Comments on: Hotel showers: why can’t they get it right?

By: jude

jude — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:37:06 +0000

Agreed, those weird contraptiions are weird and annoying. And the thing about H and C being visible without glasses…YES! But my main beef is an almost worldwide lack of decent shelves for shampoo, conditioner, cleanser….just madness!

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:33:24 +0000

i’m with @chickybus – there’s always the burst of scalding or cold water because you can’t figure out exactly which way you’re supposed to turn the nozzle-y contraption… it’s rocket science! you need a degree in advanced physics to figure out some of these things!

By: Simone

Simone — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:51:07 +0000

The floor inundation rang very true to me. I used to then be very careful. However now I only dry enough space that I can stand at the washbasin. It’s their problem, they can take care of it, or better, fix it!.

I have had the stopped up drains in Eastern Europe, but thank God not elsewhere. I remember one hotel in Croatia where actually not only the shower flooded, but the whole folding plastic enclosure fell off…

Britain is the worst place for trickles. I have absolutely never had a decent shower there, no matter the class of the hotel.

And yes, I have had a few of those showers so fancy only their inventor can use them…

By: Si @ thedepartureboard

Si @ thedepartureboard — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:42:53 +0000

Hi Andy, we chatted at the Orient Express meetup. I couldn’t agree more, being tall like you is a disadvantage, sometimes when you find a perfectly funtioning shower they are often situated so low on the wall you have to crouch to wash your hair! And don’t get me started on Baths!!!

By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 05:54:10 +0000

One of my pet peeves, too … if you need instructions, why can’t you print them so you can read them WITHOUT your specs. Don’t know about anyone else, but I never wear mine in the shower!

By: Tu Nguyen

Tu Nguyen — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:33:54 +0000

You know whats funny, I tend to rate hotels alot based on how good their bathroom, and more speficically their showers are. wierd.

Also… is it me, or do hotels etc never put a big enough shower floor matt-towel thingy? Its dangerous when I go to shower, they should be considerate about this.

By: Andy Jarosz

Andy Jarosz — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 07:01:24 +0000

Thanks for the many excellent additions to this shower gripe. Yes, somewhere to put shampoo etc. is a simple additional step, as is marking hot/cold.

The one that rings as particularly familiar to me is Nikki’s point about flooding the room. I’ve seen this even in 5 star hotels where I flood the bathroom first time (leaky or inadequate screen) then for the next showers I have every spare towel rolled up against the wall/bath/shower end to soak up the flood water. Hardly a 5 star experience…

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 02:06:35 +0000

I still don’t understand the insistence on so many South East Asian hotels to place the shower over the toilet. All I want is a simple shower curtain so that the toilet roll, towel and the rest of the bathroom can stay dry. Too much to ask?

By: Traveling Ted

Traveling Ted — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:58:19 +0000

You would think one hotel would find the perfect make and brand and others would copy, but apparently the shower and hotel world does not work that way. I would imagine money and contracts have a lot to do with this. Hotels probably go on the cheap instead of with better products not realizing it might cost them in the end.

By: Nikki Bayley

Nikki Bayley — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:25:41 +0000

Those glass partition screens… Which act as cunning high-pressure water-bouncing devices and direct a constant stream on to the floor. Why?? Why just have a sliver of screen, just enough to be annoying? Grr.