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Which resorts have a mineral pool?

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Just came back from a short stay at Fairway Villas (NJ)

The adult pool is a mineral pool (non-chlorinated and left the skin feeling nice and smooth.)

Are there any other resorts that have one of those? or a pool that is non-chlorinated? Just curious - I like the non-chlorinated pools...first time in a mineral pool but have been in salt ones (those are getting popular around where I live)

Thanks!
 
justnosy said:
Just came back from a short stay at Fairway Villas (NJ)

The adult pool is a mineral pool (non-chlorinated and left the skin feeling nice and smooth.)

Are there any other resorts that have one of those? or a pool that is non-chlorinated? Just curious - I like the non-chlorinated pools...first time in a mineral pool but have been in salt ones (those are getting popular around where I live)

Thanks!
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I have not stayed there yet but I understand that Marriott's Marco Island Beach Resort opened a mineral pool last year.
Not sure if any of the Marriott MDC resorts in Palm Springs have them but many other resorts and hotels there do.
 
I think all the Marriott pools in Hilton Head are salt. I'm sure about Surfwatch.

I wish all would go that way. They are cheaper to run and way better for your skin, body and clothing
 
Ocean pointe pool has salt water as well. I just came back from crystal shores and the kids pool was NOT salt water, didn't check the adult pools, spent the days in the ocean.
 
iluvfla said:
Ocean pointe pool has salt water as well. I just came back from crystal shores and the kids pool was NOT salt water, didn't check the adult pools, spent the days in the ocean.
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Last Spring at OP, we used the general-population pool - and one day, were told afterwards that a "baby accident" in the pool required them to put shock treatment in - and then proclaim the pool fit for use again. We had NO IDEA about all of this - until the next day, when skin started PEELING off us! Hideous! We were never big "pool people" - always liked the ocean better - but a knee surgery followed by a injury to my *good* leg (doing exercises for the repaired knee, and fell) just before we left, required to stay off the sand. I should never have gone - kept saying that it would get better soon - nope. I now need a leg brace for that *good* leg in sports events, airports, etc. I am living proof that exercise WILL kill you. So next time we are there, you BETCHA I will ask lots of pool-related questions, and seek out the slat-water one =- or be well enough to trundle down onto the beach.
 
Salt water pools are not chlorine free. They use salt to produce chlorine. Here is the Wikipedia article on how they work. I would think if there is an "accident" it would still possibly require the direct addition of chlorine to shock the pool.

Once again a situation where irresponsible parents not making sure their child is properly outfitted with swim diapers.
 
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Our pool at home has been converted to salt. Dioxide is right - it's not chlorine-free, it just generates chlorine differently and functions with less chlorine. But, we still use chlorine to jump-start/regulate it at the beginning of the season and after heavy rains.
 
Agree, but the less chlorine, the better. I was in cypress harbour 6 years ago and after 2 days of pool all our swimsuits lost some colour, that can't be right!!! This never happened at ocean pointe !!!!!!!
 
Thanks!

Aha! Thanks for the replies. I wonder if there's chlorine in the mineral pool?? I thought I smelled a slight odor of it but that could have been from the hot tub.
 
In the hot tub..... You are lucky if they add any water to the chlorine !!!!!!!!:rofl:
 
dioxide45 said:
Salt water pools are not chlorine free. They use salt to produce chlorine. Here is the Wikipedia article on how they work. I would think if there is an "accident" it would still possibly require the direct addition of chlorine to shock the pool.

Once again a situation where irresponsible parents not making sure their child is properly outfitted with swim diapers.
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Perhaps that is why there are some *adults only* pools - far less chance of accidents? We have all seen those signs at home pools that say "Welcome to our OOL. Notice that there is no P in it. Let's keep it that way, please." There are many situations that we have discussed here, where parents just let kids run wild. I was a teacher for over 30 years - and loved my kids, took then all kinds pf places ( a chorus of over 100, to Broadway shows, Yankee Stadium, etc. - with many parents who loved to com as chaperones). But since there were MY kids, they knew that they had better behave. It is OPC - Other People's Children - that make me ask a waitress to move my seat in a restaurant, or cause me to seek out another beach chair at a Marriott. I make a POINT of telling effective parents how LOVELY their kids are, and how well they have been raised, etc. Just flew on Finnair this summer (7 hours each way!) - every single child was quiet, polite, well- behaved, and had appropriate games and interaction from their parents. If they can do it - so can we.

M
 
We just switched to a salt cell at our home. The salt cell makes a chlorine but somehow the pool feels so much better. The percentage of salt in the pool is a lot lower than ocean water. It avoids the chlorine feel on your skin.
 
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