Marina Bay Sands infinity pool: who may swim, the hours and the day pass that does not exist

The SkyPark Infinity Pool lies on Level 57, on the platform that sits across the top of the hotel’s 3 towers, which the fact sheet puts 200 metres up. It is 150 metres long and at least 1.2 metres deep, split into an adults-only area, a family section and a children’s pool 0.5 metres deep near Tower 1, plus heated outdoor jacuzzis. By the hotel’s own claim no rooftop infinity pool in the world is larger. The vanishing edge is an illusion the page takes care to explain: «there is a wall at the pool’s edge that acts as a safety barrier».

The gate is the whole story for anyone not staying. «You cannot pay to swim at the pool», the page says, and its entry policy asks for hotel keycards; the answer to «Can I bring guests to the pool?» is that only registered hotel guests get in. The hotel’s FAQ sends everyone else to the SkyPark Observation Deck or to the rooftop restaurants and bars, and draws the line between the 2 levels: the pool, LAVO, Spago and CÉ LA VI are on Level 57, the public deck is on Level 56, and a deck ticket «grants you exclusive access to the Observation Deck only».

Inside, the day has a shape. The pool opens at 6am and closes at midnight, and the hotel names 3pm to 6pm as the hours of «higher guest activity». In 2 reviews of May 2026, one guest went up at 6.30am, was alone and took photographs with no crowd in the background; another says the pool can be had alone by getting up at 6am. A family writing in July 2026 found it a pool for splashing more than for lengths, and noticed how many people come up only to be photographed.

Guests also write about what the brochure leaves out. One, in May 2026, found no umbrellas, cabanas that were hard to get and hot inside, and complimentary sunscreen, which the official page lists among the things available at the pool; another, the same month, counted only a handful of seats in the shade and found no free lounger on the first day. One found the water very cold and another wanted it warmer in the evening. One guest, of a stay in 2025 in a 6th-floor room of Tower 2, describes riding a lift to Level 22 and changing there for the pool; another says many parts of the hotel need a change of lift. Google’s own count of what reviewers say about the pool stood at 700 positive mentions and 62 negative out of 812 on 12 October 2026, on a listing that visitors to the whole complex share.

The room rate buys more of the roof than the swim. Aqua Fit, a workout in and out of the water, runs on Tuesdays at 7.30am and on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 5pm, free for hotel guests and bookable up to 7 days ahead, with at least 24 hours’ notice by the wellness page; Soul Flow, a movement class on the Observation Deck on Saturdays at 7.30am, costs the public S$48 and hotel guests nothing. On Mondays from 4pm to 5pm The Mermaid Tales brings a mermaid performer to the pool for children of 4 to 10, 10 to a session. The page for hotel guests adds a free guided tour of the Observation Deck.

A traveller who wants a hotel pool in Singapore and is not set on this roof has others to weigh. The Fullerton Bay Hotel keeps its rooftop pool for hotel residents, as its FAQ puts it. The pages of Mandarin Oriental and Raffles give a pool and its hours and mention no day pass.

For a swim without a room, the one offer found is on Sentosa: Capella Singapore sells a Wellness Discovery Day Pass, valid from Sunday to Thursday, that opens its swimming pools from 8am to 7pm.