Easter was the busiest hot tub weekend of the year here, most years, and a four-day weekend is the natural shape of a tub booking: delivered Thursday, hot by Friday teatime, collected Monday. The schools broke up, the first mildish days of spring turned up, and the diary filled accordingly. One February half term it ran harder than usual - three deluxe Quattro tubs and five Rios went out on the same round, and Liam and Kane worked the deliveries while Tom and Kate got pulled in for the worst of the days. Hot tub hire is paused at the moment while the fleet changes, so this post is a look back at why Easter mattered to the tub diary, and what happens to the tubs themselves now.
How much did an Easter tub hire cost?
Weekend hires started at £225 for the Thursday-to-Monday booking, which included delivery, setup, the chemical kit and collection. Our delivery round ran on Mondays and Thursdays, so a bank holiday weekend fitted the schedule without any special arrangements, and the water needed the best part of a day to come up to temperature - a Thursday drop meant it was ready exactly when people finished work on Good Friday. We had two Easter hires confirmed by the middle of February one year, which was early even by our standards, and we had turned people away before for leaving it later.
What the bookings were for
That stretch of the diary was full of stand-in celebrations. Hires went out in place of cancelled holidays, for birthdays and anniversaries, and a fair few went out because parents needed something to keep the kids occupied while the schools were shut. There were weeks when the phone carried a distinctly worn-out tone from parents asking after any tub at all, at short notice, because the garden had run out of ideas. A tub with a marquee over it covered a lot of that - the gazebo took the wind off, gave bathers some privacy and made the whole thing usable on a day the weather had other plans for.
Dennis Hancock hired a tub and gazebo from us over a cold February and left four stars on Trustpilot: "Hot tub was great some steps would have helped also both zippes could have worked on gazebo to keep the cold wind out". Fair points, both of them, and the sort of thing you only find out once the kit has spent a February night in a Yorkshire garden with a wind behind it.
What the pause means
Paused hire means there is no reopening date we could give you if you asked, so the hot tub hire category page carries a standing notice with no dates attached. Nothing else on the range is affected - the castles, the stalls and the marquees all hire as normal, and Easter is as busy as ever across the rest of the diary.
The ex-hire tubs
The fleet was built around the Rio 6/8 seater, a rigid-sided American spa with moulded seating for six to eight, hydro jets, LED lighting and heating that holds temperature in all seasons. It ran off a standard 13-amp socket, which is most of the reason it went into ordinary gardens without anyone needing an electrician. As the fleet changes, some of the ex-hire Rios may be for sale. If you have fancied owning one since your last hire, the office number is 0114 345 0135, and the list changes as tubs come back in, so it is worth asking what is on the yard this week. The tub side carried a five-star average across 209 Google reviews when hire was running, which tells you how those hires went. Our delivery crew covers Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley and the rest of the UK, so a bought tub does not have to stay local.
Planning an Easter do instead
If the gathering is going ahead without the tub, the same patch of lawn takes a castle from our bouncy slides range for the children, a seaside funday setup for a bigger do, or candy floss and popcorn from the fun food range. Add the marquee and the guest count stops depending on the forecast. Have a look through the site, add what suits to a quote, and we will come back to you with dates and a price.
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