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

I stayed in a church on Airbnb that had the bed in the altar but then a screen with a the loo and shower. So it was open air to the whole church. Pongy. 💩

Really? That’s the biggest TV you’ve ever seen?

Marriott Sandy Park in Exeter - we actually complained to the manager. Staying in a family room, with our DS while moving him into Uni. The bathroom wall facing the room is glass, opaque - crazy as you can see everything in shadow, and obviously if you switch the light on it illuminates the whole room.

This ^

I demanded a room change when there was a window between the bathroom and the bedroom without any covering. The room they moved us to still had a window between but at least there was a roller blind over it. The roller blind was on the bedroom side so if someone wanted to open it when I was mid poo still could have done (but they knew better).

so freaking bizarre! Who wants their OH/friend/kids/whoever they are sharing a room with to see them in the toilet. Gross!

I once rented a small flat in a European country when I was studying there for a year - the college kindly found it for me.

The landlord retained one room next to the front door as his private study, which was in turn next to the bathroom - which had a huge non-opaque window in the door. I kept a large bath sheet permanently hanging over it!

These things don't even seem to be just very poorly thought-out, but rather deliberately designed with an integral viewing window for keen spectators firmly in mind!

We hired a house grandly referred to as Australia’s Best House ( won some sort of architecture award on TV).

helipad, infinity pool, tennis court, billion dollars a night yadayada.

anyway, It had 5 bedroom suites, all with the bathroom behind a half wall. NOT evident from the photos, nor was the fact that they were all off a terrace, so in order to leave a room and use one of the four guest suites if you didn’t want to wake your husband with noise or lights, you had to go outside to the next suite,in the permanent rain because we stupidly hadn’t clocked that Queensland is a massive fucking rainforest, and in doing so, brave a menagerie of snakes, jumpy frogs and fuck knows what else in the pitch dark.

we were there for 10 days over Xmas and after 20 odd years of marriage became more aware than ever before of each others’ bodily functions.

i loathe open/glass bathrooms with a passion

I see what you did there... (Not literally, because I would opt book a solid-walled ensuite)

It seems to be on the increase. I’m totally relaxed if I’m seen having a shower, whoever I’m sharing a room with is going to see me getting dressed or undressed anyway. I’m not that bothered having a wee, but l do like to have a poo or change a Tampax with a bit of privacy.

There’s another downside too, if you go to the loo in the night and need to turn the light on it floods the whole room with light which is likely to wake the other person.

I thank the internet Gods for Tripadvisor and FB hotel groups every year when it comes to checking out hotels we are going to so I can plan what to do with rooms like these. So far I have taken: a giant sarong, para cord and sticky contact hooks to enclose the open plan bathroom with glass fronted shower and loo; a roll of frosted window film for a shower door; and shower curtain and cord/hooks for the 'wet room' that was open to the bedroom.

its a bloody ridiculous trend

En suite is bad enough, I try to put a dressing room or at least wardrobes in between a bathroom and a bedroom
I have been asked to put a bath in a few bedrooms recently and they all seem to think it screams luxury and decadence
I don’t get it at all
I also fit fire doors on all bathrooms to help with sound and privacy that when they open give privacy against the loo
a mirror should never be in front or behind a loo

Those baths look beautiful but utterly impractical. Where do you put your glasses/wine/cup of tea? Where do you keep the soap?

In a home, yes.

Fire doors bang shut and children can catch fingers in them.

What’s wrong with mirrors in front or behind a loo? Surely no one is bothered about privacy from seeing themselves???

Even worse than glass doors are bloody wet rooms. Often you get up for a wee in the night and you have to paddle. So, you need to dry your feet before going back to bed.

@BiscuitlyBoyle I live in a hard water area, that bath is giving me nightmares about how much limescale removing spray I'd have to buy.

Very good point - must make you feel like the star prize on a gameshow being dramatically revealed!

With you on this OP. I don't mind too much for the bathroom bit but would prefer SOME privacy (but that's because I'm sharing a room with my DH - but anyone else and of course I want the shower to be private too), but the toilet is just a hard no. We (DHabd I) once stayed in a hotel in Singapore where the toilet door wasn't floor to ceiling, so zero soundproofing in the hotel room. Hideous.

Oh yes and I never understand when people put the bath right bang in the middle of the bedroom (including and particularly on home renovation shows so their actual house, not just a hotel). A) privacy and B) surely the steam/condensation over time is pretty bad for your clothing, bedding etc and things just get a bit damp?!

Been to several "luxury" places eg Soho Farmhouse and they all have a bath in the bedroom, I absolutely hate it. Why do they think that's luxurious in any way?????? I don't want a steamy bedroom that smells of bath oils or bubbles or whatever, and there's nothing better than walking into a separate bathroom that's super luxurious and closing the door, then emerging afterwards into a bedroom with crisp (unsteamy!!!) sheets.

This is without even taking into account the possibility of another person sharing the room (I'm usually single).

As for a full on toilet in the bedroom, I've not encountered that one but if I did I would leave, it sounds revolting.

I have enjoyed my rant !!!!!!!!

Indeed. Even the cleanest, best aired bathroom has a bathroom smell - not always unpleasant, but not how I want my bedroom to smell.

The fire doors are not fitted with self closers so dont bang shut any more than a standard door will , its the density that I like that lessens sound
Each to their own on the mirrors , its what makes the world go round

I don't get all the negativity. Don't you sometimes use the loo at home when (say) your partner is in the shower? Or, if you don't want to look, then.... don't look! Not really a big deal.

Good God, no!

That's why we have a downstairs toilet.

Awful, I specifically check Tripadvisor photos for this issue!
I don't particularly want to be seen using the bathroom and definitely don't want to see DH on the toilet!
We also have teen/tween girls so privacy is important!