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Basically, just like the airlines, the hotels are saying if you are such a broke destitute to be able to upgrade to our premium tier, then go suffer in the smell of your own shit.
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In my long dating years, I've never pooped my bathroom door open. Never even farted next to a girl. Is this disgusting behavior normal to some people?
Did you ever get married or did your relationships always end when they complained that you weren’t giving them your full self?
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It's far more likely to discourage me and my friends from staying at that hotel entirely.
How many people consider what a bathroom looks like before booking a hotel room? I can't say I've ever done so.
This is a thing? I've only stayed at Premier Inns (a budget UK hotel chain) and have never heard of anything like this happening.
I've seen it in the US in smaller dense urban rooms and it's honestly something I've never thought about. It's honestly something it would never occur to me to write a blog post about. But I guess it's one of those things that some people are sensitive about.
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Have you considered closing the toilet lid?
There was a study which showed closing the lid reduces the acute problem but actually increases dwell time. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339650907_Real-time...
Joking aside, I find this far more in newer European hotels for whatever reason (though I'm sure it exists stateside and elsewhere too). My wife and I at this point just agree to tell each other when we're going to occupy it because we don't feel like it getting weird. Feels like - if the conspiracy-ish theory of it being used to dissuade people sharing rooms is true - they're inadvertently throwing out the couples dynamic.
To borrow another Seinfeld bit: there's good naked and bad naked. The glass door problem invites the latter.
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I recently stayed at a hotel in San Francisco that had no bathroom door. I'd even upgraded to the queen size room specifically because their layout map showed a door while the smaller rooms did not. I was pretty annoyed by that. (Edit: Despite being a single traveller. I think doors are important for hygiene). Happy to see someone is trying to fix this trend.
How are doors important for hygiene?
Update: this is why you should put the lid down to flush. But put it back up again after because
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I recently stayed at a hotel in San Francisco that had no bathroom door. I'd even upgraded to the queen size room specifically because their layout map showed a door while the smaller rooms did not. I was pretty annoyed by that. (Edit: Despite being a single traveller. I think doors are important for hygiene). Happy to see someone is trying to fix this trend.
How are doors important for hygiene?
A door provides at least some kind of physical barrier.
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But do you check if the hotel has bathroom doors? If yes, where? You call up and ask? And trust the person on the phone is honest? Most people would assume bathrooms have doors. It is just exhausting to have to check for every small, commonsensical, super basic detail
It's extremely exhausting, welcome to modern America. Where you can't trust shit from anyone. Everyone is lying, everything is a scam, everything is stupid just cuz, and it feels more and more like the world around you is being specifically designed to piss you off as much as possible. I just want to give businesses my money in exchange for goods and services. Is that asking too much?
Imagine some future hotel service trend where, right after the customer checks in, the checkin agent punches the customer in the face, by policy. I shouldn't have to check beforehand whether this is a "face punch" hotel or a "non face punch" hotel.
We shouldn't all have to live our lives with Caveat Emptor as some sort of horrible default societal moral framework.