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Article says half door means half as much to clean, but I think the most important part for the hotel developer was that it was half the price, or even cheaper since there's no hinge either. Neither the developer nor the supplier are using the shower, so what do they care.

Hard to use controls probably also sold poorly and so were heavily discounted. What a deal! Again, no one would buy it for themselves.

One joined floor for the shower and rest of the bathroom is a weird non-North American thing that is absolutely wrong and I sure hope isn't catching on here.

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> One joined floor for the shower and rest of the bathroom is a weird non-North American thing that is absolutely wrong and I sure hope isn't catching on here.

Hah, funnily enough every time I’m in the US I reflect about what a weird design those low faux-bathtubs are. To each his own I guess

Having spent weeks in countries with a single common wet bathroom, a separated wet and dry zone is much more friendly to use, but also less easy to clean.

If your bidet is just a hose attached to the toilet instead of a washelet, there's something to be said for it, but I still don't enjoy the single common wet zone.

A split zone design that separates the wet zone (like the shower or the tub) from the dry zone (toilet plus sink) is nice.

Once you add kids to the equation the whole bathroom + a good portion of the connecting hall is now a wet zone.

Great thing about joint floor is accessibility with a wheelchair and its generally easier to use for older people due to no step.

Wow this is a great point.

They should at least put the tiniest of ridges though if that's the goal, or a gutter if that's better.

> One joined floor for the shower and rest of the bathroom is a weird non-North American thing that is absolutely wrong and I sure hope isn't catching on here.

I live in Berlin. One of the two bathrooms in my new apartment (designed in 2016, completed in 2019) has that. It was designed for the half-door thing. I did a few experiments with it with a couple shower heads to see where the water ended up going, and decided you'd need a very large space for it to be workable without getting wet everywhere. My bathroom is only 150 cm wide, and allowing 50-60 cm for a space to walk out of the shower didn't leave enough space to keep water in the showering area. I put in a sliding glass door, and all's good.

I think the reason it works sometimes in North America is you more often have redonkulous sized bathrooms where you can have two meters of space behind your showering area.

I have often joked that every hotel owner/manager should be forced to stay in their cheapest room for one week a year and experience what it would be like for a guest.

It would be the hotel equivalent of dog-fooding. You shouldn't be willing to sell a stay in a room that you wouldn't be willing to stay in yourself.

This would be a good thing for almost every type of service.

Dogfood your social media, the food you produce, the enterprise software you write etc.

Alas its not that easy

I've experienced a few. It always seems like a good idea: no worries about splashing water somewhere, no step etc. But when you use it, especially if there are multiple people using it and you're not first, you do wish there was just one place in the room that wasn't wet.

> One joined floor for the shower and rest of the bathroom is a weird non-North American thing that is absolutely wrong and I sure hope isn't catching on here.

It is easier to clean and doesn't get mold.

I actually liked the joined floor (as an American). it is easy to ingress and egress and easier to clean the bathroom floor.

If I had the budget, I'd install one in my home.

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