to lounge or not to lounge

[metalmann]

any comments on a spa with a lounge would be helpful. I wet teted a hotsprings aria with a lounger. I may buy a vista with a lounge, but never wet tested. I need to give an answer tomorrow without a test. so its either a grandee or vista.

[planetary]

If you really need to decide without being able to wet test, I once read someone say that lounges are polarizing, and can be very different.  If you really aren't sure they're for you (of have tested the specific one you'll get), you probably want to skip it.  I think this is good advice.  But I'm a relative newbie, so take that for what it's worth. 

[Spatech_tuo]

any comments on a spa with a lounge would be helpful. I wet teted a hotsprings aria with a lounger. I may buy a vista with a lounge, but never wet tested. I need to give an answer tomorrow without a test. so its either a grandee or vista.

My opinion is simple on this, if you wet test and like the lounge then by all means get that spa. However, if you don't wet test I always suggest you take the cautious route and go non-lounge.

[Dr. Spa™ Ret.]

Statistics show that the majority of people that buy their second spa, if they had a lounger in their first, do not get a lounger in their second.

Different manufacturers design their loungers quite differently. Some people float right out of them in some, some in others. I couldn't even begin to consider a spa with a lounge without first wet testing it.

[sorebikr]

Statistics show that the majority of people that buy their second spa, if they had a lounger in their first, do not get a lounger in their second.

Different manufacturers design their loungers quite differently. Some people float right out of them in some, some in others. I couldn't even begin to consider a spa with a lounge without first wet testing it.

What he said.  Current spa has a lounger.  While its..."nice"...we'll prob skip it on the next purchase 10yrs from now. 

[jonnyboy2807]

We have had our first spa for a few days now, with a lounger.  We like it well enough for sure when it's the two of us and maybe our teenager, but in a so-called 6 person spa with a lounger (where one would have to be reeeeally close friends to squeeze in 6 at the same time), it turns a reasonable four adult hot tub (one per corner seat) into a three adult hot tube (two corner seats, one end lounger). Maybe we're just too attached to our personal space, but I don't think we're that unusual in not being very touchy-feely with our couples friends. Frankly we intended it to be just for our private oasis anyway, not a socializing focal point, but we've fenced ourselves in if we change our minds about that.

[wmccall]

I'll just add I had a lounge in the first tub, not in the 2nd.  I liked it, but it was the least used seat. Had I decided to buy the same size tub I would have gotten a lounger, but in a smaller tub it eats too much room.

[goose973]

I wouldn't buy something without a wet test. We didn't want a lounger until we wet tested. We found that we really liked the lounge. We use it a lot, although I agree that it takes away a viable corner seat. Not a problem since my wife and I are the only ones in it 99% of the time.

[wmccall]

What he said.  Current spa has a lounger.  While its..."nice"...we'll prob skip it on the next purchase 10yrs from now.

That is exactly what I just did. If we entertained more and were going to be a bigger tub, I probably would have went with a lounger again.  I like it, but only use it about once a month.  My wife never used it.  Our 2nd tub was smaller and a lounger takes up too much room in a smaller tub IMO

[TwinCitiesHotSpring]

all good points here, if your "stuck" on a lounger spa in your mind, a wet-test is a must...3 of my 5 "wet" tubs are lounger models for this exact reason

[TLWR]

We have a lounge in our Caldera Kauai. I like having the different seating options, and to be honest, I find that about 50% of the time we use the seating as intended and the other 50% we sit sideways, or however. Without the bench like lounge, we'd be stuck to sit specifically in the seats, and it would not be as enjoyable for us.

[jonnyboy2807]

After having just finished our first full week in the new spa and starting with the lounger a popular lie-down seat, my wife is already spending more time sitting sideways on the lounger..... so is the teenager....  one week in....

[wmccall]

After having just finished our first full week in the new spa and starting with the lounger a popular lie-down seat, my wife is already spending more time sitting sideways on the lounger..... so is the teenager....  one week in....

I can see that.  My vertically challenged daughter use to sit in the leg section of the lounger.  Our old tub didn't have a cool down seat.  She used it that way.

[Chas]

Is she still working with animals?