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

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

I hate to tell you but the Premier Inn near Stoke had a bathroom like this. Tiny room with just a shower cubicle and a loo opposite it with a frosted door that you could see a person's movement through/see them sat on the loo. Weirdly the basin was outside the 'bathroom' (glorified cupboard). Thankfully never been in another PI like it.

Its also on a par with fancier public bathrooms that have a convoluted system of washing and drying your hands with a weird "all in one" tap device that dispenses soap, water, and dries you hands but you have to have them in the exact correct position and execute a weird flapping motion to get the thing to perform.
Or toilet flushes that you wave your hand in front of to activate, but they don't work and there is no physical flushing mechanism, so you have to exit the loo without flushing and hope that no-one is waiting to use it after you.

Whatever happened to taps and paper towels and a good old flush handle?

We have just returned from a hotel where the glass panel was an asset as it allowed me to shower, whilst overlooking the sea. Beautiful.

That said, we are a couple who share a bath, there was also a curtain that could be pulled across the outside of the shower screen and the toilet was in its own little, lockable room.

Currently at hotel with husband and child. Bathroom door is glass panel that is not see through, but doesn’t actually fill the whole gap, so you can see in through the sides. It also has no lock so my husband has to battle to keep my child away from the door so I can do my business in bloody peace.

My first romantic weekend away with XH had a bathroom like this. We’d been together all of two months and very much in the ‘alluring mystery’ stage of getting to know each other.

Yes I pass through a train station which has just installed new sinks in the bathrooms.

The hand dryers are above the sink, presumably to stop the floor getting wet (sounds clever!).

Problem is - using the taps causes the dryer to switch on, spraying the flow of water all over you.

Genuinely terrible. They must have known when they put it in.

I have never stayed anywhere like this. Are any hotels in the uk like this? (I don't usually stay in hotels overseas).

Haha just back from a month in Thailand and most places were like this my husband and I just were talking about it last night - the last place we stayed had a massive window into the bathroom but actually had a roller blind for privacy

but others were glass doors

some no door at all

we had 2 little ones with us and my daughter said one night that the room smelled yucky after my husband had obviously had a poo earlier and as there was no door the whole room was a bit smelly 🤣🤣 she wasn’t wrong 😑

Those bloody taps with hand dryers incorporated are a pet hate of mine. Can't get my hands in the right position to use them. Whoever thought they were a good idea? It also increases waiting time at the sinks as people flap around trying to wash their hands and then flap around trying to get the dryer to work.

The toilet flushes drive me mad too. Sometimes they'll randomly flush while you are still sat on the toilet. Other times they won't flush at all and you're left with paper and whatever else floating around in the toilet for the next person's visual pleasure.

Unfortunately, yes! Very off-putting.

I’ve been married 23 years and I still don’t wish to see or hear my husband have a shit, I can’t imagine he’d want to see me do the same either.

I hate semi-open bathrooms in hotel bedrooms, but some people must love it as they have paid to have a similar arrangement in their own homes!

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See photo 13....it's described as a double bedroom, but who really wants to be party to the sight, sound and smell of their partner doing a number two in their bedroom? That's an intimacy too far, in my book. Even if it's just one person using the room, the thought of an aerosol of toilet water droplets landing on the pillow everything the loo is flushed, is not a pleasant one. And wouldn't the humidity from the shower make the bedroom damp?

It's horribly common nowadays. The number of places with the sinks in the bedroom too, or a fucking bath sitting there in the room! Why????? I like a proper bathroom with a solid, lockable door. I want PRIVACY in there, not for whatever I'm doing to be a spectator sport.

I do remember seeing a house on grand designs where they put a toilet in the bedroom. It was behind a low wall so you could see the head of someone sat on the loo. Why would you want that?

The most glaringly obvious thing to do in that house would be to make the dressing room an ensuite to the front bedroom, especially since it appears to be above the bathroom so plumbing etc would be in the correct place and leave the other bath/bedroom as a bedroom!!

There was one earlier this year iirc , built on an old reservoir, I think. They went about 4 x over budget (I know that doesn't really narrow it down) and had a copper bath in the bedroom and the loo behind a wall, sort of begind the bed, but no door (by design rather than they had completely run out of money for a door!)

If we all had bathrooms like that we would find out what our husbands get up to in there that seems to take hours.

I hate these type of hotel rooms!
Also, anyone who has a bath in a bedroom or open to another room requires their bumps reading.

We're in one now.
I think it utilises the space better. Neither of us is fixated by privacy.
With these types of room layouts DP has plenty of mirrors to admire himself in.
😂😂

Yes, that would be much better. Or at least put a proper full-height wall and door around the bathroom part if the bedroom.

That house is ridiculous. It looks nice and vaguely sensible and then you suddenly realize the main bathroom is downstairs (2 of the bedrooms have to go downstairs to use it) and there's that horror in one of the bedrooms. Why? Just why?

Do these rooms not have smoke detectors?

They're required in UK hotels.

In the hotels where I stay, the ones with proper walled shower rooms, there are usually notices reminding you to close the door as the steam can activate the alarms.

That’s awful. Biggest TV I ever saw in the living room too.

The problem is that life is not a Hollywood movie where the heroine would appear in a misty haze of steam emerging from the shower, or arise like Venus from the mist above the claw-footed bathtub, or see her beautiful silhouette caressing her body with suds behind the frosty glass of the cubicle.

In real life there are people grunting and shitting on the toilet, there are smells, there are periods, there are people puking into the loo after overindulging or illness, there are people squeezing their zits in the mirror, there are any number of body functions that are not conducive to a night of unbridled intimacy with ones other half.

I think anything that takes place in a bathroom should be a private affair, sorry if that makes me a dinosaur. Unless its a consensual shared bath or shower, anything else is, in local parlance, minging.

Oops, sorry about that 👀🤭

Well, at least you can remember it. I don’t remember much after the hideous toilet situation!