out of your room/private terrace area and into one of the hotel pools/lazy river etc..

Whereas you're talking about a room that contains a small private plunge pool in the terrace/garden bit or maybe even on the balcony.
 
probably going to have a lifeguard in a main pool - whilst would be your responsibility, for minors, in any kind of local pool spur (madeleine not withstanding)
for holiday pool these days I'd be looking for a chlorine free pool too - ozone, if the sea is not adjacent.
 
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