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To be a smidge uncomfortable with hotel bathroom set up?

102 replies

BilliesEyelashes · 27/08/2023 19:01

Am away on a short break going to a few Nice Hotels.

Tonight's offering is a new concept in establishments apparently 🙄.

It's rather lovely BUT the set up is rather jolly odd.

The bathroom only has a shower and loo in it. The sink is outside in the lobby area leading to the bedroom..

I'm quite boggled by this, and tbh quite uncomfortable but can't work out why I am.

I'm with DH, we've been together many years and done All The Things together but I do prefer private ablutions really. Though we don't have a door on our en suite at home (previous owner's design) and I know that'd cause the heaving conniptions to most mumsnetters. Just mentioning this to show I'm not normally that pernickety.

Yabu: get on with it - tis fine.

Yanbu: agreed, very odd, discombobulating set up.

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EmmaEmerald · 27/08/2023 20:34

BeingATwatItsABingThing · 27/08/2023 19:03

My objection would be having to open the door with dirty hands.

You not having a door on the bathroom at home would be a hell no from me.

This

my parents stayed in a hotel like this and they were really annoyed. It was a very budget hotel btw.

Simonjt · 27/08/2023 20:34

I don’t mind the sink being in the room, plus you use the loo etc in the bathroom, so the handle issue doesn’t really matter as you wash your hands anyway.

During my first ever night away with my husband I ended up with food poisoning and a strong case of emergency evacuations both ends. We got to the hotel room to discover that not only was the bathroom in a glass pod, but it also didn’t have a door. So he got the whole imax experience, visuals, sound effects and smell. The inner of a bathroom bin makes a very handy sick bucket.

Original poster
BilliesEyelashes · 27/08/2023 20:53

The diner was great @PatriciaHolm !

Coke float with rum. Yum.

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DappledThings · 27/08/2023 20:59

BilliesEyelashes · 27/08/2023 19:09

Doesn't seem to be attaching the posts I'm replying to.

Sigh.

The Reply feature doesn't work. Never has done. It just creates a new response. I've asked in Site Stuff for it to actually be a Reply or for it to be removed to stop.it being confusing but no joy.

IWasFunBeforeMum · 27/08/2023 21:07

You only seem to get kettles in UK hotel rooms

ThreeLittleDots · 27/08/2023 21:13

with only a shower over the bath

What's wrong with that?

TheNoodlesIncident · 27/08/2023 21:35

We experienced similar in Indonesia. First hotel had a glass wall between the bathroom and bed area, but it did at least have a sliding opaque wall for the sensitive.

Second one was worse, the bathroom area just had a curtain, like a shower curtain, going around it! The lavatory was in its own enclosure but it was glass structure and of course anyone could hear everything that was going on in it.

The third one was glorious as the bathroom was given its own room, we liked that best of all. And it had a little lobby beside it that we could store our cases in. Fab!

Thelonelygiraffe · 27/08/2023 21:55

God. No bathroom door? So you can hear each other fart and wee? No thank you!

A sink outside the bathroom is odd too.

This summer we stayed in a hotel in Amsterdam that had a sliding bathroom door. There was no soundproofing, so I had to send dh out of the room when I needed a poo and vice versa. Not good.

Thelonelygiraffe · 27/08/2023 21:56

BrioNotBiro · 27/08/2023 19:25

I stayed in a hotel in France that one entered from the hotel corridor straight into the bathroom (so if your partner was on the loo/in the bath, someone passing could see them).

The wardrobe was also there, so all one's clothes got damp, and it was really dark (just as well with the potential for flashing).

That is crazy!

PatriciaHolm · 27/08/2023 22:08

A billion years and one ex-husband ago, on honeymoon in South Africa, we had a very lovely hotel in all other ways with a toilet in one corner of the room (just a curtain to one side, a wall one side and open in to the room at the front).

Not what you want on your honeymoon really.

gogomoto · 27/08/2023 22:12

Is it a YoTel, they have this array and bathroom partition doesn't quite go to the floor, not keen, nothing wrong with a modicum of privacy

QuestionableMouse · 27/08/2023 22:38

DixonD · 27/08/2023 19:20

Apart from the semi-transparent doors.

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Never seen one without a solid door tbh!

saltinesandcoffeecups · 27/08/2023 22:48

I love this setup. Had an apartment (flat) with a similar setup when I was in school. 2 sinks in the little hallway leading to a room with a toilet and bath/shower. Very handy for getting ready.

