A Polish woman is suing an Egyptian hotel claiming her teenage daughter got pregnant simply from swimming in a hotel pool.

Magdalena Kwiatkowska says her 13-year-old daughter got pregnant after coming into contact with “stray sperm” in the water of the resort’s pool.

Seriously.

Unwanted Pregnancy

“The mother is adamant that her daughter didn’t meet any boys while she was there,” a travel industry source said. “She is determined to go ahead with the case.”

She is demanding compensation.

The Polish tourist board has confirmed they have received a complaint from Mrs Kwiatkowska.

Frankly, we didn’t think this was possible. But, on the off chance that it is, make sure you take your birth-control pill before stepping into any public pool this summer.

You’ve been warned.

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Soak your troubles away in a mammoth glass of champagne, or bubble away in a beer spa.lists some of the most unique places in the world to take a bath.
1. Beppu, Japan

This town on the coast of Kyushu is associated in Japanese minds with one thing: hot springs. Millions of liters of steaming hot water spill daily out of around 3000 springs, providing a dazzling array of bath-time treats.

On offer for your bathing pleasure are mammoth modern indoor spa complexes, small outdoor springs, simmering mud baths and even “sand baths” where you can be buried up to your neck in hot sand by a lady with a shovel.

When you’re done getting wet, it’s time to discover why Beppu is nicknamed the “Las Vegas of Japan”.

2.Budapest is a city famed for its thermal baths, and was dedicated a spa city as far back as the 1930s.

Sample the city’s bathing habits at the Széchenyi Baths – a meandering neo-baroque complex of pools, ranging from icy cold to steaming hot – smack bang in the middle of the city park. Originally a medical treatment centre, this is the place to come for a massage, a sauna and a dip in the huge open-air thermal pool filled with local families, tourists and gentlemen playing chess on floating boards.

Budapest is a city famed for its thermal baths, and was dedicated a spa city as far back as the 1930s

3.Blue Lagoon, Iceland

Iceland’s answer to Disneyland and the country’s number one tourist attraction, the Blue Lagoon is sometimes dismissed as overcrowded and overpriced. But what’s not to like about floating in a steaming pool of milky blue (at a spot-on 38°C), surrounded by a landscape of dark and twisted lava fields, with a futuristic geothermal plant puffing away in the background?

When you’re fed up of the main pools, you can have a steam bath in a lava cave, a waterfall massage or a sauna. You’ll no doubt leave with your spirits renewed – and baby-soft skin.

4.Hot Water Beach, New Zealand

Thermal waters brew just below the sand at Hot Water Beach in the North Island. During the peak tourist season it looks like it’s just been set upon by giant rabbits – for two hours, at either side of low tide, you can dig your own hole in the sand with a spade rented from the local café, then sit back, relax and warm your behind in your own natural spa.

Luckily your rapidly roasting limbs will be regularly refreshed by cool waves from the incoming sea water!

5.Vinotherapy, France

Being rubbed with grape seeds, slathered in honey, oil and wine yeast and submerged up to the neck in a wine-casket bath might sound like a hedonistic Roman orgy but it is, in fact, vinotherapy – a spa treatment to be had at Les Sources de Caudalie in Bordeaux using grape extracts. It seems that bathing in the stuff rather than drinking it is one of the best beauty treatments around, with the power (apparently) to reduce wrinkles, stress and even cellulite.

Les Sources is set in a vineyard, so you can also ingest your grapes the traditional way with a glass or two of the local tipple.

6.Champagne Glass Whirlpool Bath, USA

If you’ve ever dreamed of soaking your troubles away in a mammoth glass of champagne this could be your lucky day. That’s right, at Pocono Palace only a couple of hours’ drive away from New York City, you too could be relaxing in a 2.13m tall champagne glass whirlpool bath for two.

If that’s not cheesy enough for you, look around your suite and savour the faux Roman columns, the circular beds, the mirrored walls and the private heart-shaped swimming pool.

7.Les Bains de Marrakesh, Morocco

For a bathing experience that indulges all your Thousand and One Nights fantasies – think glorious sunlit court-yards, tinkling fountains, carved alcoves and scattered rose petals – Les Bains de Marrakech is just the ticket.

As well as the traditional hammam (bathhouse) experience, involving an unceremonious scrub down with black soap and a wire mitten, you can chose from gentler options such as chocolate body massages or candlelit oriental baths for two. In between treatments you’re encouraged to sprawl out on an indecently comfortable pile of cushions and drink your own body weight in mint tea.

8.Dogo Onsen, Japan

Japan’s oldest hot springs facility at a rumoured 3000 years old, Dogo Onsen is at the center of many an old folk tale. Its centerpiece, the Honkan bathhouse, is the oldest public bath house in Japan.

An intricate three-storey timber structure, it looks like a fairy-tale castle and is said to be the inspiration behind the enchanted bathhouse in Miyazaki’s animated film Spirited Away. Splash out on a first-class ticket and you’ll get a hot soak, your own relaxation room, a yukata (kimono) and a post-bath snack of green tea and crackers.

