r/BeAmazed • u/The_Love-Tap • Aug 12 '26
Place All these houses are connected by a pool
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u/chode_code Aug 12 '26
Holy maintenance!
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u/BTMarquis Aug 12 '26
HOA fees $20k/month
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u/ToluAgunbiade Aug 12 '26
It's a hotel. Yuetianxia Hot Spring Hotel in Guangdong, China
Has excellent reviews/ratings, and a room costs as low as $100 USD/night
But yea I get it, Reddit hates everything
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u/Potential_Fishing942 Aug 12 '26
Knowing this is a commercial operation makes it make sense. The video calls them houses though which immediately makes people think (reasonablely) that the upkeep on their own home through HOA fees would be insane. Video should call them hotel/rentals imo
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u/palonious Aug 12 '26
Because bots post half of everything on reddit
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u/veryfastslowguy Aug 12 '26
It’s a great idea , Wonder if it has a current like a lazy river ? that would make it really cool
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u/LaceOfRisa Aug 13 '26
I feel like that would be a primary way to keep the water moving and not create dead spaces. The alternative would be lots more drains and jets... might need to look it up now.
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u/Kamusaurio Aug 14 '26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qmnMiSLs90
computer video says it has a small gentle current
the place look nice to go with kids and friends
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u/Swabbo Aug 12 '26
HOA outside of America? 🤣
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u/WarmRoastedBean Aug 12 '26
There are similar things elsewhere. We have Strata in australia which is similar except that they really only exist to look after shared property (think apartment buildings, shared driveways, pools like this post, etc)
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u/PuddingMaximum8745 Aug 18 '26
Exactly. Knowing that people who mess with this pool get thrown out immediately is another point. Imagine this pool with thousands of private owned houses an just one idiot doing his oil change in his backyard...
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u/Not-An-FBI Aug 12 '26
China has built trillions in unsustainable and unneeded homes, so this very well could be a total disaster.
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u/metrocat2033 Aug 12 '26
The comment literally just said it was a hotel that is in use
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u/patentattorney Aug 12 '26
this makes much more sense than homes. Cleaning that pool requires a staff.
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u/dc469 Aug 12 '26
Just a staff. One person oughta do it.
(Because it's a wizard's staff)
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u/porgy_tirebiter Aug 12 '26
I’m don’t know about other Redditors, but I sure do hate everything. I’m a real downer.
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u/Mental-Square3688 Aug 12 '26
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u/weliveintheshade Aug 12 '26
Imagine how many different types of zip line you could have. You could have one that leads to another, to another, to another.
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u/dr_rock Aug 12 '26
As someone with an in ground pool, maintenance is the first thing that came to my mind too. Has nothing to do with hate, just shock (no pun intended) of how much work that must require.
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u/LighttBrite Aug 12 '26
As someone without an in ground pool, maintenance is the first thing that came to my mind too.
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u/AdFlat1014 Aug 12 '26
Me calculating how much would it cost me to live the rest of my life there if I sell my house etc
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u/Bonk_No_Horni Aug 12 '26
Room, yes but those are villas so I bet it'll be around 2-300 on the low end. Villas in Thailand cost about $800-2000 a night. For a family with adult kids that's a good deal
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u/chosenbyyoutoday Aug 12 '26
Villas that size in Thailand are much cheaper than $800-$2000. You can get a week in a two bed for around £600.
A 5 bedroom is around £1200 for a week...
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u/CrashTestDuckie Aug 12 '26
Those villas are currently around $400 a night but that's for a 3 bedroom and they seem to be very kid friendly
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u/Conscious-Sir1762 Aug 12 '26
You mean the same way you tried to "got you" someone working with the information that was presented to them?
You are reddit as much as any goober is.
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u/SirVelocifaptor Aug 12 '26
I'm just a redditor, but 3/5 stars on google isn't what id call excellent
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u/MagnanimousGoat Aug 12 '26
This would be one of the few things that having an HOA would be well and truly justified for.
