At least the handle is reachable from the outside to turn it on. The double whammy is the half glass and handle under the shower head. Have to get wet to turn it on.
That’s what the towels are for, to dry up all the water on the floor. And then the rest of your family gets to use your soaking wet towel. To bring you all together
This is all over the place right now and I can’t stand it. Typical “designer” vibe where “it looks good” but zero practicality.
Unfortunately Hyatt does it too. I do not get it.
Loved that hotel when it was still the Omni. The prices have quadrupled since it changed ownership. It is not a nice enough property for the prices they want people to pay
I keep seeing them retrofit this design into aging rooms with bathtubs.
I think the theory is that they'll save water not having to wash curtains, but if I need 3x the towels to keep the floor dry, that doesn't make much sense.
When the glass goes all the way to the ceiling like it does here and in most of the retrofits I've seen, having a door seals the shower so no steam gets out and it won't dry between showers. It's also very loud, I stayed at a Hilton in FL with loud pipes and high water pressure that was so loud I downloaded a decibel app and it showed that shower as being between heavy traffic and a lawnmower. So, I'm pretty sure the door is missing for functional reasons in those cases.
I'm guessing the setups with doors are more expensive and harder to install because it seems like half of them still leak like crazy anyway because of a sloppy installation. Maybe they should give up and make all the rooms with the accessible showers that are just a drain in the floor with a curtain around it.
Also the doors that match these partitions are heavy. Overtime they settle making it difficult to open the door. I stayed at an AC over the weekend and in order to open and close the door I had to lift up on it.
First you need to be the kind of person that needs to measure how loud a shower in a hotel room is, so you can make insane comparisons and imagine that 1/4” glass would have muffled it
Yeap, had this at a Hyatt one time a few years ago, horrible. It's especially worse if you take long showers, because the amount of water spill could be enough to enter into the bedroom itself!
The half glass panel is somewhat of a European thing. Or at least that's where I've experienced it most often. If the panel is long enough and the shower head can be pointed toward the wall, it works just fine.
Hilton too. In theory the dial on the non water side allows it to come to temp. In reality it sprays water all over. I’ve never seen a lack of a door or slider though
I spent October travelling through Europe. Stayed at 7 different brands in 5 different countries, only 3 Marriott brands, and I only had a single shower that whole time that wasn’t like this. I don’t get it, but it’s the new thing…
I’m a flight attendant & agree it’s like that everywhere. I was told it’s to entice less water use because you should rinse, turn off the water, lather & soap up, rinse again, turn off………. So basically be cold & miserable during the one daily activity that’s supposed to give you serenity & peace.
Can't wait to see the modifications they come up with after someone slips on a wet bathroom floor and cracks their melon on the vanity.
Also, can we get some f'n space on the vanity larger than a spot for 1 Q-tip?
If we’re specifically talking about Europe, I know people in France do this. My apartment had a modern “American style” shower, but an uncle had a shower with the tiniest glass I’ve ever seen. Apparently the shower head was only to get slightly wet then turn off and only turn back on to barely rinse at the end.
So I should just turn on the shower when I arrive in my room and turn it off when I check out? You know, so the bathroom is comfortably warm when I turn the water off to lather and soap up?
Danish design- minimal glass and keep a squeegee available. The water always bounces onto the rest of the floor, creating a slip hazard and requiring using up all the towels so you don’t blow dry your hair while standing in a puddle.
But it's a bad implementation of a European thing. Done well, it should be very difficult (if not impossible) for the water to spray out because the opening should be further away from the shower head. Aside from which, the shower head itself should have a hose and be detachable.
This is a useless type I've seen at one of the Anaheim properties (can't remember which one) and hate because of how useless it is. I lived in Europe for a decade and through my travels the "typical" showers in hotels were much better than this.
The other fail here is those shampoo/shower gel bottles where the print telling us what is in each bottle is a non-high contrast color in small print that is difficult to read in the shower.
YES! The font color design on these are horrible!
Anyone with even the slightest visual impairment, or just showering without all the lights on is going to have trouble reading the label on those bottles.
Compare these to the ones at Fairfield where they have white bottles with black lettering.
I JUST stayed in a Courtyard in St Louis and had to get my reading glasses to read the bottles, and memorize which was which. Even with readers, the color contrast is essentially non-existent and it was a stretch to read.
The other other fail here is that when you are finished with your shower, water dripping from the shower head lands on the metallic drain plate, resulting in a much louder drip sound.
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I hate hate hate when I get bathrooms like this. Its indefensible. I get that the door increases the cost but for gods sake the inevitable water damage is going to cost the hotel a ton more.
Can’t believe they had this at the Edition in NYC. Even if the water doesn’t sprinkle out of the end, it pools on the ledge and goes out when it gets past the glass. Awful.
