Hotels love installing these things. They’re cheaper than two large shower doors, they make the room look bigger, and guests think it looks modern.

That said, you’re kind of supposed to pair this with a rain shower head in the ceiling to reduce splash. This looks like a remodeled hotel that didn’t want to move the plumbing. They just did a cheap refresh to make people feel like they were staying in a modern room.

Thought that heat lamps might get rid of the chill factor?

I have 3+ meter ceilings in all rooms including the bathroom, and the heat lamps are a godsend in winter.

I'm looking to renovate the bathroom over the coming years and thought that an open space shower might be a great addition but maybe we will reconsider.

I do like the Japanese prefab wet bathroom units, but not sure if they are available here, nor if the other half would approve.

The Conquest of Wet

I do. But a proper one. All tiled. No glass that is a PITA to keep clean. No curtain that gets disgusting. Just step in, shower, step out.

But that stuff is out of reach to most people, including myself. And to be brutally honest, it is pure excess. But some people are still trying to imitate that with those crappy compact ones but it just ends up being stupid and worse than a normal shower.

I do and I have one. The downstairs shower next to the sauna is just an entire tiled room so I don't feel like I'm in a cramped space. I always use that one, even in the winter when it's basically freezing down there, because I hate the cramped booth upstairs, I have very broad shoulders and can always feel like I'm going to hit the walls.

The one in the OP is the worst of both worlds though. Still cramped, but doesn't keep water in like a regular shower booth... and it's installed in a bathroom without a proper tiled floor...

Mine was fine till the kids grew up and wanted showers not baths. Water everywhere. Had to replace it with a sliding door

I've built three doorless showers.

I'm fairly certain it's a Marriott.

The Japanese did it right. Essentially the same thing you’re describing and in a way that mitigates anything commenters below you blurted out.

Unfamiliar with Finnish techniques.

I have had this style once. The shower head even reached around near the toilet, so when cleaning I could just hose the whole thing over, and then squidgee. Very convenient.

That's still worse than just having a door. The squeegee helps, but it's not perfect, and I hate stepping on wet/damp floor after drying my feet. I mostly see that style in hotels or bathrooms which are too tiny to fit a proper shower. Whenever not space constrained, I'm pretty sure they're just there to save money.

Building code in most if not all of northern Europe require bathrooms to be a proper wet room, meaning waterproofing and a drain for all parts of the bathroom. This means either having two drains, or to allow water to flow from the rest of the bathroom to the shower. Guess which alternative is easier and cheaper to do?

But your towel would get damp. And your poor toothbrush is gonna taste like your brother's shampoo!

I'm guessing (hoping) that's not actual wood

Looks like plastic to me. Or ceramic in style of wood.

I think you dropped this --> /s

Those are ceramic tiles. You can tell by the grout lines.

My stand still remains.

When the shower is literally alone in its own room, that's a little different.

I'm talking about when the full bathroom; toilet, sink, and shower, are all in the one uninterrupted space.

Did Dave piss on the damn toilet seat again, or is it just splash from the shower? 🤷🏻

Oh hey it's the bathroom from my student campus housing

Interesting. I thought a lot of Japanese dwellings were smaller than the average American home. But I'm in the US and my entire bathroom is like between one third and one half of this image. I don't have room for a setup like this without making the neighboring room significantlly smaller.

My uni dormitory bathroom was like that, a very tiny off-white plastic cube with a toilet, sink and shower in no more than about 2 square meters.

It looked like crap, especially with aging year by year, but it was really easy to clean indeed. Though if everything gets wet regularly, mold also has an easier time spreading, so we needed to do that "easier" cleaning more often as a result

OFC, this is all on my multimillion dollar yacht after all....

Is this a serious comment