The Best Swimming Pools in Mexico City

Inside the Barceló México Reforma hotel, there is a beautiful indoor, heated pool with natural light. It features a beautiful design that is enhanced even further by the lighting that comes from the outside, as it has a glass roof that allows sunlight to fully reach it all year round, creating a warm and appropriate atmosphere for a good swim.

It is located on the twentieth floor of the hotel and features sun loungers and counter-current water to improve the experience, reaching 1.3 metres in depth at its deepest part.

Additionally, you can enjoy other amenities, as the hotel has a lobby with an elegant bar where you can enjoy both national and international drinks. Four restaurants offer Japanese, Italian, and Mexican dishes, as well as fine cuts of meat. A special mention goes to the bar exclusively dedicated to tequila—what could be better?

The interesting thing is that at Barceló México Reforma you can access a day pass which ranges from approximately 50 to 80 dollars, which will allow you to access the pool and enjoy the hotel’s benefits and facilities.

Recognised for the luxury of its spa, it has a beautiful and elegant pool. With a length of 15 metres and a temperature that slightly fluctuates between 28 and 30 degrees, this pool is only open to those over 18 years of age. With a glass roof, it allows full exposure to the sky and natural sunlight, a detail especially designed so that part of the experience is receiving Vitamin D.

The day pass here will allow you not only to enjoy the pool but also to have access to all the spa amenities, considered in the ‘leading spa’ category (recognition European for luxury hotels), including a gym and beauty salon, and you can also access interesting discounts at the restaurants. Jacuzzi, sauna, steam room, rain shower, changing rooms, and a relaxation room. This is how you can enjoy all of this without limits, in addition to the locker, towel, and shower service. There is no minimum drink consumption.

The pool of the Hotel Marquis Reforma offers beautiful views of both the interior and exterior, as it faces the facade of buildings on the beautiful Paseo de La Reforma street, so you can take beautiful and well-lit photographs. Let yourself be enveloped by this wonderful experience and treat yourself to a day of water and complete rest in a luxury space.

Located in the Cuauhtémoc neighbourhood, Hotel Carlota is a beautiful boutique hotel that offers a concept where art, architecture, and creativity meet, resulting in an exquisite space to have a good time.

Within its facilities, there is a library and an organic restaurant, making the experience healthy and sustainable.

The day pass includes a snack, two national drinks, and one international drink per person; it includes towels and bathrooms for changing; however, it does not have a shower.

Opening hours are from 10 am to 6 pm, and like other hotel pools, access for minors is not allowed. Reservation is not required, but we suggest you contact the hotel beforehand to check availability, as the pool has a maximum capacity of 120 people.

Surrounded by buildings with Art Deco architecture, the pool has a glass section that provides an interesting angle for photographing swimmers, with night lighting that makes the space a very pleasant place to enjoy.

It is interesting to mention that you can rent the pool at Hotel Carlota for your pool party, which will undoubtedly make any celebration unforgettable.

In the heart of Mexico City, in the Historic Centre, we find the beautiful Downtown hotel that perfectly combines colonial architecture with industrial design in its decorative elements, including murals such as ‘El Holocausto’ by artist Manuel Rodriguez Lozano, as well as frescoes by other Mexican artists.

The day pass to enjoy a day at the pool costs around 30 dollars, which includes food and drinks to make your visit more pleasant. For this price, you can enjoy free entry from 11 am, and you will be provided with towels and access to the showers. It is important to specify that after 3 pm, children are no longer allowed access.

Once inside, and if you arrive in the morning, you can have breakfast on the central balcony of the palace of the Counts of Miravalle, the original owners of the beautiful building, and feel immersed in the colonial era, in the 17th century, contemplating the aforementioned mural. You will also be able to reach the terrace that offers beautiful views of the Historic Centre, the Torre Latinoamericana, and the facade of the Casino Español, among others.

The pool of the hotel Downtown will place you in a place with history and will allow you to enjoy beautiful details in its infrastructure, relax, and swim as you wish.

To the north of Mexico City and removed from the federal district, we find this complete hotel complex, where you will find the next pool that we will review here.

It is a hotel that has a gym, gardens, and even shops, with a ‘hacienda’ style design that will immediately transport you to a place outside the city, to an oasis.

Its day pass costs around 40 dollars for adults and 20 dollars per child. This entrance includes a food buffet, drinks, and a national open bar. It also includes the use of towels, access to a room with everything necessary to change, dry off, take a good shower after finishing your swim in the pool, and access to the gym.

Additionally, if you want to eat lunch or dinner, at Krystal Satélite María Bárbara you can access the exquisite menu of the restaurant María Bárbara, or if you prefer coffee, you can access the Starbucks ‘Take a Bite’ café.

The pool is outdoors, and the invitation is to disconnect from everything and reconnect with swimming, calmness, and peaceful thoughts.

In the beautiful Polanco neighbourhood, we find this pool inside the Hotel Habita Polanco. Its contemporary design proposes an avant-garde style with personalised service that will make you feel special from the moment you arrive. Its facade is very distinctive, as it has frosted glass that changes colour as the daylight changes.

This beautiful place offers us its heated pool with a terrace, which in turn has a jacuzzi and a bar, while you enjoy a beautiful view of the city and prepare to lie on the sun loungers in the shade. Thus, during the day you can dedicate yourself to sunbathing, in the afternoons enjoy beautiful sunsets, and at night relax while enjoying art film projections on the wall adjacent to the hotel.

Accessing the day pass has an approximate cost of 25 dollars, and the hours are from 8 am to 9 pm, Monday to Sunday. Come and enjoy this cosy space in Habita Polanco, designed with beautiful artistic details to make your pool day a personal work of art.

A large heated pool is what the Hotel Hyatt Regency in Mexico City will offer us: an indoor space with all the comforts you could expect.

The day pass to which you can access for approximately 35 dollars, allows you to access various amenities; firstly, the pools: an indoor heated one with a glass roof and sun loungers for resting, and an outdoor one on a terrace with a beautiful view of Chapultepec Park. You can also access the gym, sauna, steam room, and showers. The service also includes a locker with towels.

Additionally, if you wish, you can enjoy the delicious food at its Latin American restaurant, Rulfo Paraje Latino, or the Teppan Grill, which serves seafood and grilled meat in the teppanyaki style, including the option of the Japanese restaurant Yoshimi, which has a beautiful Japanese garden.

The experience in the Hotel Hyatt Regency is complete, with five-star facilities that will allow you to enjoy an unforgettable day of rest and pure connection with enjoyment.

This is a pool located inside a beautiful hotel full of history on Palma Street in the Historic Centre of the capital. The building was built in 1924 and corresponds to the restoration of a construction that was previously a convent.

Among its attractions, it has an art gallery, a terrace, a small cinema, a hanging garden, a library, and an interesting collection of vinyl records. Its pool, located on the top floor, has a beautiful view towards the city and especially towards the Torre Latinoamericana. It has a shaded area that will allow you to lie down and enjoy the weather quietly without being in direct sunlight, if you so choose.

The day pass will give you access to the heated pool, jacuzzi, gym, and a room. The cost is 100 dollars for one or two people, and the hours are from 10 am to 6 pm. Reservations are subject to availability. It is worth mentioning that this pass does not include drinks or food, so you must pay for them separately.

The good thing is that the hotel has an excellent culinary offer with four restaurants and a bar, which will allow you to complete your visit by enjoying its gastronomy and drinks.

Do not miss visiting Hotel Umbral and enjoying a full day of culture, history, magic, and, of course, the enjoyment of the pool, whether you swim or enjoy the sun and tranquillity.