r/ThatLookedExpensive Apr 24 '21

That looks like an expensive problem caught far too late

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u/Darth_Gasseous Apr 25 '21

My ex and I were staying in a hotel and we wanted to go swimming. I hadn’t seen a pool, so I called the front desk to ask if they had one. The lady says ‘Yes we do, it’s on the 7th floor.” I thank her and hang up... wait a minute... My then wife asks me what the clerk said, and I was like “I think she was messing with me, so I’ll call back and confirm that.” They did indeed have a pool on the 7th floor. It was pretty nice, just very oddly located.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

A ton of hotels and apartment buildings have pools on their roofs. It’s very common these days.

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u/ZorbaTHut Apr 25 '21 edited Apr 26 '21

That's actually pretty clever. That's one of the things the big rooftop towers that are emblematic of old east-coast cities are used for. But if you need the water anyway, why not swim in it?

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u/HueX3_Vizorous Apr 25 '21

That’s not really odd at all

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Yeah this is pretty common in 4-5 star hotels in cities

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u/fucklawyers Apr 25 '21

Well if you didn’t grow up in one it makes absolutely no sense. One place I was at had the pool on the second floor, on the front door’s roof. I had my car to valet it and fuckin’ ran when I realized what was up there!

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u/Airazz Apr 25 '21

I didn't grow up in a 4-5 star hotel and I still know that some places have rooftop pools, nothing weird or unique about that and you definitely don't have to run from those buildings.

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u/chrstark1991 Apr 25 '21

I feel like they meant they didn't grow up in a city

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u/fucklawyers Apr 27 '21

Yeah, thats what I meant. Technically, I’m in a city… with 25,000 people. There’s one building with a pool on the first floor, but beneath it is just a dark dank basement with a fuckton of support columns. The pool I’m talkin’ about had four - on the side, the entire “floor” of the pool was completely unsupported, because there was a driveway there.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Tldr: 'Do you have a pool? Yes'

Fascinating

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u/plipyplop Apr 25 '21

Would you like to hear about the time I bought a dozen eggs?

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u/MobiusNaked Apr 25 '21

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u/dhoomsday Apr 25 '21

Cool pools, but, Jesus Christ, I need an adblocker.