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Superyacht Pools: Top 5 Best in the World

Here we showcase some of the best Superyacht Pools in the world.

Superyachts have long been known to host some of the richest people in the world, and builders are constantly on the look-out for new ways on how to create the ultimate experience onboard both for charters as well as private owners.

When it comes to swimming pools, what is arguably the center of relaxation on a yacht, there are a few names out there which takes the price for going the extra mile when it comes to kicking back onboard. Let’s have a look at some of the main players for the best superyacht pools in the world!

1. 136m Flying Fox Superyacht Pool

One of the stand-out Superyacht pools within the yachting game is definitely the 12-metre swimming pool onboard 136m Flying Fox, which runs transversely on the Main deck, a first for a superyacht of this size and a technological challenge unlocked.

What the guests will notice is the glass front that can be misted to opaque at the touch of a button, the swim jets at one end and the massage jets at the other, and the height-adjustable floor that means it can offer a deep swim, shallow paddle or even, at full height above the water, a bandstand for parties.

2. 162m Eclipse Superyacht Pool

If the impressive engineering of the Superyacht pool onboard Flying Fox sets her apart, the sheer beauty of its peer onboard Ecplise rightfully earns her the number two spot on our list.

The pool is a vast entertaining space, with 3.2 metre overheads and a retracting glass sunroof. The ambience of the pool is as important as how it looks. You’ve got to want to sit by it. Or dance on it: the blue granite bottom of the pool rises up to sit flush with the deck to create a dance-loor. It can also be lowered a touch to create a paddling pool.

3. 126m Octopus Superyacht Pool

Something that stand with the 126.2 metre Lürssen superyacht Octopus is that she’s an explorer yacht, but with some of the finest features out there. Octopus was built for the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and is packed with all sorts of treats. Alongside her two helicopters and submarine, a glass-bottom swimming pool can transform into a dancefloor with a nearby bar for drinks served poolside.

4. 107m Lana Superyacht Pool

For our fourth spot, the Italian built beauty Lana takes the spotlight with her elegant, minimal and sophisticated design. She’s the charter yacht of choice for Bill Gates and party guest Jeff Bezos, as well as Beyonce and Jay-Z, 107-metre  Lana  hosts an inviting eight-metre Superyacht pool on her aft deck. One of many spa facilities on board the Benetti-built colossus, the pool is surrounded by sunpads looking out port and starboard towards the ocean.

5. 85m Victorious Superyacht Pool

AK Yacht’s 85-metre Victorious was launched in April 2021 and, after 14 years in the making. The focus and design of this Superyacht pool comes from the owner’s passion for the water, which is evidenced by the 200-square-metre beach club, which has a counter-current pool, gym, massage room, beauty salon and, of course, a traditional hammam. A great place to lay back for a relaxing afternoon!

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Boat of the Week: This 255-Foot Superyacht Has a Glass-Bottom Swimming Pool That Doubles as a Skylight

The biggest sale in greece's yachting history, malia is a cornucopia of design, with 250 interior materials that include semi-precious stones and 15 types of marble., julia zaltzman, julia zaltzman's most recent stories.

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Malia is conceived to be a treat for the senses. Lasvit glass light fixtures, intricate wood detailing produced by Italian artisans, and a gold-covered globe in the stairwell bring a sense of theatre to the interior by Massari Design. So do the polished marble steps, backlit vertical paneling, and champagne-colored metal and glass chandeliers. Yet the overall aesthetic is less Aladdin’s Cave and more Scandi beach house.

Two very different examples: Undulating wood paneled ceilings, full-height windows, and two lateral side doors bring light into the full-beam salon. On the exterior, a large contraflow swimming pool is positioned across the main deck aft. Three skylights at the bottom of the pool filter natural light through to the wood-clad waterfront lounge below where a health bar, lounge area with a large U-shaped sofa, and a wellness center forward bring a sense of calm.

Besides providing far-reaching views, the beach club enjoys a massage room, Turkish hammam, sauna and shower. A hydraulic swim platform makes getting in and out of the water easier for guests of all ages and abilities, not to mention quick deployment of Malia ’s assortment of toys. The yacht’s tenders are launched from side hatches.

Malia sleeps 14 guests in eight cabins, with further accommodations for a crew of 28. The six lower-deck guest cabins have eight-foot-high ceilings—unusual for guest suites. The en suites have Toto Japanese toilets and, between them, employ 20 different types of materials, such as green onyx and Amazonite. Half of the cabins have custom carpets and the other half have oak flooring. Some enjoy full-size bathtubs, others have large showers.