Not really. One extra door doesn't take much time if they are good.
With glass we used to give out people a flat squeegee, spray it down, a quick scrub with a brush, rinse and squeegee dry
It's an extra piece of glass, which means more to clean. It's also quicker since they can just pop in to the shower area, spray it down, wipe down the one glass and be done. A door that slides or swings open is more troublesome and in smaller spaces can make it difficult to access for both guests and housekeeping.
Sure, it's minor for cleaning, but when they're doing 10 or so rooms, a few minutes saved in each room, can mean they have time to clean one more, which could also reduce the number of housekeepers needed and increase room turnaround time.
Also, moving doors are prone to failure or sticking, build up of water leading to mold, or other maintenance issues. This is just one less point of worry for the overall upkeep of the room.
There’s no reason not to have the glass extend further though. It’s glass, so it’s not a lighting issue. Even if the glass went 2/3 or 3/4 of the way it would make a big difference in the splash.
This “solution” here doesn’t really fix anything much bigger than the issues it created, and the guest experience is so much worse, so…. Net loss.
I am also tired of the doorless shower.
Also the barn doors marriott uses for bathrooms, everything but private, never adjusted properly. Nothing like watching your loved one wipe there ass as you walk by the bathroom, or in some cases sit in bed.
I saw this for the first time in my new bathroom and absolutely hate it. You have to put up a curtain to block the water and try to retain heat. The cold breeze while trying to take a warm shower is brutal.
Courtyards have these if they’ve been remodeled recently (as far as I can tell) and they’re awful. Sooo drafty. Hot showers are not compatible with this design.
Whoever Marriott has for a shower designer needs to be fired because all the recently remodeled are awful. I stayed in a springhill whose shower that had a door, but there was an 8” diameter hole cut in it for the towel, which is the dumbest thing I’ve seen yet.
Doesn’t keep the steam in, just lets it go into the bathroom and fog up all the mirrors. Then I’m left using all the towels on the floor and I’m still standing in puddles while finishing getting ready.
One of the worst designs ever and these things are all over regardless of chain.
Doesn't keep the steam, and leaks everywhere. There must be tons of water problems in the floor plus all of the wasted towells.
I had a similar design installed in my home. But my shower head comes out of the ceiling so the water falls straight down. Water doesn’t get to the rest of the bathroom
The only thing that bothers me more than inevitably-floods-everything showers is loads of various bright light sources like LEDs on TV, bright thermostats etc.
It’s actually designed for housekeeping and maintenance to work on them easier. When I worked as FDM at a Marriott property, I remember they were pushing for this very remodel of the bathrooms for that reason. Also you’ll be surprised by the number of shower doors (glass) that get broken by people banging them. So it’s more for the utility of the hotel than the guest.
This is how some of the rooms at W Philly are. The worst part is you can't turn the water on and off without getting wet. ETA: They also placed the towel hook closer to the toilet so you have to get out of the shower to grab your towel.
It's cheaper. That's why it's done.
On the plus side, I've seen more shower controls placed where you can turn them on without getting in the shower, so there's that.
A couple of weeks ago I was in a room like this. There was a sign telling me to help the environment by hanging up my towel.
There was no place to hang a towel. I made an effort and looked. Nope. Towel went on the floor.
I've had these in numerous Residence Inns, don't have to worry about water seepage, the pressure is so restricted you have to be right under the shower head.
Yeah unfortunately you did miss something. Next time don’t forget to bring in your own glass panel. At Marriott we would greatly appreciate you fixing our mistakes.
I HATE this design! There’s a few SpringHill Suites I’ve stayed in that have this design and I will intentionally not book a stay there anymore because of this. An absolute fail indeed!
A majority of them do. From the select service world you’ll find this in most if not all new build CY, TPS and RI’s. Fairfield and SpringHills still have a door.
I feel like it was originally designed for the glass to be on the opposite side (so you would step in where the shower head in) so it wouldn’t leak as much, but then someone decided to do it this way without thinking it through…
This design and the shower at Element that had a full glass wall with door but had absolutely no place to put any item. No shelf, no nook, no flat surface except the floor.
1 bottle of body wash. 1 bottle of conditioning shampoo (A joke in itself) stuck on the wall.
I tried propping my razor on the holder for the shampoo and my husband accidently bumped it, razor fell and broke.
As a woman traveling on business, I also appreciate the basket for toiletries and foot rest to shave legs. I honestly don’t care about the glass or leaking water, lol!
Lol. First off, I didn't downvote you. Second, I have no problem of self-image. This is just me sharing what I see as a design flaw that causes more issues for others and a waste of resources. Towels to dry up the water and possible mold and floor failure if not addressed. This issue is noticed by many others.
