Don’t have a pool? Lucky for us, many hotels and resorts around South Florida offer pool access throughout the summer. Some of them don’t charge the public for admission, while others sell day passes that cost $45 to $90.

Here are some places to spend a relaxing day at the pool.

The Hilton West Palm Beach: The Hilton offers nonhotel guests free access to their pool. Every Saturday, there is a pool party with a DJ and food. Parking for the day costs $15.

The hotel is located at 600 Okeechobee Blvd. Call 561-231-6000.

The Atlantic Hotel and Spa: This boutique hotel offers day passes at $50 for adults and $15 for kids. The pass includes free parking, wifi and pool access until 6 p.m. Pass holders also receive 20 percent off lunch and dinner at the hotel’s restaurant and can enjoy the hotel’s new SKY bar.

The hotel is located at 601 N Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd. Call 954-567-8020.

The National Hotel: This cinematic, art deco-style hotel in Miami Beach offers $45 day passes for nonhotel guests to enjoy the pool. Parking costs from $25 to $35, depending on the length of the stay.

The hotel is located at 1677 Collins Ave. Call 305-532-2311.

Delano Beach Club: Day passes to this Miami Beach hotel are available Monday through Thursday for $45 per person. This grants access to all pool amenities from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Valet parking costs $24.

The Delano Beach Club is located at 1685 Collins Ave. Call 305-672-2000.

The Conrad Fort Lauderdale Beach: This resort offers three pool day options. The “Sun Lovers” pass costs $75 per person and provides access to pool, towel, chairs and water. The “Summer Bliss” package for two costs $300 and includes day bed, bottle of champagne, appetizers, ice cream and 15 percent off drinks at the restaurant. The second “Summer Bliss” package costs $415 for four people. It includes a day bed, two bottles of champagne, appetizers, ice cream, 15 percent off drinks at the restaurant and more.

The Conrad is located at 551 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd. Call 954-414-5100.

The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort: For a $90 day pass, nonhotel guests can enjoy all pool amenities, an umbrella at the beach, valet parking and 15 percent off all spa treatments.

The resort is in Miami Beach at 9703 Collins Ave. Call 305-993-3300.

Fontainebleau Miami Beach: This luxury hotel isn’t known for being cheap, but if a large enough group splits the cost of a cabana, it may be worth the relaxation. Nonhotel guests can only receive pool access by renting a cabana or receiving a spa treatment. Large cabanas, which hold up to 12 guests, cost $1,000. Family cabanas start at $250 and hold four people, while six-person cabanas start at $550. Cabanas can be reserved by nonhotel guests at no additional fee.

The Fontainebleau is at 4441 Collins Ave. Call 305-538-2000.

The games were broadcast on a 46-foot-long screen aboard a 58-foot boat named Ballyhoo.

The tides cooperated — yielding a sandbar that was about the size of two football fields where spectators could wade in water that ranged from ankle-high to waist-deep.

Vendors offered smoothies and sandwiches. A pizza delivery dude was bringing the goods in a kayak.

Sun Sentinel photographer Jim Rassol said that the first-ever presentation of the World Cup in a venue like this was his Florida dream come true.

“It was its own country,” he said of the gathering about a 5-minute paddle from the mainland, Haulover State Park, “the country of awesomeness.”

Time was up when the water started to reach his chest, threatening his photography equipment. He lashed the dry bags holding his cameras down on the paddleboard and made his way back to the parking lot.

The party was presented by outdoor advertising company Ballyhoo Media.

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GLAMPING AT OKEECHOBEE

Past the crowds of general admission next to one of the main stages lies an oasis of luxury. The gated-off, white-tented VIP lounge is extravagant, with free food, a complimentary juice bar and massages.

One of the busiest areas in the lounge, a hair corner run by Kirsten Kiki, is new this year. For 6 1/2 hours a day, Kiki offers men’s and women’s haircuts as well as hair-braiding.

“I haven’t really stopped,” Kiki says. “I have to take a list of people that I can take, and when I get to them, I get to them.”

The long waitlist is filled hours before Kiki is scheduled to finish her day, though she does her best to get to everyone. She’s meticulous with these over-the-top hairdos, sometimes restarting to make sure each is perfect. Women of all ages patiently wait for “Game of Thrones”-worthy hairdos with complex braids, colored hair extensions, feathers and glitter.

“I really like all the options she has,” Lisa Leturno says as lime green and hot pink hair is woven into her braids. “I’ve never really even put extensions in my hair before … I might be inspired to dye my hair.”

