Hookah Guy

Hello. A friend and I are looking to buy our first hookahs...but since we're planning on living in an apartment sometime in the near future, we decided to skip the smaller, personal ones and pitch in on a larger one. We're both fairly new to hookah (and we've actually only smoked together once with another friend), so we've decided that we want to research some before we ultimately buy one. I was hoping some of the people here could help us out.

What we're looking for right now is a good hookah around 24-26 inches...we're willing to stray from this a bit...and we also want multiple hoses...preferably three or four. What hookahs would you guys recommend within these standards? and what vendors do you consider reliable?

Thanks in advance for any response.

I love the Exotica...I even bought a little camp stove to light them better..I just fire two sides high for 2 minutes each, and the camp stove gets it piping hot.

To break them I use small tree trimmers, like $5 at a home depot. I can get them into 1/2" chunks for a pumpkin hookah.

The only other coals I've used are:

Crappy quick lights

Silver-tab quick lights...which aren't Awful I guess.

Someone told me natural lemon-wood coals stink up your house on lighting...

thoughts?

Anybody know where I can get a replacement vase for my Egyptian hookah in San Diego, I would order from the internet but would rather just go and pick one up...?

So i was looking around, actually trying to find somewhere else around my hometown that sells shisha since our local hookah bar is on campus and closed for winter break. Anyways I came across Banned vendor on the right hand side of google (where they put all those useless for sale links that no one looks at)

they offer starbuzz for 12.75 for a 250g tin which to me sounds too good to be true. And you know know what they say about that, if its too good to be true it probably is. They sell other brands for pretty cheap as well (starbuzz just being the first one i looked at)

I wanted to know if anyone knew anything about this site at all?