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Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by ghaff »

kstrauser wrote: post #284
akudha wrote: post #92

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But do you check if the hotel has bathroom doors? If yes, where? You call up and ask? And trust the person on the phone is honest? Most people would assume bathrooms have doors. It is just exhausting to have to check for every small, commonsensical, super basic detail

Perhaps not, but I'd definitely check Yelp, and I'd also definitely pass word to the next Yelper or travel website viewer who comes along. That's not perfect, obviously, but those poor reviews really do start to take money out of the scummy owners' pockets.

And a lot of people just don't care about many of those details (and others may deeply care about things that don't matter to you). Bathroom doors are mostly something that wouldn't appear on my radar screen in general. While I might notice things that wouldn't be on yours.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by mensetmanusman »

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.

Too bad, what have they done!!

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by chasil »

godelski wrote: post #293
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…

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 stayed in this place where the shower was directly adjacent to the bed, and the commode had its own separate room.

https://hunters.com.co/

It had some other interesting problems.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by vagab0nd »

al_borland wrote: post #105
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.

How would not having doors prevent people from sharing a room, unless it was highlighted prominently on the website? If that was the case, this person wouldn’t be making a website to catalog this information.

By making it enough of a nuisance such that the next time you book a hotel, any hotel, for 2 platonic friends you are strongly nudged to book two separate rooms.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by saurik »

noduerme wrote: post #325
mrandish wrote: post #216

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> 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.

What country is this? I've never seen a hotel site that didn't sell rooms as either 2 Queen or 1 King. If I didn't know it was a king bed I wouldn't book it. Does that now make me a spoiled first world rich person?

So like, in the United States, if you book directly via Marriott, the number of beds isn't guaranteed unless you have some reasonable status at the hotel.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by _jab »

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.

The logical conclusion here would be to have no door for the bathroom, but to have specifically the toilet in a separate subroom.

But I don’t think this makes much sense anyways. The hotel industry is not one that thrives from repeat patronage, and “the bathroom has no doors” features rarely in marketing.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by ghaff »

ssl-3 wrote: post #238
eru wrote: post #179

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How are doors important for hygiene?

In my part of the US, a lot of our "old" houses were built before indoor plumbing. So when the plumbing was installed, obviously some went to the kitchen. And the bathroom, which previously didn't exist, was often an addition to (or a division from) the kitchen -- with a doorway [with a door] betwixt the kitchen and the bathroom -- because that made the plumbing easier. IIRC, that particular feature disqualifies the…

I assume my house in the Northeast didn't originally have indoor plumbing. The bathroom is upstairs; I assume it was carved off from one of the upstairs bedrooms or it was a closet/storage area of some sort. It's been redone a couple times since I moved in and it does have a door.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by ajsnigrutin »

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.

You don't, because you expect there to be a toilet, a sink, a shower, towels, a mirror etc. there. There's nothing to consider, it's just expected to be there. Same for the bathroom door.

But if i got burned once or twice by a room without a bathroom door, i'd start checking that too and avoiding places that don't have them.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by ghaff »

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

Post-Sheraton acquisition, I find the Marriott branding can be a bit random. Still stay in them a lot, but I've had a couple of relatively mediocre Aloft stays of late.
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