New HSE Guidance

New guidance, published by the HSE (Health & Safety Executive) this summer, is primarily for those who manage or operate spa systems and explains how to manage and control the risks from legionella and other infectious agents. It will also help service suppliers, designers, manufacturers, importers, suppliers and installers of spa-pool systems meet their legal […]

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Expansion Doubles UK Leisure Living Capacity

Hot tub specialists, UK Leisure Living, has doubled the capacity of its North Wales base with the recent opening of a new hot tub showroom. The new show centre at The Creamery in Mochdre, near Colwyn Bay, boasts between 15 and 16 hot tubs and a swim spa on display at any one time. UK […]

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Keeping It Real – Spa Showrooms

Top retailers know that a hot tub or swim spa sale will typically hinge on the selling experience. Businesses that can successfully demonstrate the hot tub lifestyle in a showroom setting therefore are generally a lap ahead of their on-line only competition. With high-end products and clients to match, showrooms in Loughton and Hertford offer […]

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Pre-Loved Tubs

As autumn draws in and the evenings get a bit nippier, the idea of warming up in a hot tub becomes more and more appealing. As a result, customers are primed to take advantage of the best deals. However, many potential customers might feel that a hot tub is out of their reach, given that […]

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Whale Of A Time

Blue Whale Spas began in 2011, when the company launched with one simple aim, to help remove the stresses of modern life and provide rest and relaxation for clients. The company has gone from strength to strength over the last six years. This summer they moved to their new huge 26,000 sq. ft. showroom and […]

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Weather Watchers

All eyes have been set on the skies as hot tub retailers enjoyed generally favourable conditions for this year’s outdoor show season helping to drive sales to record levels. The warm weather enjoyed in June and July certainly heightened interest in the outdoor living lifestyle and its associated products with many dealers reporting record-breaking sales […]

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Fit For Purpose

A highly profitable addition to a holiday letting, the holiday hot tubs market is booming. According to self-catering specialists Hoseasons, a private hot tub is the number one searched for item on the website, accounting for more than 100,000 searches each month. Now seen as the must-have ingredient in the recipe to holiday booking success, […]

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Bells and Whistles

An East Sussex-based retailer is celebrating becoming a Wellis authorised dealer, in a move that will complement its already strong relationship with Elite Spas. Homewood Leisure is a swimming pool, hot tub and sauna retail and service company, based on the outskirts of the historic town of Rye. By becoming a Wellis dealer, the company […]

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Barn Bathing

When Gerry and Rachel Mee purchased the disused barns on Charity Farm near Shrewsbury seven years ago, they started an ongoing renovation programme to turn the barns into self-catering holiday cottages, which opened in 2014. The site, now known as Burlton Cottages, has since undergone further renovation, with the addition of an indoor pool and […]

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Hot Tub Retailers Set For Record Year

2017 is set to follow in the footsteps of 2016 with another record breaking year for hot tub retailers predicted. Following steady growth in the market in 2016 and early 2017, targets are set be smashed across the board, and some of the industry’s biggest brands are reporting increases up to 30 per cent. Graham […]

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