"A Japanese-style tearai washbasin is simply not adequate for washing one's face or brushing teeth, especially when there isn't enough room to approach it head on by straddling one's legs either side of the toilet.
Such a contrivance is only meant for HANDWASHING after using the toilet, not for full night-time/morning ablutions, BUT it isn't even adequate for handwashing when one has to stand to one side of it because of aforementioned lack of toilet-straddling space AND the idiot who installed it put the tap on the very side from which one might - albeit in cramped fashion - approach the basin. With the tap on the only possible approach side, one has to try and get one's hands wet in a decidedly cack-handed manner, and then aim one's tooth-brushing spit - with the ridiculously tiny amount of water one is able to get in one's mouth from the tap pointed in the wrong direction - over the annoyingly-placed encumbrance. It is clumsy, extremely inconvenient and very, very messy.
Good grief, at least have someone come and put the damn tap on the other side if you really can't figure out where to install a proper washbasin!
This, and the complete lack of wardrobe, chest of drawers or even a shelf on which to put clothes, necessitating literally "living out of a suitcase" made one feel that being single means you get stuffed in a cupboard - the approximate size of the room - and left to deal with it.
Even for just 2 nights, it was highly inconvenient. But staff members were very nice."