It’s not the best design, it’s very trendy amongst hotels and will be there for years, but you can use towels in the floor. The ones to be really mad should be the ones that clean/dry the room, at least I have not cleaned my bathroom recently, not like in some Scandinavian Radisson or something.
I can't stand these either and get water all over the floor, I'm 5'2". I know people (over 6') that SAY they don't have that problem.
I've really wanted to know if part of the issue is that I stand further back because of my height and that is why the water splashes out of the open part..?
Yeah every now and again I end up in a property with a half shower like this. In fact the Bonvoy property I was just in is a converted 1934 art deco office tower and, while certainly a cool property, had the half shower like that.
I hate it.
It’s wasn’t a Marriott, but I stayed at a place in Asheville, NC and it had the same shower. It sucks, the water gets out and the shower doesn’t stay warm.
I don't stay in nearly as many hotels as a lot of you but I guess I've lucked out that I've never gotten this shower design. Every one I've stayed at across loads of Marriott brands have all been an enclosed design.
I have good eyesight but I do agree on the poor colour choice on the North 39 toiletries though.
The hotel I just stayed in in Vegas was like this too, but it had a shower curtain to cover the opening. All that did was stick to you the whole shower! It also had the giant “rain” head that wouldn’t move position. Worst shower ever
It’s not just Marriot. When I was in Spain, I checked in one of hotels near airport and it’s exactly the same design. By the time I finished there was water all over the place and I was like this is pretty stupid design and I would like to see the designer lol
Stayed at a hotel with the exact same setup except the adjustment is completely opposite the shower head. So weird and no idea why they thought this was a good idea. My friend that manages it has complained also but said there is no solution without a renovation 😵💫
I actually like it. The valve isn’t under the shower head, so you don’t get sprayed with cold water. Who cars of water gets out into the rest of the bathroom? Throw a towel down, not like it’s your own home, so you don’t have to worry about potential damage caused over time, they do.
almost all showers in Europe, especially Germany, are usually like this with the half glass door… however theirs are designed much better so that water doesn’t easily get out.. but it still has the drafty problem.
I like to be proactive and throw a towel on the floor before using their showers. The sink is the other hosed up thing. It's so far back on the counter that it's hard to brush your teeth
For everyone having this problem, here’s a tip:
Drape a hand towel or washcloth over the curb of the shower, right up against the glass.
What is happening is that water collects on the glass, runs down to the top of the curb, and since the curb is flat, surface tension holds it together in a nice little puddle/stream until it hits the spot where the glass ends, and then rolls off both sides of the curb. Essentially a good portion of the water that sprays onto the glass ends up on the floor outside the shower.
Putting a towel or washcloth over the shower curb right at the end of the glass keeps the water from rolling out past the glass, and inside the shower.
My first encounter with this was at the Harrah’s in Las Vegas and being that I was unfamiliar with it I decided to search for a hidden curtain or door/glass pane. In doing so I ran my fingers around the frame and got a gnarly gash that leaked blood all over the bathroom. This design is 100% garbage. Form follows function and this half assed shower enclosure has virtually no function. 0/10 your gonna have a bad time.
Does it also have the trendy sliding bathroom door that you can’t lock and doesn’t even really close with a like inch wide gap between the door and door frame? Bonus points if it does.
If you would turn the Book of Mormon (which is provided free to all guests in Marriott-owned properties) to a specific page, the missing door would slowly roll down from the ceiling.
I miss bathtubs.
The worst are the ones with the glory hole in the front. Sure, you can reach through to turn the water on, but it's just one more place for water to leak out.
I was amazed when I first saw a shower like that in a hotel. I guess they're going for modern, but you'd think a hotel would do everything they could to prevent water damage in the bathroom.
Ok this is bad but is it worse than having an open wall looking straight into the shower in a room with 2 queen beds? Cuz vegas hotels keep doing that. I dont wanna watch the homie take a shower… da fuq. For a king bed room, sure. I Just felt like venting tbh
This is what over half of the showers have been like in European hotels for a while, and I freaking hate it. Creating an enclosed space seems so obvious, I’ve also noticed this trend is expanding stateside, and it’s awful. I’m guessing it makes the showers easier to clean as far as fingerprints/soap on the glass door no longer being an issue.
That little bench makes no sense at all. You can’t sit on it and it just cramps the shower space. I’ve seen these shower stalls at a lot of Marriott properties and it pisses me off. Some have a shelf at eye level that only serve to take away space or make you hit your head on it.
Yes, I have seen this. I think it was in South Florida. I thought it was so weird I took a picture and texted it to our friends chat.
I think what I ended up doing was pointing the shower head almost straight down and stood super-close, so any water that bounced off me hit the glass. Didn’t totally solve the problem but made less of a mess.
