Very Large Hot Tub Advice

[marq]

First post, lots of great information.

New house and starting to make plans for the summer deck project. In our prior house we had a 8' spa and the kids used it more for a pool than a spa, in fact it was rarely used as a spa. We now live in Michigan so due to short season not intersted in a pool but thought a large spa or even some type of small boxed pool that we could integrate into the deck to splash in on thoes few hot summer days would be nice.

Was looking at a couple of items from Dimension spas, one is a a exercise spa but understand that is around $15K. they also have a large 10' spa but again not sure I want/need all of the jets.

Anyway, intersted to hear from everybody on any known products?

[spatech (the unreal one)]

First post, lots of great information.

New house and starting to make plans for the summer deck project. In our prior house we had a 8' spa and the kids used it more for a pool than a spa, in fact it was rarely used as a spa. We now live in Michigan so due to short season not intersted in a pool but thought a large spa or even some type of small boxed pool that we could integrate into the deck to splash in on thoes few hot summer days would be nice.

Was looking at a couple of items from Dimension spas, one is a a exercise spa but understand that is around $15K. they also have a large 10' spa but again not sure I want/need all of the jets.

Anyway, intersted to hear from everybody on any known products?

I'm not sure if you're looking for just a large spa or some type of swin spa but here is a list of what many consider to be some of the top spa makers in the industry (in no particular order). I'd start by looking at these sites to see what might interest you. These links should put you at the dealer locator sections of their websites where you can enter your zip code to see who is local to you:

http://artesianspas.com/main/dealer_locator.asp

http://www.hotspring.com/index_spas_hot_spring.html

http://www.calderaspas.com/Locator/index.html

http://www.arcticspas.com

http://retailer.sundancespas.com/Retailers/index.php

http://www.jacuzzi.com/products/

http://www.marquisspas.com/locator.asp

http://www.dimensiononespas.com/findadealer.asp

[thestallion]

I am not saying they are the best quality but can be bought for a very good price when compared to others and they should be decent are the Diamante large swim spas. If you find a dealer who wants to work with you should be able to by one for less than 12 grand and by the way I do not think you will be close to 15 for the D-1, great product but I think you will be close to 20 for one.