Hot Tub, Spa, Swim Spa. What is the difference?
All use heated and treated water and jets to relax, soothe or provide a luxury massage.
- Hot Tubs are self-contained, portable units, requiring only filling with treated water and connection to an electricity supply.
- The term Spa is derived from the word for a curative spring or well and came to be used for locations where these were found. It is now used to describe any premises where treatment using heated water and jets is provided. By extension, the word has now become loosely used for any body of heated water with jets for sitting in but not swimming, whether portable or not, and is often used as another name for hot tubs.
- Swim Spas, also known as exercise pools, are considerably more ambitious. Effectively, they are swimming pools and spas combined. You can exercise vigorously, swim against the current - or just relax luxuriously.
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