Hotel showers - why??

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

The reason some of them pivot is to make the opening bigger for bigger people who can’t fit through the opening otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I installed the latter in my bathtub and it works OK. But then, I have an adjustable height shower bar and angle on the handheld shower so the water spray is easily controlled.

[Anonymous]

My kids and I stayed in a hotel in NYC with my parents, and the wall between the shower & the rest of the hotel room was glass. So if anyone showered, everyone in the room could see their blurry silhouette. Also, water leaked out from under the bathroom door. And this was a fancy, fairly expensive hotel— just crappy bathroom design.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I’ve seen that in homes but not hotels. Haven’t been to Europe in 10+ years though.

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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.

What makes me crazier is a slippery floor in a shower and bathroom area. Marble floors look amazing, but are scary slippery when exiting the shower. Often, I put a hand towel on the floor of the shower to stand on while showering so I don't slip. I'm not old - cannot imagine how treacherous this is for older people. Also noticing much less closet and drawer space in hotel rooms in the past few years.

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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.

My partner and I travel frequently and he goes to the lobby to use the restroom. I credit that with how long we've been together.

[Anonymous]

The door pivot is so people can get in and out even if they are wider or lower dexterity.

Barn door is to avoid reserving space for door swing.

It's all just space-saving cost-cutting measures to make the hotel room smaller, to get more rooms in the building.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Yeah, shower curtains are gross and not a perfect solution either. But this glass panel business is awful. Doesn't all that water on the floor eventually cause damage?

My kids are older but there are no bathtubs in hotels anymore, either. How do families with young kids do it?

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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.

It’s obvious you don’t travel much.

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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.

DP, I’m 5 feet tall and even I have problems showering in Europe. Hard to not make a mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids and I stayed in a hotel in NYC with my parents, and the wall between the shower & the rest of the hotel room was glass. So if anyone showered, everyone in the room could see their blurry silhouette. Also, water leaked out from under the bathroom door. And this was a fancy, fairly expensive hotel— just crappy bathroom design.

Stayed in something similar while in Norway. The actual door to the bathroom was glass!! It was lightly frosted, but still - you could see pretty much everything, albeit a little blurred. We were four in a room - my husband, me, and our two teen boys. It was excruciatingly awkward! When one of us would shower, the others would promise to turn away from the bathroom and watch TV, etc. Such a poorly planned room.

[Anonymous]

Agreed on these half doors....water everywhere and you never get warm.

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It must be so you take quicker showers bc I never can warm up with a half door. But much better than when I studied abroad in college in 2002 and most places we stayed just had a shower head/wand next to toilet so the whole bathroom became the shower!

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Anonymous wrote:Shower curtains smell and harbor mold.

Not if you wash them frequently.

Today DCUM taught me that there are vast numbers of people who don't toss their shower curtains in the wash every week, and I wish I wish I didn't know this about them