Is this a bit weird?

[SerenDippitty]

Just booked into a hotel room at Heathrow. The bathroom wall facing into the room is a glass panel which means you can watch your partner/travelling companion having a shower or using the toilet. I suppose if you are sharing a double bed you have few secrets, but even so!

This is a way hotels have of getting away with smaller rooms and cheaper building materials. They just plonk a sheet of glass across the room instead of building a proper wall.

slashlover the doors don’t lock! Not that bothered to be honest, it’s only one night. It’s a Novotel btw.

*slashlover

If it's the Novotel then google says there should be a button near the shower, possibly by the entrance

Did you see this post, op?

I stayed in a room like this in Bangkok (I think - definitely SE Asia) with a pal. There was a bit of ‘watch the tv, and don’t look away’ instruction, but for a night or two, we coped. We put it down to super weirdy Asian hotels.... but it seems they exist elsewhere!!

Update: found the switch, I just wasn’t pressing it hard enough.

Yay!

You'd think they would label it or add the info to the welcome pack.

I've stayed in a couple of hotels with bathroom doors like this - one was in Tunbridge Wells, quite a posh one too - and I hate them. I don't want bathroom activities to be shared without a choice. Just...no.

That's grim af!

Yay for the switch! We had a room like this in Germany, like a sort of toilet gogglebox for anyone in the room. It was a family room too. No switch or blind. I ended up using the free bar of soap which I ran under the tap and created a soapy opaque effect on the glass it wasn’t great but it was something. No other rooms and couldn’t change hotel as this was for a friend’s wedding.

I worked on hotel refurbs and a nice London hotel near the theatres had this put in.

Apparently it's to enhance the prostitute experience for business travellers