Funboy Clear Pink Heart Inflatable Pool

What Funboy Is (and Isn't)

Funboy is a Venice Beach DTC brand whose entire identity is luxury pool floats and inflatables. Their floats and pools have been featured by Apartment Therapy multiple times and shown up on Instagram in the hands of Khloé Kardashian, Sofia Vergara, and a meaningful chunk of the influencer pool-day economy. The Clear Pink Heart is one of their best-known SKUs: a 99-dollar heart-shaped inflatable pool in custom clear pink PVC. This is not a competitor to the Intex Easy Set on swim depth — it is a different product category entirely. Buy it if the aesthetic matters; skip it if you want maximum water-per-dollar.

Setup and Inflation

Funboy's marketing claim is two-minute inflation, and the product page repeats it. Buyer experience confirms it with an electric pump — the single chamber design (well, double-stacked but interconnected) means once the valve is open and the pump is running, the heart pops into shape in well under two minutes. Mouth inflation is technically possible but tedious — plan for 8-10 minutes if you have no other option. Funboy ships the pool with a sticker-applied drain plug; remove it carefully before first use. The ground requirement is lower than for ring pools — the heart sits stably even on a flat patio.

Design and Aesthetic

This is the part where the Funboy earns its premium. The custom 2020 clear pink material is meaningfully different from generic PVC: water inside the pool refracts the pink wall, creating a glowing effect that looks like the pool itself is illuminated. Refinery29 features the Funboy heart pool repeatedly in their summer-essentials shopping coverage. Apartment Therapy notes that Funboy occupies the luxury tier of the pool-float market and that its designs are 'approved by celebrities like Rihanna and Khloé Kardashian.' For a pool-party host or a content creator, the Funboy delivers a finished aesthetic that no Intex product matches.

Real Capacity and Use Cases

Funboy describes the heart as fitting 'two adults or multiple kiddos.' In practice, two adults sit knees-up with shoulders touching, and three to four kids can splash comfortably. The pool's water depth is shallow — roughly 8-10 inches at typical fill — so this is a cooling-off pool, not a swim pool. The clever secondary use is as a ball pit: empty the pool, fill it with plastic ball-pit balls, and you have a play structure for kids that converts back to a pool in five minutes. Funboy markets this dual-use explicitly and many buyers report it as the feature they didn't expect to value.

Build Quality and the Funboy Quality Question

The Funboy Clear Pink Heart's product page carries a 5.0-star average across about a dozen reviews — a small sample size. The harder data point is Reviewed.com's testing of a different Funboy product (the Rainbow Chaise Lounger): the reviewer found 'the entire seam of one section wasn't fused together,' resulting in a float that was 'as flat as a pancake' by the next morning. Funboy's customer service did not respond. That's not the heart pool specifically, but it's a pattern across the brand worth acknowledging. The double-stacked heart design (one heart-shaped ring inside another, sharing air) does add structural rigidity, and most Funboy heart buyers report no issues. Inspect carefully on arrival, blow it up and leave it for 24 hours before filling with water, and check for soft spots.

Where It Falls Short

Three caveats. First, at $99 for roughly the water volume of a $20 Sunset Glow, you are paying for the brand and the aesthetic. That is fine as long as you go in clear-eyed. Second, the clear pink material scratches visibly — daily use on a rough patio surface will show wear by August. Third, Funboy's customer service has a documented spotty record per Reviewed and several Thingtesting reviews. If you receive a defective unit, do not expect the seamless return experience of a Wayfair or Amazon purchase. Inspect on arrival.

Who It's Best For

Buy the Funboy Heart if you host pool parties or rooftop gatherings and want a statement piece, if you're shopping for a thoughtful adult-coded gift, or if your social-media presence treats the backyard as a set. Skip it if you want maximum swim time per dollar — the Intex Easy Set 10ft is the better choice. Skip it if you have toddlers under six — the Sunset Glow is designed for that age. The Funboy serves a narrow but real niche, and within that niche it has no real competition outside the rest of the Funboy lineup itself.

Value at This Price

Ninety-nine dollars is not unreasonable for a Funboy-branded design object. The same money buys a higher-volume Intex pool with a filter pump — different product entirely. The honest framing: this is the cost of a moderately priced pool float plus a meaningful design premium, in exchange for a backyard aesthetic that no Intex SKU can deliver. If that math works for you, the Funboy Heart is the right buy. If not, the Intex Easy Set 10ft will deliver more pool for the same money, just not the same Instagram.

How It Compares to Alternatives

Within the Funboy lineup, the heart pool is the entry-level item at $99 — most other Funboy pools and floats run $150-$400. The closest direct competitors are Minnidip (similar luxury kiddie-pool positioning at slightly lower price points, more pattern variety, less Instagram celebrity gravity) and PoolCandy (similar aesthetic with broader retail distribution at Target and Costco). Minnidip's Tufted Pool runs about $40 and includes a built-in lounge surface; PoolCandy's various themed pools run $30-80 and lean toward kids-themed designs rather than the adult-aesthetic Funboy occupies. For buyers who want the aesthetic without the Funboy price tag, Minnidip is the natural cross-shop.

Outside the luxury tier entirely, the Bestway H2OGO! Splash Paradise at around $70 offers a similar two-adult capacity at lower price, with the trade being a generic rectangular shape rather than the heart. The Bestway includes padded bench seating that the Funboy lacks. Reviewers at Reviewed.com note the Bestway's three stacked inflatable rings keep the pool sturdy and stable; it is the practical-shopper alternative when aesthetic is secondary.

Long-Term Storage and Care

Storage is straightforward: drain through the plug, deflate the heart (Funboy's drain valve is meaningfully faster than the inflate valve — full deflation takes about 90 seconds with the pump on reverse), let dry, fold loosely. The custom clear pink material is more sensitive to UV degradation than opaque PVC: leaving the Funboy inflated and exposed in direct summer sun for the entire season noticeably yellows the pink material by August. Owners who deflate and store the pool indoors when not in use get meaningfully more life out of it. Funboy includes a small drawstring storage bag, which is generously sized — the pool fits without a wrestling match.

Off-season storage in a dry closet or garage works fine; freezing temperatures do not damage the material as long as it is completely dry before storage. Avoid storing folded with weight on top — the seams compress and develop creases that can become slow-leak points. Hang it on a hook in the garage if possible. The included repair patch should be kept with the pool; the custom pink material is hard to color-match with generic PVC patch kits, so the proprietary patch is genuinely valuable if you ever need it. Funboy does sell replacement patches and additional accessories direct from their site, but order well in advance of the summer rush — popular SKUs run out by July and restock unpredictably.