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've noticed this alot more the last couple of years in hotels we have been too that are newer/recently renovated. Its so strange! Yanbu

It's taking us all back 100 years, with the tin bath in the kitchen filled from the cast iron kettle on the old stove once a week, with every member of the family getting their turn!

You don't poo Infront of your small child?

That's surely just daily life, no?!

So it's 2024, and we've gone right back to having a chamber pot (albeit one that now flushes) next to the bed?!

The one we stayed in a few years ago definitely had a glass bathroom! This was Bournemouth Premier Inn.

World’s gone mad

I went to mallorca with my 16 yo daughter snd we stayed in a room like this. It was ridiculous :) and stupid!!!

I stayed in the Premier Inn in Bournemouth in July and our room didn't, perhaps we were lucky. I'm not sure either me or teen DD would be impressed if it had been.

Just wait until some influential idiot designer takes it a step further and tries to make it the norm for hotel toilets to be plumbed into the ceiling and used sitting upside down.

If they haven't ever heard of the basic concepts of privacy and dignity - and most people not wanting to be forced to perform their very personal duties in front of (probably unwilling) spectators - maybe the concept of gravity has passed them by as well

Designed by clueless men.

I had no idea these stupid glass bathrooms were so common, but now that I know, I’m going to email hotels in advance asking if they have them. If they do, I won’t book.

Just about everyone on this thread hates the idea, why is anyone thinking this is what people want???

Yeah how do they get through the different stages of planning and being signed off without someone along the process saying wait this is an awful idea!!
Even the people on here who have said 'what's the problem?' havent actually said 'Oh this is my favourite kind of bathroom- I love it when a hotel has an exposed bathroom!"

I assume it is cheaper as most hotel ensuite bathrooms involve building a room within a room or with older ones sacrificing room spacw or another space from another part of the hotel.

We've noticed this a lot in Europe. We reached the conclusion it means they can count the bathroom area as part of the advertised room space . Would much prefer a door, not ideal with the other half, let alone if sharing a room with a friend

Utterly loathe this. Travelled recently with my teenage son and booked a twin bedded room.

Arrived to a double and a bathroom which had no door and was all glass walls. I would have hated this with my husband but with my son it was excruciating. In France.

I don’t get this. There are plenty of older hotels in the UK (including big chains) where 3 rooms have been knocked into 2 to convert them to en suite.

I was once a member of a gym that had partially clear and partially frosted glass shower cubicles. You could see everything! Hated it and ended up just getting a shower at home.

Who designs these things!

I've never understood gym changing rooms. I take my son swimming to a private gym (it's where they hold the toddler classes). And I think it's ridiculous people pay £50+ a month to have to stand in an open area and get changed. For that much money surely they can put in some cubicles??

Surprised no one has mentoned poo particles yet! 😂

Good point.

Using the phrase "toilet plumes" in reviews might focus minds.

Maybe we should contact TripAdvisor en masse to ask if they could include "in-room bathroom privacy" or "solid/opaque bathroom walls" as a basic amenity, with a box to tick in the search menu (along with WiFi, car park etc.?) That might help to focus the minds of the large hotel chains and put an end to this idiocy...

That would actually be a very good idea!

Open plan in a gym is for the health and security of all. There is a huge difference between changing/showering in view of others (no issues with that) and having a poo or changing Tampax, No to mention the related sound effects with having a dump and eau de poo that comes with it.

I'm going to do that.

I shall ask for a filter for "a completely enclosed and private en-suite bathroom/shower room with toilet and sink" and explaining "by which I mean a room within a room, completely enclosed by floor-to-ceiling solid, opaque walls with no windows in them, and a solid, opaque, full-length door".

I feel "solid, opaque" is necessary to counter arguments that a curtain can be opaque and that a glass wall is solid.

Any suggested improvements?