While Kiki does hair full-time in Fort Lauderdale, she’s also an artist, and for her, braiding is an extension of her art. She’s been able to showcase her artwork at the festival, live painting on Friday and selling prints at her booth. Kiki’s work also decorates the artists’ dressing rooms at Okeechobee.

— Talia J. Medina

THE PREHISTORIC ART OF OKEECHOBEE

The sculpture of a mammoth built by artist Joel Stockdill for the 2016 Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival has vines growing up its legs. Made of used metal, plastic and wood, the sculpture was one of the most impressive artworks at last year’s event.

The artist returned to Okeechobee this year to sculpt a saber-toothed tiger, once again using recycled materials that were found on the festival grounds. The giant creature stands near an entrance to the main stages.

“Both of these are prehistoric animals that lived here in Florida, both of which are instinct now,” says Nikos Katsaounis, the festival’s creative and art director. “It’s almost like reviving their spirit, using material that our society had discarded to make something beautiful.”

Many of the artworks commissioned or bought for Okeechobee will remain on the grounds throughout the year, and will be part of future festivals.

Katsaounis wants the grounds of Okeechobee to become a “festival-art retirement home,” which people can visit at any time of year to see the art and participate in workshops.

Last year, Katsaounis also bought the “Pavilion Palace,” a gazebo-castle structure built by Stockdill and artist Shrine On also using recycled materials. The work has appeared at festivals such as Burning Man, but it has been retired and will remain at Okeechobee’s Chobeewobee Village.

“We felt that collecting some of these iconic pieces and giving them a place to live will give an opportunity for people to come and visit them later,” Katsaounis says.

“It’s a music and arts festival because we believe that society has taught us to overappreciate art and make it difficult to understand, and unaccessible,” he adds. “Everyone should participate in this conversation, because it makes us human.”

— Barbara Corbellini Duarte

LIVING THE DREAM

“Our laptop player couldn’t make it,” an unsmiling Sturgill Simpson cracked Saturday night from the Now Stage at Okeechobee. It was a joke with bite, as the poetic honky-tonker from Kentucky was the odd duck on a festival lineup stocked with EDM-friendly hip-hop outfits and globally famous DJs. If Simpson’s set was short on laser lights and turbo BPMs, it was long on heart, with the guitar-playing singer-songwriter delivering music from his Grammy-winning 2016 album “A Sailor’s Guide to Earth.” Written as an emotionally bare welcome letter to his newborn son, the album confirms Simpson’s status as an heir to the outlaw-country legacy established by Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings and the like.

This music may not have been what most Okeechobee attendees came to hear, but Simpson and his three-piece band were determined to make them listen. “After playing the Grammys with a 32-piece band, there’s only one way to go,” Simpson said, spreading his arms wide toward his more modest combo. “You ain’t got to like it, but you’re going to learn to.”

The night’s lesson included “Railroad of Sin,” a down-home pickathon from Simpson’s 2013 debut album, “High Top Mountain”; the crushing “Welcome to Earth (Pollywog)” and “Brace for Impact (Live a Little),” both from “A Sailor’s Guide to Earth”; and the psychedelic “Turtles All the Way Down” and “Living the Dream,” from his breakthrough 2014 album, “Metamodern Sounds in Country Music.” Just as Simpson made something new from Nirvana’s “In Bloom” on “A Sailor’s Guide,” on Saturday night, he discovered fresh reserves of soul in Willie Nelson’s “I’d Have To Be Crazy” and William Bell’s “You Don’t Miss Your Water,” suggesting to the audience that if you want to write the future, you’d do well to understand the past.

Before exiting the stage, Simpson dedicated the show to his ailing grandfather, whom he would fly home to Kentucky to visit in the morning. “I don’t even know how he’s doing,” Simpson, 38, lamented. “He’s just trying to make it happen like the rest of us.”

— Jake Cline

FUNKY PRESIDENT

Saturday afternoon at Okeechobee got funky thanks to psychedelic-soul shaman George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, who brought the Mothership to the Now Stage and offered jam-heavy spins on classics such as “Flashlight,” “(Not Just) Knee Deep,” “Give Up the Funk.”

Clinton came bounding onstage in a leopard-print dashiki, accompanied by a battalion of bumping-and-grinding female dancers and a shirtless man with a white hat and fuzzy white boots.

Midway through “(Not Just) Knee Deep,” the 15-minute version,” Clinton called the audience “a bunch of freaks,” which drew appreciative roars from the crowd of 1,000, who waved totems and giant inflatable sharks from the front row.

With 15 minutes remaining in the 75-minute set, white-dreadlocked P-Funk guitarist Michael Hampton drew another cheer from the crowd with his wailing solo, as another P-Funk member invited the audience to scat-sing and shout, “We gonna turn this mother out.”

