It looks like marble but is it for sure? I'd call the hotel and ask for the Executive Housekeeper. He/She would probably tell you; especially if you start with a compliment about the wonderful cleanliness of their bathrooms. ;-)

Your new house is quite beautiful! Happy times there!

Right, aren't there ceramic tiles that look a lot like marble? I also have thought that when seeing that in bathrooms. We stayed somewhere in Atlanta Buckhead where the bathroom looked a lot like that.

What is the big deal with marble? My first experience with marble was the countertop on my grandmother’s island in her pantry. Why? Because it was the best surface to roll out pastry.

So, as you are considering, I installed a gorgeous marble floor in our master bathroom. DO NOT DO IT. Normal life, lots of showers, hair spray, everyday bathroom cleaners…..

Use it on an island when you make a pie.

Professionally, I can tell you that commercial properties, even with their everyday housekeeping, can not keep up with marble maintenance. So, in slow season, professional’s come in to refinish. It is messy and expensive.

Please, consider what happens near the toilet. Trying to be delicate, here, but often, the marble can not be restored.

I saw this bunny riding a skateboard in the marble at the Ritz Carlton in San Francisco.

Seriously though, we have honed marble in the bathroom and while it has etches and such, they are less noticeable.

Not seeing the bunny..........

My daughter has a marble like ceramic tile in her co op. It's lovely.

Look in the middle. He's going down hill. Or at least it looked like it when I was there.

My parents have marble bathrooms. You have to dry the shower down after every use and keep the bathroom well-ventilated to keep mold at bay, but you would need to do that with any tile. Periodically, say every 3 years, they have a marble guy come out and clean and polish the marble. Those contoured toilet rugs are a big help. Even though people seem to think the rugs are yucky, they aren't if you wash them often.

Keep in mind that hotel is very recently done--the marble is still new.

I was recently in one with marble bathrooms (also in DC)--floors, showers, tub decks, walls. Like a mausoleum. I mean monument. Heh. One of our rooms had been redone recently and the marble was shiny. The other room's bathroom marble was beginning to show some use. Used marble is so much nicer...as long as it's clean. It gets all velvety.

I'm guessing bleach. Lots of bleach. I would not be surprised if the shower floors and bathroom floors had a heavy duty sealer on them, like floor wax...

Oh please don't use bleach or any harsh chemical on marble - it etches easily. We just had the marble floors in our bathroom re-polished and re-grouted. I couldn't figure out why the Appé Verde was hazy and streaked and the black grout was missing in places. I had been using the same cleaning crew for years but they hired someone new and for some reason she started wiping my marble floor with bleach. They were instructed to only use water. The company was not happy when they had to pay for the refinishing.

Took awhile, I see the bunny! ( only because nayday circled it and I turned my tablet). My day can continue!

love the look of marble everything in bathrooms, hate that it makes the rooms so noisy.

I see funny things everywhere. It's a gift.

Now I see the bunny, but at first I saw a waving garlic bulb on a skateboard. ;-)

Library of Congress bathrooms are all marble --- There are what looks like rust near the sinks; other than that, they look great.

My question is, why don't people use more black marble in their homes? Look how beautiful (to me, anyway!) that vanity top is in the Trump Hotel bathroom photo that nidnay posted. Full disclosure: even though my fireplace facing is black marble, it doesn't inform my opinion ;)

And speaking of colored marble in Hotel bathrooms, I thought the red marble (yes, red) bathrooms in the Ritz Carlton residences in New Orleans were exquisite, too!

How to keep marble looking "hotel clean"? Simple. Clean it every day. Wipe it down within HOURS of showering. Use the RIGHT products (the hotels will arm their cleaners with the PROPER products - and I can guarantee you there are "maid's carts" that are SPECIFICALLY STOCKED for those suites) and you use them every...single...day...with...out...fail... Which is exactly what happens in a hotel! Everyday that stone is properly wiped down, cleaned and buffed dry. By someone paid to do it (who has a supervisor viewing the rooms every day for inspection) and who's job hangs by a thread - every day.

And you pay maintenance to come by and "buff and seal" that stone ON SCHEDULE. Yep. They "book off" the room every 4-6 months so that maintenance can come in with their buffer wheels and their chemical seals. They give the whole place a "once over" and everything looks good as new!

Whew! Daily maid service and quarterly "buff and seal" will keep things looking tip-top for decades.

Then there's the rest of us...living in reality.

My parents have marble countertops in their bathrooms (his-n-hers) and a powder room. Does it look like the day they moved in, in 1971? No. Does it look good? Yes. Patina'd, loved, used.

I don't mind patina - in fact, I love it. But most people today prefer "perfect" and are not enchanted by patina. It's just a reality.

I have 13 year old polished marble kitchen counters that still make me smile every day etches and all. But, and this is a big but, water does not sit on it for long. I like my etches, I have no stains, they remind of parties with wine served, and making lovely food for my family but I do not like yellow rusty spots and many marble shower floors turn yellowish orange when they react with the iron in water.

Also marble tile is porous and when used on shower pans sometimes have darker areas where the water get traps under the marble and mudded shower bed. This trapped water not only darkens the tiles but also is a breeding ground for mold issues. I would not hesitate to use marble on my shower walls and main floor but use a shower pan or porcelain tile on the shower floor...

1929Spanish-GW, I have been seeing the same duck in my bathroom for years. He is worried and pacing with hands clasped behind him.

LOL reading all the responses convicted me in why I would NEVER have marble in my home. Back in the day my parents bought end table ensemble for their living room. Wood with marble insets. What a PAIN they were where glasses/drinks were concerned. Soooo IMPRACTICAL for day to day living.