The Eight Most Beautiful Infinity Pools in Southeast Asia

The Indonesian island of Bali is not only known for picturesque rice terraces, long sandy beaches and waves that invite surfing, but also for its diverse art forms such as painting, sculpture, wood carving, handicrafts and performing arts. Ubud is a town in the centre of the island, in the highlands of Bali. It is one of the most important art and cultural centres in Bali.

Here, in the highlands of Ubud, perched high above the jungle and river Petanu, is Viceroy Bali, a secluded retreat where time seems to slow down. Your villa here may have its own pool, but nowhere is the view as spectacular as from the edge of the hotel pool.

The Lembah Spa pampers you with treatments influenced by traditional Balinese wellness techniques.

The Viceroy Bali offers a range of authentic experiences. Learn how to make many types of traditional patterns from white coconut leaves, which serve as offerings to the Viceroy Bali. Afterwards, you can put on your sarong and make your offerings to the gods at the hotel temple. If you want to learn something new, this Bali activity is for you.

Admittedly, the Marina Bay Sands with its more than 2,500 rooms is far from what we usually define as boutique accommodation. But if you’re looking for a hotel with an infinity pool in Singapore, it should be spectacular, and what’s more spectacular than the world’s largest infinity pool?!

The pool is part of the Sands SkyPark, an architectural masterpiece, on the roof of the Marina Bay Sands’ three hotel towers 200 metres above the ground. This 1.2 hectare tropical oasis is longer than the Eiffel Tower in height and large enough to park four and a half A380 jumbo jets!
As a hotel guest, you have exclusive use of the 150-metre infinity swimming pool. It is the world’s largest outdoor pool at this height.

The rooms also offer spectacular views of the South China Sea or Marina Bay and the Singapore skyline.

The Six Senses Samui on the Thai island of Koh Samui looks as if it has always been there. It looks as if it belongs to the jungle. As if it were part of it. It is so well integrated into the vegetation, so lushly overgrown, so hidden. The 66 villas along a bay on the northern tip are accessible via enchanted paths: what a jungle feeling! From the huge infinity pool you can enjoy a fantastic view of the panorama of the Gulf of Thailand.

Don’t miss dinner at the Dining on the Rocks restaurant! Here, dining is done on small terraces of weathered teak and bamboo among the rocks. Again, you feel as if you are one with nature. What’s on the table? Innovative dining concepts, bubbling sauces, for example, dazzling side dishes, surprising colours – the finest molecular cuisine. Because it’s so nice to be surprised again and again!

Despite its perceived remoteness, the Six Senses Samui is easy to reach: Planes leave for Samui several times a day from Bangkok, and from the island’s airport, in turn, it is only a short car transfer to the resort.

Just a 45-minute flight southeast of Ho Chi Minh City – and you’ve landed in paradise. More precisely, on the long, fine-sand beach of the Vietnamese dream island of Con Son. Here you will stay in style in 50 luxurious yet natural pool villas of the Six Senses Con Dao, in the neighbourhood of old fishing villages, surrounded by several historical sites and yet secluded on its own bay in the Con Dao archipelago.

From the villas you enjoy a magical view, of the beach, of the semicircle of the bay, of the sea shimmering in turquoise, past half-raised curtains fluttering in the warm wind. And the best thing about the villas? Each has its own infinity pool! The view leads to the one-and-a-half-kilometre-long private beach, which is part of the island group’s national park. The nesting sites of the turtles are under special protection here. Between May and October, with a bit of luck, you can watch the sea turtles laying their eggs or hatching.