30 Best Hotels with Indoor Pools Around the World

Even when the weather is frightful, indoor hotel pools provide a fabulous retreat from rain, wind, snow, and cold. It doesn’t have to be winter, however, to enjoy these wonderful watery havens. No matter the time of year, your whole family will fall swimming cap over flip-flops for these amazing hotel swimming pools and waterparks. As a hotel pool enthusiast, I am excited to share with you the 30 best hotels with indoor pools for kids and adults of all ages.

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1. The Peninsula Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

The Peninsula Chicago‘s coveted indoor heated swimming pool offers stunning views of Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline through 20-foot floor-to-ceiling windows.

Named by Fodor’s as one of the 10 great hotel pools for snow-day staycations during colder months, the Peninsula’s half-Olympic-sized pool is a popular and luxurious attraction for all ages. An indoor hot tub and outdoor sun terrace add to the pool’s appeal.

The Peninsula is located just minutes from Millennium Park and other popular Chicago attractions. The hotel offers some of the most spacious hotel rooms in the city, too, making it particularly appealing for families.

2. Grand Hyatt Beijing

Beijing, China

The Grand Hyatt Beijing‘s incredible tropical-themed water complex was the inspiration for this compilation of the best hotels with indoor pools. My family was blown away by the enchanting feel of this gorgeous, expansive water playground.

Giant pillars, statues, waterfalls, underwater music, and lush vegetation give this 1,500-square-foot swimming pool an enchanting feel. Swim laps, float about, or warm up in two whirlpool spas. You will scarcely believe you’re indoors while floating in this watery oasis while staring up at painted puffy pink clouds dotted by shimmering lights.

3. Hammock Beach Golf Resort & Spa

Palm Coast, Florida

In addition to an amazing outdoor Fantasy Pool complex with swimming pools, a lazy river, water slide, and zero-entry, water lovers can enjoy splashy fun even on rainy days at Hammock Beach Resort.

The roomy indoor pool is covered by a beautiful exposed wood ceiling and features elegant white columns. Potted plants and arched windows create a lovely garden-like setting. The indoor pool complex also offers two hot tubs, table tennis, and foosball.

The family-focused Hammock Beach Resort is located along the Atlantic Ocean in Palm Coast, Florida.

4. Hotel Mont Cervin Palace

Zermatt, Switzerland

A memorable indoor-outdoor hotel pool is located at the Hotel Mont Cervin Palace in Zermatt, Switzerland.

Ciao Bambino‘s Amie O’Shaughnessy says, “Many indoor pools are small, claustrophobic, and humid, but Mont Cervin’s stunning pool is glorious in a massive light-filled room with an extensive lounge zone and a dedicated toddler pool filled with toys. The main pool is part indoor and part outdoor. Swimming in a snowstorm is something my family will never forget!”

5. Grand Cascades Lodge

Hamburg, New Jersey

When you think of New Jersey, you probably don’t picture a year-round sunny oasis. Think again. 

Located at the Grand Cascades Lodge, the Tropical Biosphere Pool is the first structure of its kind in the U.S. to incorporate advanced German foil-tech roofing material. This allows nearly 100 percent light transmission for year-round tanning. 

The Biosphere’s freeform pools are surrounded by lush tropical landscaping. The pool complex includes a heated indoor pool, incredible views of the surrounding mountains, a 140-foot water slide, a grotto-like Jacuzzi, a cave-themed steam room and sauna, and even an underground aquarium.

Grand Cascades Lodge is located in New Jersey just 47 miles from Manhattan.

6. The InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile

Chicago, Illinois

Originally Chicago’s preeminent athletic club, the Intercontinental Chicago Magnificent Mile houses one of the oldest pools in the city. The Medinah Athletic Club was built in 1927. Although the building’s original facilities are long gone, some remarkable features remain, including its massive junior Olympic swimming pool.

Hotel guests can still enjoy original 1920s-era Spanish Majolica tiles, a hand-carved terracotta fountain of Neptune, and marble pillars. The large pool area creates a true feeling of escaping to another time in history.

Being one of the largest hotel pools in the Windy City, it’s the perfect place to let the kids splash around and tire themselves out. In fact, a pool day here just may be one of the best things to do in Chicago with kids.

