When we’re staying in hotels, I love having a nice shower. After a long travel day, it just feels good.
However, there’s one thing I’ve noticed about hotel rooms with walk-in showers.
Name something in common with all three of these showers?
You need to walk into the shower to turn on the water. Unless you have really quick reflexes, you’re gonna end up all wet.
Well, is that a problem since you’re getting into the shower? Of course it is, because when you turn on the shower, the water is never hot. Even if you manage to turn on the water without getting soaked, you have to guess at a temperature setting. There’s no way to avoid the running shower when getting back to the control to find a setting somewhere between scalding hot and ice cold.
It’s not impossible for hotels to get this right. Some hotels manage to put the controls on the side of the shower you enter so that you’re able to turn the water on and adjust the temperature without getting wet.
Since there are many hotels that are already built with this design oversight, this problem isn’t going away anytime soon. Unless I want to start traveling with a teacher to turn on the shower from a distance, I’m going to have to learn to live with it. I still don’t have to like it.
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4 comments
If that’s the worst thing about the hotel room, I’ll take it!
The 2nd photo doesn’t have this problem because it has a hand held shower head. Walk in, hold the shower head, point the shower head to the drain or inside wall.
I highly recommend a hand held shower head at home. I made a mistake of not building a walk in shower because when I am old and frail, I might not be able to step over the tub edge.
I get your point, but how hard is it to angle the shower head at the wall before turning it on, and proceeding from there?
People all over the world would love water. Others would love a bath of any kind. Your so spoiled and entitled you find the dumbest thing to complain about. Your the kind of silver spoon person who would gripe about a new Mercedes-Benz given to you because it’s the wrong color. GROW UP