Room with bath - how do I shampoo?
 

I'm a little embarassed to be asking this question but here goes: I've booked a twin-bedded room for my daughter and myself in Paris. Small 22 room hotel in the 6th. Their twin rooms only come with a bath, not a shower. Do Parisian hotel rooms with baths usually have a spray hose attachment so that we can shampoo easily? (I don't think the hotel's knowledge of English would allow them to answer this question.) Many thanks.

Kim,<BR> Yes, most Paris hotels have the hand-held spray attachment in the bathtub. You should have no problem washing your hair, but unless you're seated in the tub, expect to get some water on the floor. Usually only the larger hotels have a tub with a fixed shower attachment and shower curtain.

If there is no spray attachment, wash your hair in the bathwater and then put your head under the faucet to rinse. That's how I did it before showers were common.

I have been to Paris 5 times. I stayed in small hotels and B&Bs. All of the places I stayed had showers.

Kim,<BR>I am sorry to tell you this but you will not be able to wash your hair during your stay in Paris. If I were you I would take a couple of hats for you and your daughter. If it gets reaally gross and stinky then you might be able to get the kitchen staff to let you use their big sink( I did this once after a late night bender when some drunken bloke spritzed me with champagne and blew clove cigarette smoke right into my newly coiffed do). I think the appropriate response would be to find a raspbery beret for you and the little lass and glam up up during your stay.<BR><BR>Best wishes,<BR>Sam

Hi, Kim,<BR> Sorry, but I had to giggle a bit at your question. I grew up in a row house with no shower - we either washed our hair in the tub and rinsed it under the faucet, as Brenda suggests, or else in the kitchen sink. It's amazing how much we come to depend on our "mod. con"s, eh?<BR>ja

What hotel are you staying at? I am looking for a cheap hotel so would appreciate any info. I am also travelling with my daughter so would have similar hair washing problems!!!

my God - please be a troll. Anyone who doesn't know how to wash her hair w/o a shower is way too dumb to go to Europe on her own.

I have never been in any hotel which did not have either a regular shower or a spray attachment with the tub. But I have been in a lot of French hotels, so they all have regardless of price level. They do like to rinse themselves off, also. I have had quite a few hotels in France with showers (meaning a head mounted on wall or there was a place for the head to be set on the wall) with either doors or curtains and none were large hotels nor expensive, maybe I'm just lucky.

I'm with Tom on this one. If not a troll, Kim better stay home. The hotel might have stairs instead of an elevator ("How do I get from one floor to another if the hotel doesn't have an elevator?").

Wait until she hears what the French ladies really use the hand held shower nozzles for, ooo la la.

Bend over. Stick head under faucet. Wet hair, shampoo. Stick head under faucet. Rinse. Repeat as needed.<BR>Maybe now we understand why lots of people in Europe aren't fat?

wash it in a puddle on outside, or stand in the rain.

Kim: Go the hairdresser in Paris and get a new cut (with a shampoo, of course). Quite an experience. And he/she will be able to tell you all about the trendiest restaurants and places.

Pardon my ignorance, but what do the French ladies use the shower spray for?<BR>What I think it is? The v___r word?

V_ _ _ r ?<BR><BR>Please help Vanna....

I'd like to buy a vowel please. An "o"?

I've tried it and it's delightful, especially the Power Jet setting.

An i, an a, an o please, yes, yes.

An i, an a, an o please, yes, yes.