Otherwise you have jags moving in who don't care about having a canal in their back yard who are gonna whine about and resist having to pay for its upkeep.
If more of these HOA neighborhoods actually had features and elements that made them unique so that people would seek them out, HOAs would be a lot less hated. An HOA is good for maintaining a luxury or idiosyncrasy like this, because it can function as a guarantor for people who join that community in order to have that unique thing that it will remain and be maintained in the future.
Otherwise you might move into a community that has a really nice dog park or something in it, but then people who care about supporting it move out, and people who don't care move in, and then it goes into disrepair.
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u/Levitlame Aug 12 '26
How do you fix the liner when needed? You can’t drain the whole thing… I wonder if they devised a way to seal of sections.
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u/DanielShaww Aug 12 '26
You can seal off a section. We do it in rivers all the time to build dams
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u/Beneficial_Coach8581 Aug 12 '26
It'll be fine so long as you don't drive a presidential motorcade down it.
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u/lurks-a-little Aug 12 '26
Stagnant smelly waters and ideal for breeding hoards of mosquitos and an added bonus of drowning toddlers?? Where do I sign up?
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u/Technical_Stand9939 Aug 17 '26
easy solutions- Mosquitos need standing water- so just a slight current solves those issues. The toddlers- make it a 50 plus community where children are banned. Children do not need to be permitted everywhere- and bad parents cause that problem.
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u/LawfulAwfulOffal Aug 12 '26
Just a thought - pool looks pretty good. Could that maintenance team maybe take a look at the reflecting pool in Washington DC?
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u/za72 Aug 12 '26
it's a community pool... everyone's peeing in it
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u/weliveintheshade Aug 12 '26
I worked at a resort with pools like this and swim up bars. I pulled Christmas day shift one year and got a call that a kid left a turd in the pool. I arrived at the site and it wasn't a turd it was a diarrhoea cloud. They didn't shut down the pool. Just add some extra chlorine. Carry on.
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u/jsime1991 Aug 12 '26
Not a single person in the water?
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u/LPulseL11 Aug 12 '26
Maybe took the video at like 6am during the week?
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u/uses_for_mooses Aug 12 '26
Without a single German tourist out reserving lounge chairs? Highly doubtful!
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u/Fantastic-Mud-9869 Aug 12 '26
My alarm goes at 5 o'clock. Reserving chairs and going back to bed.
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u/disiskeviv Aug 13 '26
during the week?
Everyday is during a week, do you mean there are days not during the week?
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u/MileHighRC Aug 12 '26
Likely a marketing video for this resort.
Many resorts all over the world have pools like this connecting the lodging
There is nothing unique about this one in particular, certainly not the first to do it either
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u/Mal-Kiavo Aug 12 '26
I thought this was AI...
Baodun Lake Hushan Hot Spring Resort
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u/sherlip Aug 12 '26
I know it's real because I remember seeing a video on it like ten years ago.
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u/DrDima Aug 12 '26
Benchmark for reality is now the same as 15000 years ago.
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u/Maleficent-System145 Aug 12 '26
We need a new calendar system. Before and after A.I.
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u/TheGruenTransfer Aug 12 '26
I would have bet on it being a model since I don't see any people
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u/BigMax Aug 12 '26
Probably intentionally shot at a time of day where most people aren't using it, to make it look more pristine. Early morning, or a cold day, or 9:30 am on a workday/schoolday or whatever.
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u/DocClown Aug 12 '26
I see people, not many but you can see some. 2nd shot, middle right, someone getting out of the water.
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u/CamelFeenger Aug 12 '26
I can’t find it on a map. Google takes me to a forest.
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u/LaserGay Aug 12 '26
Yeah China does that. OpenStreetMap has an actual map of things in China because they’re not a business trying to operate there.
