The shower matters.
My current trajectory took me from Houston, Texas to Portland, Oregon last night. I’m here for a work meeting, but I generally love coming to Portland anytime I get a chance.
On this trip, I’ve had two very different hotel experiences. From this:
to this:
At the four seasons, my room was filled with mahogany, 600 thread count sheets, and the most palatial curtains I have ever seen. So, I certainly slept well.
But, the shower sucked.
Here at the Jupiter. I walked into a room that looks like the lovechild of IKEA and a Motel 6. Complete with Voss water next to the sink, a bamboo plant, furry pillows, and condoms on the bedstand (a note next to them noting that if you check in after midnight, the charge is only $40 and you can check out at 2PM). Hilarious.
I love that hotels are beginning to get the bed thing. Marriott fully overhauled their beds, the W has ridiculous beds, and many others are finally realizing that sleeping on those weird flat beds with plastic sheets just doesn’t cut it for the business traveler who’s only in the room to do two things: sleep, and shower.
But, the hotels aren’t getting the second half. You start your hotel experience with the bed, and end it with the shower. Most of the time, at the very top end, you’ll run into those showers with the gigantic head which make you feel like you are standing under a virtual waterfall. At the bottom end of the major hotel chains, they’re starting to get it too.
Case in point, the Holiday Inn Express Guest Bathroom Experience.
Here at the Jupiter, though the experience is uber-funky. The shower rocks. And thus, my day started out rocking too.
It’s the little (important) things in the experience that count.
Written from The Jupiter Hotel – Portland, Oregon
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