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Pulling the plug on bathtubs: Hotels are coming up with new bath options

ITC Hotels, another large chain, believes the bathtub is not critical for all its guests

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Samali Basu Guha
Prasenjit Basu, a Calcutta High Court advocate and a frequent traveller, sometimes finds the bathtub in his hotel room to be oddly placed. In Delhi some weeks ago, Basu stayed in one of the best-known hotels in the city. Curiously, his suite had a bathtub on one side of the room with no curtain in between. “Everything was visible,” he says.
 
To his relief, several five-star hotels in India are doing away — or considering to do away — with the bathtub in favour of shower stalls. Stalls are considered more hygienic and use up far less space and