The vistas from the expansive fourth-floor pool deck are none too shabby, either.
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Beyond the pool deck lies 1, 000ft of Cable Beach's soft sand.
These days pools are popping up on top of skyscrapers from New York to Sydney and everywhere in between, often with bars and restaurants that help transform the pool deck into a social scene all its own.
In 2009, Barack Obama's face on the screen in the Caribbean Sea was as sharply defined as it was at the U.S. Capitol, and some people on the pool deck slathered on sunscreen while others planned shore excursions.
There was an enormous television screen with crystal-clear reception mounted on one of the ship's walls above the pool deck, and as Barack Obama delivered his inaugural address at the United States Capitol, he delivered it at the same moment here, on a speck in the ocean.
According to the CDC report, during the August 19 surprise visit, inspectors found brown liquid dripping on clean dishes, refrigerators out of order, improper installation of anti-entrapment drain covers in pools posing a possible danger to swimmers, faulty dishwashers that managers allegedly failed to do anything about until inspectors arrived and water from a broken ice machine leaking onto the pool deck.
On the morning after that pool-deck encounter in Florida I headed out for a walk, and in the parking lot of the hotel I saw one of the Tokens loading his stage clothes into his car.
The digs: The U-shaped white stucco-and-glass contemporary has 5 bedrooms, a screening room, a pool and a deck on 80 feet of beach.
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The master bathroom has a deep tub with teak lounge chairs next to it, like a swimming pool on the deck of a ship.
And there were two al fresco-dining options: a sala near the pool and a deck just back from the ocean, which the staff would turn into a restaurant for two on short notice.
Inside the 76-story tower's rippled steel exterior lies a lifeguard-manned swimming pool and sun deck, a boxing studio, a children's library, a grilling terrace with "dining cabanas, " a billiards room, a squash court and a golf simulator, just to name a few.
At one unionised hotel, he recalls, the pool attendant was not allowed to take the deck chairs out of the pool when the wind blew them in.
My office and a guest room are on the bottom level, where there's also an exterior deck and pool.
There's also an outdoor shower at the end of a boardwalk, and built into the deck at the front, a plunge pool, still a rare luxury at game lodges.
Walls made from canvas and mosquito netting give onto the bush and onto a private deck furnished with chaise lounges and a small private pool.
On top of three 55-storey hotel towers sits the famous Sands SkyPark complex, with a stunning 150m infinity pool, the uber-hot Ku De Ta restaurant and bar, and a huge observation deck.
From a sun lounger on your private rosewood deck, all you can see is a stretch of tawny grassland extending beyond your infinity-edge pool to a ridge of distant hills.
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