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Lounge or no lounge???
If you've tried a tub with a lounger and liked it then get one. It may take the place of a couple of seats but its there when you want to use it. My tub has a quasi lounger and I use it but very infrequently. But it is there for the times I want to use it.Looks like the J480 Jacuzzi has both a lounger and foot dome ... Win/win!
When we were looking for our tub I really wanted a lounge. We were in a unique circumstance in that we had a size and weight restriction on any tub we could get (our tub was going on a roof deck) so it really limited our selection. We narrowed it down to either the Jacuzzi J-335 (with a lounge) or the Jacuzzi J-345 (without a lounge). We wet tested and sure enough both my wife and I floated out of the lounge in the J-335. We also just found the J-345 to be a more comfortable tub. So we went with the J-345 and we really do like the tub. Something I didn’t think I’d like were the foot jets, and now I’m really glad we have them. I do find myself still stretching out in our tub, so I can still do that without the lounge. And with the same size tub, without the lounge, you get a little more variety in seats and the jets in those seats. All that being said, if I could have had a bigger tub, I probably would have gone with a loungeI thought one salesman I spoke to had a unique way to figure it out. He asked if I liked lazy boy recliner chairs. When I said yes, he said then you probably want a lounge in your hot tub.