I've even taken a bath in a shower before. (I was exhausted and cold after my first full day of open water diving on a course in New Zealand, and was too tired to stand in the shower. So I sat down and let the hot water pummel me.)

Usually, I take showers in the morning (and like the hotel rooms that have converted bathtubs into big walk-in showers). But occasionally it's nice to relax in the evening in a large tub in a swanky hotel.

One of my favourite bathtubs was in a riad (Madada Mogador) in Essaouira. My husband and I had just finished a 6-day, honeymoon trek in the Atlas mountains where the bathroom facilities had ranged from non-existent to "rustic". We were thrilled to discover that our hotel bathroom had a tub that was large enough and wide enough for both of us to lie down side by side. Sheer bliss. We took a bath, immediately followed by a shower and then another bath, and then went out for dinner and came back and had another bath. The pleasure I derived from this tub was only slightly diminished on the third night when I discovered that I had been sharing the bathroom (thankfully not the bathtub) for three days with two cockroaches that were so large that my husband had named them.