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?

I like ours. After a long run, I have a shower and then sit in it and soak my weary legs 😊

I check the chemical levels with a little dip test thing. Don't piss myself in there, so I don't see why it's germy. Better than a public swimming pool.

Always it’s a snob thing 😁 brings out the Pearl clutchers.

Absolutely, nothing the pearl clutches hate more than luxury items being available to the masses.

What the MN mafia think doesn’t help you much OP.

There is demand for it, you know that already. You don’t have to understand the reasons why unless you want to, but it’s not exactly rocket science. People enjoy them and on their holidays they want to have a good time.

So yes, they’ll overlook your property for something that appeals to them more. Up to you what you do with that info.

We've had one for over a decade. It's lovely and the grandchildren love playing in it when they come to visit. It gets chlorinated every couple of days and we regularly empty and refill it (which takes a good few hours to do). I wouldn't go in one at a hotel, as I would want to know that the water was properly clean like mine and that the owners hadn't just bunged in some chlorine and hoped for the best.

Thinking about buying a swim spa next year too, as appear to be less hassle than a swimming pool. Anyone got any experience of owning one?

Only filter by hot tub! I wouldn’t go somewhere without one. Perfect way to unwind watch the stars and drink prosecco. Plus as others have said talk to each other no screens 👌🏼

Just came back from a glorious one in west wales. Owners had the right idea as they had the one for guests and then their own private one !

DSis has a cottage she rents out for holiday lets. The letting company told her that she would improve her letting rates by putting in a hot tub. However, since (other than in lockdown) her letting rate is 100% she felt it might be a tad difficult to improve on.

An acquaintance who was abit sneery snooty about ours was waxing lyrical about their holiday rental as it had a hot tub. I said nothing but did this 🙄😁

I love mine, it’s better than a bath! But don’t run it all year round though.,
But although I like the idea of a hot tub on holiday, i would want the water to have been changed before I went it in.

@ShebaShimmyShake

Do people feel this way about jacuzzis?

Is there a difference?

I don't understand all the hype about them either

My SIL who works in the Hotel Industry told me years ago that hot tubs or jacuzzis along with the remote control and the bed covering are the dirtiest things in hotels. With the hot tub its the jets that are difficult to clean and all sorts of dirt gathers there. I never use them since she told me that.

They don't appeal to me.

People are really daft about the germ thing. Where are all these germs coming from?! Most hot tubs have chemicals eg chlorine, just like a swimming pool, to keep them clean. They are completely sanitary.

Too many people are germophobes in any case. Spraying fucking zoflora everywhere.

People are really daft about the germ thing

I know, it’s ridiculous. I’m glad I don’t let fear of germs destroy my enjoyment of life.

Where are all these germs coming from?

Your body? Unless you top up the chlorine in a hot tub roughly every hour, the levels don't remain high enough to overcome what is essentially a bacterial culture not too different from what I'd have used working in a microbiology lab. The average user of a hot tub adds a third of a teaspoon of faecal matter to it. I've cultured from hot tubs before and grown bacteria that would eat flesh in the immunocompromised. They are utterly disgusting, as unhygienic as a toilet.

I will think of this thread sitting in my hot tub later 😁 can’t wait highlight of day. Was fab during lockdown

I love ours. We go in it in all weathers. Chlorine kills any germs just as it dies in a swimming pool.

I’d freaking love a hot tub. Unfortunately our garden isn’t big enough and the trampoline was prioritised.

If we ever move house, it’ll be top of my list. Sitting in all that filth, drinking fizz, I can’t wait.

Inverted snobbery where people say oooh it's nasty, it's a sex pond and especially it's chavvy.

I love a hot tub. If we can afford it we prefer to rent a holiday home with one. Nice to relax in.

We take lodge breaks relatively often and I always filter by hot tubs and dogs allowed. You will definitely be able to charge more and get more custom if you install them. The ones we go to always clean the water everyday and the water is completely changed over before new guests arrive so I feel they are clean. It’s not as if you’d get straight in bed without a shower anyway surely? They are fabulous when it’s cold outside and you can just watch the weather with a glass in hand.

I wish people wouldn’t call others “ snobs” just because they disagree. People might be wrong in their views but name calling is daft. Especially over a bloody hot tub!

And yes it’s equally bad to call people who like them “chavs”

'No idea. I don't want to share a bath with anyone. Yuk.'

Not even your husband or partner?

I wish people wouldn’t call others “ snobs” just because they disagree.

They don’t just ‘disagree’ though.

They start calling hot tubs ‘filthy, chavvy, tacky, sex ponds’ and so on.

If you come on here and say you don’t enjoy them/they’re not for you, then fine. It’s the shitty judgement that marks people out as snobs.

Me and dh love a hot tub and feel it's an added luxury when we go away. We have young dc and it helps us to unwind!