“Is there a pool?” It’s a question both eternal and essential. The answer I got on one vacation, from the friend who’d picked the cheap hotel in the remote Canadian town of Revelstoke, caught me off guard: “No, something better,” he said. “The hotel gives you free passes to the town pool.”
Visions of municipal-grade concrete and dingy locker rooms came to mind. Beginner lessons and lap swimmers all crammed together, shrieks echoing off the walls—hardly a vacation vibe. But those fears vanished with the first look at the Revelstoke Aquatic Centre, where the curl of a red tube on an exterior wall showed a waterslide exiting and then
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