Hotels with semi-open bathrooms / glass panels

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I have been staying in various different hotels in recent weeks:

>50% have had bathrooms which are either open to the bedroom, have glass walls (ie you can see straight into them), have a glass door etc.

Some of this glass is totally clear - some blasted but you can still see through.

Does anyone really want to watch whoever they share their room with on the toilet? In the shower? Changing a tampon?

The most recent was a family resort ie it’s expected a whole family is sharing the room, with a slightly blasted glass door

YABU: you’re a prude
YANBU: this is an insane design trend

YANBU I absolutely hate them. Even when I’m in a room on my own I don’t like looking at a toilet from my bed!

I've seen a few like this when looking for a holidy recently and have immediately discounted that hotel, no matter how nice or how much of a bargain it may be.

I don't want to watch my DP brushing his teeth/sqeezing spots/shaving/ or sitting on the toilet than you very much )and I'm sure he doesn't want to watch me) - somethings should remain private!!

I always check the photos on trip advisor now after booking a hotel with my teenage son and finding a non-private bathroom in the room.

Awful. I just don't get it.

I’m usually checking photos before booking and wouldn’t book it. However I wonder if hotels don’t make it absolutely clear what kind of doors their bathrooms have.

I hate it too. But I am truly fascinated by the magic switch that turns the glass from see through to frosted (if there is one). How the hell does that work??

I've just come from a week sharing a hotel room as a four person family. The bathroom door was frosted glass and sliding. It didn't lock.

So basically I haven't pood for a week. Everytime you sit down, door slides open and appears a small child.

We stayedin a hotel in Dubrovnik that had this. The room photos didn't make it clear, but the comments on Trip Advisor after we git home all said pretty much the same thing.

The toilet was partitioned off, but you could see whoever was in the shower. It's a bonkers idea.

😂

I got to the point of inventing a reason to go to the lobby so I could use the hotel reception toilets on the ground floor.

It's awful isn't it? Even in pretty expensive places too!

I hate it, but my DH (when we were bitching about it!) wondered if it means something regarding safety? As in, I'd you have a "proper" separate bathroom, does that count officially as a separate room so you need twice as many fire alarms? Or maybe it means you need a proper fire door or something? Basically, does this "no door"/"just a crap divider" mean the bedroom and bathroom is considered one room so they can scrimp on otherwise required safety features?

There most be a monetary reason! I can't believe people have been consistently feeding back "you're hotel is lovely but it would be so much better if I could watch DH poo"...

It is pretty mad. Once I went on a spa break with two female friends. The room had three single beds (so generally meant for unrelated sharers) and the bathroom had a huge clear paned window in the internal dividing wall so you could see the occupant. Most odd.

We resorted to hanging a towel over it.

Would hate it

It's awful and I can't fathom why hotels do it. I know from chatting to some hotel teams (not the design decision makers) through my work that they've lost conference and group business after putting in glass bathrooms. Anything where people might be sharing with a colleague or stranger, because frankly it's bad enough sharing with your own family.

Staggeringly short sighted trend.

Nah, like a poster up thread I don't want that even if travelling alone.

I had similar in Thailand. It was an open planned bedroom/bathroom, with a round, spa bath part way in the bedroom and part way in the bathroom. There was a flimsy curtain on one side of the toilet- not all around it and not on the part facing the bedroom! No bathroom door or wall at all.
I took photos and posted them on tripadvisor to warn others.

How could I forget. Friends of ours bought a house and the bathroom door was glass, with floral patterns on the sides, but ALL the glass was clear! The toilet was opposite the door, so everytime I went to the loo- I'd announce I was doing so, so they didn't walk past. They sold the house 6yrs later, and the glass door was still there!

Thank fuck Premier Inn hasn't gone down that route, id rather a basic hotel than a frosted glass bathroom.

We had a week away like this lately - I had to go for a wee in the dark because it would wake dh up if I turned the light on in the bathroom.

Can I add to the list the annoyance of hairdryers which need a button to be pressed in to work and which are attached to the wall? So annoying

@EnterFunnyNameHere good thought! The internet's just told me it's to save on electricity, as so many people leave the bathroom light on overnight. Surely not...

I mean, sure the electricity bill would go down, but mainly because they'll have fewer customers.

Dh and I once stayed in a Yotel hotel - the bathroom was like an open pod in the bedroom.
There was a curtain for privacy and whilst Dh and I are not normally bothered about things like that, when it came to going for a poo, it wasn’t that great. We used to put music on and have the shower running, ready to hop into, so we couldn’t hear anything😳

I think it’s good to hold on to a little mystery in a relationship!

At the other end of the scale we had an ideal bathroom set up in an old fashioned but recently rennovated hotel in France this summer.

You came in the main room door and there was a short corridor with three rooms off it (each with a separate wooden door) - the toilet, the bathroom and the bedroom. I was particularly grateful as I had one night of gastric distress after eating a clearly dodgy slice of soft cheese at a festival. Mr Monkey and I have been together a long time but some things need to remain broadly private!

I hate these types of rooms. It's surprising how many are like this.

I HATE them. You feel self conscious going to the loo. You either trip up in the dark if you need the loo at night or the light blazes through onto your partner.

As for bedrooms with baths on a tiny platform - they actually make me feel a bit nauseous and cross. I never want to waste money on a hotel that doesn't understand the purpose of an interior wall.

Isn’t there usually a button you can press that turns the glass opaque?

@Detchi surely that can't be true? Most hotel bathrooms seem to have the loudest extractor fans in the world that come on everytime you put the light on!