Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

Hotel rooms with no toilet doors are terrible! AIBU?

173 replies

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?

OP posts:
Thread gallery
8
littlemisscomper · 09/11/2018 14:37

Who even came up with it as a good idea?! I mean, what?! I also don't get the bath in the middle of the bedroom thing. Your exposed bits would feel cold, and the room would get damp and it's just weird! I've also seen holiday homes with a shower and toilet RIGHT THERE IN THE BEDROOM! Seriously, not even half a glass partition!

pumpastrotter · 09/11/2018 14:44

The premier inn hubs are the hotels with frosted glass (not sure whether some of the others do too). To be honest, we stayed in the kings cross one and it was really nice! Luckily didn't need to do a two, but made sure DH didn't stand on the bed whilst I was in there as the top foot or two of the glass isn't frosted.

GabsAlot · 09/11/2018 15:15

thanks pump will avoid them if i can

Waspnest · 09/11/2018 15:21

Jocasta Stoke on Trent

Sarahjconnor · 09/11/2018 15:25

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Butterflycookie · 09/11/2018 15:26

Sometimes they have a pole just above where the door should be. If you ask reception they can put a curtain there. When we were staying in a hotel resort there was no door for the bathroom. We went to go check out my aunts room and she had a curtain covering it. She just said to ring reception and they can put it up so we did! So it’s worth a try, although I guess it depends on the hotel and whether there is already a pole. It’s worth a look Envy

NothingOnTellyAgain · 09/11/2018 15:30

What the fuck?

I'm horrified.

The idea of no door between relaxation zone and shit zone is simply appalling.

paddlingwhenIshouldbeworking · 09/11/2018 15:38

I've stayed in one with a half wall (no door) so the toilet itself was screened but your head was on view. Bloody ridiculous. This was in the master of a luxury villa in Greece. Fortunately there was a family bathroom so we just used that but have not been back! Must be horrible in a hotel room where there is nowhere for the pooer or viewer to go.

NothingOnTellyAgain · 09/11/2018 15:40

What is going on?

Have hotel designers fogotten that shit smells bad?

It's completely bizarre.

MumUndone · 09/11/2018 15:49

We had this situation in Marrakech during my very first holiday with my now DH (we'd been together a few months at that point) where the loo was only separated from the bedroom by a thin curtain. We had an arrangement whereby the other had to listen to music using earphones when the other was on the loo.

costacoffeecup · 09/11/2018 15:55

It's sort of like one of those anxiety nightmares isn't it. Saying that we have a toilet without a door in our loft conversion! Its sort of tucked in the corner at the other end so you can't see it from the bed but it's so bizarre. I assume he previous owners were a bit more free and easy. I go downstairs to the main bathroom anyway.

Violetroselily · 09/11/2018 15:59

One of my friends' bedroom has this. No door to the en suite - just a doorway right by the bed. Bizarre.

Original poster
Butteredghost · 09/11/2018 17:02

It's not even just about the toilet. I still like a bathroom door to have the option to shut when I'm showering, plucking my eyebrows, shaving legs, etc.

I also hate hotels with one of those half size toilet doors, that space at the top and bottom. But at least they are something.

I don't think it's about money because it's usually the expensive hotels that have this. I think it's a design they think people like. We don't!

OP posts:
Ohshitwhatnext · 09/11/2018 17:14

We stayed in a hotel which had a bathroom with a window directly opposite the balcony, not a tiny window but a huge floor to ceiling job. For privacy the window had blinds in between two panes of glass that you closed.

Unfortunately the controls were on the outside and my youngest delighted in opening them when people were mid poo.

Diamondangel8 · 09/11/2018 17:20

omg this thread is horrifying and hilarious at the same time 🤣🤣

Missillusioned · 09/11/2018 17:34

If I were to turn up at a hotel with this arrangement I would go and demand to be moved. If everyone did this these stupid designs would soon stop

Violetroselily · 09/11/2018 17:34

When I was about 15 I stayed at a friends house which was undergoing renovation. There were no doors on any rooms.

Peeing and showering in someone else's house with no doors is terrifying.

Racecardriver · 09/11/2018 17:35

I knew someone who had that in her flat. It was very awkward.

SchrodingersBox · 09/11/2018 17:39

I was on exercise with the US army and there was a choice of 2 cubicles neither of which had a door. Sitting on one you looked down the stairs so that anyone coming up to a dorm of 40 beds got a prolonged view or the other directly opposite my room, with 2 of us in but had a window at about navel height and up where you'd see 100s of troops marching as you went. When I mentioned the lack of door u was told I was lucky there was a divider between them.

problembottom · 09/11/2018 17:40

I went to this fabulous restaurant in Brussels... fabulous until I got to the unisex loos which has glass doors which misted up when you locked them. I had the quickest wee of my life, paranoid I’d de-mist!

thenightsky · 09/11/2018 17:42

I wonder who first thought this was a good idea. And why did such an awful idea spread?

We all need to start leaving really honest 'disgusted of Tonbridge wells' type reviews.

TigerMonkey · 09/11/2018 17:53

Had this recently on holiday in Gran Canaria. Bizarrely there was no mention of the half-glass door on Trip Advisor, otherwise I wouldn’t have booked. As it was me & my friend did the sit on the balcony thing.
I also haven’t booked hotels in Lisbon and Salzburg because of this very issue.
It’s blpody awful.

LucyFox · 09/11/2018 17:53

I’m totally with you ... last hotel I stayed in had frosted glass door panel which was just about bearable as I was sharing with a good friend & the door faced the wardrobe area but WHY ... surely plasterboard is far cheaper than glass anyway? if i’m Sharing a room with a friend as I often do, I definitely don’t want the shower/bath in the room either.

Alfie190 · 09/11/2018 18:02

I have stayed in places where the shower, bath was visible from the bedroom (which I also don't like that much) but fortunately the loo has had its own room with door.

Today I was looking for a holiday cottage for over new year and I saw one which had a very ordinary shower cubicle, with clear glass in a corner of the bedroom and the write up described this as "for your convenience the shower is in the bedroom...".

CarolineForbes · 09/11/2018 18:07

I’ve stayed in a few places with the frosted glass and I hate it. Worst was the Peak District this year where there was no door at all. I insisted I be moved to a room with a normal bathroom (luckily it was 50/50 as to which set up you got) and luckily they had one. The staff member seemed surprised and said I was the first person to raise an issue with the toilets being open to the room. Not sure I believed her Hmm

Swipe left for the next trending thread