Hotel rooms with no toilet doors are terrible! AIBU?

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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?

YANBU

What is wrong with people??

I had booked a hotel with a fairly new boyfriend, about 4 months in, and it had an open plan bathroom with the toilet round the corner.

Luckily we were both equally horrified and demanded our money back and went to a hotel with a more conventional bog.

I’ve never stayed in a hotel that hasn’t got a bathroom door.

Our favourite has a massive bath in the bedroom though

I suppose the bath in the bedroom wouldn't be so bad as long as you could shit behind a door

Hahaha I know exactly what you mean! I hate that so many hotels do his now!!

I have also just booked into a hotel in Barcelona for a work trip - the partition wall between the bathroom and the bedroom in all rooms is glass?!? Why!! Luckily I’ll be the only one in the room but it still weirds me out!!

I was going to say ‘well I only stay in Premier Inns or Travelodges or basic 3-star hotels when I’m travelling’ but then I read the comment about the Premier Inn bathroom having a frosted door! Where was this hotel so I know to avoid it?
I hate en-suites - they’re never soundproof and bathroom sounds can be a bit of a passion killer...

Anyone suffering from shy bowel or bladder should avoid the Hilton NEC, Birmingham. No bathroom door and the shower (glass) separates the bed & loo .

I've just had this problem booking a hotel room. Trying to book a twin room to stay with an acquaintance. We really don't know each other that well. Several hotels had this set up in their twin rooms. I could understand a little more in a double, but even then it doesn't make sense to me.

Ugh, just no! Hotel room en-suites can be tricky enough as it is. I once stayed in a fairly nice hotel with DH and the layout meant the bathroom door was facing the bed, with just enough room to squeeze through. I was laying in bed watching a movie and could hear EVERYTHING. And err, let’s just say the extractor fan wasn’t all that efficient either.

This was the room layout in the hotel we stayed at in Amsterdam! The toilet was in a frosted star-trek thingy...it was a traumatic 3 days 😂

This kind of arrangement is utterly grim, like some horrible bedsit, or prison. I wonder what's next, a giant litter box in the middle of the bedroom maybe? Imagine the disappointment when you come back to your room after a day's sightseeing to find they STILL haven't changed the litter.

In houses, I don't like loos next to the kitchen either. Can never forget the time I found my landlady sitting on the loo with the door open so she could watch the TV in the kitchen .

One of my workplaces had individual toilets, proper little rooms, all fine except...they'd decided to put a full-length mirror directly opposite the loo, so you could watch yourself perform. Mercifully this got changed when they refurbished a few years back.

Eek! Absolutely no way! I would rather stay in a tent and go to the toilet in a public block.

I quite like these rooms. I wonder why they’re becoming popular though, as clearly I’m in the minority!

Is it maybe to make cleaning easier? No door to squeeze hoover and mop through.

no thanks i still dont leave thne door open after 20 years with dh

where is it op so i can avoid

You can write this off as tin foil hattery if you like; but this is part of a wider picture, which includes the enforcement of mixed sex spaces and the abolition of personal privacy.

Yeah my wife booked an uber-swish hotel room that had no fixed door between the bathroom and bedroom.

Up until then I was unaware she could make such noises!

#notsomumsy# that picture is terrifying. Why would you highlight the bog like that as though it was some sort of advanced starship? And the se through wall? Not in a million years.

I stayed in the Yotel in New York last time I went, sharing with a friend and it just had a glass panel thing. Got a sickness vomiting 24hr thing and was shitting whilst vomiting into the sink by the toilet. Felt so poorly I couldn't bring myself to chuck clothes on and go to the toilet in the restaurant or anything. We had the TV on and my poor friend just trying to get ready for the day, we are close so we had a laugh about it but christ. A door would have been nice.

That’s horrible. We recently went to a hotel, which has just been completed with two. Yes two bathrooms. Both with lockable proper doors. It was ace! Dh could poo away in a far corner and even the loo in the en-suite was at the far end of the bathroom obscured behind a wall.

The only odd thing was the suites having a bath in the living room.

Grim! This is just hotels cheaping out - they can fit more rooms in if they don't need to use space for walls or can get away with thin glass. Make sure you review on TripAdvisor to warn others and maybe hotels will be gin to see sense. The nightmare would be finding the same set up in a twin bedroom is sharing with e.g. a friend.

We saw a large new build that has this stupid half wall to separate the en-suite from the master bedroom, including the toilet. I wouldn't mind the shower or bath but a loo should always be private. I can't understand why anyone would think it would be a desirable thing.

I've stayed in the hotel notsomumsymum posted. It's the CitizenM. However at least there the glass changes colour when you shut the pods. Lots of hotels seem to have no privacy at all any more.

I don't even like an en-suite (in the home - I like it one in a hotel), so I can tell you now I wouldn't find his acceptable ANYWHERE!

I think we are all going to have to start packing a big roll of gaffer tape when we go away, so we can hang up sheets, towels etc to form make-shift walls.

Yotel room... Complete with giant window, ours faced an apartments living room think they saw me moisturising every crevice of my body. Lucky them 😂

Ive stayed there too, notsomum and I don't know if you noticed, but the 'best' feature was that the person lying in the bed could use an iPad to darken the room lights and highlight the poor person on the potty with vividly coloured controllable Hue spotlights (!!) My husband and I died laughing, illuminating each other red and purple on the bog. We are buried at Schiphol. Weirdest hotel ever.