A good hotel shower

[Forg]

I suspect the taps close to the shower head as ‘default design’ is just the simplest run of the water pipes.

Yes, cheapest; it’s like cars where they’ll implement a change which saves 10c per unit ‘cos it all adds-up in the end. A hotel’s worth of piping saved is … probably an entire couple of dollars!

But also, from when we were building, it does make a difference to how long it takes for the water coming out of the head to get to temp. You do use more water per shower, if the tap/mixer is further away from the head. I can’t recall the metrics, but it wasn’t totally insignificant.

 

[esseeeayeenn]

This isn't a great photo because it was taken for a general room review not specifically for the shower.
However the shower is very similar to the one @RooFlyer posted.
This was in the junior suite at the Adelaide Sofitel - so I am pleasantly surprised that he got a similar facility in a standard room.

Edit: please politely ignore the mess.