Is a 6 Person hot tub the right size?
Posted by
Dan Ried on Tue, Feb 07, 2012 @ 01:59 PM
When shopping around for a new hot tub, it's important to keep size in mind for many reasons. Mainly you want to make sure the hot tub will fit you and your site. I'll explain why these things are important to remember when buying and researching your big purchase.
Most people don't screw up on the first part. It's easy enough to figure out how much room you have on site. Just break out the measuring tape on your patio, concrete pad, or deck and you're good to go. One thing people do tend to overlook is height. A 6 person hot tub, can reach to over 40 inches in height. You gotta just make sure you have room. Easy enough right? Well, thats only the half of it.
The spa has to fit you too! One issue people run in to is the whole 6 person hot tub, 4 person hot tub, etc. naming conventions. Try to ignore these conventions as much as you can. They are mainly used as marketing tactics to make you think you can fit more or less people in to a particular model or category size. You cant go wrong with corner to corner measurements. Make sure you get those. Don't listen to some guy say you can fit 6 people in a 5 by 7 hot tub. It just doesn't happen.
If you want to fit 6 people comfortably, you gottta go at least 7ft x 7ft. Also try to get measurements of the foot well. Some models have plenty of room on the seats and benches, but then you look at the foot well and say no way! Think about it, theres 12 feet to fit in there!
Get a nice 6 person hot tub with plenty of foot and leg room, make sure you've got enough space on site to place the hot tub, and measure measure measure!!!
Check out this example of a 6 person hot tub with sitting room, leg room, 6 person in size, and plenty of bang for your buck!