Except for Kojijoro during women's hours and the general communal tub at all hours, each tub is private and must be booked ahead.

The communal tubs, women's and mixed, are $13, unlimited time; private tubs vary from $25 a person per hour to $18 a person for the smaller tubs.

The Art Village, energized by two ConFesters supported by others, provides a communal hot tub, steam room, massage area, life drawing and ceramics beside a ConFest beach swimming area.

But there was a communal hot tub and sauna, and the apartment was just what we needed, comfortably furnished in a vaguely Southwestern motif.

One night we treated ourselves to a ridiculously expensive massage and an outdoor communal hot tub, clothing optional, under a million New Mexico stars.

She stopped Leeana by one of the big, communal tubs and began helping to unlace her yathu.

Its roof will be equipped with a traditionally Japanese pool-sized communal tub.

One dipped the half shell of a coconut into their communal tub of kava, a mildly narcotic beverage, and passed it to the acting chief, Naiqama Lalabalavu.

Onsen range from naturally occurring outdoor rockpools to large hotel-style resorts designed for guests to cast aside the stresses of the outside world as they soak for hours in communal hot tubs.