“We tried to keep the design language throughout the yacht the same but create a point of difference with color, finishes and amenities to give guests more choice,” Dimitra Agapitou, interior design director at Golden Yachts, told Robb Report during a tour of the yacht at Monaco. “Some guests prefer bare wood underfoot while others like to sink into luxurious carpet.”

The full-beam owner’s cabin and adjacent VIP on the main deck continue the high-ceiling trend. The master has a private office, a vanity station, a walk-in closet, and super king bed.

Outdoor entertainment is reserved for the sun deck with alfresco dining, oversized sunpads, a large DJ booth, and a touch-and-go heli-deck forward. A second wellness zone comprises gym equipment, a smoothie bar, and a large Jacuzzi for relaxing post workout.

An outdoor cinema screen brings a cozy evening vibe, while a dumbwaiter directly connected to the galley makes services convenient. When high winds threaten to dampen the mood, a hardtop bimini and glass sliding doors close off the central seating area.

“The enclosed seating area was one of the most challenging aspects of the design as the glass can make it hot very quickly,” says Agapitou. “We installed light linen curtains on the inside of the glass and engineered the air conditioning in this space to maintain a comfortable temperature.”

Despite taking delivery in June and putting the yacht in charter last summer, the original owners sold the vessel with zero time on board. Now available for charter with Northrop & Johnson, perhaps Malia ’s new owners promise to break that mold.

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Step on board the 162.5m Eclipse - the second largest superyacht in the world

Designer Terry Disdale talks us through the four and a half years, nine decks and 162.5 metres of the world’s second largest superyacht.

Terry Disdale didn’t set out to design the biggest superyacht in the world. “No one ever said to me, ‘I want a 160 metre boat’,” he says over breakfast near his office in Richmond, London. “When the yacht was still on the drawing board, there was a rumour going round that someone was building an even bigger boat, and the owner was asked if he knew about it. He said he didn’t, and that he didn’t care. Breaking records was the farthest thing from his mind.”

What he did care about was helicopters – he wanted to carry more than one; and the pool – it had to be big. There were also some early discussions about low bulwarks and big windows, and that was the totality of the brief for what would become Eclipse . “To be given free rein is actually a dreadful thing,” says Disdale.  “I asked myself what I wanted: something timeless. How do you design something timeless that’s still going to look good and not be anaemic? It’s so easy to get carried away, but you’ve got to be able to look at it in 20 years and decide it still looks OK.” But that’s the trick, isn’t it? And the measure of a designer.

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At least Disdale had some hooks on which to hang the design. “Part of what creates the yacht looking like that is you’ve got to land this huge helicopter on the front, so the superstructure is pushed back. The formation of the boat is built around helicopter usage. And we didn’t want the boat to look unbalanced when the helicopter is on the foredeck. Some boats have a foredeck that looks wrong whenever a helicopter sits there.”

The lines of the boat were dictated by another prerequisite: the two significant lifeboats demanded by Solas. The sheerline runs straight aft from the bow and steps up amidships, the high freeboard created giving visual support to the lifeboats. “If you’d had a different sheerline, the lifeboats wouldn’t have looked comfortable,” the designer says. This, plus the addition of a 15 metre pool aft on the main deck, meant that the overall length of Eclipse – 162.5 metres – was defined not by ego but by practicality.

“Everyone thinks that a boat starts with a sketch, some glamorous visual of the outside of the boat. But that’s not how things work in my office – we start with a plan, a general arrangement.” The project, from this first design stage to the boat’s launch at Blohm+Voss ’s Hamburg yard in 2009, took four and a half years – a remarkable achievement given the scale of the yacht, which was only overtaken as the world’s biggest in 2013 with the launch of 180 metre Azzam . 

Up to 20 engineers from Blue Ocean Yacht Management were present on site throughout the build, whipping it along to meet the aggressive delivery schedule. Disdale doesn’t recall any sleepless nights – “at least, no more than usual!” he laughs. The pressure of designing what was then the world’s top yacht – both inside and out – did obviously register, though. “It’s a huge responsibility building something of that magnitude, which is going to be under everyone’s magnifying glass. It’s not just ‘doing a job’, this thing is going to be scrutinised and analysed by everyone. There’s a responsibility to yourself as a designer.”

