Hot Spring® · Highlife® Collection
Vanguard®
The Vanguard is a luxury spa that seats up to six adults. It includes advanced filtration and comes saltwater-ready for the cleanest possible water on the market.
Seats6
Jets42
SeatingOpen
Dimensions7’3” x 7’3” x 36”
Voltage230 V
FreshWater® Salt System — included with your spa
- Delivery and placement included within 50 miles of Mansfield
- Warranty service handled in-house by our factory-trained techs
Why this spa
What sets this spa apart
Massage designed around your body, not the other way around
Highlife® jets aren't just counted — they're chosen and placed by seat. Every seat in a Highlife® spa uses a specific combination of three jet families, targeting different muscle groups at appropriate pressure. It's why a Highlife® with 49 jets massages differently than a bargain-brand spa with the same number.
- MotoMassage® DX — the signature Highlife® jet. Two powerful nozzles sweep vertically up and down your spine, delivering a full-back massage no fixed-position jet can match. Standard on most Highlife® models.
- Precision® Massage jets — targeted, adjustable-pressure jets aimed at specific muscle groups: neck, shoulders, wrists, lumbar. You control the direction and intensity per jet.
- JetStream® jets — high-volume calf and foot jets, positioned where your legs actually rest. This is the difference between “there are jets in the footwell” and a real lower-body massage.
Furniture for the backyard, not a bathtub with jets
Every Highlife® shell begins as a sculpted seat plan — where bodies actually sit, where legs actually stretch, where shoulders actually meet the water. From that plan the shape works outward. The result is a silhouette that reads as intentional outdoor furniture, not a plumbing product in a plastic case.
- Ergonomic sculpted seating — each seat is contoured for a specific posture. Deep bucket seats for immersion, upright seats for conversation, full-length loungers on lounge models. You feel the difference in the first five minutes.
- Clean-line silhouette — no exposed hardware, no protruding controls, no visual noise on the exterior. Just a low, horizontal profile that sits with your patio.
- Everwood® HD cabinet — synthetic wood grain with the look of cedar that won't warp or split, and never needs staining or sealing through Ohio summers and winters. It's the finish you'd choose in real furniture, not a shortcut plastic panel.
Efficient because of how it's built, not because it runs cold
Highlife® spas hold heat with multi-layer foam insulation on the shell and equipment bay — heat that would otherwise escape gets captured and reused to warm the water. The result: a spa that stays at 100°F+ year-round on typical Ohio electric rates for about a dollar a day, without you having to lower the temperature between soaks.
- CircPro® 24-hour silent circulation pump — a dedicated low-wattage pump that circulates and filters your water around the clock. Runs quietly enough for a bedroom-adjacent installation and costs about $0.60 per day to operate — a fraction of what a jet pump uses.
- 100% no-bypass filtration — every drop of water returning to the spa passes through the filter. Many brands only filter a percentage of return flow. On a Highlife®, there's no bypass path, so debris and skin oils don't get to accumulate.
Built to still be here in ten years
Highlife® spas are built by Watkins Manufacturing in Vista, California — the largest premium hot tub manufacturer in the world, in continuous operation since 1977. Every Highlife® shell is warranted for seven years, every plumbing joint for five, and the No-Fault® heater for five. When something does need service, Fun Center's factory-trained technicians handle the warranty work in-house — you're not routed to a national call center or a third-party repair marketplace.
- Made in California, since 1977 — Watkins has been building spas in one facility for nearly 50 years. The engineering team behind Hot Spring hasn't changed manufacturers or moved production overseas.
- #1 selling premium hot tub brand worldwide — verifiable through Hot Spring's dealer network reporting. When you buy a Highlife® you're buying the best-supported spa platform on the market.
- CEC certified — Highlife® spas meet the California Energy Commission's efficiency standard, one of only about a quarter of hot tub brands that qualify.
- No-Fault® heater warranty — the heater carries its own dedicated five-year warranty under Hot Spring's No-Fault® program, separate from the general component coverage most brands lump it into. (Commercial use and improper installation excluded.)
- In-house warranty service — Fun Center's factory-trained technicians handle every warranty repair. You call us; we don't hand you off.
FreshWater IQ Smart Monitoring System
FreshWater IQ constantly monitors your spa's pH, chlorine, and salt levels and pushes real-time status updates and maintenance recommendations to the spa's touchscreen and your smartphone. Test-strip guesswork goes away — the spa tells you what it needs and when.
FreshWater Salt System
A cartridge in the spa converts a small amount of salt into chlorine on demand, on a schedule the spa manages itself. Result: up to a full year between water changes instead of every three months, and no chlorine handling or bromine tabs to buy.
Jet system
Where the jets are
Tap a jet family to highlight it. Counts are the manufacturer's published breakdown for this model.
42 jets total
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