Reservations are required to use any of the amenities at hotels in Singapore due to Covid restrictions. We just wanted to use the pool.

I booked our pool times in advance online right after our hotel reservation was made. I was momentarily concerned, because the reservation system said you could only make 1 reservation and your group could be a maximum of 5 people (5 being the max group size in Singapore at the time). We were a party of 6, but all from one household which means we are allowed out together but we're supposed to stick to smaller groups. I decided to just do 2 reservations to fit us all in at the same time.  It worked and I just added a note. The hotel called us to assure us that our double reservations for 6 people were fine.

Reservation times were quite sparse. I did get one 90 minute reservation booked for each. On our arrival day, I was able to get 3 pm, which I thought would give us lots of time after check in. We were cutting it close though and only had 45 minutes in the pool. It was enough though.

We did our digital check in for Covid tracing, walked past the bar where they confirmed our reservation with our last name, and assigned us seating. Our comfy lounge chairs were stocked with fluffy towels and each spot had a sun umbrella.

As we put on our sunscreen, the waiter appeared with complementary bottles of cold water which he placed on our side tables.

MsE jumped in the water and said "Yuck!" It was a salt water pool. It took the kids a bit of getting used to, but the rest of us loved it. The water was so soft and we felt extra buoyant.

We were the only kids in the pool. It was all adults lounging by the pool, reading books, drinking, and snacking. One woman drinking a pot of tea in the afternoon heat. I saw the waiter walk out with a bottle of champagne on ice for one couple. Thursday was pretty quiet at the pool, but Friday all lounge chairs were full. On the Friday we even saw one other child in the pool.

MsI was feeling tired and asked to go back to our room, so I asked our Helper to take the kids back to the room a few minutes early. Jonathan and I got a few minutes in the pool by ourselves. When we got back to the room, our Helper had gotten all the kids dressed and laid out the bathing suits on the patio to dry. I'm really going to miss that kind of help when we're in Canada.  

On our second day, we had a 1:30 pm reservation, which is a super hot time to be in the pool, but we had fun in the midday sun.  It was a good time to be in the pool. Out of the pool, we got hot pretty fast and jumped back in the pool to cool off.

Jonathan did his last day of work from the one of the bedrooms in our suite, but when the courier showed up early to pick up his work laptop, he got to join us in the pool - a pretty nice way to celebrate the end of work.  

The white columned area in the photo above was the poolside bar. A number of people dressed very nicely were sitting up there at the shady tables under the fans, others were up there in bathing suits taking the the pool view and ordering a drink.

Jonathan and I noticed that everyone in the pool area was Caucasian. That's a really odd scenario in Singapore. We're used to being the only pale faces in any crowd, especially with no tourists currently being allowed entry to Singapore because of Covid.

For our check out day only 8:30 am was available at the pool.  I thought I might find time to drink a cup of tea beside the pool, but Jonathan and I opted for a quiet complementary breakfast in the Tiffin Room while our Helper watched the sleeping children instead.