Whether you’re a fan of soaks, swims, dips or laps, a gorgeous pool can be the icing on the cake when it comes to a brilliant hotel getaway. From those with healing thermal waters to help unknot your muscles after a day’s rambling to al-fresco numbers with panoramas of high-drama countryside and coastline, the UK has plenty of showstopper hotel pools to choose from.
Here’s our pick of the best hotels in the UK which offer spectacular swimming pools as part of a stylish getaway.
The best UK hotels with swimming pools are:
The Roman and Georgian inspiration is visable in The Gainsborough Bath Spa
(The Gainsborough Bath Spa)
Location: Bath
For a truly transformative soak, make for The Gainsborough Bath Spa’s cobalt blue, mosaic-tiled pool. Directly fed by the city’s mineral-rich thermal waters, known for their healing properties since ancient times, the 35C pool is lined by Romanesque columns and sits under a striking glass atrium inside the hotel’s small but lovely Spa Village. Combined with two smaller soaking pools, an ice alcove, saunas, steam room and relaxation terrace, it forms part of an hour-long self-guided bathing circuit. After ‘taking the waters,’ there are 99 bedrooms – contemporary, with riffs on the property’s Georgian heritage – to relax in, and special spa bedrooms pipe thermal waters straight into roll top tubs. The spa offers ELEMIS treatments, and you can sip on cups of Georgian-recipe hot chocolate between soaks.
Price: Doubles from £290
Immerse yourself in nature at The Scarlet’s natural outdoor pool
(The Scarlet)
Location: Newquay
For a back-to-nature swim, The Scarlet’s natural, reed-filtered outdoor pool, with views out to golden-hued Mawgan Porth beach on the Cornish coast, is hard to beat. Enjoy catching the Atlantic sea breeze as you soak, then hit the clifftop wooden sauna, steam room, and log-fired hot tubs to warm up in afterwards. Known for its eco credentials, this smart, adults-only boutique hotel also has a solar panel-heated indoor pool, 37 rooms with a beachcomber-chic vibe and excellent Ayurvedic spa treatments. Whether drifting in hanging cocoon pods after a massage, or enjoying leisurely fine dining while watching the ocean from the restaurant, a visit here is a guaranteed soul-soother.
Price: Doubles from £255, B&B
(Shangri-La The Shard)
Location: London Bridge
At 182m above ground level, the Sky Pool at Shangri-La The Shard has to be seen to be believed. This 10m infinity pool on…
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