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Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by pjc50 »

danilocesar wrote: post #328
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 was talking about this with my wife the other day: Newer hotel showers are "Hostile Architecture" disguised as modern design. They add those little annoying details with the intention of lowering their water bill. They want showering to be slightly discomfort, so you shower faster without noticing. It's a feature, not a bug.

A more widespread piece of hostile hotel shower architecture is unlabelled controls. You need trial and error to work out which way is more water, and more heat.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by tremon »

kergonath wrote: post #527
kolp wrote: post #521

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I lived in NL, it was explained to me that closing the curtains would imply, in some sort of weird Calvinistic belief, that the occupants were engaged in some nefarious activities; therefore the curtains are left open to show that the occupants have nothing to hide and are engaged only in wholesome activities. The other side of the social contract obliges passers-by to not look inside. The other strange thing th…

> the occupants were engaged in some nefarious activities; therefore the curtains are left open to show that the occupants have nothing to hide and are engaged only in wholesome activities. That sounds utterly dystopian. Whose business is it if we want to shag in the morning? It’s also completely self-defeating. Nobody can prove that they never did anything that someone else would disapprove. There are solid reasons…

That sounds utterly dystopian

Welcome to 18th-century small-village politics.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by mvdwoord »

I get the point, but myself have no intention of ever sharing a hotel room with anyone I am not comfortable to concurrently use a bathroom with, i.e. my gf/wife. I would much rather see an initiative to show me if a hotel shower has a proper way to keep the water in, so I do not have to use three towels to provide some sort of spot where I can properly dry off whilst not standing ankle deep in water. Never understood why this is the case in so many hotels, it does nt seem to aid cleaning staff either. That, and a proper filter for on premises parking (not the "public parking is plentiful around the hotel" in the fine print bs), and for wifi, show me the speedtest results please.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by tgsovlerkhgsel »

m463 wrote: post #82

Also bring back brighter lighting? Is it just me, or have hotel rooms gotten dimmer? It seems less cheerful.

Not sure if they have gotten dimmer. Possibly the opposite: I don't remember having noticed it recently (but I've also travelled a lot less), but I do remember being very annoyed by this many years ago.

No idea why hotels were doing it, neither LEDs nor the electricity for them are that expensive and I doubt anyone wants to be stuck in a dark cave.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by aenis »

I have long standardised the way I do hotel reviews:

- bullshit wifi connectivity (e.g. captive wifi + OTP)? - normal wifi but with very long password? - is there a place to put toiletries in the shower? - clean? - time to check in and check out?

Where I travel the hotels without bathroom doors have not proliferated yet. I've been in a few, even when I am alone I hate the experience.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by __natty__ »

Recently I stayed in the Korean hotel where the toilet and the bathroom had the door but made out of semi transparent glass. And the worst, the toilet was next to the glass and walls while on the opposite side was bed. Perfect view and the smell my friend

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by nickserv »

cobertos wrote: post #498
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.

Such an odd decision. No privacy or isolation for the shower, but yes for the two twin beds. Sleep apart but shower together.

My SO and I move and snore, not a bad arrangement. Somehow I don't think that's what they were going for though.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by nickserv »

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 :)

This is similar to the arrangements of public toilets in ancient Rome, except for them the seats are arrangemed in a circle. Everything old is new again.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by nickserv »

nasmorn wrote: post #576
Rastonbury wrote: post #537

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where is Asia? I travel there often for work and have never come across such a layout

It is the large landmass covering about half of the northern hemisphere.

I get the joke on OP's typo for is/in, but even then you answered "what" instead of OP's "where".
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