Waitangi Soda Springs used to be my favourite hot pools.
No longer after the “development”
When it was in natural state it was shallower on the top end. This allowed people to dig a comfortable personal hole at the right temperature.
Now the temperature is hotter and when I visited, I felt it was too hot.

Another faux I noticed was that they had used tanalised poles lining the pools! Tanalised poles have all sorts of poisons including arsenic! Would you line your home spa with tanalised wood?