Dear Hotels (RE Your Showers)

[LiamR]

Dear Hotels of the world,

When I travel for, I usually don't have much time spare in my hotel. As a result of this, I do not have enough time to study for a university degree to operate your complicated shower taps. From now on, you must comply with the following tap systems.

1:

Single Handle System. Up and down to increase water flow, left and right to adjust temperature. Which side is hot and cold must be clearly labeled. Red and Blue colours would be preferable.

2:



Two individual taps, one for hot and one for cold. Again, Hot and Cold need to be clearly labeled.

Any other design apart from the two I've described above will now be deemed illegal and you must discontinue use of them.

Regards,

LiamR.

 

[LiamR]

So the point to this story is this...

How do you find hotel showers? Have you seen some shocking ones, what hotels are particularly bad?

Naturally, this should be judged on:

Ease of Use
Size of Shower
Water Pressure
Drainage.
Shower Curtain.

 

[jsd]

I'm a bit more concerned about how long you (may have) spent looking for those 'stylish' taps to use as examples? =P

 

[oz_mark]

This is a hotel shower, nothing less will do :shock:

 

[LiamR]

I'm a bit more concerned about how long you (may have) spent looking for those 'stylish' taps to use as examples? =P

It was a solid 30 seconds worth of Googling.

 

[nlagalle]

So the point to this story is this...

How do you find hotel showers? Have you seen some shocking ones, what hotels are particularly bad?

Naturally, this should be judged on:

Ease of Use
Size of Shower
Water Pressure
Drainage.
Shower Curtain.

I hate Shubs.. (shower tubs). Much prefer just a shower. Thankfully most of the hotels I stay at have this. Must think of my favourite list

I'm curious with your post no.1 of what sort of taps you have seen on your travels???

 

[Fifa]

I have just spent over 6 weeks in the US and I swear EVERY shower at each accommodation place was different!
We showered at hotels, motels, B&Bs, trains, apartments, a cruise ship, airport lounges and friends' houses and they all confused me.
I, too, found it difficult to see which were the hot and cold taps (without my specs on).
Why, oh why, do they have the shower and bath taps all in one over there? And not a single set of instructions

 

[richie9x]

What I find is even when staying in the same room type at the same hotel everything is identical except the shower taps! In one room you turn the tap clockwise for more water, in another you turn it counter-clock wise. Some rooms straight up is off, in other straight down is off, yet still in other the off setting is at some funky angle. Sometimes hot is on the left, sometimes it is on the right.

 

[oz_mark]

Why, oh why, do they have the shower and bath taps all in one over there? And not a single set of instructions

I hate the ones with electronic controls, and all manner of nozzles. Nothing like a jet of water in the left eyeball :evil:

 

[Vinny]

I have just spent over 6 weeks in the US and I swear EVERY shower at each accommodation place was different!
We showered at hotels, motels, B&Bs, trains, apartments, a cruise ship, airport lounges and friends' houses and they all confused me.
I, too, found it difficult to see which were the hot and cold taps (without my specs on).
Why, oh why, do they have the shower and bath taps all in one over there? And not a single set of instructions

And I thought I was the only one who thought this. Every one of them different. Many memories of arriving in a hotel and wondering how the shower works. I have always wondered about this but could never bring myself to bring up the subject.


As for American toilets, that's another subject in itself. I know how they work but things can get a bit spooky with a few of them.

 

[Princess Fiona]

Can never work out the showers in the Relaxation suites at Hilton Sydney. Then I remember half way through standing freezing and wet from the cold rain shower and having been poked in the eye by water from the massage jets.
I usually have it all sussed by the next morning, only to forget again when I next check-in

 

[Awesom Andy]

I don't think I've ever had such issues with showers, but I'm probably well trained from the complex system when I lived with my parents - I would dial in the temperature on a panel outside of the shower before turning the taps on...

Well, just wait till you try to learn to use all of the functions of the Japanese "super-toilets"...

 

[Nam Taf]

The place I'm in right now has the temperature directions opposite to just about every other place in the universe (hot to right, rather than hot to left). That was a painful lesson to learn the first time I used it! Oddly, the shower taps are hot to left... go figure!

My pet peeve with hotel showers is ones that have the shower head lower than about 6'6. The one here is about as tall as me (6') and it is a **** to fit under. Why the hell would you do this? Save a foot of copper piping? No, I think there's some coughhole dwarf plumber somewhere who gets off on frustrating people of average-to-tall height every morning.

PS: You all get to stay in far fancier places than I I need a better job.

 

[TonyHancock]

Being originally from the UK I have no need of these showers you speak of!!!



UK showers tend to be the worst, I can cope with the controls, it is the lack of water pressure.

 

[casanovawa]

I was staying in some hotel in Europe once (may have been Prague perhaps??) and the water in the shower would get warm then cold then warm like it was some built in feature.. Total PITA!!!!

Many of these hotels have obviously not heard of the KISS principle, at least most of the showers in the backpackers i tend to stay at are relatively straight forward...

So yes, hotel chains definitely need to wise up and standardise the tapware... I think the previous thread about phones in the bathroom/toilet also demonstrated these are more of a necessity rather than a luxury... Hopefully such bathrooms are not just the thing of dreams...

 

[holdenvxman]

I hate it when you dont even turn the tap 1mm and you start burning yourself :idea:

 

[Major]

It's even worse for those of us who now need glasses.

You step into the shower and after 1st degree burns to your chest and private parts, you step out to put on specs. After dripping water all over the floor you examine the control panel of the starship Enterprise, ask computer to adjust controls, take off specs and step back in.

You then need longer than normal time in the shower to calm down and put a contract out on the architect.

 

[Major]

And OT ...don't get me started on the size of the printing on shampoo and conditioner bottles.

 

[simongr]

I think people have touched on most of my pet peeves:

- showers installed by midgets
- pressure at a level suitable only for a slow dripping water torture
- shubs - god how I hate stepping into a bath to have a shower

Strangely though complex taps are a non issue for me.

When I get home the best thing (apart from seeing mrssimongr, boygr and doggr) is standing in my own shower and rinsing off the perceived accumulated filth from a lack of decent showers. What is even more depressing is being upgraded to a suite with a spa shub rather than a simple shower or being upgraded to a suite with a grand impressive shower that still has carp pressure!

 

[Timba-Jet]

Shubs and showers where there is a common tap for both the shower head and a lower water outlet. Usually there is a button/pin/knob thing that you need to push in it pull. But it never stays in position.