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AIBU?

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To really want a hot tub in our garden?

74 replies

dinny · 13/01/2008 21:00

dh thinks I am mad but I love them! I want to sit and sup bubbly and look at the sky all evening. am I bonkers?

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preggersagain · 14/01/2008 13:43

i have one of the inflatable variety- it was a godsend when i was preggers with twins and kept getting stuck in the bath!!

I love mine on a really cold night- we tend to not have the bubbles on that much maybe one or two cycles throughout the whole evening! great for girly get-togethers, hot-tub, choc fountain, bubbly and a good film!! All from the comfort of the warm water

Blandmum · 14/01/2008 13:49

We have one. at the time we bought it dh was in massive pain and it was about the only place that he was pain free.

Ours is in the conservatory, which reduces the heat loss and it is very well insulated.

We don';t swing - honest. But we love it, and the kids love it too.

we use the conservatory as a spa room, and have lots of fluffy towels and bath robes. It is fantastic at the end of a long day and wonderful for reducing stress.

TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 14/01/2008 13:50

at thegoat.

I've heard that local byelaws require hot tub owners to have a Burt Reynolds-a-like sitting in it from sundown to midnight.

BroccoliSpears · 14/01/2008 13:58

Aren't they a bugger to clean?

preggersagain · 14/01/2008 14:01

not if you keep the water chemistry constant and the filter stays on and is changed regularly- same as a swimming pool really!

Hot-tub chemicals is on my daily FLY morning routine!

PrettyCandles · 14/01/2008 14:23

So, Goat, what does it say about me that I would love to have a hot-tub, and my idea of a fun dinner party is to do fondue? Oh I love fondue.

TheGiftedandTalentedGoat · 14/01/2008 14:28

are you called abigail?

it doesn't say anything about you pc [vomits @ thought of fondue]

Merlin · 14/01/2008 16:28

Preggersagain - talking about chemicals - have you found anywhere that does them at a really good discounted price?

Goat - and what is wrong with fondue anyway? Maybe not at the same time as being in the tub though

SayNOtothecookieRookie · 14/01/2008 21:46

We have an inflatable one. Doesn't get used too often as our electricity bills were going sky high and we thought the hot tub was the culprit, so it only gets switched on 24 hours in advance.

It's ok I suppose but gets slimy very quickly, luckily as it was DHs idea to buy it it is his job to clean it.

Also its meant to fit 4 people, but you would have to be quite good friends I think.

Oh and there are so many chemicals that I have a shower after I use it so not very relaxing.

I do like the idea of fondue though, we have two completely unused sets in our garage.

SayNOtothecookieRookie · 14/01/2008 21:47

Oh must make DH nervous by suggesting using it for homebirth if I ever manage to get preggers again......

SuzyLondon · 02/09/2016 11:51

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MindSweeper · 02/09/2016 11:53

ZOMBIE THREAD

sod off advertising

SquatBetty · 02/09/2016 11:56

I'd love one but I'd only allow me, DH and our DS to use it so we'd just sitting in a soup of our own pubes and skin flakes rather than anyone else's.

DelicatePreciousThing1 · 02/09/2016 12:07

Aren't hot tubs meant to be a bit unclassy?

DelicatePreciousThing1 · 02/09/2016 12:10

Fondue is retro. It's yummy.

Artandco · 02/09/2016 12:13

Friends in the Alps have one. It's wonderful. It's a self cleaning one so every day it cleans itslef and has filters etc so it stays clean. It's on a balcony overlooking mountains

starsinyourpies · 02/09/2016 12:16

Our friends have one and have been known to refer to it as the 'love tub' for that reason alone I don't want to go in it!!

HuskyLover1 · 02/09/2016 12:17

I can recommend the Lay-z Spa Paris. It lights up and goes through about 7 colour changes. Cost less that £500 for the tub and the chlorine. DH was the one that wanted it, but now it's here I really love it. We are looking forward to colder weather, as it's a bit hot in the summer. We will definitely be in it on Bonfire Night, watching fireworks with Prosecco. :-)

BikeGeek · 02/09/2016 12:29

We've been to a retreat type place with a hot tub and it was great, in the dark looking up at the stars and the forest. Just not quite the same ambience in the average surburban garden which is why I think it's a bit odd to have one.

Balcony overlooking mountains yes, in the back garden looking at the washing line and surrounding houses no.

Buzzardbird · 02/09/2016 12:33

Who started this frickin ZOMBIE THREAD?

Olympiathequeen · 02/09/2016 12:41

It's still interesting!

We have one and the kids love it. Play for an hour at a time. So lovely not to have a chilly piddling little paddling pool.

It's in a gazebo decorated with bunting and seaside things and we relax with wine and tv and music on the IPad in the evening.

EddieVeddersfoxymop · 02/09/2016 12:51

I'm another negative nelly, sorry. Our neighbours have one and I hate it. It sounds like a washing machine in OUR back garden, whining and whirring. Then add the drunken swingers friends, the music and the shrieking and swearing..........

Secretly, I'd love one

Olympiathequeen · 02/09/2016 13:55

Haha. Ours makes no noise at all.

kids and adults not too much and definitely no swingers

Dowser · 02/09/2016 13:58

Used to have one . Paid £1200 from a the Canadian spa company about 15 years ago.

It was lovely but used it more in winter. Too hot in summer

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