Hotel showers

I stayed in a lovely hotel in Malaga with a very snazzy shower set up. It had the usual monsoon type head and a handheld one which I managed to work out ok (keeping my glasses on otherwise I wouldn't have a clue). There was also a sort of jacuzzi setting which I didn't dare use until our last day - there were strips of small shower heads down the front, back and one side of the cubicle. No sooner had I turned the necessary knob I was blasted to the back of the cubicle and then blasted from all sides. Any attempt I made to crawl to the front to turn the wretched thing off was impossible. Eventually DH, who had been out, returned to the room and after enquiring if I was enjoying the jacuzzi experience (and got a very rude reply) managed to switch the thing off. Never again, it was a horrible experience, quite scary too.

They always seem to run slowly and are small, so you have to be careful getting in and out.

We have had a guest bathroom fitted with a double shower, large head on top, and smaller lower down- and since then we got it sussed. I always remove shower from holder and point to a corner well away from me, if not sure- until water is at right temp.

I send MrOops into the shower first, he sorts it out and then explains it to me. Often after getting a cold shower himself until he sorts it out!

It's not just showers. The heating/air con things they often have in hotel rooms are horrible to operate and I usually end up with a very cold room. I'd rather it was too hot as I feel the cold terribly. That, along with the showers, puts me off the whole thing.

Just to clear up my probs with the shower, we were in a different room to before with a different shower set up, before I look even more dim 😳

We stayed at The Downs hotel, so called for superb views of the Downs. Not near the seafront but we didn’t want that, is a fantastic hotel have stayed here before.
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babs03 I love a Brighton hotel. Which one did you stay at? I've stayed at a couple. The grand is my favourite. The Preston park the worst

Why would you want to use a "face cloth" that countless people have used before you - very possibly not only on their faces?

If you do use one, take one with you, or buy a packet of disposable ones.

After reading on here that one Gransnetter who runs a B&B only washes her towels at 30° I'm even a little queasy about hotel towels, too.

In a hotel in the South of France the shower was over the bath but there was no screen or curtain. I hadn't used a bath in years but, worried about flooding the bathroom, I decided to have a bath and just detach the shower handset to rinse my hair. Unfortunately having had a nice soak I couldn't get up out of the bath - the reason I gave up baths years ago! I was on holiday with my teenage daughter at the time and fortunately the bathroom didn't have a lock so I was able to get her to help me up but she was rather embarassed by it all.

I'd probably cope better now as I've lost a lot of weight and am fitter generally, but I won't be taking any chances!

Not a hotel shower story, but our new neighbour, who has renovated (and then some) their bungalow, was telling us he’d had the new shower installed and he can control it from his phone! Why would you want to do this?

What annoys me with hotel showers is that the hand held spray is always at the top of the rail, even in accessible rooms
I am not very tall so struggle to reach it. It’s not brain surgery to figure this out.

Babs03

CanadianGran

I know I've had to call down to reception to find out how to turn on the shower!

One thing that bugs me in Europe is the lack of face cloths. How do people wash their faces? I end up using a corner of the hand towel.

We always take a flannel.
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In France the flannels are ‘gants’ , which you put on your hand.
Neither my DD nor DGD use face flannels, instead they use small washable cotton face pads which they bring with them.

CanadianGran

I know I've had to call down to reception to find out how to turn on the shower!

One thing that bugs me in Europe is the lack of face cloths. How do people wash their faces? I end up using a corner of the hand towel.

We always take a flannel.
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I know I've had to call down to reception to find out how to turn on the shower!

One thing that bugs me in Europe is the lack of face cloths. How do people wash their faces? I end up using a corner of the hand towel.

Piskey

Early 80s, booked into newly opened Tropicana Travel Lodge, Las Vegas, other half stepped into bath and turned shower on - only he turned control the wrong way and the control shot off, and the water pressure was so high, it almost knocked him over. Within minutes the bath was overflowing (we were on the sixth floor) and bathroom floor was flooded. Rang reception, no one knew whereabouts the stop cocks were. The water flooded down to the ground floor- and hotel had to close for the night. All guests transferred to the Tropicana Hotel, on the strip, where we spent the whole week at no extra charge. Haven’t been back since

Hilarious 😆
Puts me in mind of Frank Spencer from ‘some mother’s do ‘ave ‘em’

Who designs these things? Do they secretly enjoy confusing people with the excuse it’s streamlined?
Even a simple red and blue dot would help in many cases🙄

I often have a hotel shower that has a fixed head to the wall.
I always think that it was a man who designed the bathroom.

showers are the bain of my life! we usually stay in caravans or chalets and the darn things defeat me every time, no matter what I press turn or twiddle, darn thing never works properly.
they either scald me or have a freezing cold shock, one holiday we could not work out the shower for love nor money. it was strip washes for us!

Every time! The worst ones are where there is a fixed shower door on a bath and a fixed power shower, so impossible to turn the shower on without getting into the bath. So you have to strip off first and are then blasted with cold water. I usually decide to have a bath instead.

Early 80s, booked into newly opened Tropicana Travel Lodge, Las Vegas, other half stepped into bath and turned shower on - only he turned control the wrong way and the control shot off, and the water pressure was so high, it almost knocked him over. Within minutes the bath was overflowing (we were on the sixth floor) and bathroom floor was flooded. Rang reception, no one knew whereabouts the stop cocks were. The water flooded down to the ground floor- and hotel had to close for the night. All guests transferred to the Tropicana Hotel, on the strip, where we spent the whole week at no extra charge. Haven’t been back since

wibblywobblywobblebottom

I would say you were super stupid. Hotel showers, no problem.

If you’re trying to insult me, nice try but no cigar.
I’ve been insulted by bigger and better than you.

wibblywobblywobblebottom

I would say you were super stupid. Hotel showers, no problem.

I would say you were super rude. Manners, no problem. For most.

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Babs03 I can see why you wouldn't have enoyed that - but I did! x