Luxury hotel mocked online for offering 'bucket baths' following power outage

A woman with a baby strapped on her back fetches water from a well in Epworth a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe — TSVANGIRAYI MUKWAZHI/AP

A top hotel in Zimbabwe became the butt of jokes on social media Wednesday after it offered its guests buckets of hot bathwater following a power outage in Harare.

In a notice to guests, the chic, century-old Meikles Hotel said it had been operating on a generator since Saturday due to a fault in the Harare's central business district. As a result there was no hot water.