— Phillip Valys

ANOTHER REASON TO TIP YOUR BARTENDER

Art Friedrich is a bartender at the Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival, but behind the crazy eyewear, he’s also the president of Urban Oasis Project, a Miami-based nonprofit that works to provide healthy food for low-income families. Urban Oasis Project is one of more than 20 nonprofits with volunteers running the bars at Okeechobee to raise money for their respective causes.

“Our mission is to help grow local food in Miami and make it accessible to everyone,” Friedrich says. “All the money from the festival that we generate goes into supporting our food-stamp-doubling program, so that we can provide healthy food access for people of all income levels. A lot of people don’t even know that their tips are all donations going to the nonprofit.”

So … yeah, tip your bartender. For more information, visit UrbanOasisProject.org.

— Ben Crandell

HANDS ACROSS OKEECHOBEE

Artist Dave “Dave1” Lavernia aims to spread peace and love one handprint at a time.

The Miami muralist, 30, has spent his Okeechobee spray-painting the interactive mural “#huemansforearth,” in which festivalgoers are invited to trace their hands on a plywood canvas with acrylic-paint pens and scrawl messages of peace and love inside the drawing.

“I want people to be more aware about protecting our fellow species on Earth,” says Lavernia, adding a jet of black spray paint over an outline of a koi. “It’s about unity and togetherness.”

Lavernia, who lives in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood, specializes in murals distinguished by wide-eyed wolves, tigers and fish tangled up in orchids and leaves. He reckons he’s given out 400 multicolored paint pens, which have been used to write hundreds of messages such as, “Starve the ego, feed the soul,” “Share love” and “I’m here for a good time, not a long time.” Instead of hands, people have drawn dinosaurs, yin-and-yang symbols and rock ‘n’ roll salutes.

The messages appear on a two-walled plywood canvas, built from recycled pallets and donated Plexiglas courtesy of the Fort Lauderdale brewery LauderAle.

Lavernia says Okeechobee folks covered the walls on Thursday and Friday, so on Saturday he’s painting orcas and wolves over the handprints.

“My job is to create a mural in black and white over the whole thing,” Lavernia says. “It’s all about saving the Earth.”

— Phillip Valys

THE BIKE DANCER

When he isn’t pedaling passengers to their campsites, pedicab driver Rick $haw is dancing on his bike.

On Saturday morning, the 37-year-old Chicagoan idled near the Aquachobee entrance, executing a few boredom-relieving dance tricks. Cranking the knob on a subwoofer anchored to the bike, $haw bounced in his seat to hip-hop, twirled the pedals backward and lunged from his seat to the handlebars.

He twirled and bowed. Other pedicab drivers clapped. Four women whooped and begged him to repeat the trick.

“This used to make a lot of hot girls jump on the cab, but I’m married now,” says Shaw, who’s driven pedicabs for eight years in Chicago and at music festivals such as Coachella, Firefly and Electric Forest.

He says pedicab-dancing passes the time while waiting for fares, often while transporting up to six people at a time. But doing it too often will “probably get me fired,” he says. He’s been tempting fate this way for several years.

Still, $haw met his wife while dancing outside a Chicago nightclub.

“I do it more for the excitement,” $haw says. “And it makes the pedicab look more fun, which gets me more rides and tips.”

— Phillip Valys

THE PEOPLE’S SHOW

Although there’s no lack of great music at Okeechobee, at times the most impressive performances happen far from the main stages. Flow artists once again brought their glowing toys to the grounds and are putting on a show.

BOOGIE BREAKFAST

Reveille at Okeechobee Saturday morning, if you were up at the crack of 10 a.m., came from a soundcheck by Usher and the Roots. Not many bands can segue so gracefully between the classic Kool & the Gang come-on “Jungle Boogie” and Usher’s crushingly romantic “Throwback.” They are scheduled to go on at 11:45 p.m. Saturday for a set running more than two hours. Like you have somewhere else to be at 2 a.m. — Ben Crandell

ALL ABOUT THAT BASSNECTAR

Bassnectar fans are out in droves at Okeechobee. The cultish fans have traveled from Maryland and beyond to see their favorite DJ and producer. Known as “Bassheads,” these fans will don the Bassnectar symbol all weekend long on hats and flags and even as tattoos.

In a 2013 blog post, Bassnectar said, “I always took [the symbol] to be kind of my own ‘yin yang’ interpretation, with an open end that flows out endlessly.”

Many of his fans offer their own interpretations of the simple geometric shape.

