I like the look of the shower in my Vienna hotel. It is one where you run the bath water over your feet until you get the temperature right. Then you press down, or lift up the plunger, or perhaps rotate a wheel, and the shower takes over from the bath.
Except I cannot find the plunger or the wheel. It is not between the bath taps. It is not on the wall between the bath and the shower. It is not attached to the shower head. I give up and decide to have a bath. Turning the bath tap that little bit more releases a storm from the shower. That is how you work this shower. You overdo the bath.
Why are hotel showers so unfathomable? Far from home, probably jet-lagged, and in my case almost blind without glasses, travellers try to solve the bathroom designer’s latest puzzle. Hot on the left, cold on the right, or water pressure on the left, temperature control on the right?