THE
WATER CLUB
The luxurious Borgata resort recently opened
its much-vaunted second hotel tower, The Water Club,
with 800 new guest rooms and suites. The most unique feature
of the Water Club tower is the indoor lap pool at Immersion,
a sleek spa on the 32nd and 33rd floors. Faced by floor-to-ceiling
windows with an expansive view of Atlantic City and its
bay, the pool offers guests the inimitable sensation of
swimming and flying simultaneously. Spa treatments include
a signature four-handed massage, delivered by two masseurs,
whose intricately synchronized strokes are almost hypnotically
relaxing. It’s a treat to relax poolside and lunch
on spa cuisine by Chef Geoffrey Zakarian of Manhattan’s
celebrated Town restaurant, but the men’s and women’s
locker and wet room areas are spartan to a fault; their
atmosphere feels clinical rather than sensual. Fortunately,
Water Club guests can also avail themselves of a day pass
to Spa Toccare, just a five-minute walk through the lobby.
There, the men’s lounge is much more spacious, with
a fountain-like hot soaking pool, a cavernous spot-lit
steam room, and décor reminiscent of an Istanbul
hammam. The Sunroom, an elegantly-designed lobby lounge,
features a perpetual cascade of water along the face of
an undulating 50-foot long stone wall, creating a serene
soundscape to complement the stone path and winding greenhouse
garden that weave between intimate seating areas. Adjacent
to the Sunroom are four small swimming pools, two under
a glass-enclosure (along with a large Jacuzzi), and two
outdoors. Glinting gold on the Atlantic City skyline,
the Water Club may not be the true game-changer that the
original Borgata was, but it’s a fine way to gild
the lily. www.theborgata.com
—Jim Gladstone
[Published:
October, 2008]
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