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 mean sometimes it is unavoidable as we only have one bathroom, but I don't want to build it in to the design of the room!

Some people do and some don't. Like the eternal 'farting in front of your partner' dilemma: some people happily let off in front of each other and both giggle; some drive to the next county at the faintest sign of a rumble.

But a much bigger issue is the fact that it isn't just couples who share double - well usually twin - hotel rooms. It might be friends, siblings, colleagues, a parent and (grown-up) child or other combinations.

They definitely need a button that you can press to make an actual opaque stud wall - not a window - come out of the side and make the room private.

Something like a bigger version of the screen they used to have on Blind Date with no jokes about deciding to go for number 2.

That way, the pervs who want to share the joint 'experience' with each other can do so to their mucky hearts' content; all the rest of us can have our basic privacy.

It was one of these horror hotel bathrooms, that I discovered my DH (then DP) does sit-down wees.

Nope, we have separate bedrooms and a bathroom each

You are not being unreasonable. Awful.
But I also hate the practice- often seen in US home shows - of having the loo in a cupboard.

Very occassionally one of us has been for a wee when the other is in the shower.

However most bathroom activity is unsuitable to have anyone spectating (or smelling!!) - as a PP said, dealing with periods (whatever San pro is being used) poo-ing, vomiting, depilation etc etc

Surely the weirdos can have a toilet in the bedroom at home and put up with a solid walled bathroom in a hotel, I mean they could both go in together if they were worried about missing out? 🤣

I miss hotel shower curtains!

No. Never. I like to shit in my own company thank you. Even when we lived in a house with only one loo I would wait.

I'm in just such a hotel in Greece right now, but it's rather clever ... not only is the glass very heavily frosted, but there's a sliding wood panel which can be pulled across it, so it offers more natural light in tthe day and can still be made utterly private at night with lights on

I'm impressed

Yes would wait.

Not keen as I usually share with one teen DC depending on who is going. The number of rooms I’ve looked at recently with a freestanding bath on a ‘stage’ in the bedroom or behind a clear glass panel with a voile curtain to pull across is insane.

I do not understand them at all. Same with some new housing the ensuite bathroom is not an enclosed place. Like why?! If wanting to use the bathroom without an audience makes me a prude then so be it.

I also hate this. do people who design them never stay in them?
Lack of mirrors/decent lighting is another bug bear.
I want to sit down and do my hair and make up, not look in a tinted mirror with a tiny beam of light on the top
Of my head or have to use a bathroom mirror when the room and mirror are steamy.

Me neither. Together 35 years, separate bathrooms at home so sharing an en-suite in a hotel is as bearable as I can handle.

They seem very popular in Asia and have been for some time. I have even seen some with a toilet bowl right next to the bed.

We always check Tripadvisor and don’t book an hotel unless there is a solid wall around the bathroom.

No I've never been in the loo when my partner is in the bathroom. Ive even got out mid bath and wrapped myself in towel and waited outside rather than feel hurried! Anyway that is the sort of thing if you do cos there's no other option. Like at a big family gathering at Christmas someone might have to sleep on a blow up mattress or sit on a camping chair at the Christmas dinner. But if you booked into a fancy hotel you would expect a proper bed, a proper chair in the restaurant and a fully enclosed private bathroom!

No never. Our loos at home are separate from the bath/shower rooms.

We stayed at a nice boutique hotel in Glasgow. Sort of place you’d go for an anniversary or with a newish partner for first weekend away. Door to bathroom was totally glass and loo was directly opposite it. eas really bizarre and not pleasant.

This is discrimination against women. It means men can have a wee in the night, without getting out of bed and women have to get up! Seriously though, what are people thinking?

Airport Hotel Warning: Yotel Heathrow has loo without a door. Bloc Hotel Gatwick has wet rooms with shower over loo, so toilet, seat, and loo roll get soaked.