“[The symbol] kind of reminds me of a ripple effect,” says Dena Fox, of Tampa, who wears a rare Red Rocks Bassnectar pin on her Bassnectar hat. “It doesn’t matter who we talk to, what we touch. It’s going to affect the next person that’s involved in it . We’re all interlocked. … Be conscious of what you’re doing to others, to yourself, to the Earth and then forward, move in and move out.”

Although she’s working for the production company running the festival again this year, Fox says a Bassnectar show can appear just as wild when viewed from backstage.

Meanwhile, out in the fields of general admission, an abundance of Bassnectar symbols can be spotted soaring on totems.

“I feel like the bass symbol unites us all,” says Roula Gogos, who drove 12 hours from Virginia for her sixth Bassnectar show. “[I love] everything about him. The way that he gives back, his music, how his music makes [its] own words.”

Like Gogos, Anthony Nahr drove more than 10 hours from East Tennessee to see Bassnectar. The 25-year-old laughs with sleepless delirium.

“I do a little bit of graphic design, and obviously I love Bassnectar and everything it brings for people and everything it’s about,” Nahr says of his homemade flag. “It’s why we come to this. Bassnectar means so much love. There’s so much love in the community … It’s unexplainable.”

— Talia J. Medina

YOU JUST NEVER KNOW

Buddas Iscarus, of Chapel Hill, N.C., has the tatts, nose ring, facial hair and avocation (massage therapist) appropriate to a veteran music-festival traveler. But last year’s Okeechobee Music Festival was his first major camping festival. And despite his outward appearance, his purpose in driving down for the inaugual OMF was decidedly mainstream. “We drove down here just for Hall & Oates. I loved Hall & Oates growing up,” he says. That said, he did soon fall under the spell of Jungle 51. “All the lights and lasers. It was like, ‘This is pretty freaking awesome!'”

— Ben Crandell

AT OKEECHOBEE TO ‘GET MY LIFE BACK’

Sean Perkins of Evansville, Ind., is attending his first major music festival with friends at Okeechobee this weekend, three years after a spinal cord tumor left him in a wheelchair. “I just wanted to kind of get my life back,” he says. “I decided I’m going to get out there and live life and see what I can do.”

A 27-year-old certified nursing assistant who works with developmentally disabled patients in a nursing home, Perkins gives the handicapped accommodations at the festival a thumbs-up, with a couple of reservations.

“It’s actually not been too bad, but the sand has been a really big issue,” he says. “As long as I can get to the grass — and fortunately I have awesome people around me who are very willing to help me — I get around OK.”

Then, there are the handicapped bathrooms, which are being used by able-bodied people.

“I get it, because there’s aren’t too many people in wheelchairs,” Perkins says.

He has just one request: Clean up after yourself, dude.

“Men are really bad about peeing on the toilet seat, so it’s nasty,” he says. “I have that problem all the time.”

— Ben Crandell

SOBERCHOBEE

Ron Tannebaum and Ken Pomerance, of Fort Lauderdale, are at the Okeechobee Music Festival inside a tent for their drug and alcohol recovery organization called In The Rooms. They offer meetings every three hours, describing their tent as an “oasis” from myriad temptations found across the festival grounds. Business is booming: They requested a larger tent this year and meetings are still standing room only. For information, visit InTheRooms.com.

— Ben Crandell

HERE HE COMES TO SAVE THE DAY

Fear not, Okeechobee, Deer Man is here. William Sohner, of Chapel Hill, N.C., invented the character when he saw bad guys doing evil at Bonnaroo and felt compelled to intervene.

“Everyone needs a superhero,” he says.

— Ben Crandell

IT BEGINS

Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival kicked off its second year March 2 with its usual mix of Hula-Hoopers, dancers, music lovers and fire-spinners jamming to loud beats and laser shows.

The festivities started with an opening ceremony led by hip-hop artist Akim Funk Buddha. Dozens of performers dressed as mythical creatures and covered in paint and glitter followed the musician across Chobeewobee Village while inviting people to join in the dancing.

— Barbara Corbellini Duarte

The tea lounge is still the best spot for people who are looking for a break from the rowdy crowds. Amber lamps, comfortable couches and hammocks create the perfect atmosphere for relaxation.

The “Lost in Time” area inside the lounge features a bar and climbing nets hanging from trees.

Okeechobee attracts people of all ages. Bill Lemmon, 66, and Pam Lemmon, 63, of North Carolina, are attending the festival for the second year.

They say they enjoyed the crowds and the atmosphere, and are learning to appreciate new genres of music.

“Our music preference is anything but country,” Bill Lemmon said. “We’re starting to get into EDM.”

