Luxury hospitality · Guanacaste
Hotel pool construction.
Commercial work has different requirements: bather load, health regulations, and a pool that cannot close in high season.
- Resorts and villas with private pools
- Natural stone spas
- Built alongside the general contractor
The build
How a resort pool gets built.
Photos from a luxury hotel project in Guanacaste, built alongside the general contractor: from the concrete shell to the finished villa.
On site
We come in while the building is still structure. The pool is coordinated with the rest of the build from the drawings, not squeezed in at the end.
The shell
Reinforced concrete and waterproofing on every shell before any finish goes on. On a terrace pool, the structure holds the water above the room below.
Stone finishes
Steps, edges and spas in natural stone, laid piece by piece by hand.
Handover
Every villa with its pool finished, filled and the equipment running.
Handover
Villas with private pools.
Terrace pools, plunge pools and spas, each one built into the architecture of its villa.
What has to be solved here.
A pool is not built the same way everywhere. This is what the area forces you to resolve.
Bather load and turnover
A commercial pool is sized by how many people use it, not by square metres. The filtration cycle has to be faster than residential, and the system able to hold water quality through a season peak.
Code and safety
Health regulations, marked depths, anti-entrapment drains and access. It is resolved in the design, because afterwards it cannot be corrected without breaking concrete.
It cannot close
A hotel does not shut its pool in high season. Construction and service are scheduled around occupancy, and equipment is chosen for parts availability in-country.
Sun, salt and wind
On the Guanacaste coast the sun is strong all year and the air carries salt. Finishes, joints and equipment are chosen for that, not for a pool in the Central Valley.
For contractors and developers
The pool link in the build.
We come in as the pool and spa subcontractor, with our own crew, working to the general contractor's schedule.
From the drawings
Structure, plumbing and the equipment room are coordinated with the other trades before the concrete is poured.
One per villa, all the same
On a development with many units, every pool gets the same finish and the same equipment, and stays that way after handover.
After handover
Scheduled maintenance for the hotel or the property manager, including pools we didn't build.
Another service
Condominiums and residential developments.
A condominium's shared pool works like a hotel's: more swimmers, more hours a day, and a property manager who needs to know when maintenance is due.
See the Jacó Bay project →
Other commercial projects.
What we do.
The same service lines as everywhere else in the country, with our own crew.
Design and construction
Site visit, 3D design and reinforced-concrete structure with engineering calculations. A residential pool takes 8 to 12 weeks.
Finishes
Eleven finishes across three families: glass-ceramic mosaic, natural stone — including Sukabumi — and structural glass.
Equipment and heating
Hayward and Pentair pumps, salt chlorination, heating and phone control.
Maintenance
Scheduled service visits, including on pools we did not build.
A hotel or a development on the drawing board?
Send us the drawings or the location and we'll tell you how we'd approach it.