A good hotel shower

[RooFlyer]

May I just take a moment of your time to show what I think is an all-too-rare well designed hotel shower. A micro-topic, for sure, but hotel shower faults come up regularly.

Athens Capital Hotel (Accor), standard room.



First, and most obviously there isn't a bath underneath it!

* Controls are out of the way of the water stream, so you don't get cold water on yourself turning the thing on

* Door opens both ways, so you can put the bathmat directly outside the door, rather than it being swept away by an outwards-opening door

* Drainage channels inside the doorway, so the water doesn't flood out onto the bathroom floor

* An alcove for your own shampoo and soap, notwithstanding the now-usual dispensers

* A towel-hook within the shower (to the left), out of water's reach, so you can towel-off without having to grope for the towel outside the shower

* The marble floors are textured, minimising slipping (unlike my last pace, where the polished marble shower floor was lethal)

* Wand and rain shower

* Something for us oldies to hang on to (you know what I mean )

 

[lovestotravel]

Looks perfect to me, as long as the pressure/flow is good!

I can't stand low-flow showers and will take the shower head off to remove the water saving device, if fitted. Sadly most new shower heads are low flow by default.

The best shower for me was in a Crown Towers Melbourne Villa - Was one of the older Villas so the bathroom was around 2011. Massive shower with the best water flow and pressure I've ever had.

 

[Forg]

Yeah when we stayed at the Westin in London in June, standard room, the shower recess had all those good things but because it was super long it didn’t even have a door to get in the way.

I’m sorta surprised how many hotels persevere with baths (who’s taken a bath since they were 5?) and with shower-curtains that grab you as soon as the water heats up & the steam rises sucking the plastic towards you …