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The spa itself is marketed as a four person spa but you'd have to be some tiny ass mufuckers to be able to fit four people in there. You might be able to fit four Sins in there but that's about it, you aren't gettin' four full sized adults in it comfortably. In fact it's not even designed to be able to handle four people. If you put four full sized 150lb adults in there the water will spill over the side unless you keep the spa half empty all the time. I made it so that there's so little water in there for a few reasons. The biggest reason was because I didn't want to have too much water pushing on the lil plastic walls and have the poor lil dude all bulged out. I didn't want the water pressure to distort the lines of the spa. It is, after all, made out of HDPE (High Density Polyethelene), the same plastic that milk jugs are made out of (just a lot thicker). Another big reason was so that there'd be less water to heat up and keep hot requiring less power to operate. It's one of the most energy efficient spas ever made. Another is that it's only 250 gallons. If it gets dirty just drain the damn thing and refill it. It's only like 3 er 4 bathtubs worth of water so filling it uses about the same water as 4 people taking a bath.

Still for most peoples usage it's a really great size. It fits anywhere since the dimensions of it were chosen specifically so it would fit through any doorway. It can be put in any bedroom in a house. It is so small that it needs very little power. It's one of the only spas that you just plug into the wall like a refrigerator. You just fill it with water, plug it in, and turn it on. Most spas you have to wire straight into the box with 220 (of course you can do that with this one too, that's one of the sales options and it makes it so that it heats up in just a few hours (even less if you fill it with hot water from your sink or whatever)).

I sought to eliminate all of these issues when we designed the lid and it's closure system which I did quite well I think. The only thing I didn't like is that I didn't come up with the actual shape for the lid, that was done by Ken. I didn't really like what he did with it. I thought it made it too busy and wanted it a lot simpler. After all we didn't want the spa to be too fancy looking. That was something we needed with the larger premium spas. For example the recesses where the jets go, for the round spa and larger square spas I gave them a really pretty gothic shape. I tried to make it look like the popes hat. For lil guy I made them look as plain and bland as I could. I made them look like a flattened potato chip.

That model had to be downsold anyway. It was getting to be too nice. No way would the dealers be able to move the larger premium $4000 spas when there's one that's just as nice, albeit somewhat smaller (which is actually a good thing for most people) for $1700 sitting right next to it. This, after all, is the lowest priced rigid spa ever produced. The coleman inflatable spa is about $900 list. The price of lil guy actually creeped up to around $2500 list and I think that's where it's at now since Howard kept adding in all these other features and things that just brought the cost up quite a bit higher. Things like the thermoformed side panels and stuff.