Waikiki hot tub artesian

[Icychaos]

I have a chance to buy a year old hot tub for 3500--4000. I've been looking at buying a new Sundance but of course they are costly.

My question is about the brand. Is this hot tub decent or close to the low end Sundance at least? I don't know much about the brand and hate to be buying a 1500-2000 type hot tub that would give me problems.

I'm going to test it filled with water heated and jets running. I truly think they are selling for financial reasons.

[Jacuzzi Jim]

 Artesian builds a nice spa. And yes as good as the Sundance in many ways.

[Sam]

Yeah, that's in their Tropic Seas line which is not as good as their real Island Spas line, but still a decent hot tub.  That price is good if it fully functions.  I would definitely consider it.

[Icychaos]

Thank you both. I went ahead and purchased it to be delivered on Friday. Biggest downside is warranty doesn't transfer but they seem to have reasonable service calls. Its a gamble but everything tested and worked out when I saw it.

[Icychaos]

I plan on cleaning it and buying a brand new filter for it. Is it okay for me to run chlorine in this tub for now? He was using bromine but I bought a bucket of 1" tablets a month ago for my coleman blowup. I've been using chlorine in that for over a year without problems.

[bud16415]

That’s not the type of chlorine you should be using. The tablets are made for cold water pools and are trichlor what you want to use is a granular called dichlor. The trichlor releases too fast in the hot water in a spa.