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

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Pembsgirl · 22/09/2020 19:21

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?

OP posts:

Susannahmoody · 23/09/2020 02:39

Ugh god no

Imagine cleaning one 😱

Southernsoftie76 · 23/09/2020 02:51

Yuck no, I don’t care if they are chlorinated they are still giant cauldrons of dead skin and pubic hair soup.

alwayscrashinginthesamecar1 · 23/09/2020 02:51

I've got one integrated in my pool ( I'm in Australia, so this is not posh). Its bloody bliss sitting in it with a glass of wine after a day at work. Its perfectly clean and no-one has sex in it, so all the quips about sex ponds etc don't apply! . I've also managed never to get chlamydia or legionnaires disease either!

seayork2020 · 23/09/2020 03:05

We would not rent a place with a hot tub really, DH calls them warm petri dishes and I am not a fan.

seayork2020 · 23/09/2020 03:14

I will add all I want in a rental is basic things in the kitchen (a list of what you include or not is helpful so people don't bring stuff you already have there) and not too complicated things like fancy coffee machines, complicated washing machines, weird heating requirements

If you need to read a manual to use something it is not what you want on holidays.

I don't want expensive just decent towels, bedding, tv 'normal' things

1forAll74 · 23/09/2020 03:56

A neighbour of mine had a hot tub years ago, and she said her kids and some of her friends peed in it, as they couldn't be bothered to go and use the nearby downstairs toilet.

alwayscrashinginthesamecar1 · 23/09/2020 04:09

1for All74, I would say its your neighbour and her feral kids that are disgusting, not the hot tub!

TitsOutForHarambe · 23/09/2020 04:15

I never understand these threads. I have never had the misfortune of being in a hot to that someone hadn't bothered to clean and maintain properly - is it a common occurrence that I have somehow been spared? Obviously if you don't clean them they would be gross, but so would pretty much anything if you never cleaned and maintained it.

ShebaShimmyShake · 23/09/2020 04:20

Are they worse than swimming pools, then? Is it a common occurrence for them not to be cleaned and maintained properly?

notangelinajolie · 23/09/2020 04:28

Hot tubs are sex ponds full of bodily fluids.
So no need to guess which way I voted on this one.
Grim. Not proper adjectives but vileness and eww also spring to mind.

DanaScully53 · 23/09/2020 04:36

Our neighbours put one in a shed about 20ft from our living room. Constant humming and then them shouting to hear each other over the jets. And the smell......

DanaScully53 · 23/09/2020 05:03

Hit post before finishing....
We call it their germ pool. So no, not something I would use even if it was there and would probably avoid a property with one. Each to their own though.

alwayscrashinginthesamecar1 · 23/09/2020 06:05

Yes I don't get the germ thing either! My hot tub is clean, because, err, I kept it that way. It's not difficult! I keep my pool clean too, but no-one calls that a germy sex pool! And my tub isn't a sex pond either, because , as previously stated, no-one has sex in it. Mumsnet is very weird about hot tubs.

MsTSwift · 23/09/2020 06:28

Always it’s a snob thing 😁 brings out the Pearl clutchers. Yes if you had an unmaintained uncleaned one used by multiple guests it would be grim - but then so would anything!

Wouldn’t be without ours one of our best investments ever.

NoIDontWatchLoveIsland · 23/09/2020 07:38

I like hot tubs.i also like hot baths & I like to soak in them a long time. Its sociable to sit with others soaking. There is nothing sexual whatsoever about it, I never understand where that comes from. Most men, the water is too hot for them to really get going in that way lol.

nosswith · 23/09/2020 07:41

I agree with the OP that they are nothing special and a good hot bath is just as good. Personally I prefer a sauna as a way of relaxation but they are difficult to find in the UK in normal times, and almost none agree with the continental way of a sauna, without swimwear.

CherryPavlova · 23/09/2020 07:44

What people do in their tubs that make them full of bodily fluids? We’re continent and rarely vomit.
Our hot tub has no chlorine. The water is tested daily. Do people not go in the sea?

Ludo19 · 23/09/2020 07:47

I personally think they're tacky. Seems to be a must have. Don't fancy sharing a bath kinda grown out of that by the time I was 3!

HeronLanyon · 23/09/2020 08:00

Is it something about place and setting for me I wonder ?
Eg if I owned a remote log cabin on a lake in say Canada or Finland (and by some miracle there was electricity - doesn’t fit with this fantasy because ‘my’ cabin wouldn’t have electricity I think) I can definitely imagine a tub of hot water outside (for my use only obvs) being magical.
It’s the thought of trying to replicate that in an overlooked suburban garden or holiday cabin surrounded by others and used by strangers that just completely turns me off.
(Back to my Finland fantasy)

ShebaShimmyShake · 23/09/2020 08:02

Do people feel this way about jacuzzis?

Browneyesbigbum · 23/09/2020 08:03

If spotlessly clean then great.

My friend got in one with 5 others and said when she came out she was covered in skin from someone else (or if could have been hers - how could she tell)

Not my thing swirling around in a bath with multiple others - although I suppose chlorine. Swimming pools are at least larger

Dozycuntlaters · 23/09/2020 08:07

Love my hot tub, can't see what's naff or chavvy about them at all. I maintain mine well, it's perfectly hygienic and brilliant in the morning to rejuvenate you and great in the morning for relaxing you. A lot of inverted snobbery going on here.

Roowig2020 · 23/09/2020 08:09

I have a hot tub. We all love it! Saved us during lockdown.

For reference:

We don't pee in it
We don't have sex in it
My dh spends 2-3 minutes each day (big wow) checking chlorine and ph levels then adding whichever chemical is needed
We only use it for ourselves
We have a big garden and it's away from our boundaries
We're out of it by 9pm latest- we rarely use the bubbles

It is lovely lying in the evening with a glass of wine looking up at the stars and great for the kids to use as an alternative to a paddling pool in hot weather (we just lower the temperature).

If I were going away to a cottage etc I would want one as I know we would use it- especially in cooler weather.

HeronLanyon · 23/09/2020 08:10

Despite the fact that I may be one in this issue why is it inverted snobbery ? I can see it might be snobbery. I hope I’m not being a snob about this - my dislike is very real and nothing to do with how things would seem to anyone else. Really strong personal aversion.

Ellapaella · 23/09/2020 08:11

I love a hot tub and it's a real selling point for a holiday rental for me. The kids love them too. Nothing nicer than looking out at the stars while relaxing in the hot tub.
However there is nothing more disappointing than a hot tub that isn't hot enough!

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