A good hotel shower

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.

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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 ;) )
That shower would be ok if the shower head was at head height as opposed to navel height. I don’t like overhead rain showers as I prefer to stand in front of the water stream not under it. But that’s just me.
 
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I hate those showers where the only option is a rain shower rose. Where have you seen that before! Shower cap here we come!

Good points about the perfect shower. I have travelled around Australia in different types of hotels and experienced many shower configurations, water pressures, temperatures, curtains, overbath, walk-in etc. but never experienced what I did in Europe recently; a leaky shower! I stayed in about four different brands of hotels and they all had one thing in common; the shower leaked. We ended up using all our towels to stop the bathroom flooding. In one hotel (a "By Hilton" clone) the towels were only changed on request so when we returned in the afternoon the towels had not been changed. They did give us new ones and also changed them the next day without asking again.
 
Currently staying in the Ibis styles in Melbourne Southbank and the shower is excellent. Great water pressure decent size and a small shelf as well.



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