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Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by godelski »

eru wrote: post #252
lawlessone wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

who wants to sleep in a room full of shower steam?

That's a comfort issue. Comfort is important, but it's distinct from hygiene.

  > it's distinct from hygiene.
Mold

Not to mention that any bacteria thrives in more humid environments. They aren't so good at keeping moist. This is true for a lot of things, especially the smaller the thing is, including bugs. Higher humidity definitely makes good hygiene more difficult.

Why do you think bathrooms have fans? That'd be a lot of effort to deal with farts.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by jrockway »

ghaff wrote: post #210
jrockway wrote: post #190

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I just feel like this becomes time consuming after a while. Will there be soap? Toilet paper? A bed? You don't know unless you ask! But ... c'mon ... they can just tell you on the website.

Or just don't travel if every detail becomes an issue. I make certain basic assumptions--yes I assume there will be a bed and toilet paper--but, in general, I adapt as necessary.

That is fair. I have noticed doors going missing in hotels but typically travel alone so it didn't really register as an issue. I would not want to share a room with a coworker ever, bathroom door or not.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by decimalenough »

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

Uhh, Aloft is in Marriott's "Select" bucket along with Fairfield and Courtyard. They have some shiny touches that let them claim the "Distinctive" label, but are basically just motels.

https://www.hotel-development.marriott.com/brands

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by Aloisius »

venturecruelty wrote: post #243
grugagag wrote: post #93

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Review and vote with your wallet and your feet

This strategy is so successful, it brought down Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Frito-Lay, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Monsanto, and Boeing.

People voting with their wallet are why Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Frito-Lay, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Monsanto and Boeing are still in business.

And people voting with their wallet have led to literally hundreds of thousands of companies going out of business.

So yeah, it is successful.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by Fnoord »

amiga386 wrote: post #261
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 doub…

> 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?

(They regard it as cheapskating/cheating.)

Very simple: by making it the status quo that bathroom doors aren't there they discourage you to rent a single room. So instead, you rent two single rooms with full privacy for each of you. Because a double room is only for couples, in their (I concur: twisted) world.

You mean you want to go to the competition? What if the competition does it as well? What if it is the norm?

As for your #4. People don't have time to put effort into such. Outliers do, they're the ones who make noisy drama at the reception. But they're the exception, not the rule.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by jen20 »

throitallaway wrote: post #34
autoexec wrote: post #12

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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.

I do. Most of my travel is alone for work so I don’t care about a door, but I always call ahead and refuse to book hotels with shower curtains.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by khazhoux »

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.

I can safely say there’s no person whose shit I want to be smelling, regardless of their diet.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by octoberfranklin »

netsharc wrote: post #164
forthwall wrote: post #70

I noticed in East Asia, they also have some tendency to have floor to ceiling windows through the whole bathroom to the bedroom, sometimes with no curtain either. I am not sure who this is for

The legend is that if you invite a lady for the night, it's so you and she can keep an eye on each other, in case either is worried about one going through their stuff/wallet while the other is in the bathroom. I stayed in such a hotel, and getting up to go the bathroom I noticed someone had flicked a business-card-sized advertisement under the door, for said companionship...

Hotel safes are a much simpler solution to this problem...
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