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Too many people and too few bathrooms?

157 replies

NearlyMonday · 23/11/2020 09:24

DH and I have been invited to a birthday celebration next summer (COVID-permitting). The hosts have booked a large country house and it’s a Friday-Monday event. There will be 10 couples, so 20 guests in total, but there are only two bathrooms ………. I can’t see this working, or AIBU? I think we had a better bathroom ratio when I was at University!

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MatildaTheCat · 23/11/2020 09:29

No that sounds crap. Even with a strict rota there will be trouble.

Waveysnail · 23/11/2020 09:30

Is that just bathrooms though? Could there be separate toilets?

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NearlyMonday · 23/11/2020 09:33

No, I think it's just two bathrooms, no mention of separate toilets.

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NearlyMonday · 23/11/2020 09:36

And one of the bathrooms just had a bath, and not a shower.

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Calcifer12 · 23/11/2020 09:38

I'd hate that.

HotSince63 · 23/11/2020 09:39

No, that won't work.

Even if you all spend just 15 minutes each in the bathroom in the morning, and have a strict back to back schedule, that's two and a half hours per bathroom.

That's not counting the time you'll need to air the bathroom after someone has done a massive smelly shit after their morning coffee.

I would decline the invite, or find a hotel nearby to stay.

megletthesecond · 23/11/2020 09:41

Sounds awful. I would not be going to that.

VinylDetective · 23/11/2020 09:44

It’ll be a pain but it’s only three days. It certainly wouldn’t stop me from going and I wouldn’t want to miss out on the dynamic by staying somewhere else.

bilbodog · 23/11/2020 09:57

Check to see if any if the bedrooms have sinks in them - used to be common in older houses in the 80s as that would help.

BarbaraofSeville · 23/11/2020 10:03

There must be ensuites in some of the bedrooms? Or was it very cheap for the property size, because of the lack of bathrooms.

Having stayed on dive boats with just a couple of communal toilets and showers for a dozen people, I'd say that's going to make it all a bit stressful, unless you're all very quick and regimented getting showered etc.

GoldfishParade · 23/11/2020 10:04

Stay in a hotel nearby

helloxhristmas · 23/11/2020 10:06

Are you sure there are ensuites?

Is it a ten bed house or is it a house that can sleep 20 using sofa beds / the floor?

It's not enough through.

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NearlyMonday · 23/11/2020 10:08

The hosts sent through a link to the property, it just says 10 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. I'm wondering if any of the other guests are thinking about this, but I don't know any of them well enough to ask the question, nor do I want it to get back to the host.

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LST · 23/11/2020 10:08

I'd have zero issue with this. But then we go camping in a group of 10 with... zero bathrooms!

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NearlyMonday · 23/11/2020 10:09

I have long, thick hair that I wash every day and there's no way I could do this in a sink.

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viques · 23/11/2020 10:10

That sounds awful. When I booked a huge house for my birthday the first priority was lots of bathrooms. Ended up with seven for seven bedrooms. When I was chatting to the owner I told him that was why I had booked and he said putting in the bathrooms had been his first priority. Sensible man.

Rosebel · 23/11/2020 10:15

Think I'd ask if any of the bedrooms are ensuite because no one is going to be happy with that, especially as there is only one shower and no extra toilets.

BarbaraofSeville · 23/11/2020 10:21

@NearlyMonday

The hosts sent through a link to the property, it just says 10 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. I'm wondering if any of the other guests are thinking about this, but I don't know any of them well enough to ask the question, nor do I want it to get back to the host.
Well someone needs to ask the question. You'll certainly all know each other well enough after a weekend sharing the same facilities to that degree.

I hope no-one has any ideas about leisurely relaxed bathing, time consuming grooming or medical needs that require extended bathroom routines because its really going to have to be in and out quick smart.

sst1234 · 23/11/2020 10:24

I’d give it a miss. The hosts lack some basic organizing skills if they didn’t figure out that this would be a problem.

BarbaraofSeville · 23/11/2020 10:27

Or is it a typo and it's actually 10 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms?

ie each bedroom has an ensuite and there's also a couple of communal bathrooms?

Calcifer12 · 23/11/2020 10:28

I get stressed when we go on holiday with family and it's 2 bathrooms to 8 people!

BarbaraofSeville · 23/11/2020 10:29

If it was a weekend I wanted to go on, I'd just suck it up even though it would cause annoyance for night time wees, but you just have to hope there's no selfish people who think nothing of locking themselves in there for extended periods while there's a queue of cross legged people waiting outside.

40weekswithno2 · 23/11/2020 10:29

I'd double check as it seems odd a house would have 10 bedrooms and only 2 bathrooms. If that was definitely the case then I'd say that's not enough bathrooms.

CallistoSol · 23/11/2020 10:33

@LST

I'd have zero issue with this. But then we go camping in a group of 10 with... zero bathrooms!
How grim.
OursonGuimauve · 23/11/2020 10:35

@LST

I'd have zero issue with this. But then we go camping in a group of 10 with... zero bathrooms!
Yeah but the world is your bathroom then. Not sure the other house guests would be chuffed to look out the window and see @NearlyMonday 'watering' the flowerbeds.

We are 2 adults in a house with one bathroom and even that gets annoying at times. I wouldn't like this

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