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Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by rsynnott »

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…

> a simple but functional shower with hot water

Sorry, no, not allowed. Hotel showers always have _something_ wrong with them; it's a law of nature.

Potential problems:

- No thermostatic valve (particularly common in the US and Spain, neither of which seems to believe that thermostatic valves exist at all)

- Leaks and/or insufficient drainage

- Overly complex control scheme

- Fixed showerhead, with no handheld shower at all (mostly a US thing)

- Arbitrarily loses pressure.

- Impossible to turn on without getting drenched in cold water

I don't _really_ care about the bathroom door thing that the website is so excited about, but I am constantly irritated by hotel showers.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by rsynnott »

tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #483
jonstewart wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See also: washing machines. If you have three pairs of underwear and all day, Europe’s washing machines have you covered. Otherwise, you’re SOL.

I've never really run into capacity problems with European washing machines, but the run times are definitely real. Most of them have a well-hidden faster mode. Still not as fast as a US machine on fast mode, but not the mandatory-default-by-law three-hour program. Which would be even longer than 3h if some EU bureaucrat didn't realize that making the default unacceptably long for everyone will result in nobody using…

> Most of them have a well-hidden faster mode

My shiny new (2025) Bosch washing machine has a big button on the front which switches from the default 3 hour programme (for 40 degree wash) to 1hr 30m. Like, it's not very _well_ hidden :)

Interestingly, the 3 hour programme isn't really a 3 hour programme. If you use it, the timer will generally start at 3 hours and drop to an hour or so after 20 minutes. I have no idea what the heuristic is, and the manual is silent on the matter.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by graemep »

Al-Khwarizmi wrote: post #487
hotep99 wrote: post #453

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That bathroom layout has become extremely common in normal hotels in parts of Asia and the Middle East.

But what's the logic? I have never seen it but it doesn't sound good even aesthetically (which is usually the justification for all kinds of violations of common sense). So what are they thinking?

A number of hotels that were built with this lack of privacy (including one I love - but its been fixed there though - more subtle worse as you could see in from the stairs) were all designed by the same architect who is said to have had a kink about looking into toilets.

Maybe he started it, and as his hotels are (otherwise) lovely it made it part of a cool aesthetic and was therefore copied?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Bawa

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by rsynnott »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #490
tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #483

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never really run into capacity problems with European washing machines, but the run times are definitely real. Most of them have a well-hidden faster mode. Still not as fast as a US machine on fast mode, but not the mandatory-default-by-law three-hour program. Which would be even longer than 3h if some EU bureaucrat didn't realize that making the default unacceptably long for everyone will result in nobody using…

Isn’t this mostly drying time and the fact that hardly any driers in Europe are vented (so either heat pump based or condensation)? Or is this the uses less water type washing machines? Europe tends to have higher rates on water and electricity to make efficiency worth while. My Bosch dishwasher takes 3 hours I guess due to efficiency, it seems reasonable. I didn’t go with a European washer dryer combo though (my lau…

> my laundry room has a vent and I’ve heard that heat pump tech still isn’t good enough

Heat pump dryers are in a slightly weird place in that they're boring old tech in Europe (they've been common for over a decade), and exciting new tech in the US. This means that dryers made for US preferences (physically larger, either three phase or <1500W, etc) are generally first or second models (and thus unreliable) while those made for European preferences are mature designs (and thus reliable).

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by shmeeed »

buu700 wrote: post #101
recursive wrote: post #67

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Just make an even louder jungle cat snarling noise.

Hotel bathrooms should just play rainforest sounds[1] whenever the fan is turned on. 1: https://youtu.be/ef_3Wj4T_ts

You're joking, but my wife got us a box emitting bird sounds when the motion sensor is triggered. Suffice to say that it does absolutely nothing to mask the sounds that are produced on a toilet, it's just another ridiculous layer on top of it.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by sillyboi »

It would be a good idea to put some eye-catching example of a hotel room in the article headline, like an image of a shower without a door, just for visual impact. As for me, I’ve come across hotels where the shower is visible from the bedroom, separated only by a glass wall. Lol, that’s probably the next level.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by technothrasher »

KineticLensman wrote: post #555
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.

I always enjoy a "loo with a view", including that one at the Shard. I also enjoyed the outdoor one I utilized in Botswana that had the toilet isolated from camp behind a small wooden fence, but while sitting on the throne you are facing out from a slight elevation onto a sweeping 180 degree view of the savanna, with antelopes, giraffes, and elephants roaming around.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by bregma »

olyjohn wrote: post #73
op00to wrote: post #55

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People make noise when they piss and shit. It’s not scandalous.

Well, I still don't wanna make everybody in the room have to listen to my grunts as I push out an unhealthy binge-drinking hangover turd followed by a liter of flatulent gas and and liquid spraying into the bowl. I like my privacy, kthx.

Just yell out "Who is number two working for?" and then give a courtesy flush.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by another_twist »

sillyboi wrote: post #566

It would be a good idea to put some eye-catching example of a hotel room in the article headline, like an image of a shower without a door, just for visual impact. As for me, I’ve come across hotels where the shower is visible from the bedroom, separated only by a glass wall. Lol, that’s probably the next level.

The one I stayed at in France had this shit. Annoyed me to no end and plus I got sick on the trip.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by noduerme »

KineticLensman wrote: post #555
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.

Pretty sure I went to a bar in NYC that still had a urinal trough running directly below the bar as you were standing there... so one wouldn't need to leave the bar to take a leak. This was 30 years ago. McSorleys maybe?
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