Handlery Union Square Getting into this downtown hotel pool is easy

Because breaking into their majestic water-filled hideaway is easy (head down the lobby elevator-adjacent hallway, hang a left at the in-house barber shop, through a probably-should-be-locked swinging glass door and up the lounge staircase), up the ante by gaining access to the unguarded dry heat sauna (one floor up from the pool, in the NW corner), where you'll find comped towels and a post-steam shower room, in which Visanthe Shiancoe will likely be "hanging out".