Hotel showers - why??

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Anonymous wrote:I hate this trend as well. I also hate barn doors that provide little noise barrier between the bathroom and the bedroom. I don't care if I am by myself but if I am staying with anyone, even my spouse, I want a little more privacy when I'm in the bathroom.

Ha, the first hotel I stayed in with the half glass also had one of those barn doors for the bathroom door. I came away hating the barn doors but liking the half glass. But that one had a half wall for the lower part of the shower and then the top part was glass. I liked it so much that our current master has this same layout. The water doesn't get all over if the shower floor is done correctly and the pony wall extends out far enough.

The barn door is especially insane in a hotel bathroom because you only have the room. It's not like in a private home where the odds that your partner is going to be right outside the bathroom door are actually fairly slim. In a hotel you need a nice heavy door to the bathroom plus a strong fan. I mostly travel with my spouse but we believe in preserving the mystery to the degree we can.

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When I traveled to Italy with my parents 20 years ago we started in a very nice hotel in Florence because we had the points to do so. After traveling elsewhere we returned to Florence to a hotel I’d found online. The location was amazing but the upkeep was lacking. (Another patron’s key snapped off in the lock while we were there and to get passports / make their flight they eventually had to bash the door or take it off its hinges - I forget which.) I had read that there was no shower stall at all - just a shower head in the ceiling and a drain in the floor next to the sink :m/ toilet. I warned my parents to bring flip flops. My mom listened but my dad didn’t and was quite disturbed by the wet and slippery bathroom floor.

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My kids are young and refuse to take showers (age 5 and age 2). It's actually becoming a big problem when we go on vacation for a prolonged period of time, because almost all hotels are now shower-only.

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I must be low rent. I don’t know what OP is talking about and I travel a lot. I’ve seen shower curtains and full glass doors.

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Anonymous wrote:I usually don’t have issues with the half door. Maybe you’re taller so need to stand farther away from the shower head. Also prefer them to shower curtains.

It's height and the bounce of the water off someone who is taller.

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Anonymous wrote:Shower curtains smell and harbor mold.

Not if you wash them frequently.

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Anonymous wrote:I usually don’t have issues with the half door. Maybe you’re taller so need to stand farther away from the shower head. Also prefer them to shower curtains.

It's height and the bounce of the water off someone who is taller.

I'm 5'2" and the water still gets all over, so it's not just height.

It's esp a problem when in addition to the European hand held (which is at an ok height for me, I only have to bend a little), there a rain shower-head in the MIDDLE of the shower with the half-glass door. No bloody way to not soak the entire bathroom. And we haven't seen drains in the bathrooms, only in the showers

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The barn door is terrible (yet apt) because it makes the rest of the hotel room smell like a barn when someone is dropping a deuce.

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Anonymous wrote:I must be low rent. I don’t know what OP is talking about and I travel a lot. I’ve seen shower curtains and full glass doors.

In Europe??

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When we were in Iceland, we ended up flooding the bathroom with one of those drains in the floor of a bathroom with a 1/4 glass door. Turns out the drain was clogged so water started coming out the bathroom door while DH was in the shower. He can't see without his glasses so had no idea until we barged in the bathroom. Plummer had to come at midnight to fix the issue. Fun times!

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone explain why hotel room showers only have the half pane of glass rather than a shower curtain?
Even when being careful there’s so much water on the floor. It’s driving me nuts.

You have hit on one of my greatest pet peeves ever. It is the most stupid thing IN THE WORLD!!! A lot of European places do this too.

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Anonymous wrote:I must be low rent. I don’t know what OP is talking about and I travel a lot. I’ve seen shower curtains and full glass doors.

You've never seen a shower with one of these half glass doors? Some are fixed in place and others pivot - for some unknown reason. Regardless, they don't keep the water from splashing all over the floor.

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Anonymous wrote:When I traveled to Italy with my parents 20 years ago we started in a very nice hotel in Florence because we had the points to do so. After traveling elsewhere we returned to Florence to a hotel I’d found online. The location was amazing but the upkeep was lacking. (Another patron’s key snapped off in the lock while we were there and to get passports / make their flight they eventually had to bash the door or take it off its hinges - I forget which.) I had read that there was no shower stall at all - just a shower head in the ceiling and a drain in the floor next to the sink :m/ toilet. I warned my parents to bring flip flops. My mom listened but my dad didn’t and was quite disturbed by the wet and slippery bathroom floor.

Ha - this was exactly what we experienced at a B&B in Norway. The entire small-ish bathroom was essentially a shower stall. A shower curtain went around the shower nozzle, and all the water flowed over the entire floor, into a drain. That meant that the toilet, sink, etc. all got wet too. It was truly disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:Shower curtains smell and harbor mold.

Not if you wash them frequently.

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I love full glass shower doors - OR shower curtains that are washed between each guest stay. There's a Hilton we stay at when visiting our daughter and the tub/shower has one of those curtain rod extender things, giving it a little more room. The shower curtains are always pristine and they clearly wash them for every guest. I think they're made of some kind of waterproof fabric, not plastic. At any rate, shower curtains are fine with me if they're like that.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shower curtains smell and harbor mold.

Not if you wash them frequently.

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I love full glass shower doors - OR shower curtains that are washed between each guest stay. There's a Hilton we stay at when visiting our daughter and the tub/shower has one of those curtain rod extender things, giving it a little more room. The shower curtains are always pristine and they clearly wash them for every guest. I think they're made of some kind of waterproof fabric, not plastic. At any rate, shower curtains are fine with me if they're like that.

Most likely they just replace the shower curtains regularly. They may have a way to clean them with something industrial grade, like they do with hotel sheets, but because of the moisture, that's not going to work for long. They probably have to throw them out regularly.

I can see why a hotel would opt for a metal and glass enclosure that could be scrubbed down instead. The cost of cleaning and replacement would really add up when you multiple by room and by hotel. And with hotels trying to cut back on cleaning staff as well due to labor shortages (which are likely to get worse in the US and Europe due to stricter immigration laws adopted by right wing governments), it makes sense to invest in a lower maintenance option.