7. Rome Cavalieri, A Waldorf Astoria Hotel

Rome, Italy

One of the signature features of the award-winning Cavalieri Grand Spa Club at Waldorf Astoria’s Rome Cavalieri is its beautiful indoor pool. Set within a glass atrium and featuring a cascading waterfall, child and adult vacationers will feel rawther special swimming here.

Enjoy a hydro-massage pool, Japanese stone walk, and cozy wood-burning fireplace year-round. The pool’s windows look out onto the hotel’s private Mediterranean park and outdoor pools. It’s the perfect spot to relax between spa treatments and sightseeing in Rome.

8. Great Wolf Lodge

Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin

Dr. Jessie Voigts of Wandering Educators recommends the Great Wolf Lodge indoor water park in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. She says, “There’s an enormous wave pool, a plethora of slides, a lazy river, a hot tub, small kids’ play areas, bigger kids’ play areas, and a huge dumping water bucket.

Great Wolf Lodge is very concerned with safety and has plenty of life jackets and attentive lifeguards on duty. It’s a very friendly place, and very welcoming to families.”

9. Waldorf Astoria Atlanta Buckhead

Atlanta, Georgia

The elegant indoor pool at Waldorf Astoria Atlanta Buckhead looks out on the hotel’s charming courtyard drive. Inviting natural light floods the space.

This pool is part of the Waldorf Astoria Spa & Health Club. It is not only large enough for laps but also inviting enough for playtime for all ages. Water aerobics classes are offered to hotel guests as well. Once you’ve worked up an appetite, you can order lunch for delivery to your loungers.

This Waldorf Astoria is located in the exclusive Buckhead area of Atlanta, known as the Beverly Hills of the South.

10. Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong

Hong Kong, China

Located on the 118th floor of Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong, this indoor hotel pool provides outstanding views of the city below.

According to Katie Dillon of LaJollaMom.com, “With LCD screens playing scenes of swaying palm trees and swimming fish on the wall as well as moving clouds on the ceiling, this pool is cool. Really cool. Hang out toward the window for panoramic views of Victoria Harbour and then some.”

11. Park Hyatt Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

You might recognize the striking pool at Park Hyatt Tokyo from the movie, Lost In Translation. In the film, Bill Murray’s character is shown swimming in the iconic pool, which is lined by enormous glass windows.

The hotel’s beautiful indoor pool is part of the fitness center, Club on the Park. Set on the 47th floor, private members and hotel guests are treated to fabulous views of Tokyo while swimming laps here. Sunlight streams through the building’s atrium and fills the pool area with natural light.

Children ages 3 to 15 may use the pool when accompanied by an adult during designated daytime hours.

12. Mohonk Mountain House

Hudson Valley, New York

Swim among the treetops at Mohonk Mountain House in Hudson Valley, about two hours north of New York City. Take in panoramic views of the Catskill Mountains while paddling about in this suspended swimming pool. The 60-foot-long indoor heated pool plays soothing underwater music, adding to the mellow vibe.

Mohonk Mountain House has been hosting guests since it opened in 1869. Outdoorsy play for a romantic getaway or family vacation is king here with lawn games, archery, competitions on the tennis court, and beyond. This historic hotel is surrounded by 40,000 acres of rich forest.

13. Wilderness at the Smokies Resort

Sevierville, Tennessee

The indoor Wild Waterdome at Wilderness at the Smokies Resort is kept at a comfy 86 degrees year-round. The 66,000-square-foot tropical oasis features a wave pool, waterslides, and splash areas for children.

The family-friendly resort even offers indoor surfing. Grab a boogie board and catch a wave at this hotel in Sevierville, Tennessee.

What’s more, the hotel also offers two outdoor waterparks, Lake Wilderness and Salamander Springs. Plus, there are a mini golf course, arcade, and Adventure Forest dry play area.

14. Tschuggen Grand Hotel

Arosa, Switzerland

Set in the spectacular Alpine region of Arosa in Switzerland at an altitude of over 5,900 feet, Tschuggen Grand Hotel features four amazing pools at their Tschuggen Bergoase Spa. This unusual pool complex brings the outdoors in, combining nature, warmth, light, water, and rock to create an earthy spa and pool area.

After a day of outdoor activities like skiing and snow play in winter or hiking and lake adventures in summer, relax in Tschuggen Bergoase’s indoor-outdoor relaxation pools.

Every day between 4:30 and 5:30 pm, children can take advantage of a “Splash Hour,” when they don’t have to worry about being loud and can simply enjoy water play.

