Adirondack Cabins with a Private Hot Tub
Each cabin has its own hot tub on its own deck. What each tub is like, soaking in snow and on summer nights, the safety rules, and which cabin to pick.
Each of the three cabins has its own hot tub on its own deck, about ten road miles south of Malone at the northern edge of the Adirondack Park. Guests bring the tubs up in 80 of the cabins' 253 reviews, more often than the fire pit, the beds or the big windows. This page covers what each tub is like, as the listings and the photographs show it, how a soak changes from a January night to a July one, the safety rules and the manners of a shared property, and which cabin suits which kind of soaker.
What each tub is like
The three tubs differ in style and in where they sit. Each one is on its cabin's own deck, a few steps from the door, and each one is for that cabin's guests only. The descriptions below come from the listing photos and from the pictures a photographer took for the host in fall 2026.
The Modern Pine
The Modern Pine's tub is a square tub with a dark gray shell. It sits at the corner of the deck beside the large screened room, where a set of steps leads down to the lawn, with the woods close behind. In the photographer's picture the cover is folded in half and rests along the outer edge. A winter listing photo shows the open tub steaming in the sun after a snowfall, with snow on the railings and the screened room behind it. Of the three tubs, this is the one guests write about most: 43 of the Pine's 109 reviews mention it.
The Modern Tiny Home
The Tiny Home's tub has a marbled gray shell over dark sides, with a pair of steps up to the rim. It stands at the end of the deck, just outside the door of the small screened corner, and looks out over the lawn to a stand of tall pines. The listing photo shows its cover folded back on a lifter behind the tub, and in the photographer's dusk view from above, the water is lit from inside. A guest in September 2022 called it "the roomy hot tub."
The Aviator
The Aviator's tub is a different style: a light gray tub with angled ridges down its sides and a step beside it, standing near the outer railing of the large open deck. There is no screen on this deck. From the water you look across the lawn, with its smokeless fire pit and Adirondack chairs, to the woods, and in the photographer's dusk picture the water glows blue. The Aviator is the far cabin of the two on its property, and its listing puts the privacy of the tubs most clearly: each cabin there has a fire pit and "a hot tub exclusive to only the guests staying in each cabin."
What the listings say about the tubs
The three listings describe their tubs in different words, and the differences are worth knowing before you book.
| Cabin | How the listing describes the tub | Cover and gate | At checkout |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Modern Pine | "Private hot tub – available all year, open 24 hours" | No lock or gate. The cover has clips: unclip them before you open it, and close and clip the cover whenever the tub is not in use | "Turn temperature on Hot Tub to 95, secure cover." |
| The Modern Tiny Home | In the title and the description, which puts guests on "the spacious deck with hot tub, grill, and outdoor seating"; the amenity list leaves it out | A cover with no lock, and no fence around the tub | The same request: the tub at 95 and the cover secured |
| The Aviator | "Hot tub" in the amenity list, and a tub and a fire pit for each cabin's guests only | Marked as a hot tub without a gate or lock | No tub request on the listing |
Two things follow from the table. The checkout request at the Pine and the Tiny Home to set the tub to 95°F means guests can adjust the temperature during a stay; keep it within the safety limits further down this page. And only The Modern Pine's listing puts the tub's season and hours in writing. The other two say nothing either way, and guests have soaked in all three in the snow: at The Aviator in December 2024, at the Tiny Home in March 2022 and again in March 2023, and at the Pine in several winter reviews.
What guests write about the tubs
Of the 253 reviews on the three listings, 80 mention the hot tub: 43 at The Modern Pine, 28 at The Modern Tiny Home and 9 at The Aviator, the newest of the three listings. That is more than three times as many as mention the fire pit, about 20, or the beds, 22. The tub comes up in every season. Of those 80 reviews, 31 were written between December and March, 21 between September and November, 18 between June and August and 10 in April and May.
A December 2022 guest at the Pine wrote, "The hot tub is amazing and very easy to work." A February 2025 guest there found it "so nice in the winter," and at the Tiny Home, three friends who came in March 2022 wrote, "We LOVED the hot tub in the snow." Several guests describe the tub as clean or well kept.
Not every stay went smoothly. A guest at the Tiny Home over Christmas 2021 had trouble with the tub on a couple of days; a technician came out on Christmas Eve and the problem was fixed. If the tub is not heating, the jets will not run or the water looks wrong, message the host that day rather than waiting until checkout.
