Outdoor or low-chloramine pools
Pools are outdoors, or indoor pools have dedicated ventilation and monitored combined chlorine.
Why it matters
Chloramines irritate the skin, eyes and airways, and they build up in the air of indoor pools without enough ventilation. Outdoor pools, and good ventilation for indoor ones, keep levels low.
Source: US CDC, Chloramines and pool operation ()
Context, not scored: almost every pool in this catalog is outdoors, so it says little about one hotel against another.
Across the guide
None confirmed by a third party, seven on the hotel’s own word, eleven not yet reviewed.
7 hotel-reported11 of 18 not yet reviewed
In the editor’s running order. Not sorted by state, so gaps stay where they are.
Santa Monica · California
Viceroy Santa Monica
The hotel says: The pool is an outdoor courtyard pool, and ‘an active plan has been established to reduce chlorine usage in the swimming pool and fountains’.
Across the property
Santa Barbara · California
Santa Barbara Inn
The hotel says: There is a heated outdoor pool.
Across the property
Big Sur · California
Post Ranch Inn
The hotel says: The infinity pools are heated and outdoors.
Across the property
Desert Hot Springs · California
Two Bunch Palms
The hotel says: The pools and grotto are outdoors, fed by the resort’s natural mineral hot springs.
Our note. How the pools are sanitized is not stated.
Across the property
Palm Springs · California
Avalon Hotel & Bungalows Palm Springs
The hotel says: It has three outdoor pools.
Across the property
Encinitas · California
Alila Marea Beach Resort Encinitas
The operator said in 2021: The resort has an outdoor oceanfront pool.
Across the property
Rancho Mirage · California
Sensei Porcupine Creek
The hotel says: Each Casita has ‘an outdoor heated spa’, and the lagoon-style pool is set out in the desert sun.
Our note. How the pools and spas are sanitized is not stated.
Across the property
Know something about this at one of these hotels, or spotted something out of date? Tell us. We correct the record and date the change.