I'm Not A Germaphobe, But...

Yeah, I was thinking that you might be okay until you used the term 'other people's filth" I don't think you will be able to drink enough to get that thought out of your head. I know I wouldn't.

I suppose you could always take along a few bottles of vinegar to disinfect the tub before you use it. Although vinegar may not be strong enough for some types of cooties, I guess. And full disclosure, I am a borderline germaphobe. I try to maintain normalcy, but can easily be pushed over the edge.

Bleach spray.

Nope. I don't do hot tubs anywhere. Nasty germ pools.

All I know is that most maintenance men who take care of pools and hot tubs will never set foot in a public hot tub.

I guess I'm thinking more a jacuzzi tub... where it isn't already filled an the water stays in it... 2 different things...

Let me tell you a story about why it wouldn't bother me too much.......

My DH and the guys where he worked, used to play soccer in a Business House League.
Each year, we also went away - all the guys and their families - for a fun weekend and they would play soccer against a company in the town we were visiting.

so this one year we went to a town renowned for its hot springs.  The hotel where we stayed had its own famous spring-fed and spring-heated water. (Debretts Hotel at Taupo).

So we are all splashing about in the warm thermal pool.
And the guys all start talking 'shop' - talking about stuff they know from work.

You haven't lived until you are in a thermal pool, and half the people are microbiologists talking about what is likely to be in the water with us!

so if it was good enough for a group of microbiologists .............

A million times over. I've been banned from them for life after I came home from a vacation with a very very resistant infection in my eye. It took several months, 4 or 5 trips to a specialist, and a ton of very expensive compounded antibiotic drops to eradicate it. The pain was horrible. I won't even go near one anymore. 

Our pediatrician used these same words to describe the baby pool at the pool we used to belong to. It was a well-run club (the Officers' Club at our local Army base), clean, well-maintained, etc. But dd kept getting these eye infections, we'd treat it, it would go away, only to come back. Finally after the 3rd time time the doctor asked me to give her a detailed list of what we were doing every day. (for the 2nd reoccurance she just figured it was the wrong antibiotic that she'd prescribed the first time). As soon as I said swimming she asked if dd went in the baby pool. When I said yes she said they were "cesspools of amazingly yucky things". lolol. She said "I don't need any medical terminology to tell you to keep her out of that pool." Needless to say we stopped going in that pool and dd never had another eye infection that summer.

So no, I wouldn't go in a hotel hot tub.