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

Horrible! I won’t go anywhere again with such an arrangement.

The worst one I stayed in was in the Maldives where the bathroom was open to the sky. All was lovely until I spotted a drone flying overhead!

I once stayed in a riad in Morocco with no door to the bathroom, just a wide opening onto the area with the bed. You couldn't be seen as the toilet was tucked away but you could be heard (/smelt). Mortifying.

I was staying with someone I hadn't long started to date and ended up with the worst bloating as I couldn't poo the whole week.

A few travellers in the riad caught food poisoning and the way riads are laid out meant you could hear everything from the common areas. I have emetophobia and listening to people throwing up daily while wondering when it would be my turn was the worst thing ever.

I hate them, just back from a 5* TUI holiday and the bathroom was open plan with only a saloon style glass door with a hint of sandblasting to protect your modesty while sitting on the bog.

I could see my husbands legs/feet sticking out at the bottom of the door and the outline of him sitting on the toilet, obviously all the sound effects/odours that went with it as there was no sound proofing with the saloon style doors.

Neither of us are prudes but no one wants to experience their partner having a dump, we ended up sitting on the balcony when the other was having a comfort break.

I almost always stay in chain hotels like Travelodge and the lower priced Accor brands.

Which have actual shower rooms, albeit sometimes tiny, with proper walls and a door.

I'll be continuing to do that.

We once went on holiday to a two-bed apartment, which described itself as having two bathrooms.

What this meant in practice was two bathrooms next to each other, with a shared walk in shower forming the wall between the two bathrooms. Lightly frosted glass of course.

They were beautiful bathrooms, but we had to implement special rules for bathroom usage as we had gone on holiday with my DH’s mum!

YANBU! We stayed in a lovely suite recently with a glass door to the toilet plus a massive gap at the top & bottom. Could clearly see DH's shorts & pants round his ankles when he went in.😳
I started visiting the lovely private loos near the restaurant a LOT.
The bath was in the middle of the room too. Not for me, I like my privacy far too much!

I stayed in a hotel where the whole bathroom was basically in the room. The shower, sink, and toilet were kind of in three cubicles next to each other with one sliding door that went over them. So if someone was in the shower you couldn’t close the door on the toilet because it was the one same door that slid across. Also, the shower cubicle was glass and right next to the bed.

We stayed in a small holiday place in the greek islands with a very strange bathroom set up. The bath was sort of open to the living kitchen area and right in front of the front door. In front of the suite was a small terrace with seating for your room/apartment and then communal grounds so we often sat outside leaving the door open so we could go in and out for things but obviously that wasnt really possible if someone was having a bath!

I hate them.

I was just wondering this. Everything seems designed to expose people now. Perhaps to break down privacy norms so it's easier to cop yourself an eyeful. I've noticed catwalk dresses are barely there now. They might as well parade around naked with a photo of their vulvas and rectum draped artfully around their necks. Annual colonoscopy, cervix check and photo session anyone?

Nothing is private now!

I wish a hotelier would explain why they do this. Everyone hates them. So why sign off on a design they know will put people off booking?

I'm genuinely intrigued and would love to know.

I like solid walls in the same way I like plates, not slates.

After one particularly scarring encounter with this type of bathroom, we now chuck some folded brown paper and a roll of parcel tape in our luggage. I will never again be forced to see my family enthroned in splendour, while I try not to see them 😵‍💫

Urghhhhhhh......that is vile.

I rarely go to stay at hotels but if I ever see any with glass partition to the bathroom, it's an instant no.

Depends on the reason for the trip family trip no thanks but if it's a double room meant for two I don't have a problem with it

I remember spending a very long afternoon closely scrutinising photos of hotels and bathrooms for a 'girls' holiday we were planning at a mostly all inclusive resort. I was astounded by the bathroom designs which seemed to consist of an open bathroom which did at least seem to have a closed toilet cubicle within. Nevertheless, much as I like my friends of 30+ years, none of us would have wanted to see each other showering!
I really cannot understand why anyone would think this is a good design.

YANBU at all. Dh and I always have separate hotel rooms as he snores, which is the only reason this doesn’t affect me, but this open bathroom design business is just awful, why do they do it?

Are there actually any people out there (apart from the kind who buy used, unwashed pants online) who actually LIKE these bathrooms?

Even if there were no practical issues, if it were just, say, Rocky Horror-style black and bright pink striped wallpaper, nobody would choose to use it in their family establishments, as it wouldn't be in any way popular and would deter guests... so why do they actively choose something that they know will disgust first-time guests (who don't see the photos or the reviews) and then deter them from ever returning?

I'm sure there probably is a minority market for these kinds of features - the same as for those themed restaurants where the waitresses are deliberately rude to you - but why so many of them, and why in standard family hotels?

Somebody could make a fortune from setting up stalls outside these places and renting out custom-sized black perspex sheets to unwitting hotel guests.

Urgh, flashbacks to XHs family home, where the upstairs toilet had one of those 'frosted' glass doors directly in front of the toilet, on the landing. So everyone walking past to go to their rooms, or to the upstairs living room, could see the outline of anyone sitting on the loo, or doing whatever. Whilst sitting on the loo isn't quite so dreadful, I don't need to see anyone (or have anyone see me) wiping my bum or changing a tampon. Particularly when they aren't even blood relations.

I have a downstairs bathroom with no window. A glass door would make it SO MUCH lighter, but, you know what? Not for any money...

I've stayed in a couple of Iberostar hotels this year. The first had a bathroom with no door and glass doors to the shower and toilet which was semi frosted but didn't hide anything.
The second had a massive jacuzzi bath and washbasins completely open plan in the bedroom. Even a curtain would have been better.
Fortunately there was also a toilet/ shower room with a door.

PIL bathroom has a mirrored cabinet immediately in front of the toilet, and no lock on the door, so you get to see yourself going to the loo and bonus if someone else comes in!

But even if it's, say, your honeymoon, and getting extremely intimate with each other is very much on the agenda, watching your beloved grunting and farting on the bog probably isn't going to be your finest hour of romantic bliss.

Travelling solo on business I like it! Not yet experienced this on holiday, as I don’t choose mainstream hotels.

My aunts house has a glass door on the downstairs loo that is in the hall. As a kid I had to go to the loo twisted at an angle so as not to be visible from the hall. Gripped by fear as it also didn’t have a lock. No one seemed to mind and just heartily laughed if mentioned.

The other one was a ‘romantic’ weekend in Paris by a newish boyfriend, lovely idea apart from the see-through bath at the end of the bed and the frosted loo door saloon style. I took one look and knew the weekend was not going to go well. I like the privacy and the sanctity of a bathroom, a chance to relax and regroup. I did take a bath but I didn’t enjoy it and it wasn’t sexy.