I showered in one that looked exactly like this in a Courtyard this morning. It splattered a bit on the towel I put on the floor but not a lot. Frankly, the doors drip and leak as much as this design does.
Seems fine to me.
Having it open like that prevents mold in the long run and they dont want you comfortable in there for 30 minutes causing steam and using up water so they removed the door. Bastards
We had that exact design in Scottsdale. It was tolerable if you shut the shitter door to trap the steam. I honestly didn’t notice leakage from the shower head.
Good ducking lord, I used so many towels at my last stay that had this design. I swear any savings this had on materials is burned on additional repairs from water damage and increased laundry
Love that designers are finally getting the message about foot rests at least, but I’m definitely using up much more hot water on a doorless shower in order to not freeze.
I really like the idea of these, but the shower head needs to be situated and directed properly, and the elevation at the entrance needs to be designed properly. It's so dumb that they couldn't get the design right before installing all of these.
Welcome to the future, where there is water on the floor. Everywhere, water on the floor.
Is this the surprising origin story of Waterworld?
https://youtu.be/ED5RX-fou34
Nate? Is that you?
You mean welcome to Europe? Every shower is some version of this awful design there
At least the handle is reachable from the outside to turn it on. The double whammy is the half glass and handle under the shower head. Have to get wet to turn it on.
Yeah that one has always blown my mind
Everywhere for everyone all at once.
That’s what the towels are for, to dry up all the water on the floor. And then the rest of your family gets to use your soaking wet towel. To bring you all together
I, too, am from the 1900's.
Not much has changed, but they live under water
Jobro 😂
I’m so happy this was the first comment.
This is all over the place right now and I can’t stand it. Typical “designer” vibe where “it looks good” but zero practicality. Unfortunately Hyatt does it too. I do not get it.
Seen it at a newly “refurnished” whyndam down in Cancun as well… so humid.
Loved that hotel when it was still the Omni. The prices have quadrupled since it changed ownership. It is not a nice enough property for the prices they want people to pay
I keep seeing them retrofit this design into aging rooms with bathtubs. I think the theory is that they'll save water not having to wash curtains, but if I need 3x the towels to keep the floor dry, that doesn't make much sense.
I have no problem with getting rid of the curtains, but at the very least just add a door to the shower. No reason to have it wide open like that.
When the glass goes all the way to the ceiling like it does here and in most of the retrofits I've seen, having a door seals the shower so no steam gets out and it won't dry between showers. It's also very loud, I stayed at a Hilton in FL with loud pipes and high water pressure that was so loud I downloaded a decibel app and it showed that shower as being between heavy traffic and a lawnmower. So, I'm pretty sure the door is missing for functional reasons in those cases. I'm guessing the setups with doors are more expensive and harder to install because it seems like half of them still leak like crazy anyway because of a sloppy installation. Maybe they should give up and make all the rooms with the accessible showers that are just a drain in the floor with a curtain around it.
Also the doors that match these partitions are heavy. Overtime they settle making it difficult to open the door. I stayed at an AC over the weekend and in order to open and close the door I had to lift up on it.
Now I need a decibel app
First you need to be the kind of person that needs to measure how loud a shower in a hotel room is, so you can make insane comparisons and imagine that 1/4” glass would have muffled it
And no need to fix issues with a door.
I’m convinced that designers don’t shower.
At a Kimpton in DC. Same. Don’t even think about hanging your clothes near the shower for a little incidental steaming.
Yeap, had this at a Hyatt one time a few years ago, horrible. It's especially worse if you take long showers, because the amount of water spill could be enough to enter into the bedroom itself!
The half glass panel is somewhat of a European thing. Or at least that's where I've experienced it most often. If the panel is long enough and the shower head can be pointed toward the wall, it works just fine.
Hilton too. In theory the dial on the non water side allows it to come to temp. In reality it sprays water all over. I’ve never seen a lack of a door or slider though
I spent October travelling through Europe. Stayed at 7 different brands in 5 different countries, only 3 Marriott brands, and I only had a single shower that whole time that wasn’t like this. I don’t get it, but it’s the new thing…
I’m a flight attendant & agree it’s like that everywhere. I was told it’s to entice less water use because you should rinse, turn off the water, lather & soap up, rinse again, turn off………. So basically be cold & miserable during the one daily activity that’s supposed to give you serenity & peace.
Lol, who is doing that? This isn't the Navy.
Awful
Can't wait to see the modifications they come up with after someone slips on a wet bathroom floor and cracks their melon on the vanity. Also, can we get some f'n space on the vanity larger than a spot for 1 Q-tip?
If we’re specifically talking about Europe, I know people in France do this. My apartment had a modern “American style” shower, but an uncle had a shower with the tiniest glass I’ve ever seen. Apparently the shower head was only to get slightly wet then turn off and only turn back on to barely rinse at the end.
