Blue Mountains Hot Tub Hours Bylaw for Short-Term Rentals

Short answer

Yes, for short-term rentals. The Town of The Blue Mountains licenses them under By-law 2021-70, and one licence condition is that the operator must not permit use of an outdoor hot tub or outdoor pool outside 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. The same section requires the tub to be covered and secured whenever nobody is using it. All ten Blue View chalets with a private hot tub are licensed short-term rentals, so the soak window at every one of them is 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

What the Town of The Blue Mountains by-law says about hot tubs

The hours appear in the conditions for each type of short-term rental property licence, worded as a rule on the operator: do not permit the use or occupation of an outdoor hot tub or outdoor pool outside the hours of 0700 and 2300. The Town's administrative monetary penalty by-law, 2021-71, lists using or permitting that use between 2300 and 0700 as a penalty item, and the licensing by-law assigns demerit points against the licence for the same breach. Failing to cover or secure the tub is a separate item.

We found no weekend or holiday exception in the text. The rule is a licence condition for short-term rentals; it is not a general rule we could find for a private home's backyard tub.

How the noise by-law sits alongside the hot tub hours

The hours are not the only limit. Blue View adopts the Town's Noise By-law, which prohibits noise likely to disturb the inhabitants at any time of day, and violations can bring OPP involvement and fines. Under our policies, a noise complaint forfeits the whole security deposit. The same licence conditions also require noise monitoring indoors and outdoors.

In practice, a 10:30 p.m. soak is within the hours and still has to be a quiet one; the tub is outside, and voices carry across the lot. Our answer on quiet hours and noise rules covers the evening routine.

Planning hot tub time around the 11 p.m. cut-off

Each tub holds eight people at a time, so a chalet of 14 needs two sittings; start the first one straight after the ski day rather than after dinner. Keep the water at 104°F or below, put the cover back on and clip it between sittings, and leave the last soak for 10 p.m. The hot tub capacity answer has the full rotation.

The clause names outdoor tubs and pools, so it also covers the shared heated pool at 104 Brooker Boulevard in its May to mid-September season. The saunas are indoors: Corona and Stella have dry saunas and Luna and Prima steam rooms, listed on chalets with a sauna, and the noise rules still apply to them.