The whole thing is stupid when you consider how annoying it must be there in exchange for exactly zero additional security.
Here’s a link to the lat/long.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/tkQsDs7rF3Mu6uYX9?g_st=ic
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u/dee_lio Aug 12 '26
I'm impressed by the engineering required for this. Are there sections that can be dammed off? How do you clean it? How do you repair cracks? how many pumps and cleaners do you need? How do you chemically balance it?
Do people actually use this? It would be neat if the hotel made room delivery by aquatic drone.
Is it common for someone to swim up to a neighbor's room?
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u/DueExample52 Aug 14 '26
Bro, google the largest pool on earth. It’s a seaside pool that you can boat on, it’s in Chile I think. You will love it
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u/throwawayeire93 Aug 15 '26
They exist on a smaller scale in a good few resorts around the world. I've had a look in royal river Tenerife when staying in one of there nearby sister resorts nearby. Weirder concept in royal rivers as you can swim into other people's villas patios.
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u/anon_lurk Aug 14 '26
They could probably use cofferdams to isolate spots in an emergency. Then temporary pumps to keep circulation going around that. Would be pretty easy.
No idea how many filters/pumps/chemicals that thing takes though. I'd imagine they have to add chemicals spread across the entire thing or constantly drip them in because if you just shocked that thing with enough chlorine in one spot it would probably melt somebody lmao.
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u/TBSsuxs Aug 12 '26
When you know it's a stupid thing but just can't prove it.
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u/bangkokhooker Aug 12 '26
you pee in one pool you pee in all the pools
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u/Bestyan Aug 12 '26
Imagine one diarrhea incident
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u/LegendOfKhaos Aug 12 '26
I wonder if those white lines are walls they can raise to section off a part
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u/BigMax Aug 12 '26
In fairness... this doesn't seem much different than having to keep the water clean at a giant wave pool or water park, right? And those are a LOT more dense with people.
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u/Goodgoditsgrowing Aug 12 '26
Yeah but they also aren’t billed as clean waterways to lounge in, we all know it’s mostly sunscreen and piss we are launching out of a slide into
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u/Roga-Danar Aug 12 '26
They tried this with canals / gulf access in Florida, look up Cape Coral. Now all the canals are in disrepair and have filled in with sediment, nobody can use them anymore and they stink with dead fish because the water gets no circulation.
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u/Magog14 Aug 12 '26
There are hundreds of interconnected canals in southeast Florida especially Fort Lauderdale and there are no issues. It's simply a matter of maintenance.
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u/Roga-Danar Aug 12 '26
You’re right, but I think the canals in Cape Coral are a bit more extensive (and possibly poorly designed), they go inland like 3+ miles. The canals around Las Olas in Fort Lauderdale run along natural rivers and don’t seem to be more than like a mile from the intercostal.
Either way, canal maintenance = money and Fort Lauderdale is on another level financially than Cape Coral.
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u/Magog14 Aug 12 '26
No, they run all the way to the Everglades. That's a large part of their function. To help direct drainage during storms.
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u/Spaduf Aug 12 '26
Yeah but that's America. We haven't been able to manage basic maintenance in any context for 50 years.
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u/OnTheEveOfWar Aug 12 '26
I think it would be cool if it’s a resort you stay at for a vacation. But living there seems like it would suck.
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u/victhrowaway12345678 Aug 12 '26
Ya dude it would totally suck. Probably would be a total downgrade from whatever your living situation is.
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u/MagmaTroop Aug 12 '26
I think the proof is in the fact that nobody is using it.
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u/Super-Stevie117 Aug 12 '26
What happens when there's a storm?
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u/SleepyCatMD Aug 12 '26
Probably same thing that happens in any pool. Not much. Pools don’t have tides and they have draining systems. To avoid overflow.
