The swimming pool has become the quintessential feature of hotels in South Florida, one of the only places in the world where the season, and temperature, is irrelevant for its use. Even in the harshest of "Miami winters" - think 50s and 60s - you'll find tourists from the northeast cannonballing into the liquid abyss perpetually engulfed by cocktails and bikinis. As we head into 2016, here are the 10 best pools in the Miami area, mapped.
VICEROY MIAMI HOTEL/CLUB 50
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VICEROY MIAMI HOTEL/CLUB 50
How can the No. 1 pool in Miami not hail from South Beach? In part because we're factoring in both the Viceroy pool and the one at Club 50, both offering supreme views of Biscayne Bay and the city while you soak up the Miami sun.
You've surely witnessed the W pool scene providing a common backdrop for movies and TV shows, like HBO's Ballers this past summer. WET also provides a popping nightlife atmosphere.
HYDE BEACH AT THE SLS HOTEL
Party animals look no further than Hyde Beach at the SLS Hotel. Insert [Hyde Beach Pool Party] into the Google machine and watch the chaos ensue. Their mascot? A 700-pound silver rubber ducky statue by the guest pool.
The Raleigh Hotel pool is home to some of the wildest pool parties on South Beach. It's quite the scene during Miami Music Week, where hours feel like minutes.
The Fontainebleau pool scene is one of a kind. As a regular home for concerts and celebrities, the people-watching is epic. Just be careful around the big dates. Their New Years Eve party is in such demand, general admission this year will run you a silly $300 a ticket.
1 HOTEL SOUTH BEACH
Besides One Hotel's brilliant lobby, you'll find its rooftop pool sets the new standard for serenity in South Beach, even offering yoga classes at sunrise. Their main pool deck is also loaded with cabanas and stretches 30,000 square feet.
When Andrez Balazs, the Zeus of boutique hotels, decided to expand his Standard Hotels to Miami Beach, who knew the local variant would be better than the L.A. original? The pool, at the far end of a surreal garden, is certainly one for the gods.
FREEHAND MIAMI
Nothing about the Freehand Miami pool screams lavish but that's part of the appeal for the small space connected to the Broken Shaker, arguably the best bar on South Beach and home of the most delicious cocktails in South Florida. A bonus: dogs are welcome.
The Biltmore Hotel's huge pool was once the largest in the world. It's gigantic, iconic and within one of Miami's most notable landmark hotels.
DELANO HOTEL
Ian Shrager's white palace, the Delano Hotel, is famous for its tableau of a baroque garden table and chair in the very shallow end of its long pool. The hotel is still in its prime, decades after being one of the early major boutique hotels to establish itself in South Beach.
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