Fairmont’s Savoy Hotel in London is one of the world’s great hotels. Full of history, tradition and luxury - the Savoy represents the very best in British hospitality. And their WC is pretty sweet to boot.

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Achieving AAA’s coveted Five-Diamond hotel designation is no easy task. Apart from having impeccable service delivered consistently every time hotels that achieve this level of quality have to maintain a pristine facility with all the bells and whistles.

Canadian-made Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, to their credit, have achieved Five Diamond status for a full 21 of their hotel properties around the World. Enormous effort had to have been made in order for that to happen, so congrats to Four Seasons.

Ladies, enjoy this image of a gentleman guest of the Four Seasons Hotel in Istanbul. Please note not only the friendly looking washroom patron, but also the well cared-for, immaculate environment in this male domain. Contrary to what you might believe, we are also fully capable of enjoying some of the finer accoutrements of luxury travel, such as cute little towels rolled up, and bathroom soaps pumped out of dainty little dispensors.

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Hotels don’t often use high-end bathroom fixtures with brand names like Kohler. For one thing, residential-style fixtures aren’t necessarily made to take the amount of use that commercial hotel fixtures receive on a daily basis.

It isn’t that guests use the faucets differently from at home, but rather that housekeeping also uses them daily when servicing the guestroom.

The other factor is, of course, price. Brands like Kohler aren’t known to be the cheapest in the catalogue.

When you stay in a hotel in Kohler, Wisconsin however - you can be sure that you’ll be using top shelf bathroom fixtures. After all, head offices for the Kohler company really are in Kohler, Wisconsin.

Check out this golden hotel faucet set from the luxury American Club Hotel, along with a very nice porcelain floral fixture at Kohler’s Design Center.

We spent Thanksgiving at this resort in Kohler, Wisconsin…yes Kohler. Each room has really NICE fixtures.

The Kohler Design Center is the place to go to see the most spectacular bathrooms you’ve ever seen. It’s actually a tourist attraction in Kohler.
Kohler, Wisconsin, November 2006

We wonder what kind of chocolate they place on your pillow during turndown in Hershey, Pennsylvania?

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No matter how contemporary upscale hotel designs become, we can always count on a few standards to be in place - like traditional bathroom signage.

We love images of hotel bathroom signage “people” here at HotelThrone.com. Two people, him and her, perfectly complementary against a deep red velour backdrop. Never touching, but always together. It almost brings a tear to our eyes. But not quite.

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I think this is the nicest bathroom I have ever seen.

“…everything in the Casa El Carretero is special, from the pool, to the food to the decoration. This is a historical neighborhood where the first demonstrations of independence from the Spaniards were planned.

What I liked the most at this hotel was the first class service and the fact that they let me do a 5 minute long distance call to my relatives at no extra cost. I could not believe it, but I guess that is the point of a 5 star boutique hotel…[more]”

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For many guests, luxury service inspires an image of name recognition, anticipation of needs and extreme attention to detail.

Of course luxury can also mean getting a drink of water from the mouth of a gold-leaf swan-ish gargoyle!

…faucet in the bathroom at the Ritz Hotel, where I was drinking at the Bar Hemingway.

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