Hotel showers

Would be nice to just have a control saying on/off and hot/cold. The shower I used had two knobs with no indication as to what they did. One of my daughters has a state of the art shower with controls that again indicate nothing, when I went there to stay just after my GS was born I could only get the shower to emit lukewarm water and because they were too taken up with the baby and I didn’t want to bother them I ended up having lukewarm showers for several days. They have since explained but I still find it tricky to regulate the temp is either lukewarm or red hot.

Yep! That is me all over!

I'm sorry, I can't tell the story it's too long and won't sound funny, but I literally have tears running down my cheeks thinking of my best friend, in a hotel in Niagara Falls, in a jacuzzi bath, with a shower, water everywhere her husband and me with towels and bath robes, light switches and jacuzzi switches.

Oh my, I'm going to have her call her in Canada later and remind her.

Thanks for starting this thread, gave me a good laugh.

In a hotel or other unfamiliar shower I check it out first visually with my glasses on, trying to fathom it out, as without my specs I am stuck. Doesn’t always work. I hate showers for this reason, as well as awful memories of school showers.

Glad it's not just me !

My dear late friend had a similar experience at an airport lounge while they were stopping over on their way back from S Africa. She ended up completely soaked as did her clothes and the shower room. Flooding into the corridor. No one to help apart from a cleaner who she had to beckon in from round the door while drenched in a wet towel.

When she finally got back to her DH, who had also had a shower, but uneventful and pleasant, she wasn't too pleased for him to be saying "well wasn't that lovely".

She said there were so many controls in the shower cubicle and once started she couldnt switch it off.

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Yes, it recently happened to me in a Lake District hotel, couple of weeks ago. The shower was a large glass affair, but the side screen wasn’t long enough and the cleaners had left the hand holding bit facing the gap. Fortunately I hadn’t any clothes in the bathroom as the floor was so wet it seeped thunder the door!
I usually send DH in to try a shower out first and report back, as they all seen to have different controls.