Collection: Spas

The Pros

Low Maintenance - If you opt for an in-ground hot tub, you 're basically signing up for year-round maintenance. Not so with an inflatable hot tub. If you choose to run the tub for only a few months of the year, you can simply pack it up at the end of the season and forget about it until you 're ready to bring it out again next year. And when you do need to do a little maintenance work, it 's made all the simpler by the replaceable filters and floating chlorine dispenser that take care of the water cleaning and treatment for you.

Affordability - Inflatable hot tubs are cheap as chips and twice as delicious. As Cost Owl notes, most custom in-ground spas will cost you anything between $15,000 and $20,000, while a prefabricated hot tub will lose you between $3,000 and $8,000. A no-frills inflatable spa, on the other hand, is likely to cost you no more than around $500. Sure, you might lose out on some of the more luxurious features of an in-ground option, but if it means you save up to $19500, are you really going to quibble over a few bubbles?

Convenience - If you want convenience, convenience is what you get with an inflatable hot tub. As hottubownerhq.com rightly notes, going the inflatable route will let you pack up your hot tub and store it in the garage or shed whenever you need to use the yard for something else. Assembly is just as easy as disassembly - if you have a lot of common sense or the ability to read a basic instruction manual, you 'll have it up and running in no time.

Comfort - Inflatable tubs may lack some of the bells and whistles of other, more expensive options, but they more than make up for it in comfort. Despite being sturdy, inflatable tubs are gorgeously plush (and definitely more so than the hard plastic or concrete that goes into other types of tubs), allowing you to sit back in comfort and luxuriate.

Indoor and Outdoor - Remember when we mentioned how portable an inflatable hot tub is? Turns out, it 's even more so than you probably imagined. As well as being able to travel between houses, inflatable tubs are also designed to travel between outside and inside. Granted, you 'll need a pretty sizable house to be able to stick a hot tub in your living room, but if you do, a world of opportunity awaits.

Portability - Buying an inflatable hot tub means you 're not restricted to taking spas at home. Wherever you go, the hot tub can come along for the ride. If you want to spread the hot tub love with family or friends, or have a second home without its own tub, the portability of the inflatable hot tub will suit you a treat.

So, should you buy an inflatable hot tub? Really, there 's no right or wrong answer. Some people will always prefer the comfort and advanced functionality of a prefab or in-ground option. On the other hand, anyone looking for much the same experience (minus the bells and whistles) with huge cost savings and superb convenience would do well to add an inflatable hot tub to their wish list.