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What are the best resorts in the Caribbean for swimmers?

Old Feb 28th, 2008, 09:35 PM
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What are the best resorts in the Caribbean for swimmers?

Any of these factors would make good swimming:

- pool with swimming lanes
- dedicated lap pool
- large or long pool without a lot of kids or drunks
- swimmable beach, not turbulent & not full of boats & jetskis

We're used to swimming laps, but we'd be happy with a large odd-size pool where you can just swim free-form for long periods of time

Lack of crowds/congestion is important

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Old Feb 29th, 2008, 09:41 AM
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I'd love it if someone could make a website of hotels in the Caribbean with lap / lane pools, as I'd love that resource (I like swimming laps, and my sons train for competitive swimming).

I don't think any hotels in Cayman have truly suitable pools, but a) we have a really active Masters swimming programme with training two evenings a week in a 25m pool near the hotels, and group sea swim training another two evenings per week.

Cayman is also one of the world's top sea swimming locations (on Seven Mile Beach), and we will be a future host of the world open water swimming championships.

We also host at least 8-10 sea swims per year, from 800m to the legendary Flowers One Mile Sea Swim (with over 500 participants) to longer course events up to 10k.

There are jetskis off certain areas of Seven Mile Beach, but only beyond the 200 yard markers and accessing the beach through demarcated channels. These safety rules are strictly enforced both by the hotels/watersports operators and by police boat and jetski patrols.
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Old Mar 18th, 2008, 12:56 PM
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clubswim and swimmersguide are 2 dotcoms that have descriptions of pools all over the world

But I take it from the underwhelming response to original question, with the exception of Tom's post, that there aren't too many such resorts in the Carib.

I was able to swim at Ocean Club in Paradise Island, Swept Away Negril, and Bucuti in Aruba - but at times the jetskis can really ruin things in those places. Will definitely keep Caymans in mind. Still would like to hear about other places.

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