Best Infinity Pool Hotels in Chennai
Best infinity pool hotels in Chennai come down to two five-star properties with very different settings. Hilton Chennai runs its infinity pool alongside a rooftop bar and five restaurants near Ekkattuthangal, about 13 minutes by taxi from the airport, aimed at a business crowd wanting a polished pool deck close to the Kathipara corridor. Somerset Greenways takes the infinity-pool concept to its rooftop instead, seven minutes by taxi from Santhome Cathedral Basilica, inside an apartment-hotel format built for longer stays. The edge-less pool design is still rare enough in Chennai that these two properties define the category almost entirely, each pairing the infinity pool with a different kind of stay.
Hilton Chennai
Piscine à débordement et bar sur le toit près de Kathipara
Pourquoi les voyageurs adorentNous avions réservé surtout pour la piscine à débordement, et nous avons fini par passer la plupart de nos soirées au bar sur le toit juste à côté, à regarder l'éclairage de la piscine s'allumer à mesure que le ciel s'assombrissait. Le trajet de 13 minutes vers l'aéroport le lendemain matin a été le transfert le plus simple de tout notre voyage. Le Vasco's a bien couvert le petit-déjeuner avant un vol matinal au départ de Chennai.
Somerset Greenways Chennai
Une piscine à débordement sur le toit pour les longs séjours
Pourquoi les voyageurs adorentNous sommes restés ici deux semaines pour un poste professionnel, et la piscine à débordement sur le toit est vite devenue une habitude quotidienne plutôt qu'une occasion spéciale. La cuisine nous a fait cuisiner plus de soirs que prévu, même si le House of Cheese Restaurant Chennai, à une minute, a couvert le reste. Le transfert aéroport de 31 minutes n'a semblé long que le dernier jour, dépassant les 45 minutes dans les embouteillages.
Piscine à débordement · Chennai en chiffres
Two edge-less pools, two paces of stay
An infinity pool depends on its edge disappearing into the view behind it, which in Chennai usually means the pool deck sits high enough, or is angled carefully enough, to trade a hard poolside wall for open sky or rooftop. Hilton Chennai and Somerset Greenways are the two properties here that commit to that design rather than a standard rectangular pool.
Hilton Chennai's infinity pool anchors a five-restaurant dining program that also includes a rooftop bar, one minute's walk from Ekkattuthangal and roughly 13 minutes by taxi from Chennai International Airport. The pool here works as a five-star amenity alongside spa and fitness facilities, so guests typically treat it as one stop in a fuller day of dining and relaxing rather than the single reason for the stay, especially on a short business trip built around a tight schedule. That distinction matters more than it might seem once you're actually deciding where to spend an evening.
Somerset Greenways runs its infinity pool on the rooftop itself, seven minutes by taxi from Santhome Cathedral Basilica and close to MRC Nagar's Ayyappan Kovil, inside an apartment-hotel format with kitchens in every unit. The rooftop infinity pool here suits longer-stay guests who want a daily routine around the water rather than a one-off resort experience, closer to how a resident would treat a building amenity than how a short-stay hotel guest typically would. Travelers comparing options in this category should keep that difference in mind before booking either one. It's a small detail, but one that shapes how the rest of the stay tends to unfold.
Airport transfers differ enough between the two to matter: Hilton Chennai runs about 13 minutes by taxi, while Somerset Greenways takes roughly 31 minutes by taxi or up to an hour by public transport from Chennai International Airport. Travelers with a tight connection should weigh that gap against how much time they actually plan to spend at the infinity pool itself during a short visit. Anyone planning around this category should factor that into how they structure the rest of the trip. That's worth weighing against the rest of an itinerary before settling on either property.
Both hotels back their infinity pool with a full spread of amenities that reward staying local rather than pool-hopping between them: Hilton's five restaurants and fitness center keep guests on-site, while Somerset Greenways' kitchens and full-service laundry suit a longer, quieter routine around the rooftop pool rather than a single evening spent at the water's edge. It's the kind of detail that only becomes obvious once you're actually there for the evening. That distinction matters more than it might seem once you're actually deciding where to spend an evening. Travelers comparing options in this category should keep that difference in mind before booking either one.
Hilton Chennai's Ekkattuthangal position near the Kathipara flyover puts it in a fast-moving business corridor, while Somerset Greenways sits closer to the coast near Santhome and MRC Nagar's Ayyappan Kovil, giving these two infinity pools genuinely different backdrops despite sharing the same design idea.
L'avis d'un voyageurI floated at the edge of Somerset Greenways' rooftop infinity pool one evening with MRC Nagar's rooftops spreading out below, Santhome Cathedral Basilica a seven-minute taxi ride away. The apartment's kitchen meant I'd cooked dinner earlier instead of going out, and the pool deck stayed quiet enough that it felt more like a private terrace than a hotel amenity shared with other guests.