Chile Forum

I just read that the biggest pool in the whole wide world is in Chile! Isn't that something?

After all the talk I have heard lately about how hard it is to make a living in Chile (quite true) it is somewhat hopeful that something this big was able to be made, and successfully so, in Chile.

I mean someone had to have money to build this thing and there have to be enough people living in Chile with money to make this thing profitable to build.

Anyway here is a link to a Google Earth picture of it.

http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=157 ... 53175&z=17

And more pictures here...

http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/10/worl ... -pool.html

It's seems like quite the place...now if I could only convince the condo owners to let me clean their windows for $3 each pane...I've be set for life LOL.

Carlos

I saw a report on that on either telemundo or canal13, I dont remember which. It looks very nice, and it has small boats that float around constantly cleaning and filtering the pool. Ill have to pay it a visit the next time Im down south.

that is very impressive!..

knecht wrote:I saw a report on that on either telemundo or canal13, I dont remember which. It looks very nice, and it has small boats that float around constantly cleaning and filtering the pool. Ill have to pay it a visit the next time Im down south.

I'd like to visit too but unless one has $1000 US or equivalent for a one week stay I am afraid that the only visiting any of us will be allowed to do is to watch from outside the fence as the rich folks inside frolic about .

Maybe in the low season, whenever that is, one of us could rent a room and then have 100 of our "cousins" willing to give us a gift of $10 each, show up just for a swim.

There's got to be something I could sell those condo owners! I hate to see all them rich folks go to waste in terms of not contributing to my finances....

I was there on December of last year.
Notes;
This is not a Hotel resort,it's a private summer resort and people do own all the apartments in the building complex.

You cannot book it as an hotel, unless you know someone on the building that will rent you for the WE , youare out of luck.


Nobody lives there mostly used for weekends and summer vacations.

Actually i know someone that it is selling one of those.

As big it is and the massive swimming pool or lagoon. This place comes with a lot of drawbacks.

It,s in the middle of nowhere, between Mirasol, Small beach town and Algarrobo, no stores around only a mini market/gourmet across the street.
So you have to drive to town to get groceries .

To get there is only one 2 lane road .It gets very crowded during season

You can't use the beach,that is why they built the lagoon.Big crashing waves and it drops very steeply a few meters in.Extremely cold.

Chilean sand fleas.

The back of the buildings have open air corridors used to access your apartment,so everybody can hear/see your comings and goings.

I uploaded some shots taken during my visit to El Quisco, town near Algarrobo during the past December

http://www.sanalfonso.cl/

For the "slick" Chile website style spiel of this locale.

seems they have after all apartments for rent for weeks ,etc.
Must be trough the administrator's office perhaps.

$603.000 for 1 bedroom for 8 days and 7 nights during January or U$S 1,285.00 at today's exchange rate.
It goes to $cl 638.000 in February.
Two bedrooms will set you back in $cl 816.000 during January and $cl 851.000 in February or U$S1,814.00.


Enjoy your day under the Sun........

zulu789 wrote:...Enjoy your day under the Sun........

HA!! Check the live webcam feed of the place. Not sunny at all here. I'd say 90% of the days so far this summer start out nublado sometimes with niebla. Often it never fully clears or burns away even with the strong southern hemisphere summer sun. Hopefully this will change soon.

I have (some where) the sales material package for those departmento's as I visited the site in 06 & 07 . IIRC the 3 bed units went for approx $200k US back then. They sold fast.
Nice units but a little far from evry thing as was stated above.

If you are into that type of living Papudo north of Con Con has some very nice units with private beach.

carlos wrote:. . . . Maybe in the low season, whenever that is, one of us could rent a room and then have 100 of our "cousins" willing to give us a gift of $10 each, show up just for a swim.

I don't think that I have that many Chilean cousins!

zulu789 wrote:. . . . You can't use the beach . . . . Extremely cold.

Does a warm Chilean beach exist? I've travelled (and tried to swim) as far north as La Serena and have always been driven back by the cold, cold waves.

eeuunikkeiexpat wrote:. . . . 90% of the days so far this summer start out nublado sometimes with niebla. . . . even with the strong southern hemisphere summer sun. Hopefully this will change soon.

Ah, the much-dreaded "climate change"!

(Okay, okay, bromeaba).

RWS wrote:Ah, the much-dreaded "climate change"!

(Okay, okay, bromeaba).

I hope not. Another subjective data point, in my last visit to the playa at the Rocas de Santo Domingo, the water actually felt warmer then normal. Also, the fine beach sand is worn away below the zone where the waves begin crashing making it difficult to stand with your bare feet due to the rocky gravel sand.

Freezing cold beach water? Chilean beach fleas? Drop offs that make it too dangerous to swim in the ocean?

Aw...please ya all...does another idea of what Chile is like have to go into the garbage can? Are there no beautiful, sandy, soft beaches in Chile? Can one not swim in the ocean anywhere? Is there no warm, tropical, ocean water in Chile?

Someone once said that Chile was like California without the issues of California. Somebody please tell me that it is so.....

Carlos