Jungle 51 is the place to be during the late-night hours. Red and green lasers light up the trees, while DJs spin techno from 9 p.m. to 6 or 7 a.m.

Late-night partying created the longest lines at the food court by the Aquachobee section of the festival grounds.

But the area still offers gorgeous views of the sunset.

BEND ME, SHAPE ME, WAKE ME

Friday at Okeechobee opened with Alignment Hatha Yoga with Alex Carvahlo. More than 50 yogis sat on mats, towels or the grass under a bright-yellow sunshade sail, patiently awaiting the start of the 8:30 a.m. class

Accompanied by a recording of chimes and steel drums, Carvahlo, of Miami Beach, opened the class by saying, “This practice is my savior. It’s my joy. It’s the love of my life, so thank you all for coming to share my heart with me.”

Within a few minutes, the class doubled in size.

“I’ve never taught for this many people before, so it’s a huge privilege and a blessing and opportunity to get to share my message, which is radical self-love and worthiness and knowing that we matter,” Carvhalo says.

The 75-minute class ended with 100-plus people chanting “om.”

“I could just feel all the positive vibes coming from everybody,” says Nicole Russ, who watched her older sister participate in the class. “On Sunday … I’m definitely going to try [yoga].”

About 15 yoga classes will be offered at Yogachobee this weekend, though this is the only class Carvahlo will teach.

— Talia J. Medina

Friendships rekindled and the solidarity of being brothers-in-arms long ago carried the day for the 76 World War II and two Korean War veterans who took part in Honor Flight South Florida’s day trip from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Honor Flight is a volunteer organization that sponsors free trips for aging veterans to visit the war memorials. The trip included guardians for each veteran, wheelchairs and emergency medical staff totaling about 175 people.

Proudly wearing caps and sweaters that declared which branch of the armed forces they served, the veterans snuggled down in their wheelchairs awaiting their 6:30 a.m. flight.

The day’s full schedule was one any veteran would identify with. Arrive in Washington, D.C., at 9 a.m., visit the WWII Memorial at 10 a.m.; the Korean Memorial at 11:30 a.m.; Arlington National Cemetery at 1:30 p.m.; the Iwo Jima Memorial at 3:30 p.m. and then head back to the airport by 4:30 p.m.

“It’s unbelievable. They keep you going for 9-10 hours,” 90-year-old WWII Navy veteran Sheldon Leibler of Pembroke Pines said before getting on the flight. “I’ve got my daughter down from Orlando here to take care of me. I’m really looking forward to it.”

Navy veteran Milton Kaplan, 95, of Delray Beach, re-connected with childhood friend Leonard Ross of Boynton Beach. Neither knew the other was taking the trip.

“I was coming out of the bathroom and the guy pushing the wheelchair for [Kaplan] spins him around and says, ‘Do you know who this is?'” said Ross, 88. “I couldn’t believe it.”

Ross’ guardian was his son, Cooper City Mayor Greg Ross. “I was so proud to have him with me,” Ross said. “It was a win-win for both of us.”

For former Broward County Sheriff Al Lamberti, who volunteered as a guardian on the trip, the journey was significant not only for the veterans but for the volunteers as well. Guardians, who must go through training, pay $400 toward trip expenses.

“Growing up as a kid my dad was a WWII veteran, in the Navy, in the Pacific theater, and would always share his stories about his experiences in WWII,” Lamberti said. “He had photographs and I would enjoy sitting on the couch on his lap as he showed me all the photographs he had from WWII. I only wish he was alive to see the WWII Memorial.”

One surprise was left upon their return at 8:30 that night: A welcome party that filled the entire upper concourse of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Organizers said the turnout exceeded the 3,800 people who turned out after a trip last fall.

“We are here to make this the best day of their lives,” said Rick Asper, chairman of Honor Flight South Florida. “These heroes saved the world, not figuratively saved the world, but literally saved the world. The least we can do 75 years after their extraordinary service is to pay them back by allowing them to have this amazing day.”

The emergency landing hit just behind 5200 N. Ocean Shore Drive shortly after 7 p.m.

Jamie Barker was piloting the plane and Gina Mason of Stuart was his passenger on a round-trip flight from Lantana Airport. They had done a fly-by of the Jupiter Lighthouse after leaving Pahokee. They were heading back to the airport when they started experiencing engine trouble, Barker said.

“We done OK, I guess,” said Barker.

DaWayne Watson, public information officer for the Riviera Beach Fire Rescue, said that it was a miracle.

“It was a very skillful landing — to be over water and then end up on the beach,” he said.

The plane will be towed to Lantana Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration will be investigating,Watson said.

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