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Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by devchix »

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.

The W in Santiago, Chile, has a full-length floor-to-ceiling glass window in the shower, with the morning sun shining right in. Your other option is a bathtub set in the middle of the bedroom itself. Mercifully the WC has a door.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by quickthrowman »

toast0 wrote: post #288
quickthrowman wrote: post #90

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My state does not require a door on a guest bathroom in a hotel. A bathroom serving employees and the public in a hotel is required to have a self-closing door, but the law does not say anything about doors on guest only bathrooms. I couldn’t find anything in the International Building Code about bathroom doors aside from minimum opening width, but I don’t have access to the full code. I’d have to ask an architect or…

A water closet is just water shelving without a door.

You are technically incorrect (for the US, I’m not familiar with UK architectural terminology), the colloquial usage does not match industry standard terminology. The ASME definition for ‘water closet’ is specifically the fixture itself, a flush toilet. Building codes define water closets the same way. Some people incorrectly refer to a separate toilet room inside of a bathroom as a water closet, but that is not what professionals (plumbers, mechanical engineers, and architects) call it. If you reread the MN statute, you’ll note it refers to water closets and toilet rooms separately, because one is the fixture and the other is the room containing the fixture.

The term ‘lavatory’ is also frequently used incorrectly, a lavatory is just a sink, not the entire room.

Similarly, a ‘light bulb’ should actually be called a ‘lamp’. That’s what lighting companies, electricians, and people that manage electricians call them. A luminaire is a complete light fixture, a lamp screws into a luminaire (some luminaire have integral light sources) and a ‘light bulb’ is technically an A19 E26 lamp, A19 is the bulbous shape, E26 is the ‘standard’ screw base size. The Wikipedia article is titled LED lamp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED_lamp

I don’t correct people in real life when they misuse these terms, but I’ll write up several paragraphs to defend my position online ;) I work in commercial construction management so I’m exposed to these terms frequently, I don’t expect non-industry folks to know them.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by maininformer »

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.

It builds tension

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by renewiltord »

Spooky23 wrote: post #608
jen20 wrote: post #329

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I’d assume that was a franchise hotel, and calling Marriott corporate would have got you some compensation at minimum.

I did. They told me to go pound it and talk to the GM. I ended up getting 15,000 points. I probably have ~100 hotel nights a year, that’s only happened once. But the experience is dramatically worse since Covid. They used it as an excuse and then re-baselined the service. Worse product, worse services, higher prices.

The bottom quintiles saw their wages rise a lot corresponding to every other group. You’re just seeing the results of the fact that people are too costly to spend on this.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by crazygringo »

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 assume curtains are just far more labor to keep clean? They build up soap scum on a daily basis, and you can't just quickly wipe them down like tile or glass. A glass shower door just feels so much more hygienic.

But I'm with you about the confusion around showers that don't even have a door. Never seen that in the US. But abroad, I truly don't get it.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by crazygringo »

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…

The list doesn't seem to be accurate. I looked at a few and found zero evidence of missing bathroom doors in reviews or photos. One even had a review complaining the bathroom door was broken and not closing fully... indicating it is actually there.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by zejn »

cperciva wrote: post #383
netsharc wrote: post #155

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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.

The problem here is that "mean" is a poor average. For hotels, if you're rating in 10 different categories, you really want a single 0/10 to bring the overall score down by way more than one point. The opposite situation can also occur. At my university, entrance scholarships were decided a few years ago based on students' aggregate score across 25ish dimensions (I can't remember the exact number) where students were…

The problem here begins even before the mathematical issue - it's that web sites that live from listing bookings have an incentive to offer a way to delete reviews that are not in line with what the owner wants to see.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

rsynnott wrote: post #564
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #490

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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 th…

I thought Europe used condensation and heat pump tech was still a new thing? Ok, 1997 with wide adoption around 2007 according to Google. I really wanted to give it a try, but with a vent right there it just didn’t seem worth it.
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