to find it rude when people turn on the bubbles in the jacuzzi, without asking you what you want?

[carlajean]

that's it really. I had a day out at a local spa with a couple of friends. it has an open-air hot tub with room for about 6 or 7 people. we were sitting chatting happily - no bubbles, just still water, when 2 women climbed in and turned it onto the volcano setting, 2 or 3 times, no eye contact, or asking us if we minded. it happened later that day with a different couple. I think they were bloody rude, but is that what people do in spas?

I agree OP, the point for me is not the bubbles (which are annoying), it is relaxing in the hot water.

It is true that hotel and spa jacuzzis are almost always gross and bacteria breeding hot spots.

If you want to bob around in unbubbly water then go to the pool - in a jacuzzi you have bubbles.

I was at a spa thing last week and there was a "hydrotherapy pool", which was a jacuzzi. I did ask before I switched it on, because I do think it's a bit rude not to ask. But I did also wonder why they were sitting there without the bubbles...

hilarious. Love Shatner's analogy.

This is like the thread about the outrage of children playing on play equipment. I had no idea I was wondering about the world offending people left right and centre by activating bubbles in a spa bath, holding doors open for them when they wanted to stay where they were and pressing the button for the green man when they really fancy the red man so wanted to stay and watch him all day.

Maddening, when the pool is hot and has seats then yes, that is a valid alternative.

wandering about the world obv

my goodness, I thought the thread had died and it's going again...

I once stayed in a hotel with a massive Jacuzzi. I put bubbles in it.

They had to evacuate the dining room. oops.

FFs it's like sitting on the bus and being pissed off when it pulls away!

and , fwiw, I was enjoying sitting in a lovely tranquil pool, enjoying the peace, and did think it really odd that the people who got in didn't ask if I minded sitting in a geyser ( or even make eye contact) but I'm happy to go with what everybody is telling me (and avoid spas in future)

Sorry. HOTEL ROOM with a massive Jacuzzi and a hot man in it with me.

Them were the days

at thought of freddie in a jacuzzi with a man in the middle of the hotel dining room. At least the bubbles would have covered your bits

the water ran down the walls and through the ceiling and shorted the electrics. oops.

Carlajean, we found a hot river in Utah that you can go sit in surrounded by mountains and snowy fields. The only bubble are if someone ate chickpeas!

Yabu it a jacuzzi nt a bath

Well I'd say bubbles was natural state of things in a Jacuzzi. So they just switched it on. And I thought it did have to be on for the filters to work properly.

Yabu, it's a jacuzzi, it's supposed to be bubbly.

Not as many as I made Vivienne happy days < reminisces happily>

In my defence, may have been involved.

The "volcano setting" made me chortle, remembering Dad's recounting of his jacuzzi experience on holiday in Mexico; he cheerfully reminisced about his "colonic irrigation in the jacuzzi". I don't use jacuzzis anymore

yabu! a jacuzzi is no good without the bubble me thinks!

where's that spoony? we're heading out that way soon

Yuk...communal bath. Toenail dirt, arse juice...YAK!