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Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by amiga386 »

akersten wrote: post #3

It's not about saving a few bucks on a door. It's about discouraging you and your friends from sharing a single room. Hotel sees the money they're leaving on the table and will trade you for it for the low price of watching your buddies do their business.

This doesn't make any sense.

In what way would it discourage you and your friend(s) from booking a standard twin room, if they don't tell you there's no bathroom door?

    Dr. Strangelove: Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?
Here are the options:

1. You offer double, twin and single rooms. Friends book twin rooms.

2. You offer only double and single rooms, in the hope that non-romantically engaged pairs of people will book two single rooms. Friends book some other hotel's twin rooms.

3. You offer double, twin and single rooms and you tell people before booking there's no toilet door. Friends book some other hotel's twin rooms.

4. You offer double, twin and single rooms but surprise! there are no toilet doors. Friends who've booked a twin room either demand a cancellation immediately upon seeing the room, demand a room with a toilet door, or they demand you offer some kind of ersatz privacy screen, and no matter what you do they're going to rain fury on every review site they can think of, tanking your reputation.

In which of these situations does the hotel get extra money?

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by Nextgrid »

autoexec wrote: post #112
rolandog wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sometimes feels like hotels are taunting us: "we're behaving like a cartel, whaddaya gonna do? Regulate us!? We've already tricked you into thinking that's socialism!"

It's a weird flex for a time when airbnb and vrbo have options all over the place.

With hotels you're playing the lottery but there is generally a baseline consistent with the brand of the hotel.

With those two you're also playing the lottery but there is no baseline.

With a hotel, you're also generally paying when you check-in and can thus refuse a subpar room and argue with a real, mostly-reasonable person.

With those two, you get charged before you even enter the place and any arguments will be with a bot or a call center drone in a third-world country pretending to be one.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by squigz »

tetris11 wrote: post #115
rjdj377dhabsn wrote: post #31

Huh.. I've stayed in over 1,000 hotels and Airbnbs over the last 15 years and not once saw a bathroom with no door. Lots of bathroom windows, but always some kind of door.

ALoft London Excel hotel. Fancy as hell, no bathroom doors. You shit behind your bed, I kid you not

$200+ a night and it doesn't come with a bathroom door?

This is why I just stay home.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

Glass box bathrooms are common in lower end Chinese hotels. So they don’t really have a door, and you are separated from the rest of the room by a glass pane. Weird, but not the worst I’ve experienced. The worst is when the shower straddles the squat toilet.

I really prefer bathrooms with a separate door for the separate toilet from the rest of it. And the shower has to be a walk in, but bathtubs are really only common in North America outside of higher end resorts that have both a separate walk in shower and a bathtub.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by ghaff »

toast0 wrote: post #257
citizenpaul wrote: post #212

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How do you complain and go to another hotel if every single hotel is owned by four companies that are colluding together to do the same thing. This ignores the very obvious fact that you may not want to search for a hotel at 2AM in a strange city when you are exhausted. Keep making excuses for your masters though, this is the world you live in. Marriot,Hilton,IGT,Hyatt own almost all hotels in any area you want to go…

> Marriot,Hilton,IGT,Hyatt own almost all hotels in any area you want to go to. Best Western, Choice, Wyndham, IHG (typo?), Accor, Blackstone (Motel6), Radisson, Red Lion, Red Roof. Etc. There's lots of choices. Many (most?) hotels are franchises and the name on the hotel can change. I haven't run into a hotel with no bathroom door yet, but I only have 2-3 stays a year and one is usually in the same hotel every year.…

I was a bit surprised that a Marriott property I was staying in in NYC a couple weeks ago actually had daily housekeeping service. I didn't really care but hadn't seen that in a while.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by kgeist »

eru wrote: post #246
kgeist wrote: post #229

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_plume A door provides at least some kind of physical barrier.

Have you considered closing the toilet lid?

>A 2024 study showed evidence that even closing the lid may still lead to small viral particles escaping through gaps under the lid, resulting in viral cross contamination of the air and surfaces in a washroom

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by z500 »

SoftTalker wrote: post #247
darth_avocado wrote: post #69

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There’s a big difference between a ocasional whiff and a massive stinker.

If it smells that bad something is wrong with your diet.

It's half dead bacteria, it's not supposed to smell like a bed of roses.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

Symbiote wrote: post #213
pnw wrote: post #167

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Denmark loves their 'wet' bathrooms in hotels, no shower door and a drain in the center of the room. I spent a lot of time in CPH and would stay at the Marriott because it was one of the few with American style bathrooms.

The drain should be within the shower area, with all the bathroom floor draining that way. If it's in the centre of the room it's been done very badly. I've never seen this in Denmark, even in some very old apartment buildings.

I’ve lived in a newish apartment where the wet room drain was in the center. It didn’t seem weird at all. There wasn’t much separation between the shower and toilet and sink, though.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by ehnto »

mrandish wrote: post #216
majormajor wrote: post #187

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I don't think that adds up. "Staying in a hotel with a romantic partner and/or family" is at least as primary a use case for hotels as "staying in a hotel with a platonic friend" and is still a scenario where you want a door but is NOT a scenario where "just get separate rooms" is a logical conclusion. "Get the hell out of that hotel and complain about it to everyone you know," on the other hand, is. The much more sp…

> eliminating rooms with two beds Quick tip I discovered when traveling with my teenage daughter: a lot of hotel sites are now unclear on whether a booking is for a room with one or two beds. I found that listing "occupants" as 3 would usually force such sites to sort for rooms with two beds (even though there would only be two of us). Assuming there's no breakfast included, the price is usually the same for 2 or 3.

Heeey clever. I really struggled with this while travelling with my brother in Japan. None of the aggregation sites filtered on number of beds even though they had that data in the listing.
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