No one wants to shower in full view like that.

hotel are abooming business , and every day , a hotel is either being newly built or freshly renovated . With all these novel hotel rooms , the design choices are trying to appeal to the advanced traveller ; rooms have bright telly and nightstands with charge port , and you’re able to even use your phone as a room Florida key at some hotel . But not all of the modern update are as widely appreciate as being able to log into your Netflix chronicle in your hotel elbow room .

Perhaps the most reviled trend in the forward-looking hotel way is theopen - construct hotel shower . If you ’ve been lucky enough to head off encountering such a design , let me paint you a icon . You ’ve get the shower head . You ’ve got at least one rampart of the bathroom — and that might be it . There might be one or two more wall and peradventure a half - field glass bulwark . But the shower is not an wrap blank space . It will often be in full view of the bathroom .

The open construct is an awesome concept . It lack amour . There is no edge ensconcing me in the lovesome steam from the water . When I shower in an open - concept shower , I feel vulnerable and cold . I do not perish or enter the exhibitioner . There is just a toilet where I shit and a shower head I stand underneath , with no clean line delineating the two space . I hate it , and I am not alone .

Modern and spacious bathroom that does not have walls around the shower.

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In a recent mail on the r / Travel subreddit , other travelers sound off about how much this type of bathroom setup is totally unpleasant . " I ’ve stayed in probably 10 hotels this year and all of the nice 4 - 5 star hotel have swop their showers to these weird assailable concept stalls , " theRedditor posted . " Sometimes it comes with three - and - a - half - ish walls but other times it ’s just a slanted flooring and a shower head in the corner of the bathroom . "

" Who has involve for this ? Why are we trying to make showers modern art ? I want four walls that shut down off . I want to not be huddled in the box of the shower trying to find the locating that jet the least amount of water in the repose of the bathroom area where I ’m about to spend the next 20 minutes aim ready and trying not to slip and fall down on fresh , sneaky puddle , " the Charles William Post continued .

For all the hotel head boss out there , please make a absolved water parting between the cascade and the rest of the bathroom and an even more manifest divide between the john and the bedroom . This is not the variety of airy , open space hoi polloi want .

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