A decade from delivery, and more than 15 years from the moment Disdale first put pen to paper, he says he wouldn’t change a thing – and nor has the owner, who has kept Disdale’s designs largely unchanged. “For me, it’s more a clean piece of architecture than it is a piece of styling. The fact that you have a helipad on the front creates the superstructure to bow dimension, which is beautiful. If it wasn’t there, you wouldn’t have that length. And then when you get to the back of the boat, the swimming pool is dictating another piece of the story. I don’t know what I would change now. I don’t sit around saying, ‘I wish I did this or that’. Maybe I’d make the rear end look a bit more inviting, the way the staircases lead into the boat, but anti-piracy was a concern, plus there are a load of services and facilities back there. There’s a full-size pantry to serve the beach club, which very few boats have, and gull-wing doors with a pullout barbecue and pizza oven. There’s a lot you don’t see.”

Disdale’s long experience in the business means he is able to resist the temptation to force designs, or slavishly follow trends that flare and fade, leaving boats looking old before their time. “ Eclipse is a handsome boat, and it looks like a boat. It doesn’t make any pretence,” he says. “The key word is elegance. Very few boats can make that claim any more. Modern boats are purposeful, aggressive, macho, which has led to them all having snub noses. They look angry. You could paint them grey and stick a cannon on the front and it wouldn’t upset their stance at all. Eclipse is not like that.” It’s a familiar sermon from Disdale, who famously posts his 10 “design commandments” up round his office. “One of  the most important tools in your box is restraint. I can have complete freedom when designing a superstructure, but restraint is actually the most important thing – knowing when to stop gilding the lily. Don’t gild it! Use silver leaf.”

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The obvious benefit of a single designer being responsible for the interior and exterior of a yacht is a seamless flow between the two, and that is absolutely true of Eclipse , whose interior conforms to another one of Disdale’s mantras: “ beach house not penthouse ”. “If you’ve got a dining room with satin on the chairs and gold braid around them, but you live in a T-shirt and shorts, then you’re not comfortable,” he says. 

The pool is a vast entertaining space, with 3.2 metre overheads and a retracting glass sunroof. “The ambience of the pool is as important as how it looks. You’ve got to want to sit by it.” Or dance on it: the blue granite bottom of the pool rises up to sit flush with the deck. It can also be lowered a touch to create a paddling pool.

The interior of any boat should be about “pure relaxation”, says Disdale. “People are on vacation, people are chilled.” He relates one story of an Arab client in the 1980s, who he dissuaded from fitting gold taps to his superyacht. “I told him he already had a 65 metre on the quay – he had already made his statement. It was a process of trying to quieten his ostentation.” You get the feeling no such effort was needed with the owner of Eclipse . “He had already owned three yachts to our design, so consequently was very familiar with my way of working and the habitat I create.” It’s impossible to miss the very deliberate warmth of that habitat and a design miracle that, despite using broadly the same colour palette throughout, nowhere do you tire of the ochre-like shades. 

This uniformity wasn’t applied to the lobbies between decks: different artists were tasked with creating unique works to give each lobby a flavour, so there is no confusion about what deck you’re on – a problem when you have nine. One of these pieces is a wooden sculpture made up of seven pieces, the design for which was hand drawn by Disdale and sent to Japan for manufacture. It’s a stunning work and symptomatic of the detail shown throughout – even in more mundane pieces, like the sideboards in the cabins that were designed in Europe and crafted in Chile.

With no clear-cut brief on the yacht’s layout, Disdale was forced to second-guess, “but that’s my job”, he says. “You have to work out how people will move around the boat.” The benefit of an LOA like Eclipse ’s is the owner can swallow serious acreage without impacting the guest experience. It’s not about avoiding guests, but being able to operate independently of them.

It would be easy to mistake the guest suites for the owner’s own quarters, such is their footprint. There are 18 guest cabins in total, served by 100 crew. From the moment the guests arrive by chopper, mainly on the top helideck, they’re absorbed in the comfort of the boat and have access to the main stairwell and elevator. It’s a transition of which Disdale is particularly proud. “It came from understanding how a boat is used. When you get out of the helicopter, you’re blown to pieces, and then where do you go?” The answer is an intimate lounge, where you can freshen up before entering the interior proper. It also gives pilots somewhere to conduct safety briefings, he points out. Eclipse is able to travel with multiple helicopters on board because one can be housed in the forward hangar, one above it on the retractable platform and another on the sundeck.