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u/build319 Aug 12 '26
Looks like this is a hotel in China:
Yingde Baodun Lake Hushan Hot Spring Resort is a popular tourist destination located in Yingde City, Guangdong Province
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u/aykayay4 Aug 12 '26
What if someone would shit in it? A few times?
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u/phoenix0153 Aug 12 '26
I was thinking more along the lines of, what about broken glass?
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u/OnTheEveOfWar Aug 12 '26
Same thought. The pool I go to recently had broken glass and they had to close and drain the pool for liability reasons.
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u/phoenix0153 Aug 12 '26
Yeup! Which is crazy but makes sense. Can you imagine the hell that would be if someone were just be enjoying a glass of wine, walking across one of those bridges, stumbles a little bit, and it shatters all over the place? I wonder if they have special ways to section it off for such occasions.
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u/NatusAmittere Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26
I’d imagine for a pool this large, they have a way to section off, drain, and refill specific areas for cases like this.
For someone shitting in the pool, I hope you like the smell of shock lol.
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u/Old-Juice-2490 Aug 12 '26
amazing urine canal
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u/hallouminati_pie Aug 12 '26
I'm sorry, but what's the difference to having a canal , stream or river by your house?
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u/wilcobr27 Aug 12 '26
Make it a lazy river and you can have my money
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u/JetlinerDiner Aug 12 '26
That would be cool. A round lazy river - you step out from home, go for a lap to relax, and arrive back at home fresh and with the mind cleared.
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u/TilapiaTango Aug 12 '26
I wonder if the US can hire these guys for reflecting pool maintenance
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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs Aug 12 '26
I’d commute to work on an inflatable raft, are you kidding me?
Just avoid the morning rush unless you want to drown
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u/thecatandthependulum Aug 12 '26
This is so cool and all you guys can say is "ew some kid will shit in it."
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u/Darth_050 Aug 12 '26
All that pool, and for some people it is still not enough.
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u/perringaiden Aug 12 '26
You've never heard of a jaccuzi? Don't think they're heating the canal.
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u/MessyMcMessMaker Aug 12 '26
I stayed at a resort in Mexico that was like this. It was awesome. Could walk out of the room, jump right in the pool and swim to a bar. My kids loved it and nobody worrying about finding/reserving chairs by a small pool.
Now if these were houses that people lived in, like the article title, that changes everything. The maintenance/upkeep compared to the amount of time you would actually use it would never make sense.
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u/dassind20zeichen Aug 12 '26
imagine swimming to your buddies home butterfly stlyle and splashing everyone on the edges.
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u/Silver-Amphibian7650 Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26
Can you imagine how many skimmer boxes there needs to be, how about all the pool vacuuming. Don't get me started on the pool chemicals.
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u/Senninha27 Aug 12 '26
Technically, every house with a toilet is connected by a pool.
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u/avsalom Aug 12 '26
The amount of negativity on Reddit, Jesus. This looks awesome, despite the neckbeard comments to the contrary
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u/Rogue-Daddio-3 Aug 12 '26
In theory this looks great but im sure they pay out the ass for it and maintenance would be such a pain.
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u/amdaly10 Aug 12 '26
If you ever have the money to stay at a resort with a swim out pool I highly recommend it.
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u/Electrical-Heat8960 Aug 12 '26
It’s amazing, but can you imagine the cleaning hassle for that massive pool?
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u/Least_Gain5147 Aug 12 '26
Looks like AI, but apparently it's a real place in China. Trying to do that in America it would end up trashed in very short time.
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u/jordanmindyou Aug 12 '26
The HOA fees to keep up maintenance on that pool are probably as much as rent/mortgage
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u/Orpdapi Aug 12 '26
It is, this video is old and from before the AI days. I believe it’s a resort community in China.
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u/TheAwesomeMan123 Aug 12 '26
“The huge canal-style pool is shared by almost 300 different villas in the Guangdong province of China”
“The pool wraps around the entire village, measuring a crazy 1.3km (0.8 miles) long” - 2023 Article
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