Hot Tub Journal

A wood fired AlumiTub that crossed the Strait of Georgia in the back of a 22 foot boat, was carried up a trail by neighbours, and is filled from the sea at high tide on Valdes Island, BC.

In the hills outside Nashville, LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian set a Standard Hybrid AlumiTub on a platform among the trees, below a new wellness building with a sauna and cold plunge. How they placed it, why they chose the Hybrid, and the ritual it has become.

A Large Wood Fired on the deck of an off-grid island cottage in Minaki, Ontario: filled from the lake, used most summer days, and closed up for a minus 40 winter with a routine worth copying.

Eight wood fired hot tubs on the shore of St. Margaret's Bay, each drained, cleaned and refilled with Atlantic sea water pumped straight from the bay for every reservation. How a small cottage resort thirty minutes from Halifax runs the most demanding tub program we know of.

A new-build cabin on Lake Sylvan in the Brainerd Lakes, designed around a Standard Electric AlumiTub sunk into a teak deck beside a glass-walled cedar sauna. Joel Gaalswyk on building it in, hiding the equipment, and turning it over in 90 minutes between guests.

A mid-century retreat by the river, minutes from the Beaver Valley Ski Club. Why the tub sits on the deck rather than at ground level, and what that solves in an Ontario winter.

A glamping camp outside Golden, BC, where the tub sits beside a sauna and a wood fired pizza oven. Why fire-heated suits a winter property, and what a December opening weekend asks of the insulation.