Comments on: Great hotel bathrooms #2

By: klynch

klynch — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:27:24 +0000

I am trying to find the sink from the room we stayed in at the Standard Miami. It was a ‘lush medium’ room and had a cool stone bowl balanced on crossing wooden legs. My husband saw it in some store but now we can’t find it.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:11:23 +0000

@Happy Hotelier – that sounds like a whole new blog post! Actually there are quite a lot of hotels that have integrated bathrooms/bedrooms, or bathrooms that are divided from the bedroom just by a freestanding screen/wall/cabinet/curtain rather than built into a seperate room – often acting as an oversized bedhead. This type of integrated bathroom can be quite fun, and I have seen some versions I liked a lot; but it very much depends on attention to detail, quality of finish and practicalities – this type of bathroom should also have a closed-off cubicle for the toilet, to preserve your dignity! Off the top of my head, a few hotels that that have rooms with this sort of bedroom-bathroom arrangement include: Kube in Paris – one of the places the integrated bathroom works best Lux 11 in Berlin Desert Palm in Dubai – really well designed bathrooms Room 14 ('Quatorze') at Clos du Léthé in Languedoc-Roussillon Tauana in Bahia Les Terrasses, Ibiza The Admiraals Suite at Suitehotel Posthoorn, Amsterdam Deluxe suites at the Hospes Madrid There are even more hotel rooms that have, say, just a freestanding tub (many of the Hotel du Vins, for example) at the end of the bed, with additional shower/sink/toilet facilities in a separate bathroom.

By: Happy Hotelier

Happy Hotelier — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:37:09 +0000

Great Finds!

How many bathrooms you know of integrated in the bedroom like in many lofts?

How would you feel about it?

By: Lucy

Lucy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:25:45 +0000

I actually visited this hotel a couple of weeks ago - it’s super-stylish and a fantastic place for a few nights of fancy French fun! What is very un-Victorian about it (aside from not having to boil 67 buckets of water for your bath) is the level of comfort and attention to detail; in La Suite, the whole bathroom floor is made from self-draining wooden floorboards, so you can also have a very decadent and splashy shower under the ceiling-hung rainshower head, unconstrained by a tiny cubicle! The finish of the bath is amazing too - it’s not rough at all, as you might expect.

By: anne

anne — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:22:12 +0000

Wow this is amazing CLOS DU LÉTHÉ, Languedoc-Roussillon… it seems like I am taking my bath during the Victorian era lol.

By: Juliet

Juliet — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:55:28 +0000

I feel I ought to have a peep on this subject too maybe... Hotel du Vins are no slouch in the sexy ablution space department... The Comtes de Champagne and Laurent Perrier Suites at Hotel du Vin Henley on Thames have glassed-in outside verandahs. Other suites at Hotel du Vins have twin roll top side by side baths in the De Luxe Suites and these allow romance to bloom during bathtime. Tower Lodge, Oz – the Chairman’s Suite has a pretty mind-blowing marble bathroom with a deep spa bath. Jardins Secrets , Nîmes – super-feminine and romantic, swathes of real fabric envelope antique slipper baths and sweet accoutrements like a tissue box that looks like antique books. Malabar Escapes: Trinity, in Kerala – these delightful en suites are open-air. The wooden Japanese sandals to negotiate the sole-pummelling stones are a cute touch.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:05:56 +0000

Thanks for your suggestion Steve – that hot tub at Kai looks very inviting! I believe public and private ryoken and onsens are a big deal over there. You’re right, we don’t have any Japanese boutique hotels online just yet, but our man in Asia is out scouting and spying as I type, so we should hopefully be launching a fab new collection of Japanese stays (with suitably amazing bathing) early in 2009.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:12:21 +0000

You really miss out the Asian hotels, particularly the Japanese with their (hot spring) bath fetish. For example here is one near where I live, with a beautiful open air hot spring bath in each room.

http://www.kairesort.jp/english/hanare.html

Of course the really great ones won’t be found on line and require an introduction….