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Hotel rooms with no toilet doors are terrible! AIBU?

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Butteredghost · 09/11/2018 12:45

I'm on a short holiday with my husband and we arrive at our hotel room. It looked like a reasonably nice room, so I was excited to see it. But when I do, I find it's one of those "honeymoon villa" type rooms with no door on the bathroom! The bathroom leads to the bedroom. The toilet is around a corner so not directly in eye sight but still. AIBU to think it's so much better to have a privacy, even staying with a partner. It's supposed to be romantic. How are bathroom sounds and smells romantic? Not having a lock is bad enough, but no door... argh. Or am I just a prude?

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kaytee87 · 09/11/2018 13:33

That's awful. Can you imagine you had an upset stomach?!

Rachelover40 · 09/11/2018 13:37

I've never stayed in a hotel where there wasn't a door on the bathroom. From this thread, it's obviously more common than I imagined, I've seen such places on TV.

Certainly wouldn't fancy that.

Nerdybeethoven · 09/11/2018 13:39

Grim! Like Italian hotels I've stayed in that have a bidet in the room. But worse.

Ratonastick · 09/11/2018 13:40

It could be worse though. I encountered an open bathroom arrangement in Singapore. Only I was sharing a room with a friend as we had decided to take a 24 hour stopover to look around. By mutual agreement, one went to the bar or stood outside the room while the other bathed or piddled. My bladder control was tested that night, I can tell you.

Aridane · 09/11/2018 13:41

At one Novotel the bathroom was separate in the conventional way - except there was a button you would press so that the wall between the bedroom and bathroom would go transparent so you could view your paramour showering (but not peeing or otherwise - just a view of the shower)!!

Honeyroar · 09/11/2018 13:41

I've thankfully not come across one of those, but have had several that were just glass walls between the bathroom and bedroom, and I don't even like them when it's only me in the room! There is often a blind that can be lowered, but they're a faff. Just give me a wall, thanks!

CrookedMe · 09/11/2018 13:43

Me and DH went on a romantic weekend - our only weekend away in 8 years - only to find the toilet was right in the middle of the bedroom. It was hidden by a curved wall so you couldn't see it from the bed, however you could see it from the little breakfast table as it was only about four feet from it Envy

BitOutOfPractice · 09/11/2018 13:44

I have No idea how one is supposed to relax into one's "alone time" with no toilet door.

chestylarue52 · 09/11/2018 13:48

I went on a romantic weekend with my newish boyfriend this year. The hotel cost a fortune and had a kind of frosted glass curved toilet with no door.

As we walked in the room he could see my face fall and just said ‘we’ll have a code word. Just ask me if I want to go and look at the art in the lobby’. It made me laugh and it was lovely he was so sweet about it but honestly it’s the worst.

Elledouble · 09/11/2018 13:50

Noooo. Awful. I’ve been in ones where there’s a door that kind of opens two ways so you can close off the toilet itself but that setup would upset me.

Shampaincharly · 09/11/2018 13:51

I do not like it either.
It seems to be popular in Brussels.
In Taiwan , I stayed in a hotel where there was a sliding door which slid across , either the shower or the toilet . Bizarre. Not ideal if you are in twin room sharing with a friend .
I have come across the glass door thing as well. Do not like that either.

Shampaincharly · 09/11/2018 13:52

Can I add , I hate baths in the bedrooms as well.

Waspnest · 09/11/2018 13:54

I stayed in a Premier Inn a couple of months ago with a friend that had a frosted bathroom door positioned so you could lie on the beds and see a perfect profile of someone sat on the loo. Bizarrely the basin was in the bedroom. God knows what the designer was thinking probably on the proverbial MN glue.

ViserionTheDragon · 09/11/2018 13:54

YANBU. I used to live in the Far East and this sort of thing was quite common in hotels.

thenightsky · 09/11/2018 13:56

I'm really keen to go to Mexico, but all the decent hotels seem to have an open bathroom set up. I've crossed Mexico off the list now after typing 'bathroom' into the search in trip advisor and every single bloody hotel has awful bathroom reviews. I travel with young adult DS so no way is it going to be appropriate.

I had issues in a twin room at the Park Plaza in Leeds. I was with my very prim elderly friend (female). The bathroom door was very lightly frosted glass. We called down for sheets to hang over the door.

cakedup · 09/11/2018 13:57

I cannot believe this is a thing. I would be fuming if I'd booked a hotel with a partner to find a doorless bathroom.

When I was a child we moved into a house with a toilet next to the kitchen and the wall separating the two rooms didn't reach the ceiling. We weren't allowed to use it until my dad built a proper wall.

Piffle11 · 09/11/2018 13:59

YANBU!! The last time DH and I stayed at a hotel the door to the bathroom was frosted glass, and even though you couldn't see properly, you could clearly see the shape of someone sitting on the loo. This was bad enough, but if we had been in the first flush of romance I would have been utterly mortified!

BesmirchingMotherhood · 09/11/2018 14:02

I stayed in one once where there was a door (I think) but the wall between the bedroom and bathroom had a bloody great hole in it - like a glassless window, maybe a metre tall and wide, or a bit more.

Fortunately that was a work trip so I was there alone and didn’t have to sit in the corridor whilst DH shit.

I presume it was so I could drink in the view but the view was downtown Chicago so I could have lived without looking at offices and other tall hotels for a minute or two.

horizonglimmer · 09/11/2018 14:03

PIffle - I had a work place where the ladies loos where like that - each cubicle had patterend glass, so you could clearly see which colleague was sitting on which bog!

Never heard of the door free bathroom though. I would demand a room swap if I had a room like that. What on earth made anyone think that was a good idea?! It's terrible!

thenightsky · 09/11/2018 14:06

I come across this more and more these days. When I book hotels now, I have to spend hours on bloody trip advisor peering at pics of the rooms and bathrooms and searching through reviews for mention of whether the bathrooms are suitable for families.

cricketmum84 · 09/11/2018 14:08

Oh no no no!! I'm that bad with bathroom privacy that I actually end up constipated on caravan holidays Cos the toilet is so close to the living area that I won't use it. This would not work for me at all!

Don't mind bath or shower being open but the toilet is a deal breaker for me!

Nerdybeethoven · 09/11/2018 14:09

On the subject of loos, though, I visited a local school which had very open loos. Each cubicle had a door, but the actual 'toilet block' wasn't a block, but open plan / unisex and situated in a kind of weird circle in a very public part of the school, with sinks in the middle. I guess they do this because of drugs or drink or bullying (which I understand) but those poor children … wouldn't be very relaxing trying to do your business ...

SnuggyBuggy · 09/11/2018 14:10

This is a thingShock

greathat · 09/11/2018 14:12

Ha dh has two work colleagues that are sharing a twin room off at some conference. The shower is actually in the bedroom. They didn't show where loo is but sent dh a photo of one standing in cubicle (fully clothed) taken by the other one sat on his bed

amusedbush · 09/11/2018 14:13

first flush of romance

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