To be a smidge uncomfortable with hotel bathroom set up?

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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.

Stayed in a room like this, there was frosted but transparent window between bathroom and sleeping area, luckily I was there with DH, when I had a shower I just pressed my tits against the glass to give DH a treat😂

don't go for a premium inn hub then, the one I stayed in the toilet may as well have been in the room - it was in a sort of glassed off partition but you could see (and hear) everything!

Also shared a room with 2 friends once and we didn't realise the shower was literally IN the room - a bit awkward. No idea why hotels don't just stick to the standard. Having said that OP a sink within the room wouldn't bother me at all - as pp said what do you do in a sink that you wouldn't want your partner to see?

I have stayed in a hotel where the bathtub was in the bedroom, sort of on a plinth. The rest of the equipment (shower, loo and basin) were all in the bathroom, with a proper door.

Then, just recently, I stayed in a hotel where the walk-in shower was in the bedroom bit, although with two sided glass, so you could look out, while showering, but someone on the bed, or outside the window could not look in. Again, the loo and basin were in the bathroom proper.

I have to say, in your case, it’s the lack of ability to wash hands without coming out of the loo that I would find particularly off putting.

I once stayed in a room with one of those glass bathroom affairs. I was on my own so fine except the room had no curtains and I couldnt see any sort of window blinds and the window was the whole outside wall of the room. Also, it was a work trip and I was visiting the offices in the building opposite! Was I going to wake up facing an early starting colleague?

Fortunately someone came to turn down my bed. I asked about the blind and she reached round the side of the headboard where the buttons for the blinds were concealed.

I have never felt so alienated by a hotel room.

Years ago, my friends and I stayed at a very weird guesthouse in Whitby. There were about 9 of us (m and f) sharing, and it ended up being two big rooms with a mix of doubles and single beds, there were some couples etc and then people like me in a single bed. Okay for one night when you’re young I suppose. But the shower in each shared room was literally a poky cubicle in the room that you stepped into while everyone else was lying in bed or whatever. Talk about feeling exposed.

The one saving Grace was the bog was down the corridor.

You need to select quote instead of reply.

It's deeply counterintuitive.

Agree on both points.

And that’s a nice one???

We had this in America last year, it was definitely a bit weird.

Stayed in a hotel near Hay on Wye where the circular bath was on a plith in the bedroom. There was a separate shower room with about 4 showerheads. The loo and hand basin was in a room on its own fortunately.

Use the quote button, not the reply one. 😉

There's no pooing in our ensuite even with a door. It's too much like having a poo in the bedroom

My friend went on a cruise where the bathroom was part of the bedroom, toilet and all.

Your disgusting

The glass pod/open bathroom design really ruins all my holiday daydreams as it seems to be a feature of luxury expensive hotels which I find inexplicable. I want solid locking doors and soundproofing. I like privacy!

I got upgraded to an incredible suite when solo on a work trip once and it had a freestanding bath in the bedroom. It just felt so weird to me, and that was only a bath. If I was mega rich, everyone in my house would have their own private personal bathroom. No bathroom activities would be in any other rooms! Why do fancy hotels think people want to see their travel companions on the toilet? How did it become a thing??

Stayed in another in Malta which had frosted glass saloon doors on the bathroom - a foot gap at top & bottom! 😳
A Neilson resort in Greece has these. DH has IBS :(

I know. I knew that in August when I wrote this post. I knew it over a year ago when I first raised it in Site Stuff as a problem. Doesn't stop it being a massive issue they MN refuse to address and that many many users understandably think Reply might actually create a reply.

Disappointed that this zombie has been resurrected and we never found out what OP was doing at the sink that was so private.

Who is?

Seen this all over I would say this is the norm in the states and I’ve definitely seen it in chain hotels in Africa and throughout the Caribbean regions

Darn you zombies

Surely part of the "joy" of staying in hotels is the mad bathroom arrangements.

One of our routines is that the first person to use the shower has the job of working it out and explaining how it works to the other.

The only one that has defeated me was rhe BnB in Wales where you had to pull a little cord outside the shower cubicle to get the shower to work.

Have stayed in a Holiday Inn Express a few times and like the fact that when you open the bathroom door it closes off the loo into a cubicle so you still have your privacy even if your partner is using the shower.

Have I misunderstood or are you embattled wash your hands and brush your teeth in front of your husband But you fine to use the toilet in his presence when at home?

*embarrassed to

we stayed in one recently where the sink & toilet was in a room on their own, but the frosted glass shower cubicle was next to it in the main room.