Privacy on the deck
Every tub belongs to one cabin, but every property has a second cabin on it. The Modern Pine and The Aviator share one property and its gravel drive, and The Modern Tiny Home shares its property with a cabin that is not one of these three. The Pine's and the Tiny Home's listings say the cabins are oriented for privacy. Most of the guests who mention the cabin next door in their reviews say it did not get in their way, and two at the Pine wanted more distance. A February 2026 guest at the Tiny Home wrote that the cabin next door is close, "but the way the entrance and windows are, there is a lot of privacy."
On the shared property, the sight lines run one way. A December 2024 guest at The Modern Pine noticed that The Aviator's deck and hot tub could not be seen from the Pine, while the Pine's own deck and screened room face The Aviator; on a night when the neighbors had a fire going, that guest felt "a little too exposed." On that account, The Aviator's tub is the more tucked away of the pair. Two cabins, one property explains the layout.
Two more facts belong here. Each listing discloses a doorbell camera at the front door that looks over the entrance and the deck; The Aviator's says its camera covers the entire deck and records video and sound, and the Pine's and the Tiny Home's add that there are no cameras or audio devices inside. So these are swimsuit tubs. And The Aviator and The Modern Tiny Home keep quiet hours from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m.
Late nights and early mornings
The Modern Pine's "open 24 hours" means its tub has no closing time, which suits a soak after the lights go off at Titus Mountain or a meteor watch at 3 a.m. The Pine's own house rules list no quiet hours, but it shares its property with The Aviator, where quiet hours start at 10 p.m., so keep voices low on a late soak, and read the note on soaking alone in the safety rules below. For the night sky from the water, from the moon dates to the meteor showers, see stargazing from the hot tub.
Mornings are the quiet end of the day. The decks look onto woods and lawns, and a September 2026 guest at The Aviator spent the final morning of the stay soaking, with a fawn for company. Checkout is before 11 a.m. at all three cabins, so a morning soak fits before packing, with time left to dry off and close the tub up.
After a hard day outside, wait before you get in. Hot tub makers' manuals warn against using a tub immediately after strenuous exercise, so cool down after a long climb or a day on the slopes first. The ski-and-soak day shows how the timing works around Titus Mountain, and snowmobile cabins covers the riders' version.
Soaking in winter
Winter is the tub's busiest season in the reviews. Malone's January averages a high of 23°F and a low of 4°F, and the village gets about 95 inches of snow in a normal year, 22 of them in January. A family who stayed at The Modern Pine in February 2026 wrote that the hot tub was great in "-30 temperatures." In air like that the water steams hard, the deck boards can ice over, and the walk from the door to the tub is the coldest part of the soak.
- Clear the snow off the cover before you fold it back. One maker's manual tells owners to remove snow build-up regularly so the cover is not damaged.
- At the Pine, unclip the cover first. On any of the three, fold the cover rather than dragging it across the tub or the deck, and never lean or stand on it; one maker's manual warns that standing on a hard cover can crack the foam inside.
- Put the cover back on between soaks, and clip it at the Pine, as its listing asks. A closed cover also holds the heat on a cold night.
- Keep boots or slip-on shoes and a robe by the door, and bring the wet towels in afterward; every cabin has a washer and a dryer.
- Watch the clock as well as the thermometer. Cold air makes a long soak tempting, but your body is still in hot water, and the makers' advice is a lower temperature for any soak longer than ten minutes.
For a ski weekend built around the tub, see ski cabins near Titus Mountain, and the winter page covers the rest of the season.
Spring and fall
Fall is the second-busiest season for tub reviews. September in Malone averages a high of 68°F and a low of 47°F, October 55°F and 36°F, and November 43°F and 26°F, so the nights are cold enough to steam while the days stay mild. A guest at the Tiny Home in October 2024 wrote that the foliage and the mountain views made the tub "an added bonus." The fall foliage guide has the timing of the color. Leaves and pine needles come down on the decks in fall, one more reason to keep the cover closed between soaks.
Spring is the quietest season in the reviews. April averages a high of 51°F and a low of 32°F, and May 64°F and 44°F, so spring evenings are still cool enough to make the tub welcome. Black flies arrive in mid-May and are worst from late May into early June, biting most in the morning and the late afternoon, so in those weeks the tub is best after dark; the bug guide covers what works.
Summer nights
July in Malone averages a high of 77°F and a low of 58°F, and August 75°F and 55°F, and that evening drop is what makes a summer soak work. A July 2022 guest at the Pine found the tub "so nice when the temperature dropped in the evenings."
