Waldorf Astoria Maldives Ithaafushi

Single-swim admission is not available to members of the general public, unless registered as guests at the hotel.

Registered guests: Free.

The villas, themselves, are built on "stilts" over the sea, so there's no shortage of places to swim. (Full disclosure: We have no idea what the local marine fauna might be like, so you'll want to check that, before an ocean "dip".)

The pool is referred to as the "Mirror Pool"; it's actually 120m by 8m but that includes the length of two staircase entries on either side of a peninsula (for lack of a better word) that protrudes into the pool. The dimensions shown (obtained by doing Google Maps measurement tool take-offs) are the length from the end of the "peninsula" to the far wall by the width of the peninsula.

The resort also has a large, irregularly shaped "Lagoon Pool" and quite a few of the hotel's villas have pools of their own (all quite small).