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Don't go off the VERY deep end... Infinity pool 55 STOREYS aboveround opens in Singapore in dazzling new £4bn resort

Lucy Ballingert updated at 1:25 AM on 25th June 2010

ou fancy a dip in this pool, you'll need a head for heights - it's 55 storeys up.

t swimming to the edge won't be quite as risky as it looks. While the water in the infinity pool seems to end in a sheer drop, it actually spills into a catchmentea where it is pumped back into the main pool. At three times the length of an Olympic pool and 650ft up, it is the largest outdoor pool in the world at that

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eatures in the impressive, boat-shaped 'SkyPark' perched atop the three towers that make up the world's most expensive hotel, the£4billion Marina Baynds development in Singapore.

Don't look down: A guest swims in the infinity pool of the Skypark that tops the Marina Bay Sands hotel towers - 55 storeys over the city of Singapore yesterday

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To infinity... and beyond! The pool stretches 150 metres, three times the length of an Olympic swimming pool

The view over the side: An artist's impression shows the Skypark that tops the Marina Bay Sands hotel towers, including the infinity pool

e hotel, which has 2,560 rooms costing from £350 a night, was officially opened yesterday with a concert by Diana Ross.

e Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi, estimated to have cost £2billion when it opened in 2004, was previously the world's most expensive hotel.

t with its indoor canal, opulent art, casino, outdoor plaza, convention centre, theatre, crystal pavilion and museum shaped like a lotus flower, the Marina Baynds has taken its crown.

e infinity pool on the roof is in the 'SkyPark' which spans the three towers of the hotel. The platform itself is longer than the Eiffel tower laid down and is onehe largest of its kind in the world.

nity pools give the effect that the water extends to the horizon. In reality, the water spills over the edge into a catchment below, and is then pumped back into pool. The pools have two circulation systems. The first functions like that of a regular pool, filtering and heating the water in the main pool. The second

ers the water in the catch basin and returns it to the upper pool.



The resort from across the bay. The three towers were based on a deck of cards, according to designer Moshe Safdie

A skydiver parachutes pass the Singapore Flyer and Marina Bay Sands c asino resort as part of the venue's opening celebrations yesterday



treme: Left, relay teams scale one of the towers in a race commemorating the opening yesterday. Right, a newly-wed couple enjoy a canal ride inside the resort's shopping centre

e Marina Sands resort was designed by architect Moshe Safdie who based it on a deck of cards.

ide shoppers can ride along an indoor canal in Sampan boats styled on traditional Chinese vessels from the 17th century.

e owners have also commissioned five well-known artists to create works of art to 'integrate' with the buildings. Among these is a 40m-long Antony Gormleyulpture made from 16,100 steel rods. The whole thing weighs 14.8 tons and it took 60 people to assemble it in the hotel.

ist Chongbin Zheng created Rising Forest which is 83 three metre high pots with trees in them. The pots were so big the artist had to build a customised kilnsize of a small building to make them in.

st night, the world's most expensive hotel was given a launch party befitting it. Singing legend Diana Ross performed for 2,500 VIPs in the resort's Grandlroom and pop singer Kelly Rowland headlined an outdoor concert.

ney-maker: Left, the entrance to the casino, which costs nearly £50 to get in and is attracting 25,000 visitors each day. Right, a man looks through a steel web art structure in one ofthe towers



Just enjoying the sun: Models pose in the pool for journalists at the grand opening yesterday

e opening celebrations also featured a death-defying relay. Seven teams of three participants each scaled the three towers before sprinting across the 340-tre long Sands SkyPark, where the infinity pool is located, to the finish line.

e resort will employ 10,000 people directly and generate up to £48m each year. Entrance to the casino alone is nearly £50 a day - but an average of 25,000ople have visited the casino daily since its initial phased opening two months ago.

omas Arasi, president and chief executive officer of the resort, said he expects to attract an astonishing 70,000 visitors a day once it is fully open.

was due to open in 2009, but was delayed thanks to labour and material shortages, and funding problems due to the global financial crisis.

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vis Carr talk a lot of sense. Just live your life and do not flout laws. Before one makes an opinion and calling Singapore names such as Orweliian Police State, one must probe deep.their citizens well taken care of? Do they have jobs? Proper housing and sanitation? Do their little children need to run around the streets in tattered clothes begging or touting

eets and drinks? I know Singapore has high quality private and government subsidised medical facilities, their government educational institutions are well equipped, and the list goPolice State? why so? as long as it cares enough and do a lot to keep it a safe and clean place to raise your family, provide housing , medical, education and jobs. From a tiny island,

h no natural resources and a former colonial backwater, to a first world gem in a third world region, Singapore is a star. Hence, it is inevitable that Singapore will provoke a lot ofousies all round.

geratiz, Sydney , Australia, 27/6/2010 02:19

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port abusee facilities, infrastructure, cleanliness, freedom from crime and everything else, leaves most of UK looking like a smelly dustbin!! This is a fact not an opinion, though after saying thise has to remember that Singapore is l ittle bigger than Hyde park, and things can be kept under control, I have some sympathy with red arrowed JJ Goodie, in that one always feelsched in Singapore by probably countless plain clothes informants. In essence Singapore feels like a bright shiny theme park. But well worth a visit.

avid, London, 26/6/2010 17:34


port abusepplaud Singapore for its tough stand on crime. Why not be a model citizen. If everyone was, what a great world this would be. If you don't like the penalties, then abide by the rules and

't break the law.

avis Carr, Sydney Australia, 26/6/2010 13:29


port abuseere needs to be a correction to one of the photo captions in the article: the casino is free entry to all except Singapore citizens, who must pay S$100 (~£50).

mmy, Singapore, 26/6/2010 10:06


port abusenie, ludziom juz sie w glowach przewraca....Ale fajne to jest, faktpeople have turned over in the minds .... But this is cool, the fact

esley Bell, New Oakville, poland, 26/6/2010 07:07


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nie, ludziom juz sie w glowach przewraca....Ale fajne to jest, faktpeople have turned over in the minds .... But this is cool, the fact

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