To feckin hate hot tubs?

[Expectalot]

Well am I? My neighbours have just got oneone. As if it's not bad enough that it hums/buzzes constantly I have to listen to them in it every bloody night!! My only hope is once they realise how much it's costing in electricity they'll switch the damn thing off!

My idea of heaven is floating about on clouds, and as I'm getting on a bit now I'm thinking of having harp lessons - try and get ahead of the game!

Although I'm beginning to question what we were taught at school. 🤔

I expect that the idea that you would have to apply for planning permission to have one in your garden would be something that had some support. You'd have to think of reasons why they could not be installed- neighbours tasteless swimwear could not be one.

@chipsnmayo exactly!

Respect for neighbours seems to have gone out of the window

It's something I would consider when buying a house, if the neighbours had an inflatable one in the garden or a tiki bar, I wouldn't put an offer in. I have had neighbours before who spent nights out in the garden in one making noise and know it would annoy me.

I like a proper jacuzzi in a hotel or holiday let, but the inflatable ones are far too noisy unless you have a huge garden and it's placed out of earshot with neighbours.

YANBU

They are like a big pot of body soup. Gross.

So are swimming pools btw.

I like in a flat so simply invite my friends round to share a bath with me in their underwear

We bought one during lockdown. Kids had been begging for it. Their interest in it lasted less than two weeks.

It now costs a fortune to run even with all of the insulation we've put around it. We never use the bubbles because they are so noisy and you can't hear yourself speak.

Wish we'd never bought the thing.

The only think we use it for now is as a plunge pool on hot days. It's good for that at least.

We intentionally placed it at the end of the garden as far away from any neighbours as possible. I don't think they will even have noticed that we have one as we use it so rarely.

We are going to keep it another year and if the lack of use continues will just get rid of it.

My friend has one and I spent an evening in it recently - my frozen shoulder loved it! I had zero pain that night and slept like a log. It was a revelation...

It would be great to have one for that reason - but really, I couldn’t be arsed with having to look after it, and the cost.

Really not keen, there's more people in a much smaller body of water than a pool so more likelihood of contamination. Yes I know there are chemicals etc for the proper ones but who uses them in the blow up ones?

Dead skin, second hand cream, deodorant, perfume, all sorts in the water from users. Then sitting in that doesn't appeal to me.

Friend of a friend was in a group drunk in one and a woman probably thought she could fart and no one would notice, except there was more than air came out and they all saw it floating around. She admitted it was her.

That made my mind up how I feel and I shall not be stepping into any type of hot tub for the foreseeable future!

Friend (recently) made sitting in her H-Tub (inflatable) kind of unpleasant. She insisted on us scrubbing & showering first, temperature Struggled to be more than tepid & What a stink of chlorine. I wasn't keen to do that again.

I say that as someone who grew up leaping in & out of a redwood one with friends while running around in garden (for ours). Nobody showered first. Who knows what chemicals my mother used but it wasn't a chlorine steam fest. No one got ill from our H-Tub (very popular at parties). I don't think British people do it right...

Two of my boys caught a really nasty skin infection in a hot tub (look up hot tub foot) 🤮 One got the worst diarrhoea of his life after he accidentally swallowed some hot tub water and I got a urine infection after sitting in one at a holiday chalet. Absolutely minging things and I am never going in one again.

Two of my boys caught a really nasty skin infection in a hot tub (look up hot tub foot) 🤮 One got the worst diarrhoea of his life after he accidentally swallowed some hot tub water and I got a urine infection after sitting in one at a holiday chalet.

That sounds ... very unlucky.

Speaking as someone who's used hot tubs without incident for many years.

It was not our hot tub - three other kids who were there got folliculitis afterwards. Absolutely disgusting.

It was not our hot tub - three other kids who were there got folliculitis afterwards.

I'm saying your family's overall experience with hot tubs is unlucky

I find the disdain on here for them very amusing. Have one here and we love it. It is not for friends or kids friends to use just for us and no, never had sex in it. We shower before a use of it and it is clean and hygienic and nowhere near the neighbours although I suspect they wouldnt hear it anyway over the noise of their weekend parties. It is so nice to pop into of an evening and just unwind.

Chavvy Sex Pond. Really grim.