Order of the Bath (East Anglian Chapter)

At least one hotel we looked at, and probably two, went in for an open plan bath. That is to say a large, full on bath in one's hotel room, about where one might expect the television to be. What is left of the bathroom is also rather open plan, with a screen but without a door. Presumably such hotels are punting for the honeymoon trade rather than ours.

The hotel room we are actually in does have a proper bath room (although it has double doors, rather than a conventional door) and it also has a full on bath. A very large, free-standing affair, with chicken feet and standing on a little dais at one side of the bath room. Taps and plug in the middle. The catch with the taps is that they are not connected to a hot water supply which in any way matches the size of the bath. And the catch with the plug is that being centre mounted one is apt to pull it out at the wrong moment. Rather a pain given the length of time it takes to get a usable amount of bath water.

But at least the bath is sturdy. It could probably cope with two people in it at once, should one's taste run to that sort of thing.