15. Hershey Lodge

Hershey, Pennsylvania

Guests of Hershey Lodge enjoy 30,000 square feet of water play year-round at a Hershey’s-themed indoor pool complex called Hershey’s Water Works.

The pool area features one-of-a-kind elements such as Reese’s Water Walk, where guests can walk across floating Reese’s-shaped circles. Plus, pool goers enjoy Twizzlers Twists water slides that take sliders outside the building and back in.

Hershey’s Water Works also features two pools, a sandcastle spray zone, a lighthouse tipping bucket, basketball hoops, a whirlpool, an outdoor splash pad, a poolside cafe, an arcade, an activity room, and fitness center.

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16. Hôtel Barrière Le Fouquet

Paris, France

Hôtel Barrière Le Fouquet is the last hotel in Paris to be owned by a French family. Located on the Champs-Elysées, it is the pinnacle of French luxury.

The hotel’s Spa Diane Barrière features an opulent indoor hotel pool surrounded by soft lighting and fine art. The swimming pool also boasts waterfalls heated to tropical temperatures.

Adults can enjoy the City of Light’s only aquatic circuit, which includes an aquatic trampoline and an aqua bike. Meanwhile, kids can splash and play in this family-friendly space. Children’s swim lessons are available upon request, too.

17. Gaylord Opryland Resort

Nashville, Tennessee

SoundWaves at Gaylord Opryland Resort is a 4-acre, 3-level, upscale indoor-outdoor water park for hotel guests, visitors to the city, and locals. The temperature is kept at a pleasant 84F degrees for enjoyment 365 days a year.

The pool complex’s living walls and plant beds bring nature indoors. In addition, its unique glass roof allows guests to soak in the elements and even sunbathe indoors.

Pool goers enjoy spills and thrills at Gaylord Opryland’s SoundWaves. Even if you’re not spending the night at Gaylord Opryland Resort, your family can buy day passes to enjoy body slides, tube slides, family raft rides, multi-level play structures, a lazy river, a wave-riding machine, and more.

Read more about this hotel in our full Gaylord Opryland Resort review.

18. One Aldwych

London, England

The 59-foot indoor lap pool at the One Aldwych luxury hotel in Covent Garden, London is a treat for the senses. Hotel guests enjoy an underwater music system, playful sea life projections, and soft mood lighting.

Children aged 12+ months are welcome to swim with parents or adult caregivers in this Health Club pool at Old Aldwych. Good news for sensitive skin, too, the pool’s ground-breaking mineral cleaning system offers a chlorine-free swim without harsh chemicals.

19. Hotel Metropole Monte-Carlo

Monte Carlo, Monaco

Fashion Icon Karl Lagerfeld designed the swanky ODYSSEY at Hotel Metropole Monte-Carlo in Monaco. This rooftop retreat includes a sumptuous garden, a lounge-restaurant, and a pool area outfitted with striking black and white art photography.

The unique pool mural features the designer’s muses and is illuminated at night. This outdoor swimming pool is covered and heated in colder months for an indoor feel.

20. Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia

On the main floor of the Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta in the heart of Midtown, swimmers are delighted to find a 62-foot saltwater pool bathed in natural sunlight. On the outdoor sun terrace, servers bring food and drinks for breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week.

The family-friendly pool area features a bubbling whirlpool and rattan daybeds. The water in this marble natatorium is always heated between 82- and 84-degrees Fahrenheit.

21. Fairmont Olympic Hotel

Seattle, Washington

Watch the Seattle rain sprinkle from the sky as you float in a heated swimming pool at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel. The enclosed solarium is part of the hotel’s impressive 10,800-square-foot health club.

Warm up after a chilly day in the facility’s dry sauna or massive 20×14-foot hot tub. In summer months, this glass-encased pool area opens to let the warm weather in.

The pool and hot tub are open until 9 pm, allowing your family to enjoy an early evening swim before turning in for bed.

22. Royal Sonesta Boston

Cambridge, Massachusetts

The gorgeous atrium-style swimming pool at Royal Sonesta Boston is one of the biggest pools in the Boston and Cambridge areas. The pool offers three swimming lanes plus a play area for less strenuous pursuits. It also overlooks a seasonal sun deck.

This pool is chemical chlorine-free and is sanitized using an Electrolytic System and salt. This means a higher level of cleanliness without the harsh effects of chemicals. That’s great news for kids’ sensitive skin.