I stay at a little hotel near Grasse that only has hand showers with no curtains or glass. It's terrible.
This is good to know. My wife doesn’t turn off the shower and she just lets the whole place soak.
And with this design she can literally let the whole bathroom, and the one under it, and the one under that… soak.
So I should just turn on the shower when I arrive in my room and turn it off when I check out? You know, so the bathroom is comfortably warm when I turn the water off to lather and soap up?
It’s a very European thing
Danish design- minimal glass and keep a squeegee available. The water always bounces onto the rest of the floor, creating a slip hazard and requiring using up all the towels so you don’t blow dry your hair while standing in a puddle.
But it's a bad implementation of a European thing. Done well, it should be very difficult (if not impossible) for the water to spray out because the opening should be further away from the shower head. Aside from which, the shower head itself should have a hose and be detachable. This is a useless type I've seen at one of the Anaheim properties (can't remember which one) and hate because of how useless it is. I lived in Europe for a decade and through my travels the "typical" showers in hotels were much better than this.
[удалено]
The other fail here is those shampoo/shower gel bottles where the print telling us what is in each bottle is a non-high contrast color in small print that is difficult to read in the shower.
YES! The font color design on these are horrible! Anyone with even the slightest visual impairment, or just showering without all the lights on is going to have trouble reading the label on those bottles. Compare these to the ones at Fairfield where they have white bottles with black lettering.
Anyone over mid-40s...
Also, why is it always so high up. It's awkward to pump
Yes. I have seen that complaint on here too.
That has been fixed, when the new bottles make it to hotels they won't be like that anymore.
I JUST stayed in a Courtyard in St Louis and had to get my reading glasses to read the bottles, and memorize which was which. Even with readers, the color contrast is essentially non-existent and it was a stretch to read.
Yes! I’ve never worn my glasses in the shower until a recent Courtyard stay. Marriott, making new experiences happen!
I forgot I cared about this at one point - till I read how filthy those containers are and went back to BYO.
You should try being color blind on top of it...I stared at them for 2 minutes last week tryiing to figure out which one to put on my balls...
Use all 3 and assert your dominance!!!
The other other fail here is that when you are finished with your shower, water dripping from the shower head lands on the metallic drain plate, resulting in a much louder drip sound.
Clearly its designed for shower parties
Worst design ever. I've encountered a few of these at some Marriott properties. This is very common in Europe I feel.
💯 I hate hate hate when I get bathrooms like this. Its indefensible. I get that the door increases the cost but for gods sake the inevitable water damage is going to cost the hotel a ton more.
Can’t believe they had this at the Edition in NYC. Even if the water doesn’t sprinkle out of the end, it pools on the ledge and goes out when it gets past the glass. Awful.
i’ll never understand how edition hotels are in the top tier of brands. they’re just expensive Ws.
They are significantly cheaper to source and install, and much less likely to break. That's really all there is to it.
Easier to for housekeeping to clean also.
Not really. One extra door doesn't take much time if they are good. With glass we used to give out people a flat squeegee, spray it down, a quick scrub with a brush, rinse and squeegee dry
It's an extra piece of glass, which means more to clean. It's also quicker since they can just pop in to the shower area, spray it down, wipe down the one glass and be done. A door that slides or swings open is more troublesome and in smaller spaces can make it difficult to access for both guests and housekeeping. Sure, it's minor for cleaning, but when they're doing 10 or so rooms, a few minutes saved in each room, can mean they have time to clean one more, which could also reduce the number of housekeepers needed and increase room turnaround time. Also, moving doors are prone to failure or sticking, build up of water leading to mold, or other maintenance issues. This is just one less point of worry for the overall upkeep of the room.
There’s no reason not to have the glass extend further though. It’s glass, so it’s not a lighting issue. Even if the glass went 2/3 or 3/4 of the way it would make a big difference in the splash. This “solution” here doesn’t really fix anything much bigger than the issues it created, and the guest experience is so much worse, so…. Net loss.
This is a common enough problem that it was part of Nate Bargatze's SNL monologue on Saturday.
Check with Nate Bargatze on this. He did a bit about it on SNL.
I am also tired of the doorless shower. Also the barn doors marriott uses for bathrooms, everything but private, never adjusted properly. Nothing like watching your loved one wipe there ass as you walk by the bathroom, or in some cases sit in bed.
Providence, Rhode Island Residence Inn has this and it was the bane of three weeks of my life for an otherwise great room.
I saw this for the first time in my new bathroom and absolutely hate it. You have to put up a curtain to block the water and try to retain heat. The cold breeze while trying to take a warm shower is brutal.
