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Longest Pool Down Under? We Wanna See That

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 265 Sandy Point Road, Salamander Bay, New South Wales, Australia, 2317
February 20, 2009 at 9:26 AM | by | Comments (0)

Note to all hotel marketers: you can definitely get our attention by having a swimming pool that's better than all the rest. About three hours north of Sydney at Salamander Bay, the Oaks Pacific Blue Resort has hooked us in by boasting the longest swimming pool in Australia. And a recent Age reviewer confirmed the claim:

I have no qualms accepting the claim that it's the longest in Australia, given that it took me the better part of a weekend to swim one lap.

Apparently the pool is 480 meters (over 1,500 feet) in length and goes in a circle through the resort, with four manmade beach spots around it. On top of that, a few of the apartments have their own plunge pools as well. The whole resort is heavily focused on water as you walk around much of the place on boardwalks and the restaurant and bar are directly on the water, too.

Presumably all this makes the Oaks Pacific Blue a much more popular place in summer than winter, but as far as we can see the prices don't drop then. The smallest rooms are studios which go for A$185 ($120) a night, and if you want a private pool you'll pay from A$409 ($260) a night.

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