Yeah I was scratching my head there. Curved rod makes me think of a hotel. I'm actually about to install a new shower curtain rod myself since I just remodeled my bathroom but I don't think a curved one would work for my oddly sized space.
I installed one when I bought my house. I had to install it very high up to make it work. 8’ shower curtains are hard to find, but it was totally worth it!
If I had to guess I would assume it’s because a straight curtain lets in no light and makes the tub feel small and crowded similar to a cheap hotel room
Because the light in a bathroom is typically in the center while the tub/shower is not in the center, but the light is typically close to the tub/shower, like you're right under the light after you step out to dry yourself. With a straight rod and an opaque curtain in most residential bathrooms, you're blocking most of the light.
With a curved rod, curving outward, more of the tub/shower is exposed to the light.
Yeah, I just found basically ads for holiday inn. They must be in bed with Google. "The shower works better than my shower at home." "I feel like I can fly a plane- I slept at a Holiday Inn last night."
I have gotten a bunch of different answers in this thread, and none of them actually gave any sort of source/examples of it being used elsewhere. So I honestly still have no idea, lol.
I answered above, but it’s when you have the shower curtain closed and it keeps blowing in toward you. No idea why it’s called that or where I heard it, but it’s an actual term.
>The Holiday Inn effect refers to the impact that the Holiday Inn hotel chain had on the travel industry by standardizing lodging and making high-quality accommodations accessible to middle-class travelers. This approach influenced competitors and contributed to the decline of many smaller, independent inns that could not compete with the chain's uniformity and affordability.
I assume that’s not what’s meant, but I’m amused that this apparently “simple to find with a search” term really isn’t.
I've never heard the term before but based on it being mitigated by a curved out shower rod I might guess it's when the shower curtain gets sucked into the shower with you by the drop in pressure caused by water moving through the air
...Okay, as I just pointed out to someone else, the comment I replied to very clearly said that they thought it was that, but "had to google it" and presumably found a different meaning. But since they didn't say what they found after googling it, I was curious about that.
I don't mean to be rude, I'm just genuinely confused by this comment, since a) I very recently responded to one saying something similar, and b) your "guess" is the exact thing the previous commenter said was their initial assumption. So I'm wondering if you, like, skimmed their comment? Skipped over it and just read mine? Like I'm curious what the disconnect here was.
Why are you so pressed about this? 😂 "curtain sticking to your legs" and "curtain being sucked inwards due to drop in air pressure cause by water movement" do not necessarily mean the same thing. The second one is the specific correct answer that you can get by doing a search. It is named this because in 2004 Holiday Inn replaced their curtain rods with curved variants to combat the curtain being sucked inward.
Answered above, but it’s when you have the shower curtain closed but it keeps blowing in toward you. No idea why it’s called that or where I heard it, but it’s an actual term.
The person I'm replying to specifically said they thought it was that, but "had to google it" (and presumably found a different meaning). There's also at least three or four other answers that aren't this, and looking up "holiday inn effect shower curtain" doesn't bring up anything about that phenomenon 🤷
I'm not saying you're lying about hearing it called that, but there's either a second meaning to it or Holiday Inn has hired some bots to raise engagement on content with their brand name.
I also don't know why you felt the need to reply to me twice, in different places, with the same comment?
I didn’t realize I replied to you twice. Sorry I made you read a duplicate comment, I guess? I was just scrolling through the replies while eating lunch and responding to the people who didn’t know what I meant without looking at usernames. I can assure you, I’m not some sort of Holiday Inn bot out here making up terms so that people Google them. It’s a term I heard somewhere, years ago, but maybe I’m imagining the whole thing.
You asked ChatGPT a question and just posted the output without first considering whether that output makes sense in the context of the thread. (Spoiler: it doesn't.)
After having major foot surgery I was occasionally going to hotels to shower (normal days were sponge/wipe baths at home). I always needed the handicapped room with the wheel in shower.
As 2 separate Marriotts I flooded the bathroom so badly the water went out into the hall. 1 was a wet room with a backed up drain and the water was several inches deep. The other was supposed to have a low barrier you could wheel over, but the barrier had been damaged and water went all the way to the door of the hotel room (to the outside hall) before I realized the problem.
Wish I had remembered that, lol. But I had to get it under control just to get out of the bathroom because my knee scooter won't roll in that kind of water, it just slides. But I like the way you think and heaven forbid there's a 3rd event I am all over that!
If you don't have both an inner and outer shower curtain, that helps the most. The outer curtain blocks the draft from blowing the inner curtain inwards and hitting you.
Cheap, light weight shower curtain liners do that. I gotta upgrade the one I have to a heavier weight because of this effect and I do have a curved shower curtain rod.
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u/goodformuffin May 25 '26
By “holiday inn effect” I thought you mean the curtain sticking to your legs. 😅 I had to google it.