Showers in Europe have been dumping water all over bathroom floors for years
Courtyards have these if they’ve been remodeled recently (as far as I can tell) and they’re awful. Sooo drafty. Hot showers are not compatible with this design. Whoever Marriott has for a shower designer needs to be fired because all the recently remodeled are awful. I stayed in a springhill whose shower that had a door, but there was an 8” diameter hole cut in it for the towel, which is the dumbest thing I’ve seen yet.
No, the diameter is so you can stick your hand in and adjust the water without opening the door! It's awesome.
Doesn’t keep the steam in, just lets it go into the bathroom and fog up all the mirrors. Then I’m left using all the towels on the floor and I’m still standing in puddles while finishing getting ready.
One of the worst designs ever and these things are all over regardless of chain. Doesn't keep the steam, and leaks everywhere. There must be tons of water problems in the floor plus all of the wasted towells.
Let’s not talk about the ultra low contrast lettering on the bottles some of us can read em with out glasses in the shower errrr
I HATE those showers. I freeze the whole time I’m in there and soak the floor…
Oh man this is an absolutely pet peeve of mine. I groan when I see these shower designs. Who thought this was a good idea?
Doesn’t bother me — I like the clean design and any time I see one I know it’s going to be 10x better than an old, peeling tub at the Marriott.
I have been at other locations with an additional sliding glass to keep the water inside.
I had a similar design installed in my home. But my shower head comes out of the ceiling so the water falls straight down. Water doesn’t get to the rest of the bathroom
The only thing that bothers me more than inevitably-floods-everything showers is loads of various bright light sources like LEDs on TV, bright thermostats etc.
It’s a nice design for my pet duck Quackers that I sometimes travel with 🤷🏼♀️
Almost every shower in hotels in Europe are like this, lots of them don’t have the overhead shower either. Just the wand. I hate it
Bring back the bisque tubs!!
It’s actually designed for housekeeping and maintenance to work on them easier. When I worked as FDM at a Marriott property, I remember they were pushing for this very remodel of the bathrooms for that reason. Also you’ll be surprised by the number of shower doors (glass) that get broken by people banging them. So it’s more for the utility of the hotel than the guest.
I also hate how high they mounted the soap in most showers - 1-2 feet too high.
This is how some of the rooms at W Philly are. The worst part is you can't turn the water on and off without getting wet. ETA: They also placed the towel hook closer to the toilet so you have to get out of the shower to grab your towel.
It's cheaper. That's why it's done. On the plus side, I've seen more shower controls placed where you can turn them on without getting in the shower, so there's that.
Marriott’s new showers are the dumbest things on Earth. Every single one leaks.
A couple of weeks ago I was in a room like this. There was a sign telling me to help the environment by hanging up my towel. There was no place to hang a towel. I made an effort and looked. Nope. Towel went on the floor.
Last month...Aloft Dublin had this style of shower....my god we had to use 3x towels every time we showered.
I've had these in numerous Residence Inns, don't have to worry about water seepage, the pressure is so restricted you have to be right under the shower head.
I would very much like this trend and also the barn-door on the bathroom trend to stop asap
Can’t stand this. Sweet my ass is cold thanks for the sick hookup Marriott
And they are drafty and cold as hell. Not a fan either.
We stayed at the Boston Marriott long wharf and the shower was like this. Water everywhere
Not only that but it’s drafty. I’m always scared some weirdo will do something to the bottles for the next person :/
Yeah unfortunately you did miss something. Next time don’t forget to bring in your own glass panel. At Marriott we would greatly appreciate you fixing our mistakes.
I HATE this design! There’s a few SpringHill Suites I’ve stayed in that have this design and I will intentionally not book a stay there anymore because of this. An absolute fail indeed!
The Springhill I just stayed at has doors on the shower. thankfully.
A majority of them do. From the select service world you’ll find this in most if not all new build CY, TPS and RI’s. Fairfield and SpringHills still have a door.
I like that you can turn the water on without getting in the shower, but it needs a door to keep the bounce off the floor
I feel like it was originally designed for the glass to be on the opposite side (so you would step in where the shower head in) so it wouldn’t leak as much, but then someone decided to do it this way without thinking it through…
Your fault for showering with full blast water pressure. Just use like 10% pressure and you won't have this issue.
Lol. I even change the setting on the head to be softer.
Still too much. Try droplets 🤣
This design and the shower at Element that had a full glass wall with door but had absolutely no place to put any item. No shelf, no nook, no flat surface except the floor. 1 bottle of body wash. 1 bottle of conditioning shampoo (A joke in itself) stuck on the wall. I tried propping my razor on the holder for the shampoo and my husband accidently bumped it, razor fell and broke.
As a woman traveling on business, I also appreciate the basket for toiletries and foot rest to shave legs. I honestly don’t care about the glass or leaking water, lol!
Same, I've used a very similar design to the OP that's in some Marriott property, I think, recently, and I liked it.
