A serious pool, built for people who actually swim. Not to photograph. To use.
A Serious Pool
Eighty feet.
Eighty feet.
Built to swim in.
Natural stone underfoot. Gardens on all sides. Long enough for a real swim, surrounded by fruit trees and unbroken quiet.
Bougainvillea above, fruit trees around it, and the farm moving quietly on every side.
Loved by guests. Read the reviews to see how many mention it. It becomes part of the stay.
Natural stone. No plastic, no fake finishes. The same philosophy as the rooms.
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The size
Long enough.
Long enough.
Deep enough.
Eighty feet allows for uncompromised laps, morning routines, and unhurried afternoons. Long, deep, and lined in natural stone — built for daily use rather than decoration.
The setting
In the middle
In the middle
of the garden.
Bougainvillea climbs towards the open sky. Fruit trees give shade through the day. Horses pass in the early morning. The pool sits inside a living farm, and that place makes itself known at every hour: in water, light, shade, and stillness.
The day
One pool.
One pool.
Three times of day.
Morning, afternoon, evening — the farm keeps changing around it, and so does the swim.
Morning
The pool is still. The farm is waking up.
A long swim before breakfast is one of the best ways to start a day here. This is when the regular swimmers use the pool. The light is low, coming through the fruit trees and across the water.
Afternoon
Swim, sunbathe, repeat. Read. Let time pass.
The pool makes idleness feel deserved. In the warmer months, you will spend your afternoons in the water. In peak winter — December and January — the water is too cold for most people to swim, but the stone decks are warm in the sun.
Evening
Gather quietly. Long, unhurried hours.
The pool is good for soft conversation, quiet reading, and unhurried time. At night, the water is quiet, gently lit, and still.
The design
Water. Stone.
Water. Stone.
Green. Sky.
Built from natural stone with seamless coping and flush waterlines. Its beauty comes from scale and proportion: everything it needs, nothing it doesn't. Because only a few guests share the farm, the pool keeps something most hotel pools have lost: the feeling that it is yours.
Never finished
Built once.
Built once.
Rebuilt twice.
Forty-six years of getting closer to right: it started as a pond, dug to water the young trees while the farm itself was still being planted. It became a swimming pool later, then was rebuilt again for guests who wanted real laps, not simply a place to cool off.
Almost everything great here can be traced back to a guest. In 2018, Dorothy, an 80-year-old British woman who swam a kilometre every day, finally convinced me that she should only have to count 20 laps. You can thank her for the pool.
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