Same when I’m staying in a hotel with my husband. One of us will shower then get ready at the sink while the other showers… then they are done so the other can get into the sink. Much quicker and easier.

I don’t really understand the consternation about a door knob… you’re going to wash your hands after your done touching it, right?

Fallingthroughclouds · 27/08/2023 23:20

I'm confused about the washing hands hygiene part. Yes the door handle to the bathroom could have poo particles on it, but if you think about it like that then the tap definitely will. In a normal bathroom, you wipe your bottom, possibly transfer bacteria to the tap when you turn it on, wash hands, turn of tap therefore picking up the bacteria again on your freshly washed hands.

If you have been on a tube, bus, touched a bar in a pub etc you are bound to have some sort of fecal matter on your hands. That door knob is going to be dirty, wherever the sink is.

Uterusbegone · 27/08/2023 23:26

I can't stand it and won't book hotels with this set up.

DH and I get up at different times and I'll usually go in the bathroom to get dressed and sort myself out while he's still asleep, now I have to stumble around in the dark. It also means if you get up in the night everything has to be done in darkness (especially as they often put frosted glass doors on the loo and the shower)

And what about friends travelling together? Definitely no

Sugarfish · 27/08/2023 23:26

Stayed in a hotel once that had frosted glass between the bathroom and the bedroom, but if you looked close through the glass you could see into the entire bathroom quite clearly. With the toilet facing straight at you. I hated it so much. Apparently it was to let natural light into the bathroom. Fuck that! I prefer artificial light and privacy. These were sold as “family rooms” as well! It was the Riu chain and I’ve seen so many complaints on trip advisor about this

beeonmybonnett · 27/08/2023 23:29

sounds like a v strange setup - I prefer to have the toilet, sink, bath and shower etc (you get the gist of what I’m saying ) all in one separate room that is private and has a door.

that said, you don’t seem embarrassed about having no door on your en-suite at home so what’s embarrassing about using the sink in front of your DH on Holiday?

JaneorEleven · 27/08/2023 23:31

I live in the US, and this arrangement is common. I like it. If you’re sharing with a friend, it makes getting ready easier. First person has a shower, then uses the separate sink to do teeth and face/makeup, while the second person jumps in the shower. Instead of the first person hogging the bathroom while doing everything and the 2nd person has to wait.

TheYadaYada · 27/08/2023 23:31

I can't see the issue?

We just stayed in a hotel in Barcelona where you could lie in bed and enjoy watching your other half washing his balls in the shower as it overlooked the bed. (Ohla Barcelona - very gorgeous; would recommend)

Didn't bother us, but we are not very private bathroom types.

Jk987 · 27/08/2023 23:39

I also want to know what activities happen at the basin that you wouldn't want your partner to see?

The worst thing in the world for me would be your scenario at home - an en-suite with no door!

Weatherwax13 · 28/08/2023 00:03

Stayed at a hotel in France with shower and bath in a glass cubicle centre of bedroom. Been married about a hundred years but like you OP I'm a strictly private ablutions person! H and I took turns having coffee on the balcony!

SabrinaThwaite · 28/08/2023 01:03

DarkPsy · 27/08/2023 19:33

I stayed in a hotel in Belgium where the room was sort of divided by an alcove, with the toilet on the left and the shower on the right. If you were on the right side of the bed you had a clear view of the person sitting on the toilet 😳 Who the hell would enjoy that set up?

Belgians?

Borough · 28/08/2023 01:33

DarkPsy · 27/08/2023 19:33

I stayed in a hotel in Belgium where the room was sort of divided by an alcove, with the toilet on the left and the shower on the right. If you were on the right side of the bed you had a clear view of the person sitting on the toilet 😳 Who the hell would enjoy that set up?

European perverts, that's who. This is what Brexit has saved us from.

BaronessBomburst · 28/08/2023 12:03

European perverts, that's who. This is what Brexit has saved us from.
🤣🤣🤣

meatbaseddessert · 28/08/2023 12:14

modgepodge · 27/08/2023 19:17

I stayed in France in a place a few years back with no separate room for the toilet or shower, it was just round a corner slightly from the bedroom. I was not happy!!!!!

Oh god I came in to say similar. Round the corner bath shower and bog from the bedroom... in France.

Was it a 'gastro' type enterprise in North East France?

Dinner was errr ... rich and mid nighttime ablutions were quite... insistent.