Hi,
Newbie here shopping for my first hot tub. My wife and I have narrowed it down to a Caldera Martinique, Caldera Tahitian and a Hot Spring Limelight Flair. We've wet tested the Tahitian and dry-tested the others. The Caldera dealer is offering $10,500 for the floor model Tahitian (the one we wet tested) and $7900 for the Martinique. The Hot Spring dealer is offering $8,000 for the Flair, which is a wet-test demo model from a different show room in their network. I have to say that we really liked the Caldera seats over the Hot Spring, and given our layout constraints the Martinique would be our top choice. None of the pricing has been aggressively negotiated yet.
What are your opinions on whether these are good prices? I've come across posts from a few years ago with people saying they got a Martinique for $6500 or $7000, or a Tahitian for $8000, so at first glance it seems to me that these are terrible prices, but I'm sure there are a lot of other factors that play into things. Oh, and all of the prices include the standard cover and lifters, but none of them include optional purification such as ozone or ACE (other than the Tahitian which comes with ozone standard). How much lower do you think I can get any of these guys down to?
One last question .... should I push to get ozone installed? Seems to me that it can't hurt...
THANKS!