Another neighbours and hot tub one

@OldPerson a human has rights, a hot tub does not.
I wonder how many friends you have.

Start making as much noise as you want.

I thought the same @ScottishScouser but the one in the op is an inflatable one which cost a few hundred I think, not sure but considerably less than a hard shell one.
Ours cost a lot but I do think it’s so well insulated that it barely loses any heat, dh thinks it costs less than £2 a day! Well, he thinks our bill went up by about £50 a month which in the grand scheme of things is nothing really. The chemicals cost maybe £30 a month (really guessing here, it’s dhs domain), but i generally use it alone for about half an hour to an hour 4-5 times a week to in the evening around 9pm. My neighbours son is usually playing guitar around that time so i think our noise cancels out each other.
Basically its not that expensive to run at all, plenty of people can afford to keep a hot tub maintained and clean and hot.
I think I’d feel differently if it were costing £30 a day!!

All those saying they’ll soon get rid of it after the first bill……

we have one - it’s our second. If you can afford close to 15,000 on a tub you can afford the £3 per day to run it! And to fill they only cost about a tenner!

So rude!
The children are a fact of life, a hot tub is not.

Even noisy children are intermittent, and seldom all night.

My neighbours have both, but they don't keep either running all of the time. (although flying footballs are frequent)

Yabu. I think their noise is preferable to yours tbh, a low hum vs sporadic noise from kids. They may be relaxing in their garden when boom, your kids wake them up! A low hum should be tolerable. I live under a flight path, I just got used to the noise. Obviously we'd all like to live in a country mansion but that's not going to happen!

Yes!

I'd love to know how anyone's affording to run one these days. My BIL had one and it ate electricity. Plus the chemicals are annoying to get right

I wish my neighbours would get windchimes. I want to get some but I don't want to be obnoxious either. At least if they get them, I get windchimes without having to worry about whether I'm annoying the neighbours. I like them.

Yeah, no. I know which noise I’d prefer, and have tolerated better, and it’s not in your favour. Continous single pitch (aka white noise) vs children. I think parents are able intrinsically to almost block out the sounds of their own children, but it’s really not comparable.

I just personally struggle to compare the sound of people, which I think of us as being evolved to tolerate, to a nonstop electrical drone. I honestly enjoy the sound of other people getting on and living their lives in normal social hours but this feels invasive in a whole other way.

Being able to tolerate family noise when you live in one is not more 'evolved' or superior. Its nice that you enjoy what you enjoy, but massively entitled to decide that the sort of noise they make is not ok, but whatever noise you make is. Stop focusing on it, obsessing about it will make it seem more pronounced.

Buy one yourself. If you can't beat them, join them! The kids will love it.

Get noisy. You have considered their needs, they are not considering yours.

I think you should check out the council's advice on sound levels. A 24/7 continuous drone seems a lot to tolerate. Also, as some people here say not every pump is noisy, maybe your neighbours bought a cheap one from China? And yes let your children play outside as they wish, let them have waterballoon fights and playdates. You should absolute not keep your children inside because your neighbours don't like children. If this would be true, you could ask your neighbours to put their hot-tub inside too.....

What an utter waste of resources that would be . . .

You always get someone on these threads who says "But why doesn't everyone buy a detached house?. I don't understand it at all. I live in one!"

I'd stop being an entitled idiot who wants to bully the neighbourhood.

Your neighbours have been more than reasonable boxing in the pump.

However, you want your little darlings to be able to play in the garden and have fun and practise their instruments.

Just how much does that impact your neighbours?

Oh, but your DCs are cute and babbling with joyous fun and laughter.

No they're not.

They probably impinge on any quiet delight your neighbours had in their garden. In fact the hum of the pump probably helps drown out your little darlings.

Well there's not much you can do about the noise from them unfortunately, I think it's something you will have to learn to live with, but I certainly wouldn't stop my children from playing/having fun/making noise in their own garden.

I was going to say hot tubs aren't generally that noisy when the jets are off but if the tub is only half a metre from your house and you're wanting to have windows open in during summer, I can see why that's annoying. If it's interrupting your sleep, I think it's fair to go back to them and see whether you can reach a compromise. I do think if they don't have kids and they have never complained about your's being noisy, they do have a point that it's give and take, part and parcel of living with neighbours.

I’d start collecting windchimes. Big fuck-off windchimes.

We lived next door to a massive pop up pool on one side, another pop up pool on a garden that bounded our front garden and a hot tub right against the back fence.

Couldn't even go out in the garden late at night/ early dawn without some bloody pump running.

Oh and the people with the big pop up pool also had an alarm in the greenhouse that beeped incessantly once it got warm.

We moved, it was hateful. Now live in a hamlet next to a field with minimal neighbours.

Could you get a fountain going.. the sound of running water is very appealing and might disguise the hum

You need a trampoline and vuvuzelas invite all their lfriends