Hot tubs are hot property. But some serious money – and maintenance – can be required if you want one to call your own.

That’s where Geelong-based business Ember Hot Tubs, which started in 2020, comes in. Its beautiful timber hot tubs are bespoke, woodfired, portable and available to hire.

“It started as a fun concept,” says co-owner Dan Lansdown. “[Was] it possible to create experiences of woodfired bathing that can be enjoyed almost anywhere in nature?” Indeed it was.

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All you need to do is choose your location and book your preferred size online. (There are three on offer: for two, four or six to eight people.) Then, if you’re in Melbourne or Geelong, it’ll be dropped off and set up – then packed up and whisked away, by one of the Ember team.

If you’re elsewhere, it’ll be delivered to a nearby depot for you to set up yourself. Landsdown says one person can assemble it in half an hour – with no tools required. Plus, you can add on a crate of firewood, which will allow for eight hours of heat.

Where you plonk it is totally up to you. Will it be a flash-in-the-pan soak sesh in your backyard? A camping trip with next-level bathing? Or a remote romantic experience?

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