At the other extremity of the boat, the convenience continues with a huge bathing platform and staircases that fold down into the water for easy boarding – even for those wearing full dive gear. The beach club wasn’t maxed out, with a comfortable lounge along the centreline preferred to a big open area that is harder to secure. Beyond, though, the lower deck opens up into a huge 77 square metre gym and spa area, complete with massage room, beauty salon, sauna, shower areas and the yacht’s second plunge pool. Visual interest is added by banks of portholes with views into the swimming pool, which dapple light across this whole space. Choosing somewhere to relax on deck is slightly harder – where do you start? The options are endless but special mention has to be made of the wood-burning fire pit on the upper deck – perfect for nights on deck under the stars.

Disdale and his team were present in June 2009 when the boat appeared from the giant drydock in Hamburg. No butterflies – he claims to have been pretty zen about seeing her free of scaffolding and plastic. “Although you design every part of it and you see it being built, nothing prepares you for the feeling you get when you actually see it in the flesh. The tug pulled it out and there was the thickness of a mattress between the wing stations and the shed walls. Literally – they tied mattresses to the stations. When it appeared I was gobsmacked.” As was the owner, pleasingly for the man who’d dedicated nearly five years to the project.

“It’s like cars,” explains the car fanatic. “I was talking about Lamborghinis the other day. They used to have the Miura, a beautiful car. But they replaced it with the Countach, which looks like it was carved from cheese. One is ageless and one looks stuck in time. Elegance is the most important thing. The Miura is elegant, the Jaguar E-Type is elegant.” He’s too modest to say but Eclipse belongs in that league – beautiful for ever.

First published in the April 2016 edition of BOAT International. Get this magazine sent straight to your door, or subscribe and never miss an issue.

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6 Superyacht Swimming pools: Which One Would You Choose?

When choosing a yacht to charter or buy, one must consider the facilities and the order of their importance. After all, your watery palace must be fit for a king (and queen), and getting wet and wild is normally high up on the tick list. The sea is great fun for a while, but getting salty all the time isn’t for everyone, which means a Superyacht swimming pool is a must if you’re really going to enjoy your holiday! With this in mind, we’ve put together a list of 6 Superyacht swimming pools, for you to pick your favourite.

M/Y SAVANNAH

We’re a bit biased when it comes to Motor Yacht Savanaah because she’s one of our all-time favourite yachts anyway, but there’s no denying that her pool is absolutely breathtaking. She was built by Feadship in 2015 and designed by CG Design. Every element of this vessel has been created with luxury in mind, and the pool stretches almost the entire length of the aft deck!

M/Y QUATTROELLE

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We couldn’t forget about this iconic 2013 Lurssen Superyacht, designed by Nuvolari-Lenard. Between the infinity pool, the pool spa, and the seemingly endless sunbathing space, M/Y Quatrolle had to make it onto the list.

M/Y SERENITY

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You’d never get bored of the view whilst going for a dip in the beautiful pool on M/Y Serenitys sundeck. The 40m Mondomarine luxury yacht creates the perfect place to relax, in a paradise of your own choosing.

M/Y ECLIPSE

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Having a 15m superyacht swimming pool means you can actually go for a proper swim. And, this one also has a secret feature… The bottom rises right up to floor level, meaning you can either create a kid-friendly paddling pool or a killer dance floor if raised entirely. If you was to ask us, we’d say she’s a multifunctional dream for any savvy yacht owner!

M/Y ALFA NERO

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M/Y ALFA NERO, built by OceanCo in 2007, was one of the first to have a big ‘feature’ superyacht swimming pool, and arguably set the trend in motion. Just Like M/Y Eclipse, it has a raisable floor making it ideal for outside dancing. But also, the perfect helipad. All in all, this yacht has a great pool, space to get your groove on, and a spot for your helicopter.

M/Y SEASENSE

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This 2017 Benetti is one of the loveliest boats to hit the water that year! Her 10m pool is one to be envied. With plenty of space to relax in the sun and take a quick dip to cool off, this spot on the stern sits just in front of the main saloon whose sliding doors give guests the best of being both inside and out. Of course, if you haven’t got space for your own pool you could always get one of these bad boys:

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Out of the 6 Superyacht swimming pools listed, which would you choose to take a dip in? Let us know over on our socials, by clicking here. 

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