The La Quinta, New Haven, CT

A very special Shower Report from Amy A. of In the Can (http://frominthecan.wordpress.com/)!

• While this shower may be nothing to look at, it meets some of your criteria...though it falls short in some respects.
• Note the safety handrail, and the tub is a reasonable height to step over (in my opinion).
• All towels are in easy reach!
• The water pressure was good; no need to spend extra time rinsing that last bit of shampoo.
• Storage...well, for me it was enough to have a little three inch corner shelf. For someone with more supplies, it would have been woefully inadequate! There is a little strip of shelving over the toilet that you could use for some extra bottles, but it's not very convenient.
• Rounded shower curtain rod keeps the curtain away from my clean skin.
• Interesting feature...the shower curtain had a clear strip that ran across at about head-height. It was textured so you couldn't see through clearly, but created a little window. So you could see someone brushing their teeth while you are showering? I can't imagine wanting to make use of a window into your private shower time!

Exciting news from another corner of the bathroom!

"TSR," you say, "Yes, all of this information about showers is great, but, sometimes I'm in the bathroom for other reasons. How will I know where to go?"

Fear not, dear reader! Going where no blogger.com or wordpress.com blog will go, my friend Amy A. tells you how it is In the Can!

http://frominthecan.wordpress.com/

Holiday Inn Express Boston, Waltham, MA

Photo credit: Heather H.

• Not great water pressure—felt kinda soapy after showering
• Good temperature
• Efficient, one-knob system for temperature
• Good in-shower storage
• Insufficient towel racks
• New shower curtain engineering marvel! This was a 1-piece shower curtain that did a 2-piece shower curtain job. It was one transparent layer on top, which at about head height split into two layers (one transparent layer to hang outside of the tub wall, and one opaque layer to hang inside of the tub)
• Round shower curtain bar would seem to provide enough space in the shower, but the shower curtain was a bit too flowy and kept touching me

http://www.hiexpress.com/hotels/us/en/waltham/wtmma/hoteldetail/photos-tours

Courtyard Boston Waltham

• Good water pressure and temperature
• Efficient, one-knob system for temperature
• Good in-shower storage
• Soap rack in line of shower flow
• Shower curtain too short
• Insufficient towel racks


Unrelated, but important note: This hotel has an excellent hot tub!

http://www.marriott.com/hotels/hotel-rooms/boswm-courtyard-boston-waltham/

Millenium Resort, Scottsdale AZ

• I am 5’4” and this shower was too short for me. Everything was just too low!
• No shelves, and the tub wall was inconveniently low to be holding shower products that need to be accessed multiple times during the shower.
• Soap holder in direct line of the shower flow.
• Shower curtain sticks to your arm
• Weird water flow. Very spray-y. Really unpleasant to reach through the spray to adjust the shower temperature.
• Pressure and temperature otherwise okay.
• Flooding.
• The shower walls seemed to be unfinished. Visible streaks of glue or caulk.
• Good towel racks!
http://www.millenniumhotels.com/millenniumscottsdale/rooms/index.html

Coming soon!

Amy A. of In the Can (http://frominthecan.wordpress.com/) reviews a whole new area of the bathroom when she tells us how things went at The La Quinta New Haven!

Hotel Seybouse in Annaba, Algeria

Guest reporter Ben stayed at this hotel, built late 50's/early 60's, as a luxury hotel for oil business men. See how the wealthy showered back then!

• Handheld shower head, with no place to rest it!
• No shower curtain??
• Towels are within easy reach...but you'd probably spray them with the showerhead while awkwardly trying to shampoo your hair!
• Very high tub is a trip and slip hazard.
• The tile pattern could hypnotize you into a daze and you could slip and fall.
• No storage, but the sink is right there...

Yoga Center in Negril, Jamaica

This shower exists purely for utilitarian purposes and nothing more. It has water that comes out of a pipe located above your head and that's about it. I guess when you are paying $40.00 per night at a place called the Yoga Center, you can expect little else. It got you clean and thats all that really mattered... particularly when you get back to your room at 3am after having spent some time in a hot tub at a nudist resort where unspeakable and definitely traumatizing things were occurring (by others of course). And if you were lucky, the shower would surprise you and treat you to hot water as opposed to its cold water standard. At the very least, it wasn't a boring shower!

Hilton, Fort Collins, Colorado.

• A shower! Oh thank heavens, a shower! (This hotel night was at the end of a trip spent in a trailer at a remote research station. The trailer shower gets no separate review, but, if you are invited to a trailer in a remote part of Colorado, don’t go.)
• It was a shower! With soap!
• There was a blow dryer!
• Safe, low, tub walls.
• Good water pressure and temperature.
• No shelf, but enough space on the tub ledge.

http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/FNLCOHF-Hilton-Fort-Collins-Colorado/index.do