To Want to Know What's So Special about Hot Tubs?

[Pembsgirl]

I own a beautiful holiday cottage in West Wales, and often see people on FB saying that they'd like to rent a romantic holiday cottage for two BUT it must have a hot tub!

Personally I can't see the appeal, so what is it that makes people want them that badly?

ShebaShimmyShake - You are welcome 😂

@BluebellsGreenbells

Lovely warm water of a freezing winters night sound like bliss! I’d defiantly pay more for a cottage with one installed.

Have a look on centre parcs and see the price difference

Why defiant?

I went to a holiday house with friends last November with a hot tub. We alternated between getting too hot in the tub and getting too cold on the side.

I certainly wouldn’t seek one out for a holiday, they’re a novelty item rather than anything I’m actually bothered by!

Why defiant?

Defiant in the face of the massed forces of Mumsnet and Nancy Mitford wielding sheds and fruit bowls, presumably.

I rent cottages with hot tubes because I go hiking or winter sports and when you come back absolutely exhasted and aching it’s heaven.

It’s also just a nice novelty and a bit of a treat

The lower classes like them because it gets them in touch with their yard based tin bath ancestry

Pmsl!

The more I read, the more I realise they're not for me.

By the time I'd taken off my make-up and showered off my body lotion, I'd be too knackered to appreciate it.

But I have a question for the people who have their own. Do you sit in it naked or wear a bathing costum/bikini?

I assumed it’s the jets blasting tiny bits of faecal clingon’s around and about but I could be wrong. Visualise a power jet washer directed at the butt

You make it sound like a giant enema, @Yummyplainscones!

I don't want to bathe in anyone else's bum crack juice.

Ok that’s the one, I’ve officially been put off the idea now!

@LakieLady

I assumed it’s the jets blasting tiny bits of faecal clingon’s around and about but I could be wrong. Visualise a power jet washer directed at the butt

You make it sound like a giant enema, @Yummyplainscones!

Yes unfortunately that’s my thinking to be honest a kind of giant excrement soup / expensive bidet 🤮

For someone with laxity of sphincter sitting directly over a jet may produce quite a bit of unwanted material into the tub soup.

The best ever was a hot tug - sailing around Copenhagen Harbour with a bottle of wine in a hot tub with an outboard.

It's hot tugs that we want to avoid!

Beware don't hop onboard the hot tug...

I love a hottub break. I only book lodges with one, about 4 times a year, and I happily pay a lot more for one as well. I only go with hubby or my son who is autistic & he loves them. It's relaxing after walking all day. I think you're missing a trick & ££££ profit for you as well (even with the faff). If you're not fully booked throughout the whole year if then a hottub would ensure that. There always a big mark up for them but I happy pay the extra for that.

I’ve just watched Goggle box and realised a tug is a euphemism for something entirely less wholesome than a floating bath. Made me smile.

I used to like using the jacuzzi in the gym but then my mum said something about 'filthy bodily fluid stew' and it really put me off..havent been in one since.

I can see from these posts that hot tubs are like Marmite. Why can't we just accept that some people love them, and let them be?
We bought an inflatable one last year because it was a price too good to resist, and we needed some fun in our life. It's up to you if you don't maintain it properly or do stupid stuff in it. We love it. For the pps who called them "naff", or "shit" - well, we can't afford the "real" thing, and what a disgustingly snobby attitude you have!

@oreshina

I used to like using the jacuzzi in the gym but then my mum said something about 'filthy bodily fluid stew' and it really put me off..havent been in one since.

I think they're probably cleaner than pools. People usually go in them when they've already had a swim so they're a bit rinsed (I do wish people would shower before swimming...everywhere asks you to but few people seem to). In my gym, people are pretty good at showering before going into the jacuzzi, especially if they've been in the sauna or steam room. It's situated in the spa area rather than by the pool, which I think helps.

Only our family use ours and we shower before use and it’s cleaned and chlorinated. Am in it on average every other day - exercise shower then hot coffee and book in hot tub is perfect Saturday morning! Feel great after that

How do you know for certain that a hot tub has been properly cleaned between lets? Very easy to squirt some bleach around the top and add some initials to a cleaning log.

Neighbours have one and use it regularly. Family catch up sessions but very overlooked so no one else uses their garden whilst the neighbours are in the tub as it seems intrusive to their privacy (conversation is loud over the sound of the jets). When the parents are out for the evening and teenage friends come over it's a lot less wholesome 😉

How do you know for certain that a hot tub has been properly cleaned between lets? Very easy to squirt some bleach around the top and add some initials to a cleaning log.

I suppose there's always a degree of trust involved that people are adhering to the rules. I would think a chef in a restaurant could do more harm more easily than a lax hot tub owner. I don't know how easy it is to check the filter on those things, maybe that's an option.

We occasionally stay in a holiday cottage with hot tub - it’s part of a group of several each with hot tub. The owner’s teenage son was round every morning to test the tub and top up the bird feeders. We enjoy the tub then but feel no desperate desire to own one.

How do you know for certain that a hot tub has been properly cleaned between lets?

I take your point but I don't think it's a compelling argument - how do you know for certain that anything in any context has been cleaned prooverly unless you actually do it yourself, or watch someone else do it?

In the holiday let they could have sprayed some cleaning solution about the bathroom just for the scent, fabreezed the bed sheets and towels and licked the crockery clean. You don't really know for sure, so you do have to put a certain amount of trust in them.

I have made myself feel very sick describing this imaginary nightmare holiday let. I hope that this doesn't ever happen in the real world...