What cheeses me off

[Quickstatus]

I have a Skoda Fabia as a rental at the moment.

Isnt the HVAC control knobs on the console in front of the gearknob?

 

[blackcat20]

Isnt the HVAC control knobs on the console in front of the gearknob?

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No, they're all digital.

 

[RooFlyer]

It was a CloudFlare block; said your IP is blocked, ask the site to unblock it. I don't understand these things; maybe they've just blocked a whole range of IPs. I could use a VPN, but just want it to work.

Have re-sent a request in French.

Nous regrettons de vous informer que nous n'avons aucun d'idées.

They got back to me (in French). Apparently setting up an account in their Navigo app (rail in the Ile de France region) requires you to be in the Ile de France region. . Which is a bit odd, as I set up an account on a 'sister' app Bonjour RATP no problems.

 

[anat0l]

They got back to me (in French). Apparently setting up an account in their Navigo app (rail in the Ile de France region) requires you to be in the Ile de France region. . Which is a bit odd, as I set up an account on a 'sister' app Bonjour RATP no problems.

That's so weird; I wonder what the rationale is.

Does it rely on your signing up with a French IP (e.g. VPN) or you need to provide an address in the Ile-de-France region? (I wonder if you could sign up with a relevant address, then change the address after the account is created and verified)

 

[DC3]

Hotels who have showers over bathtub. These should banned and nothing anyone ever has to say in defense of them will ever get me to change my mind

Oh. The shub is still around?

 

[anat0l]

Oh. The shub is still around?

Heaps of hotels in Japan, including reputable Western hotel chains, still have shubs. Sure, those properties have been around for ages (they do keep them surprisingly very clean, however).

My theory though is that many Japanese might squat or sit in the tub to use the shower head instead of most of us who would have the usual standing shower.

Shubs are giving way for showers now as naturally the latter take up less footprint and - as witnessed - are less annoying (safety risk), and the average person probably doesn't primarily take a bath for cleansing any more (cf. for relaxation). That said, some newly installed showers seem weird in thought/design, with my frequent concern being adequate drainage and containment.

 

[DC3]

Heaps of hotels in Japan, including reputable Western hotel chains, still have shubs. Sure, those properties have been around for ages (they do keep them surprisingly very clean, however).

I stayed at the Hilton Hiroshima and the Conrad Osaka last month and fortunately did not have a shub at either. As you say, maybe shubs are still in some older hotels.

 

[anat0l]

I stayed at the Hilton Hiroshima and the Conrad Osaka last month and fortunately did not have a shub at either. As you say, maybe shubs are still in some older hotels.

Especially if you were upgraded at both, both sound like the types that would not have shubs in the bathroom.


The above seems to be one of the "standard fitouts" of Japanese hotel bathrooms, viz. they look very similar to this - same tub, same shower head, same sink and bench, with the same materials (and many other fitouts have walls the same material as the rest of the fit).


From my latest trip, this is in a Classic Room in the IC Yokohama Grand, which looks like one of those retro-looking but timelessly classic, elegant hotels. There are higher tiers of rooms (including suites) which have separate showers and bathtubs (but not all of them, i.e. a subset of rooms of some higher tier types have shubs and others are separate) - this is based on info gathered from the hotel website.