jsm, most new hotels have 4 piece bathrooms now, 3 stars and up. It's more common in Asia where they had most new hotel construction activity since the 90's while we were pretty slow here in North America.

Our old breed of hotels, high end included, have 6x8 or 7x8 bathrooms and are difficult to expand. Yes, we are stuck. The tub/shower combination will stay. Starwood introduced the Heavenly Shower concept -- double heads, curved-out shower curtain rod to give you more elbow room.
I would relly like to pull the tub another 8" away from the wall to create a sitting ledge(8"+ the 4" lip of the tub will give you a 12" ledge) where I can have a sit-down shower.



[This message has been edited by henryw (edited 05-22-2002).]