To think that all hotel rooms these days have en suite bathrooms?

[evilharpy]

Settle an argument please. I haven't stayed in an hotel since about 1998 that didn't have an en suite (and that was an absolute shithole). I just don't think shared bathrooms exist anymore. I can't imagine anyone would want to share a bathroom unless it was in a cheap youth hostel or a campsite. I'd rather stay at home.

Husband disagrees and says loads of hotels still have shared bathrooms. He has nothing to base this on as he only ever stays in hotels with me and we have never, in 14 years, not had an en suite. But he's adamant and says it's quite normal.

Who's right?

In case anyone is wondering, the "disagreement" arose while watching National Lampoon's European Vacation where someone walked in on the wife while she was in the bath.

You're right, obviously

When I was a student in the UK, I stayed in several hotels very like the one in European Vacation. I didn't think they existed anymore.

The big chains like travelodge, premier inn, ibis etc all have ensuite as most are modern buildings and were built to cater for this.

Any older hotels, guest houses or bed and breakfasts will be far less likely to have ensuite as this was not the norm when they were built. Some may have converted say a single bedroom into two bathrooms for larger rooms next door but most won't.

Stayed in a hotel a few months ago with 2 shared bathrooms on each floor at opposite ends of the corridor. It was grim.
The bedroom just had a little sink in the corner.

Not our choice, it was a friend’s wedding and they booked the accommodation, had we known of this we would have tried to find somewhere else to stay (very small town) but we were only told the details a few days before by which point it was too late.
Never again!

Stayed in a wedding venue, country house type place and my bathroom was opposite my room door. Not a shit hole at all. And I've stayed in a B&B where the beautiful bathroom was along a short corridor.

Slightly off topic but I stayed in a hotel (luxury end country house) that had the loo IN the room, no partition or anything 😳
It was a double room and thankfully I was staying by myself but it would have been really too close for comfort, even with a lwith a partner, even someone you’ve been with for donkeys years. my DP, who

Oops. On a mobile and posted too soon!
Just trying to say that I don’t want to be in bed with someone having a crap 2 feet away in the same room!

It was the Prince Hall hotel on Dartmoor. I stayed in the Sharpitor room, which they describe in their info as an ‘Open en-suite’. www.princehall.co.uk/the-bedrooms.php
The loo is just out of sight in the photo, just by the sink.

Lovely hotel otherwise mind!

It's a lot more unusual these days but some smaller or cheaper places still do. Seems more common in London than elsewhere. It was still quite common in the 1980s even in larger hotels.

I saw a quite fancy B and B which didn't have an ensuite but they would only let the rooms out to members of the same party so you wouldn't be sharing with strangers.

Are you just talking about the UK? There are absolutely loads of hotels with shared bathrooms in Lisbon. I guess they'd be the equivalent of B&Bs. I mention that city because I had to trawl through pages and pages of shared facility hotels on Booking the other day because I couldn't seem to find a "private bathroom" filter.

Redpanda
an Edwardian villa in London near Paddington station.
I'd love to know about that. Would you tell us the name?

Depends on the hotel. I go to a fair few events where I need a place to stay but don't need anything lush literally just a bed for the night. Quite often the bathroom/shower room is shared. I stayed in one recently in Birmingham perfectly adequate for our needs as we just needed a bed and a shower but the shower was shared.

Not in Blackpool!

@gabsalot

The Regents Palace hotel in Picadilly is not a hotel anymore although the building is still there. I stayed there a few times in my youth.......the shared facilities were always clean and the location of the hotel was fab. If it was still there I would use it but would pay the extra for en suite. It was a great hotel.

Gabsalot No. Can't remember the name but it was near Victoria tube station. Downstairs very posh, was on the top floor where one bathroom did about ten bedrooms.

Was clean and cheap for the location and I had to share a bathroom with my kids, so perfectly used to it.

@yorkshireyummymummy ive stayed there a few times and just done cheap with the shared bathroom, was annoyed when it closed down as it was cheap and the location was fab

Eh? Travelodges and premier inns are all dirt cheap and en suite. I wouldn’t have thought staying in those hotels was particularly “privileged”?

Obviously many people would not choose to stay in shared facilities, but to think they don't exist in the UK suggests a certain narrowness of experience, and presumably a certain wealth. No judgement in that- you only know things within your own range of experience. I was just surprised.

Places like Blackpool or Skegvegas it’s often shared.

Travel lodges and premier inns are not dirt cheap imo. I looked into getting one for a couple nights in London coming up and the cheapest, months in advance, were £120 per night. That might be dirt cheap if you're comfortable with and able to spend hundreds on rooms, but for many people it's prohibitive.

So I ended up booking a hostel at £17 per night for two nights. Yes it's a room with seventeen other occupants and a shared bathroom but I just want a bed to sleep in and a shower and a toilet to use, that's all. So that's fine.

There are lots of hotels in London that have shared bathrooms. I stayed in one in November.

Guest houses where a family home has been converted into a B&B often have shared bathrooms, just like a house does.
Chain hotels and luxury hotels, never.

Plenty of B&Bs on Four in a Bed with shared bathrooms, usually old houses.

I stay in several hotels in central London with shared bathrooms. Never had an issue, and means I can stay in walking distance to the West End for around £55 per night, with breakfast included.

Bathroom doors have locks, you know!

And one hotel (which is my favourite, run by a family who greet me like a friend every time I stay there) has cleaners whose job it is to go in & clean the shared bathrooms after each use in the morning.