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Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by SoftTalker »

darth_avocado wrote: post #298
SoftTalker wrote: post #247

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

That’s not remotely true. There are plenty of health conditions that affect this. Alcohol consumption can affect it. Completely normal diets with specific foods can affect how stinky your poop is. Non standard but healthy diets also can do the same. There’s a lot more to it.

You might at least consider it. When I cut most of the processed foods from my diet, that particular bodily function became much less odorous.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by etskinner »

scuff3d wrote: post #198
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.

Ditto. I've never seen this before. They always have at least those sliding doors.

The author of the site considers sliding doors not a real door

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by throwaway-0001 »

joombaga wrote: post #171
foxglacier wrote: post #114

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I agree but only because that's the standard for our culture so somebody not doing it is probably being disrespectful which means it becomes offensive to others because it normally only comes from people with some sort of negative feeling or inconsiderateness for those around them. In some cultures, noisy eating is the proper way and shows you're enjoying the food. Same goes for clothes, toilet sounds, etc. It's a lo…

> Same goes for clothes, toilet sounds, etc. What do you mean "same goes"? Are you saying there are cultures in which being loud on the toilet is considered proper?

In China making noise with mouth when eating is considered respectful.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by etskinner »

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.

You've never seen a sliding door rather than a fully closing one? That's one of the types of doors that the author is complaining about

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by phyzome »

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 feel like you're not picking up on the central point of "worse is worse than bad".

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by energy123 »

darth_avocado wrote: post #66
_carbyau_ wrote: post #51

A toilet door is a basic no brainer. Unless you want any others to watch or - if travelling alone - you want your bedroom area to smell the same as your freshly shat-in toilet... But then hotel do dumb things like fully enclose a barfridge in a cupboard too.

It’s also a hygiene issue. Bathrooms are notoriously covered in fecal particles, one of the reason why flushing with the lid up is not a great idea. Having a door at least provides some protection against your bed also being covered in them.

Fungus still everywhere though.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by amiga386 »

Barbing wrote: post #395
amiga386 wrote: post #356

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This continues to not make any sense. In most hotel pricings I've seen, twin rooms and double rooms cost the same. In fact, in the cheaper hotels, double rooms are just twin rooms with the beds bolted together (very annoying if you're a couple seeking romance). The hotel can reconfigure the rooms to match demand, as the only difference is whether the beds are joined. As a random example (I don't endorse it, I just pi…

Think based on bathroom rather than bed count here. Before: sell two business travelers one room with two separate beds and one dignified bathroom. Now: sell two business travelers two separate rooms just so they can each use the bathroom with dignity. Profit Now ($x2) > Profit Before ($x1)

This still makes no sense.

The business travelers are looking at a website with hundreds of hotels in the city they're going to. If you don't offer a twin room option, they don't think "well shucks, let's just get two single rooms". They go to the next hotel, out of hundreds, which has a twin room option. It may cost more, but it won't cost double. They'd be complete idiots to pick two single rooms if what they wanted as a twin room.

You can't compel them to book your single rooms, and you definitely can't compel them by springing a surprise doorless bathroom on them in your twin room option after they've paid and arrived. That's when they expense a taxi to some other hotel and report their findings to their entire company, who never book from you again.

Simply offering a twin room option means you expect unrelated or distantly-related people will book it. If you don't want that, take away the twin room option. Business travellers will not share a double bed. You get all that benefit of double-profit (if for some reason the travellers are morons or they're going to bumfuck nowhere and you're the only hotel), without going to the expense of removing bathroom doors.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by amiga386 »

dragonwriter wrote: post #392
amiga386 wrote: post #356

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This continues to not make any sense. In most hotel pricings I've seen, twin rooms and double rooms cost the same. In fact, in the cheaper hotels, double rooms are just twin rooms with the beds bolted together (very annoying if you're a couple seeking romance). The hotel can reconfigure the rooms to match demand, as the only difference is whether the beds are joined. As a random example (I don't endorse it, I just pi…

> Why would any group of people book a single room? To save money. > Is there some secret trick where multiple people turn up and bring their own beds with them, only to be foiled by a missing toilet door? Beds? Probably not. But, people (especially younger people, can sleep on the floor with climate appropriate (which, depending on the season and available heating, can be "none") coverings for warmth; I did this hap…

> To save money.

If they want to save money, hostels are usually half the price of hotels. Why would they even choose a hotel in the first place?

Plus, my experience is that hotels will simply cancel your booking, or force you to upgrade, if multiple people turn up to check in for a single room. They don't need some passive-aggressive doorless bathroom, they have the right to tell you to book a 2-person room (whether twin or double bed) for 2 people.

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