I%26#39;ve read several reviews and it seems many Paris Hotel bathrooms will have a bathtub with a handheld shower, but provide no shower curtain or a glass partition. Guess you have to crouch or sit down to shower, to avoid making a wet mess! Somehow, I can%26#39;t picture my better half showering without a curtain. Should we request a room with a shower, no tub?
This will be our first trip to Paris and would appreciate some input from folks who have been there. Thanks!
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The %26quot;traditional%26quot; way to bathe in France is to sit in the tub and use the shower to wet yourself before washing and then to rinse afterward. Many hotels are changing and starting to put up at least a 1/4 or 1/2 glass partition.
If you ask for a %26quot;douche%26quot; and not %26quot;bain%26quot; you are more than likely going to get a rather small bathroom.
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It is funny, but true, I have stayed at a hotel with a full shower door, it was the cheapest place I have stayed, and bathroom was small( but clean and nice) , the most expensive place I stayed had as you say a tub and shower, no partition, I personally do not kill myself with worry about getting their floor wet as if they choose to have such an arrangement they must not mind the wet messes, ( thank goodness for fresh towels daily as I do throw a bunch on the mess)
I have also stayed at a hotel with a nice bathroom, large tub and shower, and the shower had a 1/2 partition which worked well.
I personally do not like shower CURTAINS as they are unhygenic in public, they are not washed or changed often enough to prevent mildew or %26quot; slime%26quot; on them( feel them, ugh) so I survive fine in Paris , either there is a mess( thier problem not mine) or there is not.
PS Les is correct, serveral of my relatives in France have %26quot; weird%26quot; arrangements in their bathrooms, showers with no partitions, or a shower with a hand held that you MUST hold above your own head, perhaps this is done to save water as you learn to have quick efficent showers,, LOL .
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bathtub with a handheld shower... it isn%26#39;t a shower.
Somehow, as uncoordinated as I am, I am able to use a bathtub and hold the rinse nozzle over me, directed toward the wall not the open room, and soap and rinse without getting the floor wet at all.
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What a picture.
And speaking of bath room oddities, what happen to all of the wash cloths?
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Most of the time if you request a bathtub it will cost more than a shower.
My experience has been that I have only encountered a glass partition i the showers I have ordered in Paris.
It is usually when I go to small towns outside of Paris do I encounter the nasty plastic shower curtains!
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sorry to alarm you, Sarasto !
wash cloths are a %26#39;personal%26#39; item so I think Europeans must carry their own, and apparently so should we. If you travel a lot, buy a bulk pack of them at a dollar store or Target or something, then you can toss after a couple of uses...
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Many small 2 or 3 star hotels will only have a shower cubicle, and when this is the case there will almost always be a screen or curtain.
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In our local Dollar Tree stores here they sell these little %26quot;magic towels%26quot; that are very small and compressed that become larger when they are wet. They only cost $1 each and take up no room in the suitcase at all-each is smaller than a deck of cards when dry and they really enlarge to the size of a washcloth, not a towel. I buy them whenever we are going to Europe, use one each day and then throw it away- it really is an answer to the washcloth problem.
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Paris or London, bring your own wash cloths for the shower/bath. We also bring the small container of soap, Irish spring, etc. from walmart or target. There are no wash cloths apparently, but that%26#39;s no problem if you bring your own. The showers in 2-3 star hotels are very small but that is no problem if you are ready for it. If you are on vacation, all you need is a semi-good bed and a shower. Spend the rest of your time exploring London or Paris.
Oprah44
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I am a person who loves a good shower from a wall mounted shower head. I find traveling to Europe, and the often very small tubs (if you are lucky to have one) with the handheld showers without shower curtains, a real difference, but a difference I acutally enjoy. I just find it extremely interesting to see how the world keeps clean or attempts to do so. So for the few weeks that we are on vacation, if it%26#39;s a slight hassle, so be it. My understanding is that Paris, and much of Europe, has made vast improvements in bathroom facilities in just the past 20 years or so. My girlfriend tells me horror stories of the bathroom/shower conditions in the hotels she stayed in when she first began traveling to Europe in the 60%26#39;s. Vive la difference!
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