To not be the appeal of hot tubs!

[BegoniaBampot]

They seem to be everywhere, are expensive and popular. Why do people have them, how often do they use them. AIBU to just not get it, especially living in the UK - not exactly Beverly Hills or the Gold Coast. Most gardens are surrounded by neighbours who can see your every move. Really what is the appeal and which Mnetters have them?

But I can sit and chat drinking wine and listening to music on a deckchair on the patio - what does immersing yourself in water bring to the party??

Pixel. I would start a very smoky barbecue if I were you, and mow the lawn a lot.

Of course water changes get done.

Sparkling, I have been known to do some urgent lawn mowing when they turn up the radio to hear it over the whirring .

How do you drain such a lot of water away?

Using a plug and hose

But, but, how do you actually do it?
I have friends who have friends who invite people for supper and hot tub
So you finish eating and strip to undies and jump in? Not me.
So you finish eating and strip completely and jump in? Ditto.
Go off and change? Into what? Take swimsuit? Bath robe?
Nonononono!

The water is filtered, and you change the filters. Just like a public swimming pool, where the the water is never drained.
I actually do empty mine every year, as we leave the country for two months to go abroad in the winter and I don't the risk of it freezing and damaging the pumps.

We have a submersion pump that quickly gets the water out, quick scrub and then refil. You could sit on your deck and chat/drink wine but in winter you'd be bloody freezing! We use ours more in winter than summer, there's something I love about being all warm but with cold air to breath (maybe I'm just odd).

I bought it for my own pleasure, not to try and impress anyone else, so don't feel the need to try and get everyone to use it to ooh and ahh to justify my purchase.

Do you climb in looking like Don Juan, LayMizz?

Damn, I've earwormed myself

But isn't it a passing phase? How often do you use it?

We use it at least once a week, dc's love it to, so it doubles up as a playroom!

Our daughters are never out of ours in summer...think of it being used as a deep, warm paddling pool with music!!!

The girls & I once spent an unforgettable cold, crisp, winter's evening in there telling ghost stories (we're not overlooked & face woods)...they were OK but there was nearly a very large excretion in there from me!!!

Used to have a pool which wasn't much bigger than a hot tub and we used it with the kids often so not trying to just sneer.

I'd love one. Just been on a break to Reykjavik and spent hours in their hot pools. It was lovely. What's not to like about hot water and snow and nice music and relaxing?

Sorry to disappoint you OP, no it's not a passing phase. I have had mine for 4 years. I especially love it as I am disabled on account of muscle damage in my foot, and laying in the water being warmed and totally supported by the water is bliss. DH loves it as because of his height, he can't lay totally flat in the bath, but he can in the hot tub. The water can be heated to 40 degrees, and that is piping hot.
When it is filled, in the wring, summer, autumn, we use it 4-5 times a week.
Luckily no one overlooks our garden, but I wear bikini bottoms and a vest top.

Why don't you go naked? Nothing like skinny dipping!

And I do think it's a phase (in the UK). Surely folk bet bored with it after a while (most folk anyway).

I don't know out an outside hot tub, nothing against them, but dh and I both have sensitive skin and would dry out. I know a guy who says his eases his joint pain. But I would like a large tub with jets in the bathroom.

Naked, solo/a deux, private. I get that

I've had one ( not the same one) for 15 years.

It have you changed the water in 15 yrs?

Well not me personally but the person I pay to deal with it does frequently.