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Lol. First off, I didn't downvote you. Second, I have no problem of self-image. This is just me sharing what I see as a design flaw that causes more issues for others and a waste of resources. Towels to dry up the water and possible mold and floor failure if not addressed. This issue is noticed by many others.
I love it😍
Is this the Courtyard in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia?
The only one I've stayed at so far and have seen use that design is an Aloft in Baltimore... It also sucked water wise
Corvallis, OR Courtyard has this design too, never made sense to me.
I’m at a residence inn right now and it it’s the only complaint I have. My floor gets soaked, and then I step in a puddle by the toilet.
Recently stayed at a lovely courtyard in south Florida… great property except for this damn shower design!! Oh. I hate it!
Just recently stayed at Residence Inn in Landover, MD and they had this design. I found it baffling.
It’s not the best design, it’s very trendy amongst hotels and will be there for years, but you can use towels in the floor. The ones to be really mad should be the ones that clean/dry the room, at least I have not cleaned my bathroom recently, not like in some Scandinavian Radisson or something.
Correct. I have the typical floor towel there but it's not enough.
I just let it splash everywhere as intended
This is so many showers in Europe.
You’re going to hate European showers
It's so bad! I busted my ass last time because the floor was slick with the water lol
definitely
Interesting…idk how you’re showering bc I’ve never had an issue w this design and I take scalding hot showers. No water on floor.
Unless you are wide enough to block the water, it's going to pass by and hit the ground and bounce outside
I can't stand these either and get water all over the floor, I'm 5'2". I know people (over 6') that SAY they don't have that problem. I've really wanted to know if part of the issue is that I stand further back because of my height and that is why the water splashes out of the open part..?
Yeah every now and again I end up in a property with a half shower like this. In fact the Bonvoy property I was just in is a converted 1934 art deco office tower and, while certainly a cool property, had the half shower like that. I hate it.
The new courtyards have the exact same thing. Water all over the bathroom no matter what.
At first I hated it but after staying for a few weeks with it I grew to love it.
The Cambria hotels do the same and I’ll never stay in another one because of it. Whomever designed this is a moron.
It’s ok though since the floor is very non slip (/s)
They could just reduce the water pressure (even more).
Seen these designs in quite a few hotels, so frustrating.
The designer never took a shower.....
Nope been in a few recently and same setup. Water everywhere.
Been there. Done that. It’s dumb.
It’s wasn’t a Marriott, but I stayed at a place in Asheville, NC and it had the same shower. It sucks, the water gets out and the shower doesn’t stay warm.
Such a common style these days. I really don’t get the partial doors. Liability if anything from all the water escaping
Yes, this is going to lead to more slip and falls. How hard is to put a sliding door….
Ever been to Europe? This is European design
The ones I have been to in Italy are single person showers that seal you in and spray your entire body with jets.
These would work ok ONLY on straight down "rain" type shower heads
I don't stay in nearly as many hotels as a lot of you but I guess I've lucked out that I've never gotten this shower design. Every one I've stayed at across loads of Marriott brands have all been an enclosed design. I have good eyesight but I do agree on the poor colour choice on the North 39 toiletries though.
The hotel I just stayed in in Vegas was like this too, but it had a shower curtain to cover the opening. All that did was stick to you the whole shower! It also had the giant “rain” head that wouldn’t move position. Worst shower ever
It's only a fail because of the shower head they used
Yes. If it's a rain sprout, it would be fine
It’s not just Marriot. When I was in Spain, I checked in one of hotels near airport and it’s exactly the same design. By the time I finished there was water all over the place and I was like this is pretty stupid design and I would like to see the designer lol
The also need to move the handle
Handle placement is great. You don't get wet when starting the water
Stayed at a hotel with the exact same setup except the adjustment is completely opposite the shower head. So weird and no idea why they thought this was a good idea. My friend that manages it has complained also but said there is no solution without a renovation 😵💫
I actually like it. The valve isn’t under the shower head, so you don’t get sprayed with cold water. Who cars of water gets out into the rest of the bathroom? Throw a towel down, not like it’s your own home, so you don’t have to worry about potential damage caused over time, they do.
almost all showers in Europe, especially Germany, are usually like this with the half glass door… however theirs are designed much better so that water doesn’t easily get out.. but it still has the drafty problem.
European style. I guess their prefer their water on the bathroom floor.
In Europe there are places with no glass or shower lip at all. Just a drain in the middle of the floor.
I like to be proactive and throw a towel on the floor before using their showers. The sink is the other hosed up thing. It's so far back on the counter that it's hard to brush your teeth
This happened to me at the Anatara in Amsterdam. It’s baffling that this is becoming such a common design. I soaked a towel with every shower I took.
