At first all I saw was a picture of a bathtub. But if you look down along the rim of the tub, there is a seam that holds the glass half-partition on the right.
Aaah. Thank you very much.
I thought that might be the case. The hotel was very wheel chair compatible with a lot of ramps to get around the outdoor facilities.
It’s barely visible in the OP’s picture. You can see where the half glass panel sits on trim on the edge of the tub in front.
We have a half enclosure shower/tub. The shower heads (one fixed, one on a flexi-hose) are on the enclosed side. Very little water ends up on the floor. Since we have very hard water, we squeegee the glass after each shower and it’s a blessing that there isn’t a whole lot of it.
The most recent hotel i stayed at had a curtain, but the whole floor was just a continuous floor, with a drain at the low point. The floor near the shower got wet when i showered (so didn’t wear socks to go to the toilet) but the floor was obviously designed to get wet, and to drain.
I’ve used showers like that one, with a hand held shower head and a place to mount it, and a half wall, and I’ve just been careful about how i positioned the shower head. Never had any trouble keeping the floor reasonably dry. (I mean, i also drip on the floor when i step out of the shower. A few drops escaping aren’t an issue.)
It might be relevant that i use a hand held shower head at home, and usually hold it rather than using the mount. So I’m used to thinking about where it’s facing. I stayed at a friend’s house in Italy recently where there was just a tub and a hand held shower with no wall and no curtain, and i managed to wash without making a mess.
So anyway, i think this may be just a skill issue.
The example in the OP is also in Europe. Perhaps the custom is to have a bath and the handheld shower head is mostly or entirely used only for washing one’s hair?
That is my impression of that type of mixer shower that is integrated with the taps. Sometimes you’ll find a really good one that functions as a full shower, but quite commonly they are not really much more use than for rinsing your hair - sometimes there’s no bracket to hook it onto to use standing up and sometimes the hose isn’t even long enough to do that anyway.
It may not be fixed permanently in place - it might be hinged (they usually are) so it swings out of the way of the bath edge.
I lived and worked in Europe for about eight years and stayed in a lot of hotels. I probably saw every version of a shower that there is, but the worst of them all (I think maybe in Switzerland) was one where the floor of the shower had two levels for some unknown reason. It was a rather small shower and had an upper step where you were supposed to stand, I’m guessing, and then there was a lower level where the drain was. Now, this wasn’t a gradual difference in elevation. It was enough of a drop to where if you made a misstep you could seriously hurt yourself. Weirdest configuration ever.
It’s worth noting that the configuration shown in the OP’s photo is misconfigured, but it is probably done that way because there was no choice.
‘Correct’ configuration for this is: shower wall bracket is attached to the wall above the taps, and the glass door is installed so as to enclose the end of the bath that has the taps on it - the opposite end from the photo. Reason being that the end with the taps has the plug hole and is relatively level for standing in; the bottom of the other end of the bath is not flat - you can see it in the photo.
One of… if not THE… reason for this configuration was a full-sized door would have been impossible to open, given where the sink was placed.
Would like to say that the Henri hotel was quite nice, with a very comfortable bed and, best of all, silence. Definitely recommend, weird shower door and all.
Some household shower doors slide open so less space is needed.
Yeah, even fitting that glass door at the other end of the bath would be a problem because sooner or later someone would swing it open against the sink and smash it.
Those tend to need to be either fitted with the top runner rail fixed to the ceiling, or both ends of the runner rail attached to opposite walls - that’s not always possible (for example if there is a window at one end of the bath there may be no suitable wall space to secure the rail end)
Edit: I just checked that and I see there are some that have cantilevered slide mechanisms now. TIL.
Why only for hair? That’s the part that needs the most water pressure, in my experience.
It’s been a long time since I had long hair (or indeed, any hair) but I recall trying to rinse out shampoo in the bath and it just didn’t really work all that well by just dunking myself under the water - I needed a jug to pour water over my head as I sat up - a mixer shower would do the same job, probably better as it would be fresh water with no soap/suds in it.
But once you have a handheld that’s sufficient for rinsing hair, it’s sufficient for a whole shower. If it’s very weak, i just move it along my body to get close to everything that needs to get wet.
I once stayed in a hotel in Paris that had a retrofitted shower but no shower curtain at all. With great care, it was possible to take a shower and not leave a great puddle on the floor. That hotel also had a tiny open-cage elevator that was just fit into the spiral stairwell.
Assuming the hose is long enough to stand up and use it, sure.