Now for the description of the tent application and portable inflatable hot tub.
We take frequent trips to the beach and occasional longer trips to woodland camping and lakes for a kayaking/camping trip. If we are going to be there for at least a week, in the last couple of years we would take a tub and tent. The tent is slightly larger than the tub base about 9ft and has several zipscreens for airflow. There's just enough room for a little folding camp table inside.
Location does matter for positioning and wind protection. The beach setup is harder but because of wind forces. JBee we aren't camping directly on the beach with the tub, although we do beach camp occasionally. Lately we've been fortunate to have several weeks' condo camping in our timeshare directly on the beach. That's not exactly roughing it, but there's no hot tub there, and we enjoy walking the beach early and late and a nice hot tub in the evening and early morning. Just walk down the stairs au naturale into the privacy of ones own.... Tent spa. I enjoy Old Rasputin Russian imperial stouts and he likes Boston Black chocolate warmed to tub temps. Couple that with yummy snacks and a little sound cube and appropriate playlist for the weather and you have the experience of luxury spa or exciting hurricane.
At the beach the tent was positioned at the base of the private stairs up to the condo, on the parking pad. A regular water hose to fill, although setup was unfortunately fairly excruciating for the Tanman due to the challenges of inflation... but he likes the idea more than the backache, and we sit in the tub at all hours. It makes for a great craft beer warmer too. The only problem with beach is that the last three times we setup for the week we had storms and gale force winds, which is quite hard on the tent.
In the campgrounds we set up the tent like a regular tent with the tub inside, and hook up to a water source with a hose. In both scenarios the hardest part is draining which takes several hours (like draining a fish tank) when inside a tent as opposed to open plug wash on the outdoor pad at the Nest.
Since I am such a water baby these variations on water bathing are actually quite important to my psyche. There is a very cool place in Colorado (naturist area) that is a special place for us that has several high altitude natural pools. He took me there on one if our first trips and I was totally hooked. It has almost everything I enjoy, (no large water for kayaking) but high vistas and geology and caves and hot pools and awesome night sky and remoteness and interesting history from mining eras. It's a challenging hike up the mountain but then a series of pools at different heights from top to bottom. We have been there in winter and summer. Again pics to post when I know how to do that here. That location and Lake Ouichita are my faves.
