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 one over Christmas last year and I actually loved it. The toilet wasn't in view but the shower was and I have some beautiful photographs of my partner laying on the bed, through the glass with water on it after I'd showered like raindrop and my reflection in the glass naked. It was a sort of modern and kinda sexy hotel though, no children allowed etc. So I assumed it was a sex thing 😂

I don't think it's going to save electricity with turning the light off as it cast really nice ambient lighting over the massive bed. Has speakers in the ceiling too which I presumed was to drown out the sound of the couple upstairs shagging though we didn't experience this as hotel was rather empty over Xmas week.

Sounds more like Amsterdam than Hull

Literally got one of these types of rooms with a see through door yesterday and staying with DS. I have no idea what I’m going to do

Just looking for hotels in Corfu and came across this horror. Look where the shower is! 😮

Madness - but I presume that's what the picture behind the bed is for? It's about the right size and shape, if you just haul it over each time you shower!

My husband came across this yesterday. We booked somewhere else.

I’m tempted to contact the hotel and tell them why we looked elsewhere.

Dear God, that is awful. 😫

Nothing more romantic than seeing your OH sitting on the loo doing a poo.😂

There are people who have the bathroom in their bedrooms at home. Why? Especially if they have one of those fashion statement baths which are a pain to get in/out of and difficult to clean.

Do these bedrooms get more mould and damp on walls, bed, wardrobe etc?

I thought hotels got lower electricity bills from installing a key card holder which activates the lights and power sockets (not the aircon or fridge/minibar). Any card works as used my library card in one whilst I was charging my power bank whilst having breakfast.

The hotel I stayed in Malta last week was the first hotel in about 15 years that didn't have the key card holder system. Problem was I had to make sure I put keycard straight into my phone case once I entered the room.

Yes just delightful (not)

You can look all you like for explanations or justifications as to why the designed chose to so it that way, but ultimately...

If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck;

If it designs hotel en-suites with clear glass, so that you have no privacy and can't easily avoid seeing somebody pooing or fulfilling other highly personal functions, it's a pervert.

Twin beds too, so they're obviously allowing for two people who aren't a couple - yet they still assume that a pair of friends want to watch each other showering and curling one out?!

The "Ooh, it saves electricity!" excuse is contemptible rubbish. There's nothing stopping them from putting a timer on the light, if they really must. It's all very well saving money and the planet by not needing a light in the bathroom, but they do realise that people need to use it at night as well, don't they?

How much money does it save in electricity? And have they reduced the prices to the guests to take account of this saving? Thought not.

Seeing as one curtain panel looks like it would cover the patio doors adequately, I'd be making DH take the other one down and drape it over the shower wall.

Actually, scrub that, we'd just book somewhere else, that wasn't designed by freaks and perverts.

Oh, i actually really like the look of the room.

This is my first ‘Not my Nigel’ 😁
Obviously not all men are perverts - but (nearly) all perverts are men! And since men’s wants seem to be increasingly elevated above women’s needs and comfort …..,,,

Apparently, 69% of interior designers are women so it’s far more likely that the glass walled loos are the result of a feminine touch.

In any case, a quick Google brings up plenty of men bemoaning the scourge glass walled loos on Reddit and other forums.

It isn’t just my Nigel.

They might say it’s for saving electricity, but in all the hotels like this that I’ve stayed in (quite a few as I was cabin crew for years), all the rooms were “bijou” and not having a solid bathroom wall probably gives the impression that the room is bigger/brighter. So I think hotels can squeeze more rooms into the hotels this way. They were all fairly new build hotels…

Indeed. There are many handmaids who prioritise male desires above all else and are often unconscious of doing so.

It seems like an awful lot of effort to go to, in order to see one woman in intimate (and possibly quite unpleasant and unseemly!) circumstances, when there's this little thing called the internet, which they can access anywhere on their phones, with thousands of different women willing to fulfil their muckiest desires - without them even having to say "Yeah, no, I agree it's gross, innit" to their wives.

This seems to be becoming more and more common. Our hotel in Lanzarote this year and Portugal last year had this. Not great.

I wonder if these hotels are all playing the long game and hatching the same fiendish plans as budget airlines do.

A couple of years from now, they'll paint over or replace the glass panels and then offer you the 'opportunity to upgrade' - for a considerable fee - to a 'higher comfort room' that's exactly the same as the one that you would have got as standard before!

I first came across it in Asia but it has spread. While trying to find out where it came from I found a Guardian article from 11 years ago.

Open-plan bathrooms: the ultimate hotel horror?

Stillamum3, I’m dying… That’s the funniest scenario!

I’m on holiday at the moment - no glass….. but the bathroom has a partition wall which only goes halfway across the room. No door at all.

I can lie on the bed and see the sink. The loo and shower are covered by the wall (they are facing each other) - unless I am at the end of the bed drying
my hair or doing may make up or anything then I can see everything in the bathroom.

Worse though for me is the sounds and smell. I don’t want to hear / smell my husband using the loo - and I certainly don’t want him to see / hear me. We can run the tap for a wee, but I can’t think of anyone who would want to do anything else with someone the other side of half a wall with no door !