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?

@TheKeatingFive

So in the Mumsnet class signifier list, it looks as though hot tubs are more acceptable than fruit bowls in the kitchen but still not as offensive as cake smashes. This is useful information.

Interesting. Are they shoes off households or shoes on?

Asking for Nancy Mitford.

Hmph. You'd think she could write her own letters.

Lazy cow

@TheKeatingFive

Lazy cow

It's not really her fault. You just can't get the staff these days!

You just can't get the staff these days!

They’re probably living it up in the sex ponds. Entitled oiks.

Beautiful clear cold night with a bottle of something and somebody else cleaning it.. perfect - so maybe a good commercial decision.

Conversely i've just gotten rid of mine at home because taking care of it was like having a child and the electricity bill was £50+ a month just to keep it ticking over during the week and 40c at the weekends... plus the novelty soon wears off...

@TheKeatingFive

You just can't get the staff these days!

They’re probably living it up in the sex ponds. Entitled oiks.

(You're killing me here. No spattered tea, but genuine audible laugh.)

I missed the issue with fruit bowls in the kitchen. Do you mean on the counter or on the dining table? Where the hell is it meant to go?

I think I sit happily half way between chavvy and classy. I don't own a hot tub, I don't have a kitchen island, my livingroom is a bit colour matchy etc. But a hot tub is pretty high up on my list when I'm looking at a weekend break in countryside somewhere. Freaking love a hot tub, and I have never had sex in one. It was our number one thing we wanted for our October break as there was unlikely to be any pools (or any other activity) open. The kids love a hot tub!

I get terrible aches in my back and shoulders from sitting at a desk all day, a hot tub sorts me right out!

I missed the issue with fruit bowls in the kitchen. Do you mean on the counter or on the dining table? Where the hell is it meant to go?

It was an old thread, probably two or three years ago now. Someone asked for the class-appropriate place to keep the fruit bowl. In the blue corner, Team Kitchen. In the red corner, Team Living Room/Sitting Room/Drawing Room/Whatever But Definitely Not The Lounge, You Peasant. I don't think a clear consensus was ever reached but maybe someone whose aunt was a duchess set us all straight.

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

@Enrico

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

Where else would we eat our pickled onions?

I don’t understand how you even have sex in one, or in a swimming pool for that matter. Surely there’s just no friction with all the water being pushed in and out, so it ends up being like when doing it from behind and they keep pulling out too far you’re just getting filled up with more and more air?

Can anyone comment?

Also, every time that I’ve been in one, when I get out I always feel like I’ve done ten round with Mike Tyson. Assume the water was just too hot?!

Am I the only one that is feeling a bit blurgh about all the mention of children in them? I do like them and have used them in holiday let's but would never let young children in one, children are not the most hygienic little beasts are they? Do you shower them or make sure they have wiped their bum properly before getting in? If I had one at home it would definitely be a child free zone and I would stipulate no kids in it in a holiday let either.

@Pukkatea

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.

@Pukkatea - I thought as much with hot tubs. Is this the same with swimming pools?

I'd go for a huge, spa bath with jets over a hot tub. Loads cheaper to run and maintain.

But I'd love to have sex with my husband in one at a holiday place that someone else had to sterilise after. 😁

Eugh... I love a hot tub but I’d never have sex in one.....

It was inspected daily that made me think there was often damage to it

They’re supposed to have the “levels” checked daily.

You can fart and no one knows

Do hot tubs stop farts from smelling? (ponders getting one installed and insisting DP sits in it all evening)

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

All hot tub activity was only allowed between 10 am and 10 pm which made me think they’d been big complaints

DP's ex has had a warning from the council about the noise that occurs when her hot tub is in use. She's been told that they will consider a noise nuisance prosecution if they get complaints arising from use of the hot tub after 11pm. We assume it was being used by more than just her.

The average user of a hot tub adds a third of a teaspoon of faecal matter to it

But that doesn't mean everyone shits in them a bit. It could be one person in a thousand that has a massive shit in a hot tub occasionally. (Although I realise I've no idea how many teaspoons of poo are in an average shit, so that estimate may be way out).

@LakieLady

The average user of a hot tub adds a third of a teaspoon of faecal matter to it

But that doesn't mean everyone shits in them a bit. It could be one person in a thousand that has a massive shit in a hot tub occasionally. (Although I realise I've no idea how many teaspoons of poo are in an average shit, so that estimate may be way out).

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. Not literal floating logs bobbing about but what do I know.

It’s not my thing and I’d not have one at home or wish to go in a friends, or even wish one in a Uk holiday let.

However there was a massive one next to the pool at our holiday resort a couple of years ago in the Caribbean. And to be honest, climbing in,, and sitting with a cocktail was lovely.

However I’d not wish to be in one with my mates at home or on a wet weekend in wales..

We have a holiday cottage and don't have a hot tub. We've used hot tubs in the past and after the first day they lose their appeal I think. If you are thinking of getting one look carefully into all the legalities because you'll need paperwork related to the chemicals in the water, etc. It's also a pain to maintain if guests go in covered in moisturiser or fake tan for example. It may be easier to ask guests whether they'd like one for an additional fee, and if they say yes hire one for the duration of their break.

Visualise a power jet washer directed at the butt.

Oh, thanks.