Hotel InterContinental Chicago - Magnificent Mile

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.

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.

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.

It's a bucket list pool - a cross between a Roman baths, San Simeon, and the big pool at Yale.

If you're in Chicago, you simply must swim at this historic pool built in 1929. Beautiful!

Great pool.

What a facility! I was almost too distracted looking at the 1920's decor and architecture!

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.

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.

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.)

A terrific, old-fashioned pool. I recommend this hotel for swimmers.