Just when you think you've seen it all in hotels someone comes up with something so wonderfully pointless that you just have to take your metaphorical hat off to them.
Yes, a recent stay at a hotel in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire for my friends' wedding supplied a quite unexpected bonus memory.
On checking into our room - a quirky affair with modern touches sitting alongside features such as a four-poster bed, a glance around the toilet became a baffled stare.
Bath and shower - check; toilet - check; slightly weird transparent double basin - check; urinal with glowing blue under-lighter - What!
Yes, oddly next to our conventional toilet there was a wall mounted urinal with flip up lid - let's not be vulgar now, darling - and an odd blue light below to kindly light up your undercarriage.
Of course, the why? was the thing that ultimately stumped me. An attempt to recreate the public loo experience, perhaps? Or - God forbid - extra capacity when you're both in a rush to get to your business meeting/wedding breakfast/ lavatory convention?
Suggestions written on some clean toilet roll to the usual address...
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