BETTER WARRENTY for starters. Ease of portability, I guess they assume people are going to pay for Conveniece and sad to say, they do. If you're looking for a 110v tub to just plug and play and not caryt around all over the dreammaker is cool. Alot of my customers who purchase SOFT TUBS will cart them to thier cottages in the summer and back home in the winter. Unless they have a 4 season cottage. One of my freinds bought a dreak maker, the nice thing about them is you don't have to replace the liner like you do in a soft tub. ($600CAD) The dreammaker if you scrathc it or crack it you can fix it with a torch! AHAHAHA No lie! Seen it done....YES!! It thins out the shell and you have to be carefull but its amazing!