About Us

The name Floataway was coined and registered by Colin Stanwell-Smith in 1999 while the product was being developed. Colin used his experience to design and engineer the Floataway Tranquility float pod from the ground up. That experience included an Honours Mechanical Engineering degree at Bristol, England and a graduate apprenticeship at the British Aircraft Corporation where Concorde was getting ready to fly for the first time.

Floataway's strength, as a small company in a global market, is in its technology roots. The Tranquility product still has the same inspired shape but the technology keeps improving and new design challenges occupy Colin and his son Toby who has joined the team. Toby has a first class honours degree from Brunel University in Industrial Design and received the Gold Medal in his final year. Responding to customer requests Floataway has also designed float rooms, first rectangular and the circular "floataround" for larger spaces and is active in the area of special needs floatation tanks.

In the years of this new millenium Floataway has pioneered new technologies to make better float tanks and remains a family run business with international sales.  Indeed we have sold to many countries all over the world on every continent except Antarctica!

Gini Stanwell-Smith is the Managing Director and will be happy to discuss your requirements.

Buying a float tank?  Join the Floataway family!