8. True, you won't find an acres-spanning pool, but listen: we walked to The Westin one morning, with its much-touted never-ending pool, and the place felt like a loud, crowded gymnasium: kids running everywhere (yes, even inside, in the lovely marble entryway halls), yelling, throwing fruit at the poor caged tropical birds, throwing balls across the pool passageways and loungechairs on the pool deck, gaaaa.