The closest you’ll come to South Beach in Boston, this rooftop pool is the preferred haunt of a moneyed international crowd whose bathing suits (designer bikinis that can’t get wet, Vilebrequin trunks) and accessories (Goyard totes and Prada backpacks) sit atop plush white towels emblazoned with RTP, alongside sweating bottles of rosé in ice buckets. The blender at the bar is always going, while speakers pump in appropriately hip music and two TVs offer something other than tanned flesh to look at. Cover ranges from $20 to $40 (check the website for hours), and the party lasts until 10 pm on Fridays and Saturdays and, especially, on Monday industry nights. For ballers, there are cabanas ($200 on weekdays, $325 on weekends) with a $100 food minimum, but that’s rarely a problem with a menu that boasts specialty cocktails, decent Champagne, wine and beer lists, and a full menu that includes salads, mezze platters, swordfish tacos, lamb kabobs and Regina Pizzeria pizza. And Brasserie JO, located in the hotel lobby, will send up steaks and oysters for cabana occupants. Author and yoga instructor Rebecca Pacheco leads a $15 class at 7 am on Wednesdays, and changing rooms with showers make it easy when it comes time to bounce. The downside: The pool is very small, more appropriate for dunking than swimming.
120 Huntington Ave., Boston (617-425-3408) colonnadehotel.com
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By Jonathan Soroff | Photo Credit: Jeff Newcum Photography | June 12, 2015
RTP at the Colonnade Hotel
The closest you’ll come to South Beach in Boston, this rooftop pool is the preferred haunt of a moneyed international crowd whose bathing suits (designer bikinis that can’t get wet, Vilebrequin trunks) and accessories (Goyard totes and Prada backpacks) sit atop plush white towels emblazoned with RTP, alongside sweating bottles of rosé in ice buckets. The blender at the bar is always going, while speakers pump in appropriately hip music and two TVs offer something other than tanned flesh to look at. Cover ranges from $20 to $40 (check the website for hours), and the party lasts until 10 pm on Fridays and Saturdays and, especially, on Monday industry nights. For ballers, there are cabanas ($200 on weekdays, $325 on weekends) with a $100 food minimum, but that’s rarely a problem with a menu that boasts specialty cocktails, decent Champagne, wine and beer lists, and a full menu that includes salads, mezze platters, swordfish tacos, lamb kabobs and Regina Pizzeria pizza. And Brasserie JO, located in the hotel lobby, will send up steaks and oysters for cabana occupants. Author and yoga instructor Rebecca Pacheco leads a $15 class at 7 am on Wednesdays, and changing rooms with showers make it easy when it comes time to bounce. The downside: The pool is very small, more appropriate for dunking than swimming.
120 Huntington Ave., Boston (617-425-3408) colonnadehotel.com
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