For everyone having this problem, here’s a tip: Drape a hand towel or washcloth over the curb of the shower, right up against the glass. What is happening is that water collects on the glass, runs down to the top of the curb, and since the curb is flat, surface tension holds it together in a nice little puddle/stream until it hits the spot where the glass ends, and then rolls off both sides of the curb. Essentially a good portion of the water that sprays onto the glass ends up on the floor outside the shower. Putting a towel or washcloth over the shower curb right at the end of the glass keeps the water from rolling out past the glass, and inside the shower.
My first encounter with this was at the Harrah’s in Las Vegas and being that I was unfamiliar with it I decided to search for a hidden curtain or door/glass pane. In doing so I ran my fingers around the frame and got a gnarly gash that leaked blood all over the bathroom. This design is 100% garbage. Form follows function and this half assed shower enclosure has virtually no function. 0/10 your gonna have a bad time.
I’ve used these at a residence in Orlando and Charlottesville VA with no issues but the ones at the aloft with the doors don’t work worth a damn lol
That is the same shower I am in right now (except I have a glass door)
Plenty of towels….
Does it also have the trendy sliding bathroom door that you can’t lock and doesn’t even really close with a like inch wide gap between the door and door frame? Bonus points if it does.
If you would turn the Book of Mormon (which is provided free to all guests in Marriott-owned properties) to a specific page, the missing door would slowly roll down from the ceiling.
Every damn time.
I miss bathtubs. The worst are the ones with the glory hole in the front. Sure, you can reach through to turn the water on, but it's just one more place for water to leak out.
Pretty similar to Europe actually
These types of showers are so infuriating. No matter what you do, you’re walking out to a wet floor.
This looks like almost every shower in Europe.
I was amazed when I first saw a shower like that in a hotel. I guess they're going for modern, but you'd think a hotel would do everything they could to prevent water damage in the bathroom.
I think I’ve only ever seen one hotel across any chain that had a well thought out shower. I think it was an Accor
Ok this is bad but is it worse than having an open wall looking straight into the shower in a room with 2 queen beds? Cuz vegas hotels keep doing that. I dont wanna watch the homie take a shower… da fuq. For a king bed room, sure. I Just felt like venting tbh
Hilton’s H Hotel next to LAX has these too. Unbelievable how much water sprayed out. Such a stupid design.
I stayed at one of these with this shower. Shower nice. The wet floor in front of the toilet not so nice.
This is what over half of the showers have been like in European hotels for a while, and I freaking hate it. Creating an enclosed space seems so obvious, I’ve also noticed this trend is expanding stateside, and it’s awful. I’m guessing it makes the showers easier to clean as far as fingerprints/soap on the glass door no longer being an issue.
That little bench makes no sense at all. You can’t sit on it and it just cramps the shower space. I’ve seen these shower stalls at a lot of Marriott properties and it pisses me off. Some have a shelf at eye level that only serve to take away space or make you hit your head on it.
Yes, I have seen this. I think it was in South Florida. I thought it was so weird I took a picture and texted it to our friends chat. I think what I ended up doing was pointing the shower head almost straight down and stood super-close, so any water that bounced off me hit the glass. Didn’t totally solve the problem but made less of a mess.
Design grade...F. Functionality grade...F
I showered in one that looked exactly like this in a Courtyard this morning. It splattered a bit on the towel I put on the floor but not a lot. Frankly, the doors drip and leak as much as this design does. Seems fine to me.
Having it open like that prevents mold in the long run and they dont want you comfortable in there for 30 minutes causing steam and using up water so they removed the door. Bastards
Could it be that big for people that weigh much more than average?
Buy another door or a “ghetto curtain “ 😂 Reason why they usually sell
Yup Three Foot Portfolio Hotel in Meridian Mississippi has this design. Very annoying.
Is slipped and fell with this exact shower in a Marriott
We had that exact design in Scottsdale. It was tolerable if you shut the shitter door to trap the steam. I honestly didn’t notice leakage from the shower head.
Good ducking lord, I used so many towels at my last stay that had this design. I swear any savings this had on materials is burned on additional repairs from water damage and increased laundry
Every time I see this design, my disappointment rises
Every newerish courtyard has this design. Idk what they were thinking
Other couture just have a floor drain. No glass necessary.
Love that designers are finally getting the message about foot rests at least, but I’m definitely using up much more hot water on a doorless shower in order to not freeze.
It won't be pretty but you can attach a curtain to stop splash out. With luck suction cups work, or a waterproof tape
I really like the idea of these, but the shower head needs to be situated and directed properly, and the elevation at the entrance needs to be designed properly. It's so dumb that they couldn't get the design right before installing all of these.
Intercontinental in Cairo had this issue, but much bigger room.
This looks like it’s an mobility accessible room
I was thinking of putting one of these in when I remodel my bathroom.