- Turn the heat down. The safety ceiling is the same all year, and a cooler tub is easier to stay in on a warm night.
- On a buggy evening, the Pine's large screened room sits right beside its tub, and the Tiny Home's screened corner opens onto its deck. The Aviator's deck is open.
- Get out at the first thunder. The CDC's lightning advice is to go indoors when thunder roars, to stay away from water such as pools and lakes, and to wait at least 30 minutes after a storm before going back outside.
The summer page has the rest of the season.
Heat, time and alcohol
The Consumer Product Safety Commission names drowning as the main hazard of a hot tub, the same as a pool's. Its safety alert on spas counts more than 700 deaths in spas and hot tubs in its reports since 1980, about a third of them drownings of children under five, and it links several deaths to water at about 110°F. Hot water can make you drowsy, drowsiness can lead to unconsciousness, and a raised body temperature can lead to heat stroke. These are the rules from the CPSC, the CDC and the safety pages of hot tub makers' manuals:
- 104°F is the ceiling. The CPSC and the CDC both put the limit there. The manuals call 100°F to 104°F safe for a healthy adult and recommend lower temperatures for soaks longer than ten minutes.
- Check before you get in. The manuals tell bathers to measure the water temperature first, because thermostats vary.
- No alcohol. The CDC's advice is no alcohol before or during a soak. The manuals add drugs and medicines, since any of them can lead to unconsciousness and drowning in hot water.
- Know the warning signs. Overheating, which the manuals call hyperthermia, starts with drowsiness and lethargy and can leave a person unaware of the danger, unable to feel the heat and unable to climb out. A headache, dizziness or nausea means get out and cool off at once.
- Do not soak alone. One maker's manual lists bathing alone under the risk of drowning, because too long in hot water can bring on nausea, dizziness and fainting. On a late soak at the Pine, make sure someone in the cabin knows you are out there.
- Pregnancy. The CDC asks pregnant women to talk to a healthcare provider before using a hot tub, and the manuals ask them to keep the water at 100°F or below because of the risk to the baby in the early months.
- Health conditions. The manuals ask anyone with heart disease, high or low blood pressure, circulation problems or diabetes, and anyone on medication, to check with a doctor first.
- Plugs away from the water. Keep anything that plugs in, from a speaker to a phone charger, at least five feet from the tub.
- Find the off switch. The CPSC tells owners to know where the pump's cut-off switch is so they can turn it off in an emergency. Ask the host where it is when you arrive, and call 911 if someone cannot get out. The health and safety page lists the hospital in Malone.
Clean water and hot tub rash
Germs can spread through hot tub water and cause skin, breathing and stomach illness, so the CDC asks everyone to shower before getting in, not to swallow the water and to stay out when sick with diarrhea. If you want to check the water yourself, pool test strips read the sanitizer and the pH. The CDC's numbers are chlorine of at least 3 parts per million or bromine between 4 and 8, and a pH between 7.0 and 7.8; if a reading is out of range, its advice is to talk to the owner, which here means messaging the host.
The CDC also describes hot tub rash, an itchy, red, bumpy rash caused by a germ called Pseudomonas aeruginosa. It usually appears a few days after a soak in a poorly kept tub and is often worst where a swimsuit held the water against the skin. The prevention is to take the swimsuit off and shower with soap as soon as you get out, and to wash the swimsuit after each use, which the washer at every cabin makes easy.
Children and the house rules
These are not cabins for young children. The listings for The Modern Pine and The Modern Tiny Home say they are not suitable for children under 10, all three carry Airbnb's flag that they are not suitable for children and infants, and all three are marked as having a hot tub without a gate or lock. The cabins suit families with children 10 and older and teenagers; family stays covers the rest of that trip.
Children 10 and older soak with an adult there, and two hazards apply to them in particular. The first is the drain. The CPSC has reports since 1978 of 49 incidents, 13 of them fatal, in which hair was sucked into a spa's suction fitting and held the bather's head under water, some of them during games of who could hold their breath the longest. It says a tub with a missing or broken drain cover should be shut down until the cover is replaced. Keep long hair tied up and away from the drain, skip the breath-holding games, and if a cover looks cracked or is missing, stay out and tell the host. The second is heat: one maker's manual says children should not get into a tub hotter than body temperature, 98.6°F, or put their heads under the water, so turn the tub down for a family soak.
Dogs and the tub
All three cabins take pets under strict rules, and an open tub is no place for a dog. Keep the dog out of the water and off the cover, and close the cover whenever nobody is in the tub. The pet-friendly cabins page has the pet rules for each cabin.
