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Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by sam-cop-vimes »

godelski wrote: post #293
majormajor wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Also even in the single person case I want to have the bathroom door closed when I take a shower because it keeps the heat in. Which is why I also dislike (most of) the barn door style doors. I can't be the only one that likes to step out of the shower and into a nice and steamy room. Like what, you want to step out and be cold? That's masochistic. Not to mention no door doesn't bother me with another person because…

I can't book my grown up kids into the same room because of this reason. Utter stupidity or callousness, can't tell which.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by elboru »

rjdj377dhabsn wrote: post #271
zeroonetwothree wrote: post #83

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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)

Yes, not one. I just googled for pictures of hotel bathrooms without doors out of curiosity and mostly see sliding and frosted glass doors. Is that what people are talking about?

I’m as confused as you

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by Stevvo »

lucgommans wrote: post #153

More than 200 hotels already on this website. Wouldn't this be much more useful as an OpenStreetMap tag so people can find and share these good/bad hotels in whatever front-end they like? There does not seem to be a tag for it yet. That there are apparently hundreds of instances, and it being definitely something you'd want to select for, makes me think it's a good fit for OSM. Currently, hotels can already have tags…

You can't put affiliate links in OSM tags.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by rjdj377dhabsn »

etskinner wrote: post #404
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

Ah yes, quite a few. Not great, but definitely better than literally no door.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by tartoran »

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.

One way to get hotels to bring back the bathroom doors and other amenities from yesteryear is through cultural warfare of sorts. When all your customers consider and talk off these not as hotel rooms but cheap motel rooms or even brothel rooms:) Hotels aren't going to like it and eventually it'll catch up with them.

With the rise in AIRBNB and other similar competing services I expected hotels to compete back by lowering costs and improving conditions. Was I wrong, oh boy..

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by paulmooreparks »

One of my favourite hotels in SE Asia has this problem. (I won't name and shame, since when we complained they said it's going to be fixed soon in a redesign.)

On the topic, though... I want a desk that isn't made of glass so that I can use a mouse. Optical mice have been the standard for years, and of course I don't carry a mousepad. Who thinks glass desktops are good?

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by parpfish »

nlh wrote: post #129
meisel wrote: post #98

While we’re at it, bring back shower doors/curtains. It’s such a pain having this huge puddle outside the shower just because they decided it shouldn’t have one. It’s not so common to be missing one in US hotels, but it’s common internationally. Edit: apparently the virus has spread, and some US hotels now don’t have them

I’ve never understood this - it’s maddening. I grew up in the US and the bare minimum was always at least a shower curtain (inner and outer), and if not that, a proper door. Why on earth did this half-pane of glass become standard in so many places. It’s completely ineffective and ends up with water everywhere.

i hate it when the set up the half-pane in such a way that you can't adjust the water temp/pressure without being directly under the shower head.

when dealing with a new set of shower controls, i like to stand to the side and figure out what's happening and whether i need to let it warm up rather than stepping into the firing lane and taking whatever it throws at me

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by d--b »

For the rest of the world: it seems way more common in the US/americas to share rooms than it is elsewhere.

Rooms with two queen-sized beds sitting next to each other are pretty standard, even in mid and high range hotels, while I’ve never seen those elsewhere.

So yeah people share these rooms as it’s usually quite cheaper than getting two rooms. I did it with friends and my in laws.

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Post by volemo »

dotancohen wrote: post #159
cammikebrown wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of them are becoming barn style sliding doors, with large gaps. So if you’re making some noise, everyone will hear you.

This erosion of privacy is being taken to extremes. One of my short stories takes place in a not-to-distant future, where there is absolutely no privacy. In one chapter a child goes to a bathroom in an old building, and he sees that there is not only a door, but there is a contraption on it. A lock! The child runs out of the bathroom in fright. The audience learns only a little later that the child is frightened abou…

> One of my short stories takes place in a not-to-distant future, where there is absolutely no privacy.

You might like “We” by Eugene Zamiatin.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by d3Xt3r »

eru wrote: post #312
kgeist wrote: post #267

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>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

Viruses don't last long outside the body. So in a hotel bathroom, you'd only be exposed to viruses from people you already share a room (or even bed) with.

> Viruses don't last long outside the body.

SARS-CoV-2 would like to have a word with you (it can last as long as 28 days on smooth surfaces).

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