Hot tubs

[Hilly]

Do you think they draw more customers to holiday homes ? Enough to pay for them selves and running costs ? I estimate 1k year just to run one ? Thoughts ?

 

[br jones]

Not very enviromently friendly ,

 

[davidroberts30]

Yes but use solar or other heat sources if you can and market it "green"

 

[Muddyroads]

Can’t see how they would generate enough additional business/income to justify themselves. Certainly wouldn’t entertain the idea for our place as occupancy is already very good, but the market is too competitive to hike prices purely based on having a hot tub.

 

[Gordy1]

We've been to over 30 holiday cottages in the U.K. Over the years (Mostly on working farms) & only one of them had a hot tub, which I was told no body wanted to use it.

 

[Puff]

I was told by the rep for the holiday bookings company I use that a hot tub will increase both revenue & bookings but the aggravation, running costs and amount of care needed is not worth it IMHO.

 

[Clive]

disgusting things IMO

I would have no desire to share bath water with strangers

 

[SilliamWhale]

You have to empty the water every week by law soon

 

[br jones]

You will have to change the water every time you let the cottage, keep washing the bodily fluids out of it ,i rent a cottage twice a year and have never looked for a hot tub .diesease ridden things.you get the chemicals wrong and cause an illness you will be sued

 

[Steevo]

You have to empty the water every week by law soon

What did you decide in the end?

This thread reminded me of the one you started previously......

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/hot-tub.23253/

 

[JP1]

Do you think they draw more customers to holiday homes ? Enough to pay for them selves and running costs ? I estimate 1k year just to run one ? Thoughts ?

You'll probably be inundated with swingers mate

 

[SilliamWhale]

What did you decide in the end?

This thread reminded me of the one you started previously......

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/hot-tub.23253/

Not to bother. Needed to improve my marketing more rather than adding more stuff

 

[Hilly]

You'll probably be inundated with swingers mate

ha ha could get entertaining !

 

[Hilly]

I don’t think we will bother , I think it won’t make anymore money and attract the wrong clientele. I think the market is going to get very tough well over subscribed be some holiday home owning re setting of the market soon.

 

[An Gof]

Who wants to sit in a biological soup?

 

[Hilly]

Who wants to sit in a biological soup?

Not me but It’s my business to try and provide what others want not what I want or don’t.

 

[capfits]

I like a hot tub, and have booked a place because they have one.
This year's was down in Galloway, very pleasant except when the miasma of slurry and effluent wafted over.
Thank goodness I am well used to teh sweet smell of slurry.
The operators did empty every week and in terms of maintenance it was empty and refill, as there was a filter and cartridge dosing system. Their accomodation was excellent quality and they said that the hot tub got the initial word out for them and most of their business now came word of mouth from previous guests. They reckoned the tubs were only used by half of renter's.
Saying that the best tub I had was Himachal Pradesh State in the Himalya, geothermal heated from a glacial fed burn. Funny finding the boiled frogs down river and popular with the Ghadi shepherds. View was not to shabby either....

 

[Fish]

The sort of people that are attracted to let's with hot tubs are not the kind of folk you want in your cottage.

I live about a mile from a large holiday park where many of the lodges have hot tubs, we see the guests wondering through the village. Track suit, tattoos, shaved heads, and that's just the women, if that's your target guest then crack on, if not, forget it.

 

[Hilly]

The sort of people that are attracted to let's with hot tubs are not the kind of folk you want in your cottage.

I live about a mile from a large holiday park where many of the lodges have hot tubs, we see the guests wondering through the village. Track suit, tattoos, shaved heads, and that's just the women, if that's your target guest then crack on, if not, forget it.

Oh god if hot tubs attract them I shall get one , for my own house lol

 

[Chae1]

The sort of people that are attracted to let's with hot tubs are not the kind of folk you want in your cottage.

I live about a mile from a large holiday park where many of the lodges have hot tubs, we see the guests wondering through the village. Track suit, tattoos, shaved heads, and that's just the women, if that's your target guest then crack on, if not, forget it.

I like a hot tub, and don't have any of the above.

I wouldn't however wouldn't want to be in a hot tub after I'd been in it. Remember one stag do we were at, filled it with washing up powder. Never seen so many bubbles.