What to bring for the tub
- A swimsuit for everyone, since the doorbell cameras look over the decks.
- A robe or a big towel for each person. The Modern Pine and The Modern Tiny Home list towels among their essentials; The Aviator's listing marks Airbnb's essentials item, which covers towels, as not included, so ask the host about towels before you pack.
- Boots or slip-on shoes for the deck, and a warm hat for winter soaks.
- Drinking water for the breaks between soaks.
- A pool thermometer, if you want to check the temperature the way the manuals advise, and test strips for the water.
Which cabin for a hot tub stay
All three tubs are private, and the choice comes down to how you like to soak.
- The Modern Pine for late nights. Its listing is the one that says open 24 hours, all year, it has the most tub reviews, and its large screened room beside the tub is the place to wait out a buggy June evening. Its deck faces The Aviator.
- The Aviator for the more tucked-away tub of the shared pair, on the large open deck of the far cabin, with the smokeless fire pit on the lawn below. Quiet hours start at 10 p.m.
- The Modern Tiny Home for the tub a guest called roomy, beside the screened corner and facing the pines, with the big stone fire pit and a pond trail on the same property. That property is shared with one other cabin that is not one of these three.
A group of eight can book The Modern Pine and The Aviator together and have two tubs a short walk apart; see group stays. For couples, the couples' getaway fits the tub into a slower weekend, and the cabins side by side compares everything else.
Questions
Is the hot tub shared with the other cabin on the property?
No. Each cabin has its own tub on its own deck, for that cabin's guests only; The Aviator's listing says the hot tub and fire pit at each cabin are not shared spaces. Each property does have a second cabin, so keep voices low late at night. See two cabins, one property.
Can we use the hot tub in winter and late at night?
Yes. The Modern Pine's listing describes its tub as available all year and open 24 hours, and guests have soaked in all three tubs in the snow. The Aviator and The Modern Tiny Home keep quiet hours from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m., and the Pine shares its property with The Aviator.
How hot can we set the water?
No hotter than 104°F, the limit the CPSC and the CDC give. Hot tub makers' manuals call 100°F to 104°F safe for a healthy adult, advise lower temperatures for soaks longer than ten minutes, and ask pregnant women to stay at 100°F or below. At checkout, The Modern Pine and The Modern Tiny Home ask you to set the tub to 95°F and secure the cover.
Can children use the hot tubs?
The Modern Pine and The Modern Tiny Home are not suitable for children under 10, all three listings are flagged as not suitable for children and infants, and the tubs have no gate or lock. Children 10 and older soak with an adult present, in cooler water, with long hair kept away from the drain. See family stays.
Do we need swimsuits?
Bring them. Each listing discloses a doorbell camera at the front door that looks over the entrance and the deck, and The Aviator's records video and sound across the whole deck. After a soak, the CDC's advice is to take the swimsuit off, shower with soap and wash the suit; every cabin has a washer and a dryer.
Are towels provided for the hot tub?
The Modern Pine and The Modern Tiny Home list towels among their essentials. The Aviator's listing marks the essentials item, which covers towels, as not included, so ask the host before you pack, and bring a robe for the walk across the deck in winter.
What if the hot tub is not working?
Message the host the same day. When a guest at The Modern Tiny Home had trouble with the tub over Christmas 2021, a technician came out on Christmas Eve and fixed it. If a drain cover is cracked or missing, stay out of the water until it is replaced.
Sources
Facts on this page were checked against these sources in October 2026. Hours, fees and schedules change; confirm before you go.
- The cabin's Airbnb listing airbnb.com/rooms/53628054
- The cabin's Airbnb listing airbnb.com/rooms/41023086
- The cabin's Airbnb listing airbnb.com/rooms/1168252128174283244
- govinfo.gov govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-Y3_C76_3-PURL-LPS51051/pdf/GOVPUB-Y3_C7
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Sources
10 references listed at the end of this page, checked October 2026.
The cabin that fits this trip
From each listing and the owner's description. Every cabin sleeps four with a private hot tub; these are the differences that matter here.
Après-ski themeThe Modern Pine
The listing keeps its private hot tub open all year and 24 hours a day, on a large deck with a screened room beside it.
Aviation themeThe Aviator
The hot tub sits on a large open deck facing the lawn and the woods, and a guest's tip is to turn off every light and look up.
Stone fire pit & pond trailThe Modern Tiny Home
Guests have watched a shooting star and the Milky Way from this hot tub, and the deck has a screened corner and a gas grill.
