AquaRest Discover AR150 Hot Tub Review: Super Soaking

You’ll privation to marque definite that you person a bully level abstraction that tin grip the thousands of pounds a afloat blistery tub weighs earlier you spot this happening there: it’s not light, and it perfectly shouldn’t beryllium placed connected an unreinforced platform oregon a raised patio you don’t privation sagging into the ground. My determination was disused and precise astir level, with pavers implicit sandy ungraded that tin instrumentality the weight. Make definite you analyse this earlier adjacent considering a blistery tub.

The lone existent assembly, isolated from making definite you person capable powerfulness (either a modular 120V circuit oregon 240V dryer outlet volition work, with 240 being noticeably faster to heat), is installing the lid. It’s a mean flip-top benignant blistery tub lid with foam insulation. It comes with drillable clips truthful that you tin marque definite it stays unafraid connected windier days.

The tub has 12 jets and 4 wide seating positions, with a communal footwell for everyone to stock erstwhile inside. It’s a spot choky with larger folks, but you tin beauteous comfortably acceptable 4 adults successful the tub, and precise easy acceptable 2 (and a baby, my woman and I discovered, if the temp is debased enough).

Controls are elemental buttons connected the broadside of the tub, with a temp readout that tells you what the existent temp is, with the acceptable temp adjustable by arrow keys, arsenic good arsenic the tiny spa light, and the jets.

The jets themselves are easy turned connected and disconnected with said switch, unless the spa is heating, astatine which clip they stay connected to circulate the heated water. You tin set however beardown the bubbles are with clever small knobs connected apical of the tub rim adjacent to the cupholders (essential for a blistery tub).

Hot Tub Life

If you’re a caller blistery tub buyer, it’s fundamentally arsenic casual arsenic filling up the tub, past waiting the 24-ish hours it takes to vigor up h2o to your desired temperature. I acceptable the tub to its maximum 104 degrees Fahrenheit for a due vigor soak, and it took a spot implicit 24 hours to vigor the tub from tap-cold h2o connected 120V successful the mediate of winter. Your mileage volition vary, but program connected a time oregon 2 until it’s decently rocking.