Is the one way mirrored door in my hotel room the wrong way around?

[Snog]

Am staying in a boutique hotel in Amsterdam. Not in the red light district, in a nice and quite upmarket neighbourhood and a normal hotel - am staying with dh and dd. It's not a sexy style hotel, more industrial chic with bare brick feature walls.
BUT there is a mirrored door on the toilet (same in both of our rooms) so that from inside the toilet the whole door is a mirror, but from the bedroom you can see right through the mirrored door when someone is on the toilet.
Can this be right?????

[AlpacaPicnic]

I stayed in a quirky hotel converted from a block of houses in London sharing a room with DH and two male friends, it was only for a weekend for a concert so we weren't that bothered... until we realised that while sitting on the loo, you had a direct line of sight into the bedroom opposite ours (across a small courtyard!)
Naturally I was the first person to figure this out as all the boys had been standing with their backs to the window.
We draped a towel over the window and cracked on!

[DesolateWaist]

A relation of my exh had a slatted door on their bathroom, which contained the only loo in the house. The bathroom was at the top of the stairs and the lavatory was opposite the door so anyone walking up the stairs would get the full view of anyone sitting on the loo

I have nightmares like that!!

We stayed in a hotel in Munich where the shower was a glass box in the room. Next to it was the sink and then next to that was the toilet with a wall between them. Then there was a sliding door that either covered the shower or covered the toilet. Didn't cause us a problem but there were lots of trip advisor reviews complaining that you could see into the shower from the room. It was a double room. If you can share a bed with someone then what does it matter if you can see them in the shower.

[TondelayaDellaVentamiglia]

CitizenM have the bathroom/toilet pods...some of them are all in one, and some have separate shower and toilet
They also have mood lighting controlled by an ipad....so that's fun when dh decides to make all the lights red and you imagine for a moment you are re-enacting the Psycho shower scene.

Also the Hub hotels are similar, but they have a cubicle in a glass bathoom, and no coloured lights...just a dimming option for himself to fiddle with.

[LemonRedwood]

That's the one Scarlett! Guess we were just lucky 😂

[Bluntness100]

Usually these doors turn opaque when shut and locked. Are you sure that doesn't happen? They are quite common in places like Amsterdam and Belgium and I've been in a restaurant toilet with them, but it did turn opaque when the door was shut and locked.

[ScarlettO89]

LemonRedwood the platine hotel? I've stayed there. It's really lovely. We didn't have a transparent bathroom door though 😂

[MajorGeneralBuldeeff]

Maybe if you sit on the toilet seat it turns the glass opaque? You tried locking the door?

[JungleInTheRumble]

It seems pretty common in Asia to have a bathroom with glass walls. Ok (if a little weird) to share with your partner but not if you're with family or friends!

[mummytime]

As I always say to my DH "The best relationships have a little mystery in them, and toilet habits are where I'd certainly like to keep an air of the unknown"!

[deadringer]

We were on a family holiday in spain a few years ago and we got a ground floor apartment right by the pool and bar. Unfortunately the shower had a full length window facing said bar. Weird! We were going to ask to be moved but it was in such a good spot for us we ended up buying a lilo and placing it against the window. I would hate a mirrored bathroom door, dh and i are together a long time but i still like some privacy in the loo.

[twinmamma2b]

DP and I had a frosted bathroom wall in our room on our first holiday together. We'd only been together a few months and I'm convinced it was the make-or-break factor. Thankfully we both saw the funny side of seeing each other silhouettes wiping our bottoms!

[LemonRedwood]

We searched high and low for a button that made the glass door opaque but, no, it was a simple glass door.

Otherwise, the tiny boutique hotel was lovely - had a Marilyn Monroe theme going on.

[BabychamSocialist]

I also distinctly remember sitting on the loo reading a book once in a Hong Kong hotel and seeing some people across the way (very high up) having a meeting.

[BabychamSocialist]

Well it is in Amsterdam...

I once got asked "how much?" standing next to a lamp post there. DP just about pissed himself and nearly broke a rib from laughing so much. Bastard.

But yeah I've seen this in other weird cities, there's usually a button that makes it opaque.

[Pineappletastic]

Is it just a glass door, so whichever side is brightest can be seen into from the darker side?

[GlassSeahorse]

Wips yes. It was the morning after a rather raucous evening, my dad was still in bed. She stated that they might have been married for over 40 years but she wouldn't ever use the toilet in front of him. We should've swapped rooms really but we'd all arrived at different times, my parents arrived last.

Me and DH also once stayed in a hotel in Spain that had a huge bathroom with French doors that led onto a balcony. The toilet was next to said doors with no modesty glass, no curtains, nothing. We complained but the staff assured us that we could not be seen from the street which was bollocks. Luckily the bathroom had a shower cubicle and a separate bath that had a shower curtain on it. I ended up taking the shower curtain dsin and attaching it with hooped earrings to the hinges (iirc) of the doors.

I am very aware that I am coming across as some weird bathroom/toilet troll...

[atheistmantis]

We stayed in a hotel which had a blind on the inside of the bathroom window but the control was on the outside. We had a downstairs room with a patio right next to the pool. DS delighted in opening the blinds whenever I was using the toilet.

[honeyroar]

Glass bathrooms seem to becoming more and more common in hotels nowadays. They usually have blinds that you can lower for a bit of privacy, which is a good thing as the hotel we use in Hong Kong has a building site outside the windows!

I'd rather have an old fashioned bathroom with walls and a door.

[Maudlinmaud]

We stayed in a hotel that had a moveable panel between the shower/bath and bedroom. My sister and I thought it was hillarious, I was tempted to flash her.

[EatSpamAmandaLamb]

We stayed in an upmarket hotel in Spain where the bathroom was behind the headboard. The toilet and showers both had doors separating them from the sink area however they were lightly frosted glass with a 30cm opening at the bottom and over a meter opening at the top. Needless to say we both went to the pool or bar or locked ourselves on the balcony when we needed a number 2

[JellyBellies]

Usually the lock on the bathroom door makes it opaque.

[user1484394242]

Use a skirt/trouser hanger with a pillow case or towel attached to it and hang on the door frame.

There's a budget hotel in Stoke we stayed in a few times. The toilet door is frosted glass but you can see straight through. There's no lock or catch, not even a proper door frame so the door swings open. They said they bought the hotel off a European company who have toilet doors like this in all their hotels.

[travellinglighter]

I had a hotel room in Cambodia that was pretty standard except the wall nest to the bath was clear glass so that anyone in the room could see you in the bath or on th loo. It did have curtains though. I'd post a pic but I was much fatter then.

[Fintress]

We've had outside loos before in the Maldives. It was pretty strange to start with

[ems137]

I wouldn't have a problem if it was just DH in the room. If it's a hotel that do family rooms or add put up beds in for the kids then I'd have a problem. My kids are at an age where they want privacy so I'm not sure what we'd do in that situation!

I do still think it's weird though, why on earth would they put a 2 way mirror on any door/wall, let alone the toilet?!