Jerry Troeger, owner and operator of the Bonita Nudist Resort in New York state as well as a contributing writer on this site, adds some interesting points to our previous piece The Hot Tub: Social Incubator. Over to you, Jerry…
As club owners, we agree that the hot tub is a true social incubator. We see it all the time and we agree that it is a popular meeting place.
However, there is a hitch here that you didn’t mention. Being a commercial tub as opposed to a privately owned unit, the rules change drastically. In the State of New York there are recommended time limits as to how long it is “safe” to remain in the tub, that being 20 minutes, arbitrarily. We are required to post this regulation, among others, conspicuously in the hot tub area. We are also required to monitor our guests periodically and enforce the rules when necessary. Failure to do so can result in potential health hazards and major legal liabilities for us should the unthinkable happen.
So if you want to be the most unpopular people in the campground, just tell happily socializing guests that they have been in there too long and see what happens. You will go from owner to ogre in fifteen seconds or less.
There is an alternative, however. It is called a “Conversational Tub” and it has a lower temperature limit of 100 degrees F as opposed to 104 or 105, is larger, shallower and has no water jets. Here, guests can socialize until their fingers wrinkle with no fear of management spoiling the fun. There is one in our business plan in the forseeable future. We still don’t think alcohol fits into the mix very well but at least no one will have to watch the clock. After all, isn’t this one of the reasons we get nude in the first place?
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