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Post by aaomidi »

kortilla wrote: post #414
aaomidi wrote: post #232

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Regulation is when individual action isn’t enough. Regulation is a form of collective action.

Regulation isn’t a collective action, at least not in the US. People don’t regulate hotels will ballot measures so you’re left with whatever the whims are of some representative.

The American system, for better or for worse, is a representational based political system. Unfortunately that means that our political power is not direct.

That doesn't make it "not collective action", just collective action through an intermediary. Sometimes that's very clearly willed by people, sometimes (often) not. Doesn't mean we should throw out the baby with the bathwater though.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by DontchaKnowit »

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 my high school the toilet stalls had no doors and the walls were only about waist high brick walls. Horrific

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by ghaff »

noduerme wrote: post #538
saurik wrote: post #375

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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.

If you book a queen room isn't it always 2 beds? A king room is usually 1 bed. Is there some option where it's just totally random what room you get? I don't have any Marriott status but going on their site I can clearly see a choice of rooms, and each one says what amenities it has.

>If you book a queen room isn't it always 2 beds

No, although that is pretty common for business hotels in the US.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by ghaff »

_jab wrote: post #376
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.

Not sure how uncommon that is. Certainly a sink is often in an open alcove. The toilet and probably often the shower is in a subroom with a door.

Not sure how common sharing a room with a work colleague--especially of the opposite sex--or a family member who is a teen is. But traveling with friends, activity partners (hiking, etc.), so much of what's being discussed on this thread just isn't a real issue in my experience at least in most Western culture.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by noufalibrahim »

kuschku wrote: post #603
noufalibrahim wrote: post #484

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I've seen this. Sometimes, they have curtains. I don't really understand what the point is though. It's definitely not price. I would imagine that it's costlier to add a window to a wall than just to brick it. I thought it was to allow one to watch the TV while taking a shower or a bath. It's the most reasonable thing I could come up with.

What I believe: It's to encourage e.g. two coworkers to get separate rooms instead of one room with separate beds. The increase in revenue is more than the construction cost.

That's equal parts evil and clever. And completely plausible. You've just reduced my faith in humanity a little. Thanks. :-/

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Post by lazide »

eru wrote: post #658
lazide wrote: post #497

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Airborne fecal contamination from flushing is likely reduced by having a barrier

Like a toilet lid?

It helps. Know what also helps more? A second barrier after that one.

I’m sure a third would also help even more (front door of the house?) but most people consider that a bit excessive for daily use within their own domicile.

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Post by account42 »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #652
rsynnott wrote: post #649

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Ah, right. After having had a washer-dryer for about 15 years (they're very common in apartments and small houses in Ireland), would never have one again; when the existing one finally died I replaced with a separate washer and dryer. I'm somewhat surprised anyone makes a vented washer-dryer at all.

I really like the extra space and not needing to transfer clothes when drying. To each their own though. Only Samsung is making a vented combo so far, and it’s a beast to install and drag up three stories of stairs.

How much useful extra space do you really get? You can stack separate washers and dryers on top of each other without issues.

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Post by bamboozled »

hotep99 wrote: post #453
bamboozled wrote: post #346

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Was it a "love hotel" because...that doesn't sound like a regular hotel?

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

I live in Asia, I've only seen in love hotels.

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Post by rwmj »

4ggr0 wrote: post #648
rwmj wrote: post #485

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There's a hotel in Edinburgh with boutique pretensions I stayed in that had smoked glass (only) around the toilet. That was a pretty annoying arrangement for me and my wife. Luckily they had regular loos in reception.

was it a travelodge? with that smoked glass bathrom being right behind the bed?

It was "The Hub by Premier Inn". There are some photos on Google.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by walletdrainer »

toast0 wrote: post #274
al_borland wrote: post #128

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It blows my mind that sockets on the nightstand aren’t standard by now. I just stayed at the Westin in Rome, supposedly a 5 star place, but I don’t think it’s been updated in 30 years. I had to move the nightstand and unplug a lamp, so I could plug my phone in next to the bed. So go get my phone socket I had to lose the lamp. It didn’t even have an alarm clock on the nightstand; there would have been nowhere to plug…

> I just stayed at the Westin in Rome, supposedly a 5 star place, but I don’t think it’s been updated in 30 years Nobody comes and takes your stars away. They earned them once and they're still using them.

The stars are typically assigned based on silly checklists anyway, that’s how you end up with “4-star” $2000+/night Aman properties.
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