We wash our bottoms-Hotels Please Take Note
We’ve returned from holiday having stayed in some pretty expensive hotels. Marble bathrooms and toilets and all that. Everything was perfect from the pressure in the showers to the six unnecessary towels each. But as usual there was a lack, the lack of what one has variously heard called a hygiene shower, a potty shower (the mother’s name for it), hand faucet etc.
In other words, the shower next to the pot that we South Asians and South East Asians have in our loos, replacing the trusty bucket and mug/lota to wash our bums.
I don’t know about you, but I refuse to be satisfied with dry toilet paper, though that is also required.
What I don’t get is, these hotels are in Asia-where people wash their bottoms regularly. Are they expecting a purely European clientele? Some of them construct loos far away from any source of water, usually separate from the bathroom area and the washbasins.
All right, it might be nice to have the pot far away from where the shower is, in a bathroom the size of a small football field, but how about at least a tap near the pot? Step out of the fancy five stars in Indonesia and Thailand and walk into a “local” loo and you’ll immediately spot the shower, or a bucket and a mug.
I thought at least the hotels in India would have the bum showers but it turns out not to be the case.
Of course, we have them here in our loos at home in London, transported all the way from India.
Seriously! Not finding one in a loo abroad is still okay but what were the hotels in India thinking by not having them!
Yes- we had recently attended a swanky wedding in Mumbai, and had been accommodated in a swish hotel, with no convenient bum washing facilities, to my utter chagrin. We finally used empty mineral water bottles, which were not convenient at all:(
If I’d known that even our desi hotels are so angrez, I would have travelled with my trusty mug that has accompanied me to the US, UK, and Australia.(http://dipalitaneja.blogspot.com/2007/10/leaving-on-jet-plane.html
Never thought that I’d need it in India:(
all I have to say is that I am right there with you
The contingencies I carry is not even funny!!
Oh boy, despite my very liberated thinking, I would hate having to use TP instead of water. It ain’t clean unless it’s been washed, lol.
Bummer!
Rohini-I agree
Dipali-Yes mineral water bottles have been used here too
Sands-one of my “contingencies” used to be wet wipes, but apparently they’re not good for the environment!
Suki, nothing unliberated about bum washing!
Desidownunder-heh, that’a a good one!
Oh, don’t get me wrong. The “unliberated” part is me being squeamish about TP. Loving water has nothing to do with it. If I were THAT liberated, the water/TP/bidet debate wouldn’t matter to me at all – get what I mean?
Suki, I think so!
What an arresting title, ra!!
And Indian hotels not having bum showers is par for the course, isn’t it – just add it to the never-ending list of “things we do to appease the white man”. gah.