Intrepid1

Well, it is, IMO, better than asking What to wear!

LoveItaly

Ah, the missing shower curtain, LOL. The most irritating problem in Italy. What is it about some hotels? How much does a shower curtain cost? There is nothing like taking a shower and having the entire bathroom floor flooded afterwards. And hate the coffin size showers. And those bathtubs that have the handheld shower just above the faucet. Need I continue Intrepid?

Intrepid1

A shower curtain, for me, adds greatly to the "charm quotient" of any hotel anywhere. Forget the "precious fabrics" and the so-called "fabulous linens"...what I want is a dry floor in the bathroom after we've fooled around with the bidet, either by doing laundry in it or whatever, and also taken a shower and not been ATTACKED by the Alien-like high pressure handheld "device" that Europeans love so much.

Travelnut

I never have these problems - maybe I'm not clean enough.

cd

Hey, BTW, what happened to our other bidet thread? I came home from work yesterday and it was gone, gone, gone

P_M

I stayed in a Russian hotel once where the bathroom was the size of a small closet. It was a coffin sized shower with no curtain. When when you step out you almost stumble over the toilet and the sink. And worst of all, there was no divider of any sort between the shower and the rest of the bathroom, so the water drain was in the middle of the floor.

But you could look at it this way--it's a more efficient way of grooming. You could sit on the toilet, brush your teeth, and take a shower all at once. What a time-saver!! I hope my next house has a bathroom like that.

Patrick

cd, the Fodors editors got busy cleaning up their private parts.

I'm currently researching apartments for next summer. I bet I eliminate close to half of them because they don't have a wall mounted shower and shower door or curtain. Sorry, I don't need things just like at home, but there is a limit to what I can stand, and a week with no decent shower does not make me a happy person.

Sarvowinner

I asked this earlier and being a novice I thought they were joking when the lovely fodorite said it had been "flushed". I don't understand why editors delete threads. Click on my name becuse Rex has added a very funny story.

Sarvowinner

Oops too many answers at one time - I was answering CD

cd

Fodorites are so clever.

Intrepid1

And so clean, apparently, too!!!

PJI

I know what you mean P_M. We once stayed in a hotel in the Aeolian Islands (on Volcano) where there was no shower curtain and kind of no shower. You straddled the toilet while a shower head above you rained down upon you (and the toilet - best to close the lid). The floor was slightly tilted towards a drain near the door. Of course the bathroom was so small that you had to ensure you didn't move too quickly or you would fall over the toilet, into the sink and out the door. Also, we figured out quickly that it was best to remove the toilet paper from the bathroom before you began your shower. The only good part was that there was a window with a beautiful view you could stare out of while straddling the toilet and showering.

francophile03

Maybe we don't remember everything on our European visits, but we all remember the missing shower curtain and the funny/not so funny stories later. It would be good if all hotels would provide shower curtains.

abbydog

Actually, one thing I admire about the French and Italians is their heroic effort to enable one to avoid any physical contact with anything with which anyone else has had physical contact. Hence, toilets without seats, faucets without handles, and my personal favorite -- showers without those icky curtains that somehow end up plastered to one's side. . . These are huge favors for obsessive-compulsive germ-averse travellers!

Intrepid1

&quot;Icky&quot; shower curtains??? Are you telling me that Fodorites actually <b> stay </b> in such places.

What happened to research?? To feedback???

Does this &quot;feature&quot; require a separate rating scale on TripAdvisor? or on Fodors &quot;Rants and Raves&quot;????

gomiki

Patrick: &lt;the Fodors editors got busy cleaning up their private parts&gt;
Too funny! LOL

bookchick

The Hotel San Carlo, my usual haunt in Rome, actually has doors on their showers. Imagine all those modern touches, existing side-by-side with ancient ruins in the very same city! The Hotel Lido Palace in Bevano on Lago Maggiore, where I stayed at the begging of this month, had a very serviceable cloth shower curtain, which kept the floor perfectly dry.

BC

tomboy

This seems an appropriate venue to mention Hotel Mineral, in Bardejov, which features the bathroom sink IN the shower (no curtain, of course). One benefit was that, after shaving, one didn't have to take unneccesary steps. Did they want to save on piping back in the Commie days, or what?

LoriNY

tomboy, the Park Hyatt in Paris had the same thing - a sink in the shower, as well as the bathtub. My husband loved the sink in the shower thing, but there was one outside as well. And radiant heat floors, and the best shower I ever had, and I was in Paris...............sigh

SeaUrchin

Gee I am in the minority here, I must shower to a different drummer. I love the handheld shower wands in the tubs, this way I can get a shower and a bath at the same time. (And I won't even mention what my French girl friend says it is used for)

I hate the plastic clingy iffy shower curtains too, if you drop the soap and have to pick it up it feels like a cold clammy something is behind you grabbing your hiney. And they get moldy and yucky. Now I feel like I need a shower!