9.Chodovar Brewery Beer Baths, Czech Republic

For the ultimate beer on skin experience, you can relax in the Czech Republic’s first underground beer spa. Large stainless steel Victorian-style tubs (including double tubs for two!) are filled with a specially brewed bathing beer and crushed herbs and topped off with a creamy foam “head”.

As you bubble away in all that malty goodness you can partake in a glass of two of the local brew from the bathside bar. Apparently it’s all excellent for the pores.

10.The Dead Sea, Israel & Jordan

King Solomon, Cleopatra and the Queen of Sheba were among the early believers in the benefIts of a Dead Sea spa, one of the world’s first health resorts owing to the medicinal properties of the area’s waters and minerals. Since then, the climate has inspired a huge array of therapies such as thalassotherapy (bathing in Dead Sea water) and balneotherapy (a treatment using the black mineral mud of the Dead Sea).

There are resorts on both the Israeli and Jordanian sides, offering health packages to cure everything from psoriasis to arthritis.

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Here is the Object alternative list of cool pools. Including pools over fake pools, pools hanging off the edge of buildings, 1000 year old pools and spectacular underground pools. Here we go!

Gellért Thermal Baths and Swimming Pool

Budapests Gellert geo thermal baths are the closest thing to how i imagine an Imperial Roman bath to have looked

Gellért Thermal Baths and Swimming Pool, also called Gellért fürdo or Gellért Baths, is one of the most beautiful and elegant baths in Budapest, built between 1912 and 1918 in the (Secession) Art Nouveau style. They were damaged during World War II, but then rebuilt. References to healing waters in this location are found from as early as the 13th century. A hospital was located on this site during the Middle Ages. During the reign of the Ottoman Empire, baths were also built on this particular site.

Inverse pool

A couple of interesting items over at Elmanco. Above, a photo created by Sanaa of what appears to be a family underwater in a swimming pool. But the water is not in the pool, it is on top, on the glass lid.

Worlds deepest recreational pool

The pool at the Nemo 33 recreational diving center in Belgium, is over 100 ft deep, making in the worlds deepest recreational pool.

Bali Four Seasons pool

More of a pond than a pool, this photo shows it side on. As a piece of architectural narrative, the Bali Four Seasons pool entry is exceptional. A wooden bridge takes you over a chasm to an infinity pool with the jungle wrapping around the background, the pool floating 50 feet above it.The entrance to the hotel is through a slit in the pool to the lobby underneath and is worth of a James Bond movie set.

glass swimming pool

This is a classic case of an ambitious architectural gesture with utterly pedestrian execution. a glass swimming pool over an entrance is a spectacular thing, unfortunately the surrounding structure looks like a freeway overpass.

Angkor Wat 1000 year old pool

Maybe this is the oldest pool in our world

The Glass Pool Inn

A lovely quirky Vegas landmark that was recently demolished. The glass pool in had portals that could be seen from the road.

A South Strip landmark for years, the Glass Pool Inn hosted scores of television and film crews. Its above-ground pool was meant to function as a sort of billboard, to beckon travelers from the highway. It was recently torn down to build some other “themed” piece of shit.

Rooftop pool by OMA

The client wanted a glass house with a swimming pool on the roof and two separate “apartments” – one for the parents, the other for the daughter. They also wanted a panoramic view – from their swimming pool – of the surrounding landscape and the city of Paris. The house is conceived as a glass pavilion containing living and dining areas, with two hovering, perpendicular apartments shifted in opposite directions to exploit the view. They are joined by the swimming pool which rests on the concrete structure encased by the glass pavilion.

Rooftop pool New York

You can order prints of this great picture of 4 boys from the Madison Square Boys Club, form the National Archives. They are in a rowing boat on the roof of a flooded building in what looks like Queens, but could possibly be the North End of Brooklyn.

SPG Building

formerly the Dallas National Bank Building, and known later as the SPG Building, is an historic high-rise located on Main Street between Akard Street and Ervay Street. Positioned at the end of Stone Street Plaza, it is centralized in the Main Street District of downtown Dallas, Texas, and is the only Gothic high-rise in the city. The Dallas National Bank completed construction of the office building in 1927.

The building is currently being converted into a five-star, 129-room boutique hotel by Headington Hotels and will be known as the Joule Hotel (until early 2008 the hotel was reported to be named the Hotel Elan). It has garnered notoriety for its 10th floor pool that cantilevers eight feet over the easement below. The hotel interior was developed by world renowned designer, Adam Tihany, and the lobby level is home to the highly acclaimed Charlie Palmer restaurant.

Rooftop pool in Manhattan

Imagine you can swim at those pool without anyone interfering and you can feel the fierce wind blows at the rooftop

World’s Biggest Pool

The world’s biggest pool was located in resort san alfonso del mar in algarobbo city on the southern coast of chili,it measure 1,013 meter in lenght,cover an area of 8 hectare.contains 250000 cubis meter of water

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