If money is not an object, why not have both? However, I find a spa more therapeutic for a longer period of time, since pools tend to be seasonal (unless you live where summer lasts eleven months a year [like my brother-in-law in southern California]). Get a spa with a lot of jets; those are so soothing after a long day.

The most expensive word in owning a home is P-O-O-L. Unless your family is absolutely nuts about swimming and you can afford all the maintenance I'd advise going with the spa. My wife and I love to sit in in the spa in the winter time with a fire in the outdoor fireplace. It's hard to do that with a pool even if you have a cover over it so it can be used year round.

I have to say, I would go for a spa anyday.

Maybe it's the 4,523 as opposed to the 2 laps of a pool that I could do before breakfast, maybe it's that the spa is a far more snuggly place to be with your significant other and a bottle of champers on a cool but romantic night…..

or maybe it's just that with a spa, you can have a swim and shave at the same time!

M