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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.
Really? I stayed in far fewer and maybe 10% have no doors. And then another 30% have no locks or doors that don’t close all the way (barn doors)
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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.
> Denmark loves their 'wet' bathrooms in hotels, no shower door and a drain in the center of the room. If you're renting an apartment in Shanghai, a cheap one will have a door to the bathroom, but the shower won't be a separate fixture. The entire bathroom functions as the shower (the hose or fixed piping is mounted on a wall), and there's a drain in the floor. A more recent apartment will have a shower installation…
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Things I want, Socket next to bed, light switch next to bed, decent mattress and pillow, blackout blinds, no noise from next door/corridor I do like a good shower too, rather than those stupid bath things like it’s the 1980s, and get rid of American hotels which seem to be allergic to providing shower gel
It blows my mind that sockets on the nightstand aren’t standard by now. I just stayed at the Westin in Rome, supposedly a 5 star place, but I don’t think it’s been updated in 30 years. I had to move the nightstand and unplug a lamp, so I could plug my phone in next to the bed. So go get my phone socket I had to lose the lamp. It didn’t even have an alarm clock on the nightstand; there would have been nowhere to plug…
Nobody comes and takes your stars away. They earned them once and they're still using them.
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And a third type, people who have had children so have gone through the toddler stage where a toddler would literally chainsaw and burn down a locked door before they let you have 3 seconds of peace to take a shit.
That's actually a very valid point I hadn't taken into consideration. If you're single or have a partner that you're comfortable with, open concept bathrooms feel luxurious. But if you need sanctity and salvation from the kids, I can get it.
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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…
Not having a bathroom with a door is an incredibly low baseline. I can only think of a single Airbnb that I’ve stayed in that’s been worse than that
(The key to the Airbnb was missing and the host was inaccessible)
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> I hung a towel over him. Be careful, that's probably a felony.
Seems like it. Randy from Cupertino should probably avoid visiting UAE again. https://uaelegislation.gov.ae/en/legislations/2131 > Section Two: Crimes and Penalties; 2. Slander, challenge, or insult the Divine Essence : > Anyone who commits one of the acts stipulated in Clauses (2, 3, and 5) of Article (4) of this Decree by Law, by any means of expression or other forms or by using any means, shall be punished by imp…
Surely this refers to God/Allah though. I would expect using such a monkier to refer to the king would be shirk (associating/comparing something with God), one of the worst sins in Islam.
So Randy is probably safe.
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Actively? Almost no one. But I absolutely check out google maps reviews, and a single review saying that the hotel did not have a proper door on the bathroom would guarantee I would not stay there. Even traveling alone it's a clear indication they have no respect for their guests, and it's a significant hygiene issue.
> Even traveling alone it's a clear indication they have no respect for their guests, and it's a significant hygiene issue. I feel like if you consider lack of a door a significant hygiene issue, you probably just shouldn’t be staying in hotels. These rooms aren’t being sanitized between guests, they are pretty dirty.
There are good reasons to keep bathrooms physically separated from where you sleep and hygiene is one of them, along with not wanting the bed to be a front row seat to the sights, smells, and sounds of whatever is going on in there and not wanting an expensive hotel room I'm paying for to be like a prison cell.