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Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by rsynnott »

fph wrote: post #506
thaumasiotes wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Hyperion , the character Martin Silenus is rich enough that he lives in a novelty palace where all the rooms are connected by teleporters. As a joke, the bathroom is a wallless raft on an ocean world. Outside of the realm of science fiction, my sister followed a TV show for a while that was basically a set of advertisements for a modular home company. One episode featured the installation of a small home on a remo…

I wasn't expecting to read a Hyperion reference in this thread, such a great book. (And if you haven't read the book you can guess what could possibly go wrong with this setup.)

I feel like that house was a _bit_ of a Chekhov's gun; I think it was the first point in the story where what was going to happen became clear to me.

(This wasn't Simmons' invention, incidentally; Larry Niven did it first.)

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by ralferoo »

decimalenough wrote: post #291

I once stayed at a very boutiquey, avant-garde hotel with a platonic friend. We had booked a twin room with separate beds, but what I did not expect was that the shower cubicle, with clear glass on all three sides, would be placed between the beds.

I've only really encountered glass walls for the shower room in Asia, and in almost every case there's been a curtain that could be drawn across the glass if required.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by KineticLensman »

jillesvangurp wrote: post #550

I've never seen this. But I'm kind of the opposite. When it comes to hotel rooms, I prefer function over form. A lot of hotels cover up their lack of quality with a lot of crap that serves no purpose whatsoever. Generic art reproductions on the wall. A lot of shiny chrome or bronze. A fancy looking shower that produces a luke warm mediocre flow of water that than splatters all over the bath room, etc. Or, worse, a di…

My pet peeve is noisy fridges that clatter and whirr at night, and whose plug is inaccessible behind fixed furniture.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by ralferoo »

rsynnott wrote: post #549
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.

I've been in hotels with no bathroom door, but it has pretty much always been in tiny one-person rooms, where realistically there are not going to be two people in the room because they _would not fit_. I don't have a particular problem with it there. (In that case, the reason it's done is fairly clearly that to accommodate a door they'd have to make the room bigger.)

To be honest, those are the rooms that I hope would have a bathroom door so that you don't end up with water everywhere outside the bathroom.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by KineticLensman »

decimalenough wrote: post #291

I once stayed at a very boutiquey, avant-garde hotel with a platonic friend. We had booked a twin room with separate beds, but what I did not expect was that the shower cubicle, with clear glass on all three sides, would be placed between the beds.

In London's Shard, the gent's toilets of the observation deck (on approx the 70th floor) have glass walls behind the urinals so if you look straight ahead while using them it is as if you are peeing on the city of London from a great height.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by rsynnott »

netsharc wrote: post #155
jampa wrote: post #59

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Me neither, but I remember that when searching for hotels and Airbnbs, I only filter for hotels that are 8+/10 domestically and 9+/10 internationally, which filters out many of the hotels that have those kinds of issues (and score doesn't affect budget much).

Booking.com has this grade inflation issue. if something is shit but you rate everything else fairly (things like location, staff friendliness, etc), the final score will be 7 or 8.. in summary: I had a lousy experience, 7/10! It takes some experience to realize that a place graded 7.x probably has serious issues.

Honestly, the ratings on those sites are essentially useless anyway, because people are bad at reviewing.

I generally sample the lowest rating written reviews, to check if people are complaining about real stuff, or are just confused. For instance, if a hotel doesn't have a bar, some of the negative reviews will usually be about how the hotel doesn't have a bar; these can be safely ignored as having been written by idiots (it is not like the hotel is hiding the fact that it doesn't have a bar).

Occasionally some of the positive reviews are similarly baffling. Was recently booking a hotel in Berlin in January, and the top review's main positive comment about the hotel was that it had heating. Well, yeah, I mean, you'd hope so. I can only assume that the reviewer was a visitor from the 19th century.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by rsynnott »

cogman10 wrote: post #330
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.

Reading this thread, it seems like it's a trend with very fancy hotels? I usually stay at chain hotels and this is never really a problem.

I've seen it at cheap hotels (EasyHotel and similar) but generally only in tiny single-person rooms (of the "single bed and just enough space to walk past it to the bathroom, which is the size of an airplane toilet" variety), where it's basically _fine_.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by rsynnott »

potato3732842 wrote: post #120
tetris11 wrote: post #115

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ALoft London Excel hotel. Fancy as hell, no bathroom doors. You shit behind your bed, I kid you not

Well that explains why I've never seen this trend. I stick to rooms with two digits in front of the decimal.

My most recent encounter with no-bathroom-door was in a hotel in London that was under 100 pounds a night. Though the room was so tiny that I'd honestly be happy enough to give them a pass on it.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by AmbroseBierce »

happyopossum wrote: post #443
etskinner wrote: post #404

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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

The author of TFA doesn’t really mention sliders at all - just harps on about “no doors”.

The author does point out glass doors being an issue that he asks about.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by krater23 »

trhway wrote: post #327
decimalenough wrote: post #291

I once stayed at a very boutiquey, avant-garde hotel with a platonic friend. We had booked a twin room with separate beds, but what I did not expect was that the shower cubicle, with clear glass on all three sides, would be placed between the beds.

The world makes full circle. A 4-toilet (2 facing the other 2 for lively conversation) bathroom per floor, no walls whatsoever between the toilets, "open layout" so to speak, in our dormitory in high school (regional school for advanced science studies) in USSR in 80-ies come to mind. Looks like we were living the boutiquey avant-garde way of the future :)

Had two toilets in my flat only parted with a thin wood wall. Better talking with another one that is shitting than playing on the smartphone.
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