Hotel InterContinental Chicago - Magnificent Mile
Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES
Adult Admission Price & Policy
Day pass prices begin at $40.00, when booked through the Resort Pass program. [April, 2024]
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Registered guests: Free. [January, 2023]
Full-Size, Year-Round Pools & Boards
25y, 4 lanes, indoors,
84ºF (29ºC).
Location
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Facility Notes
The pool, as built, is striped for five lanes, but the lane ropes have been fitted over the three inside stripes, so there are only four lanes. The outside lanes are a bit wider to accommodate the ladders, and still have serviceable targets. This probably makes it easier to split lanes/swim circles as the original five lanes would have been tight, especially the lanes with the ladders. It is still a spectacular pool from an historical perspective and, for a hotel pool, hard to beat.
Facility Reviews
Great pool.
A terrific, old-fashioned pool. I recommend this hotel for swimmers.
What a facility! I was almost too distracted looking at the 1920's decor and architecture!
Opens 6 AM, busy until 7:30, then deserted.
The staff is helpful, towels and locker keys are included; the showers and changing rooms are very nice; the pool is magnificent.
The entrance fee includes all health club facilities; pay at the health club entrance, follow directions to the historic tower, and use the elevator to the health club.
Best to avoid use on the weekends when the hotel is crushed with families and swimming becomes an exercise in avoiding flotation devices and small, errant children. But early on weekdays it's quite nice (save for the very warm temps.)
If you're in Chicago, you simply must swim at this historic pool built in 1929. Beautiful!
[August, 2013]
[August, 2013]
It's a bucket list pool - a cross between a Roman baths, San Simeon, and the big pool at Yale.
[June, 2014]
[June, 2014]
Beautiful. The pool is lined in small square tiles. Intricate detail everywhere. It's like swimming in the Great Gatsby's indoor pool. The greater pool deck feels like a 1920's American ballroom. Lane lines need tightening. An earlier review described it as a bucket list pool, I couldn't agree more.
[July, 2016]
[July, 2016]
Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous! This is an amazing pool! Pricey, if you're not staying at the hotel but, as a splurge, most definitely worth it. It's a most spectacular way to start a day when traveling. I swam here every day for a week at 8.30 AM - on only one occasion were there any other people there; the other times I had the pool to myself.
[March, 2017]
[March, 2017]
This is a beautiful, meticulously-maintained, historic pool. The air quality is excellent for an indoor facility. There are no backstroke flags but it's easy to figure out other reference points to use. It's open long hours and I encountered only a couple of other folks in the water in the early morning hours; in the afternoon and evening it was deserted. The water temperature is a little high, but it's hard to complain when so much else is great. The nice locker room even has a suit spinner. To be able to roll downstairs and get your workout in before a business meeting makes it a great find.
I will stay here again.
[October, 2019]
I will stay here again.
[October, 2019]