23. Hilton Americas-Houston

Houston, Texas

An oblong heated pool lures swimmers to the 24th floor of Hilton Americas-Houston. Daniel Gillaspia, founder of UponArriving.com, recommends this indoor pool area for its three swimming lanes, enticing semicircle whirlpool spa, and incredible views of the Houston area.

This infinity edge lap pool is part of Hilton Americas-Houston’s Skyline Spa & Health Club, where child guests are invited to swim with their parents or caregivers.

Hilton Americas-Houston is connected to the George R. Brown Convention Center via skywalk and is right next door to the Toyota Center, home of the Houston Rockets.

24. The Pfister Hotel

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

The Pfister Hotel opened in 1893 in downtown Milwaukee as the “Grand Hotel of the West.” The Pfister Hotel was the most lavish hotel of its time, and it continues to dazzle guests today with its Romanesque Revival architecture and ornately painted domed lobby ceiling.

Best of all for water lovers is its indoor pool on the 23rd floor. This swimming area provides spectacular, sweeping views of the city and Lake Michigan.

25. The Singular Patagonia, Puerto Bories Hotel

Puerto Natales, Chile

Surrounded by fjords and glaciers, the Singular Spa at the Singular Patagonia stuns guests with its beauty. This luxury family resort sits on the shores of the Señoret Channel at the so-called “end of the world” in Chilean Patagonia.

The holistic-focused resort spa features a heated indoor-outdoor swimming pool filled with water from the glaciers. With a focus on Salut Per Aqua or “health through water,” the 3,000-square-foot pool incorporates fresh glacier water into every element of design and spa treatment.

Children are allowed in the pool at the Singular Spa when accompanied by an adult. What’s more, children stay for free at this resort. The minimum age for spa treatments is 18.

26. The Langham Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

Float beneath shimmering spotlights in the Langham Chicago’s 67-foot indoor pool. Heated recliners warm swimmers after a dip.

The pool is part of the hotel’s Chuan Spa and Wellness Center. Kids can swim and splash here with guests aged 18+. Meanwhile, parents can enjoy the nearby Oriental steam room, a Himalayan salt sauna, and an herbal sauna.

Near Michigan Avenue and the Chicago River, the central location of the sumptuous 5-star Langham Chicago can’t be beat.

27. Shangri-La The Shard

London, England

Take in incredible scenes of London while soaking in the highest swimming pool in Western Europe. Paulina from UK Every Day recommends the Sky Pool on the 52nd floor at Shangri-La The Shard for its large windows with panoramic views of the city.

The infinity pool adds an intriguing element to the highest bar in London, GŎNG. But only hotel guests may take a dip in this pool with a view. Reservations are required but there is no charge. Children join the fun during select family hours.

The Shangri-La is located next to the London Bridge train station in the tallest skyscraper in London, The Shard.

28. Triple Play Resort Hotel & Suites

Hayden, Idaho

The water play structure at Triple Play Resort Hotel & Suites near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho will delight swimmers for hours of play.

Jessica Bowers of the Suitcases and Sippycups blog loves this hotel pool because, “Raptor Reef Indoor Waterpark is a 25,000-square-foot facility that features a wave pool and children’s lagoon with a two-story play structure complete with slides, water guns, and a tipping bucket. Guests can lean back and relax in the indoor-outdoor hot tub or ride one of the three amazing slides.”

29. Whiteface Lodge

Lake Placid, New York

The all-suite upscale Whiteface Lodge is tucked into the woodlands above Lake Placid in New York state. The lodge’s pool is heated to approximately 85 degrees year-round for cozy swimming.

Enjoy both protection from the elements and the fresh air of the Adirondack Mountains in this indoor-outdoor pool. Additionally, out of the three hotel hot tubs, one is located indoors.

This outdoorsy resort also offers fishing, sports courts, campfires and s’mores, an ice skating rink, and other family-friendly hotel offerings.

30. JW Marriott Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Situated in the center of downtown Grand Rapids, the JW Marriot Grand Rapids features a sophisticated indoor pool. It’s a heated shallow pool, making it a good choice for families with children.

The pool is part of their Wellness Floor, which boasts floor-to-ceiling windows that showcase scenic views of the Grand River. JW’s Seraphina Spa is located on the same level, offering all sorts of pampering treatments for the face, body, nails, and lashes.

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