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

We had this on my last holiday with my female friends. All the rooms in the hotel were the same. My friend and I who usually room together just couldn't deal with this and actually split the cost of another room so we could have a room each.

It crossed my mind that this may be why hotels are doing it. They can charge more for two rooms.

I’m glad this thread has come up because I’m booking some hotels at the moment and it has reminded me to check for audience participation bathrooms.

The thing is I can understand that while for some couples it isn't a problem who on earth positively likes this arrangement? I can't imagine anyone ever walking into a room and saying "oh great, the bathroom is completely open / transparent, just what I was hoping for".

And as for those rooms with a bath at the foot of the bed, the mind boggles.

A bath isn’t so much of a problem to me. An open plan loo with and a husband with a stomach upset very definitely is.

I doubt gas masks and ear plugs are provided.

For me the thing about the bath is the water getting everywhere and having nowhere to put any of your bath stuff.

In 17 years neither me or DH have seen each other go to the loo. Unless it’s an emergency it is a line we will not cross.

We stayed in an apartment once with 5 toilets, 4 of which were doubles, side by side. And two bedrooms were just extensions of the living room with big curtains which was fine cause there were only 2 of us in a 6 person place.

No one ever closes the toilet door at our house

Hate them and avoid hotels with them if I remember to check before booking

Baffling! Stayed in one in Manchester, closed off loo but completely open plan sink and shower was behind frosted glass but once you stepped out you were in the room. Bizarre.

I agree with this 99.9% of the time.
If I'm away with DH we both like a solid bathroom wall.
On a work trip to China a few years ago, after several nights of perfectly acceptable but quite restrained hotels, we ended up in one with Wi-Fi, some UK/US TV channels, a huge copper bath, all the oils and potions one could wish for, loofahs and sponges and a glass bathroom wall.
I bade my colleague farewell and spent the evening floating in a scented tub watching dated but fantastic American movies. A real highlight if business travel.

Pooticles, for short.

This is a brilliant idea. Personally, I'd like to just see it framed as "does this room have a private bathroom?" with a simple classification of yes or no.

If that gained purchase, and hotels realised that they were being automatically classified alongside cheap seaside B&Bs with four bedrooms sharing a single bathroom off the main corridor - and thus being filtered out in the majority of user searches - just maybe they might do something about it.

I once stayed in a cheap B&B in Hull for a night. The room had been created by dividing a large, bay-windowed room in two, with half a bay window in each. The bathroom was in the bay window, so that when you sat on the loo you looked out over the street. I suppose the glass must have been frosted, but I have never felt so exposed in my life!

I can't see how a cubicle would impact health or security. I do have an issue showering in front of Betty from no.57. and I certainly don't want to see her naked. I have no idea why people pay for the privilege.

Because you cannot see what anyone is doing in a cubicle. Drugs? Alcohol consumption? Collapsed; possibly a higher risk after an overly excessive workout. Having a seizure?

This is one reason why so many changing rooms are open plan.

And l hear that Betty at No. 57 was born naked anyway!

But any of those issues could happen in a toilet cubicle but most sensible places dont have glass walls or doors on toilets (yet.....) thankfully!!

I'd imagine a lot of changing rooms are likely to be open plan from a cost perspective (fewer walls and doors to construct) and possibly that you could fit more people in because they can use what would have been "corridor" space

INNside by Melia have this as an intentional design feature. Most reviews are negative but the hotel group insist they will continue with it. They lost my booking when I discovered this was a feature inn their Newcastle hotel and reading comments here most people think the same

The one I stayed in recently was an Iberostar.
Huge jacuzzi bath in the room, no door or curtain, if you opened the room door anyone in the corridoor could see you in the bath.
First niight DH filled it up and settled in. At 7pm the maid popped in to leave a chocolate etc.
After that he put the do not disturb on but that meant no chocolate and no (free) mini bar refills.

Why would you not want some privacy

I don't know, I'm just not bothered

@Crazyeight I never use hotel bedroom for these purposes , only ones in lobby - although occasionally might use for a wee in the night- I know my H thinks 'I'm odd' !!

Interesting, isn’t it, that though the hotels stand absolutely behind this design feature … photos of the rooms carefully exclude it

It seems to me that the world is increasingly accommodating, if not promoting, ahem male paraphilias and perversions - perhaps this is part of it. What women want appears secondary.

Have you asked any men what they want? My husband has been quite vocal with his disgust.

I’ll be doing this too!