Hotel rooms with no toilet doors are terrible! AIBU?

[Butteredghost]

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?

Went on a road trip in South Africa with a group of friends some years ago, this was common in a number of hotels we stayed at. Was too young to have the balls to complain so spent much of the trip looking for loos in other nearby places. Horrible. Got food poisoning in one hostel as well, thankfully found the one bathroom in the place with a proper locking door and also a sink and bath, think it was the management's one, and spent the whole night in there lying on the floor between bouts of illness. Dread to think what that night would have been like otherwise. Oddly, my SA friend put a frosted glass door on her bathroom in her flat over here, so you could see the outline of the person on the loo. Always had to find dressing gowns to hang up there before could relax enough to use the it!

Omg I can’t believe this is a thing, how revolting!

This is the stuff of nightmares! I may never go away again in case I encounter this. What on Earth is the appeal???

My cousin recently stayed in this room at a hotel in Wales

I would rather not go if there isn't a,bathroom with a door. Not only do I appreciate privacy, listening to someone else defacating is very unsexy and a mood killer.

I would never have complained while younger, but now I would.

I have a nerve-damaged bowel. I'm either coping with the runs or having to use a small device that does a kind of mini colonic irrigation.

I sure as hell don't want to be on display doing this. We need to vote with our feet!

Several years ago I went on one of those group tours of China, and shared a room with another female traveller, who I hadn't met before starting the tour. Imagine our horror when we walked into our hotel room to find that the bathroom had totally transparent glass walls! The glass wasn't tinted at all - just normal glass like you use in windows. Seriously, who designs a bathroom like this? I can't imagine being with anyone - including a partner - who I'd want to have a ring-side seat of me using the bathroom!

So we complained and a few minutes later - this was quite late in the evening - a cleaner came up equipped with Chinese newspapers which she then used to cover the walls. She seemed mightly pissed off about it but hey, don't blame us, blame the idiots who thought glass walls were a good idea for a hotel bathroom!

This thread reminded me of this

I would hate that. A lot of hotels now just have a see through glass wall for the bathroom. I do not want to be watched whilst having a poo.

They usually have a button that turns the glass opaque.

@13thWarriorWitch
Wearing a jumpsuit is not a good idea with those toilets😂😁

Any architects care to shed some light on this?

Warrior, that is straight out of one of my anxiety dreams.

We had a see-through bathroom wall in our honeymoon suite on our actual honeymoon - horrific

We stayed in a 'family room' recently - DH and I and two kids. The bathroom door was sliding frosted glass and didn't close fully - there was a 1 inch gap. You could clearly see the toilet from the kids' bed.

We also stayed in a safari tent with a bathroom which was surrounded by gappy wooden fencing. You could sit on the toilet and see lions. That was interesting.

DH has just informed me that he went to a restaurant toilet in New York and there was a toilet in the middle of the room beside the urinals - no cubicle around it, just a free-standing bog

amusedbush

What the actual hell? Is there a world shortage on walls?

I'm never taking the risk of staying in a hotel again

I'm off to Caribbean in a couple of weeks, triple room with DH and young adult DS. Just checked our hotel on trip advisor and saw the dreaded words from a review posted last week... 'open plan bathroom' Nooooo!

My DH is away with work and this is his hotel room!

My DH experienced this while away with work recently. Fortunately he was on his own, and apparently the room was a single (with a double bed) but still weird enough.

We stayed in the Crown Plaza at Singapore airport earlier in the year and the bathroom occupied the whole of the window end of the room, with a clear glass partition across. Fortunately there was a switch that made the glass opaque, and all in all it was a lovely room, but it did freak us out a bit to start with.

I am now going to start checking the bathroom reviews a little more closely. An open alcove in a shared room would be completely unacceptable for DH who has a need for privacy because of some medical issues.

Hairofthebillygoat wow talk about having the spotlight on you whilst you're "performing"!!

To be fair there is a screen you can lower apparently.

But imagine if you get "tummy trouble" while on holiday (and who hasn't!) and having to make an emergency dash to the loo in the night and have to choose between lowering the screen first but not getting to the toilet in time or puking/ shitting in the dark so as not to be "on show".

Hairofthebillygoat I was going to say its okay, there's a screen, but then I realised... THE SCREEN IS ON THE OUTSIDE! so whoever is in the bathroom has no control over it being lifted mid-shit. I can imagine small children finding this very amusing.