Those waiting to marinate in Canada’s largest hot tub might want to take a time machine to March 11 – no it’s not a corny bro-flick, but just the promise of the opening of the Minoru Centre for Active Living in a little more than a month.

The claim of having the largest jacuzzi in the country is just one of many improvements coming to downtown Richmond leisure services – the new centre doubles the size of the current seniors centre and the surface area of the water is 60 per cent more than existing Minoru pool.

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The pool has two 25-metre lap pools, a leisure pool, two hot pools, two saunas, a steam room and a cold plunge pool. The fitness centre is 8,500 square feet in size.

The centre’s opening is more than a year and a half later than previously expected, but city staff say it’s still on budget, with the final cost coming in at $79 million.