<<Bring me up to date as to your option on the other wet test you did. I'm looking at the same as you but adding the J-365 and J-375. >>
Here is our review of the Euphoria from an earlier post. We did not post a review of the Grandee because we liked the Euphoria much better. We have also not posted a review of Jacuzzi Premium yet because we are waiting to wet test the J-385. We liked the J-355 wet test enough to make sure we wet test the J-385 before making any purchase.
<<I started another thread seeking purchase help from this board after we wet tested the Grandee and J-355 (J-385 was not full). We were advised to look at the Euphoria and a few others. Well, we just wet tested the Euphoria today and were mightily impressed. My wife and I loved the following: we each had a seperate deep corner seat that fit us well, then we could simultaneously each move to a cool down seat with jets where each cool down seat allowed us to rest our arms comfortably out of the water on the spas' shell (more skin comfortably out of the water), remaining seats were all comfortable and nicely jetted vs. too upright or design afterthoughts, tri-zone optionality, good jet power, overall quietness of tub in virtually any mode that does not have the neck level jets going full bore, spa frog seems to simplify water maint, solid warranty and overall look of tub. The only negatives we could come up with were: 1) the lack of a good foot massage station for my wife. The foot massage jets under the filters are too far away from the opposite seat for my wife. The distance is perfect for me, but I don't care about foot massage -- I am focused on back therapy, 2) filter system has only 60 sq. ft of filter area vs. as much as 325 on the Grandee (not sure I know enough to claim this to be an informed criticism), and 3) dealer is an hour's drive away (not the dealer's fault, of course). We did not miss the padded pillows and liked the no maint. aspect of the formed headrests.
A few questions for the Marquis experts out there:
If we buy a Euphoria, is the any difference between a standard Euphoria and the SA Euphoria? and any reason we should target one vs. the other? (Based upon the pictures on Marquis' web site, I believe we wet tested the standard model -- forgot to confirm in the store).
Any reason to have any concerns about the filtration system square footage or any other aspect of the cleaning system?
What would be a fair price for a standard or SA (any difference?) including the usual items such a delivery, cover, lifter, steps (what else is normally included?)? How much of price difference should we be offered to accept an 04 vs. waiting for an 05, which we have no problem doing since we are under no pressure to buy on any particular timeline? The thread about the 05 Marquis upgrades seemed to include a few useful items, especially the maintenance interval alerts (water change, filter clean, etc.) and the floating remote.
We still intend to wet test the Sundance Optima, but we are pretty excited about the idea of a Euphoria at this point. >>