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AIBU?

to think hot tubs are a waste of money?

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singsinthebath · 15/06/2010 12:20

Some people I know have spend £5k on a hot tub for their garden.

Of course, it's their prerogative to spend their hard earned money as they wish. (And I nodded along, and faked some enthusiasm for their choice.)

But I can't begin to count the number of better ways of spending £5k than a bath in your back garden. You can't even have a decent swim in it.

If you have £5k spare, would you spend it on a hot tub? Or something much, much more exciting.....?

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PiggyPenguin · 15/06/2010 12:23

But if you have nothing else that you need to spend it on, a hot tub that you can use every night for god knows how many years would be a better investment than a week somewhere hot with mossies wouldn't it?

I wouldn't have one though 'cos I bet they cost a fortune to heat. And I'd get bored of it really quickly.

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kreecherlivesupstairs · 15/06/2010 12:26

They shout wife swapping to me. I don't know why. DD's current best friends parents have one. The girls had a joint birthday party recently and other parents invited me and DH to have a soak and some champagne. As they say in the best tabloids, we made our excuses and left.

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expatinscotland · 15/06/2010 12:27

Because they enjoy it?

My sister has one attached to their pool.

It was heaven. We'd grab a jug of sweet iced tea and hop in.

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jendaisy · 15/06/2010 12:27

My mum and her partner have one. They never use it. I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time.

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MintCracknel · 15/06/2010 12:30

We rented a cottage over Christmas once & it had a lovely wooden hot tub. Dh & I spent every evening in it - bliss

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potplant · 15/06/2010 12:32

I can't imagine anything worse.
As you say, each to their own.

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lamplighter · 15/06/2010 12:36

I once lived in a house with a sauna. It was a nine day wonder for me and I think a hot tub would be the same.

I would spend the money on a summerhouse or something similar

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Pootles2010 · 15/06/2010 12:40

I'd never use it, i know this because we went to centre parcs with a villa with a sauna, was really looking forward to that - only ever used it to dry towels in.

Also it would make me think they were swingers!

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singsinthebath · 15/06/2010 12:41

Oh I hadn't thought about the swingers angle

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lamplighter · 15/06/2010 12:45

Singsinthebath

You would have to say yes and then start singing of course! You could take requests from your fellow hot-tubbers

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singsinthebath · 15/06/2010 12:59

lamplighter - I'll brush up on my best Barry White style seduction routine.

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Alouiseg · 15/06/2010 13:37

I'll have one but only when the dc are older. 10 kids in a pool is one thing but 10 kids in a hot tub is gross.

Child soup ;-)

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Eve4Walle · 15/06/2010 13:41

Oh no, hot tubs are lovely. DHs aunt and uncle have one in their huge back garden.

We all got in it one Christmas when it had been snowing and it was just the best. Such a giggle and very relaxing too.

I'd have one in my garden no problem (well, if money was no object obv).

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Blu · 15/06/2010 13:47

I know people who use them regularly to relax in all year round.

I hate them, can't stand chlorinated water, but then other ways of relaxing aren't for me, either, particularly golf, fishing, football, having an aromatherapy massage.

Waste is in the eye of the purseholder.

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singsinthebath · 15/06/2010 13:50

Don't get me wrong - I love a good bath. But why spend £5k on one so you can sit outside in it.

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QueenOfFlamingEverything · 15/06/2010 13:54

Ooooh, ours is lovely.

Didn't cost 5k though - its made of an enormous old water butt cut in half, with a wood burning stove attached to heat the water.

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lamplighter · 15/06/2010 13:58

Is it bad hot tub etiquette to wink and pout at the person opposite you then?

Dagnamit - I knew I shouldn't have done that!

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Lauriefairycake · 15/06/2010 14:02

Queenofflamineverything

How does it work?!?



I WANT ONE!

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glastocat · 15/06/2010 14:03

I'd bloody love a hot tub.

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QueenOfFlamingEverything · 15/06/2010 15:03

Oh, the wood burning stove is about a metre away from the tub itself and has a water jacket on the back. The water heats up and then goes into the tub through a pipe at the top of the water jacket, which in turn draws the cooler water in through a pipe at the bottom - convection basically.

It does get lovely and hot but you have to splash around to mix it else it tends to be hotter at the top then the bottom.

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GloriaSmut · 15/06/2010 15:08

How can I say this delicately?

The only really well-used hot tub that I know of is owned by friends in a same sex partnership. These chaps lead a very active social life and no woman on the right side of the menopause is advised to dip any part of herself into their hot tub water.

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Alouiseg · 15/06/2010 16:09

Very delicately worded.

Sperm soup anyone ? ;-)

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agedknees · 15/06/2010 16:10

I broke my back getting out of a hot tub (icy steps, feet came out from under me, landed on my back).

They should come with a health warning.

It was lovely using it in winter though (except for the broken back incident).

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Mingg · 15/06/2010 16:12

I'd love a hot tub and/or sauna

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IMoveTheStars · 15/06/2010 16:16

waste of time.. I had one for a while in a rented house. Cost a LOT to maintain/heat and fill with water, adn they get grimy and the lid is a pain to get on.

Nice when it's snowing though :D

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