Best Pools

For most families, the pool is the vacation. Here, some top places to splash and get your Marco Polo on.

By Yolanda Edwards and Miranda Crowell

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Viceroy
Santa Monica

The chic cabanas are right next to a three-foot-deep pool. (And Lindsay sightings are possible.)


Great Wolf Lodge
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin

Six pools, 19 waterslides, and a water fort mean untold numbers of giddy kids. When they're happy, you're happy.


The Raleigh
Miami

A shallow pool for the kids encircles the deeper one for the grown-ups, so everyone can play together.


El Conquistador
Fajardo, Puerto Rico

A sexy infinity-edge pool overlooks the Carib­bean, plus it has waterslides, an inner-tube river, and rope bridges.


One & Only
Reethi Rah, The Maldives

This dazzling kids' pool has blue-green Indo­nesian tiles and animal-shaped lava-stone fountains.


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