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The 'All-Female' Hotel Experience

As London's five-star Grange City Hotel prepares to open its 'women-only wing' on Sept. 1st (the rooms will feature extra perks like make-up mirrors, lighted closets, sunken bathtubs---and the wing will have no men), The Guardian's super witty Jenny Colgan ventures to Artemisia Hotel in Berlin (above), the first all-female hotel in the world, and finds exactly what one might expect.

She instantly wonders where all the chocolate, full-sized shampoo bottles and three-speed hair dryers are....

My husband calls and asks: "How's your lesbonic hotel?"

"It's not lesbonic," I say doubtfully, looking at the double bed. "Though there doesn't seem to be any shampoo."

"That's because they all have short hair," he responds.

She resorts to staying the evening and succumbing to what's available:

the spotless rooms are bare of needless feminine fripperies, such as coffee, tea, shampoo, wine, curtains, etc. It does, however, have MTV, where I am delighted to see that the top German boy band of the moment is called Ass 5.

Jenny manages to make it through the night only to be awakened by a man with a "loosely tied" bathrobe screaming down the block in the morning. Seems the true women's-only hotel is a dying breed....

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