The hospitality experience offered at hotels has long transcended its residential aspects. Some of the biggest attractions for guests today include the variety of lifestyle amenities offered by the establishment.
Facilities such as a gym, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, sauna and spa services not only make guests’ stays more comfortable and luxurious, but are often central to guests choosing a hotel.
The pandemic, which has already been hard on the hospitality sector, has also forced an abrupt halt to these amenities due to safety concerns. It is almost impossible to fully sanitise shared areas such as swimming pools and steam rooms between each use.
While several hotels have reopened adopting a contactless model to minimise contamination, these activity amenities cannot be modified to follow a contactless model and have thus been left inactive. This has led to disappointment on the part of proprietors and guests alike.
RISING TO THE OCCASION
Enter, the new generation of self-sufficient bathroom amenities, which are becoming a popular, scalable solution to this obstacle. While guest uncertainty with public spaces remains high, self-sufficient bathroom design offers a variety of adapted lifestyle and wellness features within the self-contained pod of each individual room’s bathroom, ensuring maximum safety and minimum contact.
The bath features themselves are impressively innovative. For instance, some hotels have chosen to install custom shower panels and fittings which incorporate a hydro-massage feature as a combination of bath and massage treatments. Others have modified shower closes to double up as steam and sauna pods built directly into the room.
Another novel feature includes chromotherapy lighting and aromatherapy candles and diffusers, which let guests create a relaxing atmosphere within their bathroom reminiscent of a spa. Other hotels have chosen to expand on the theme of luxury with their amenities, by turning regular showers into ceiling mounted rain shower systems or 360 degree shower enclosures. Waterfall tubs are another popular feature preferred by luxury hotels that seek to provide guests with an exceptional experience.
The continuing concerns regarding the pandemic and infection have boosted the popularity of self-sufficient bathroom amenities. Even for the distant future, where shared amenities are safe to utilise regularly, self-sufficient bathrooms can complement the attractions offered with a wider array of options.
These add a much needed touch of indulgence to the guest experience while remaining extremely safe, intimate and easy to integrate into a contactless experience. Thus, for hotels stepping into the post-pandemic world, self-sufficient amenities are definitely the way to put their best foot forward.
