Marina Bay Sands
Singapore, Singapore
The infinity pool that rewrote a city's skyline.
You know why you're here. It's the pool. The 57th-floor SkyPark infinity edge is one of the most recognisable images in modern travel, and no amount of cool detachment quite prepares you for the moment you actually swim out to it.
There's more to the place than one photograph, though. Moshe Safdie's three-tower design has become the visual shorthand for Singapore itself, and the resort under the boat is a small city of restaurants, a casino, a mall with its own canal, and a museum shaped like a lotus.
The Rooms
Rooms are large, cool and relentlessly modern, and the higher floors hand you skyline views worth paying up for. With more than 2,500 rooms this was never going to feel like a boutique, but the operation is astonishingly smooth for its size.
Book a Club room for SkyPark access without the day-guest crowds, and aim for a bay-facing tower.
The Verdict
Purists will sniff at the scale and the casino. Everyone else will have the time of their lives. Some things are famous because they are actually worth it, and that pool is one of them.
Floating at the edge of the 150-metre SkyPark infinity pool at dusk, with the whole Singapore skyline lit up below your chin.
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