top 10 u.s. hotel pools

With the recent resurgence of cold weather here in Denver, my thoughts are drifting towards the summer sun and lounging somewhere hot with a chilled cocktail in hand.

Sherman’s Travel has a list of the top 10 pools in the nation.

Some highlights;

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas

Only in Vegas can you play a hand of blackjack in your bathing suit. The Hard Rock’s rocking pool oasis lets you party all day and night, wet or dry, in a seven-acre playground with its own palm-shaded sandy beach.

(home of Sin City’s hottest Sunday night party ‘Rehab’, as talked about in our interview with Jack Colton.  Check out the somewhat NSFW *pictures* of the action here)

Hotel Gansevoort, New York

The hotel pool-bar scene finally has a toehold in New York, at the Meatpacking District’s brand-spanking-new Gansevoort Hotel.

The Standard, Los Angeles

Jet-setters flock for a cocktail by the pool at Sunset Boulevard’s funky Standard, where an outdoor blue-astroturf-covered pool deck morphs into a hip hang out after dark.

Don’t miss the 7 others rounding out the list.

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