USA: ”COVID be damned! BYOB hot-tub boat rides booming during pandemic”

Revelers are doling out about $100 per person for 90-minute river cruises in hot-tub boats. They’re riding the second wave — in a hot tub.

Intrepid party people are pooh-poohing the pandemic and soaking up the season aboard the Hudson River’s latest eye-popping attraction: a hot-tub boat.

“We did a nighttime cruise, and we bundled up until it was time to jump in the tubs,” said Jacqui Wimberly, who got steamy with her husband and three girlfriends (who are all part of one quarantine pod) on the boat.

They splashed out about $100 each for a 90-minute cruise with views of the Statue of Liberty, armed with cans of spiked seltzer and beer in coolers — the boat is BYOB — last month.