THE pool of Marina Bay Sands and the Chocolate Bar

Some time ago Christa had picked up an advertisement about the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. This hotel is a luxury palace famous for its unique architecture (it looks like a boat has landed up there) and its swimming pool.   The uniqueness of this pool, on top of being the highest outdoor swimming pool, is that once you are in it, thanks to the infinity edge, it looks like you are right on top of the city.

Sadly the pool can only be accessed by guests of the hotel and this luxury haven is clearly over budget. Net we can dream about the pool or be creative.

Over dinner with Vinay he mentioned to us a way to see the pool without staying at the hotel. Of course we were all ears. Up there, there is a place called the Chocolate Bar. Provided you have a reservation for the Chocolate Bar (or any of the other bars up there), you can access the roof top floor and therefore see the swimming pool.

Vinay was kind enough to make a reservation for us and to mention to get there a bit earlier to have time for pictures. We followed his advice and arrived 30min before our reservation. We were granted access to the 57^th floor right away, spent almost no time in one of the fastest elevators of the world, and soon enough we were in front of it.

The pictures I saw before were impressive; being there is even more incredible. It made me want to spend the money on the room to have access to this pool. I would love to sit at the edge like these people are doing. I guess I just need to win the lottery.

Now the pool was only the beginning if our time on the top of the Marina Bay Sands. After the amazing view, amazing chocolate pastries, cakes, sweets, mousse, sauce, etc. were waiting for us. For a flat rate of S$38, you have a choice of hot beverage (coffee, tea and of course hot cocoa) and access to the all you can eat buffet. If you love chocolate, this buffet is really close to taking you to heaven. They have prepared more than 30 different bites based on chocolate.

Our first rounds:

My favorites of the day: macaroon mint/chocolate nice combination of fresh and sweet, and white chocolate pistachio financier. Simply divine!

All of this while sitting on the terrace facing the harbor with a view on the many boats queuing.

N.B.: in case we would go there again: no dinner or really something super light, otherwise, half way through the buffet, stomach gets full and that’s a pity because there more amazing things coming up.