r/comics • u/iberianwatersnake • 20d ago
OC See-through hotel bathrooms [oc]
Too many popping up on my searches lately
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u/Delphius1 20d ago
as an ex put it 'why is this expensive hotel room fully open concept? is it so you can throw me a beer while I take a dump?'
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u/iberianwatersnake 20d ago
I mean some even have a little window you can open to pass through your poop time beer
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u/TitanFlood 20d ago
They know a good pint of Stout really helps with the work that's happening down under
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u/Tajackson101 20d ago
or the poop knife.
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u/iberianwatersnake 20d ago
I spend no more than a few days on this site without this and the coconut guy referenced somewhere
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u/SuperLegoKit 20d ago
So that friends don't share a room
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u/iberianwatersnake 20d ago
More likely to pick a different hotel all together.
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u/redjellonian 20d ago
until every hotel updates.
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u/fizzrail0 20d ago
Well i can sleep some where else it doesn't have to be hotels. Supply and demand right?
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u/lewd_robot 19d ago
Are you new? No. Supply and demand is supposed to be the answer but it never is. The corporations will always just make implicit or backroom deals to enshittify everything specifically to deny you any choice in the matter.
Best case scenario, new businesses start out with real walls and doors but then swap them out to boost profit once they've established themselves. Worst case scenario, all new businesses start out with glass walls and/or shitty doors because otherwise they're "losing money".
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u/ContextLengthMatters 20d ago edited 20d ago
The favorite hotels I have stayed in with my wife all have windows into the bathroom/shower. Granted, every time I've seen a bathroom full window, the toilet has its own door.
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u/cherry_armoir 20d ago
I dont know it's something I wouldnt think to look out for when booking a room. I guess I will now
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u/SlightAnything4909 20d ago
They underestimate how German I am.
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u/_Nefarium 20d ago
I once shared a Swiss hostel block with some Germans. I emerged from behind my shower curtain to bear witness to a party where someone overbought on the cocktail sausages.
Experience rating: 8/10, I discovered being bisexual, and quickly ran away.
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u/SlightAnything4909 20d ago
Oh well that's how we all find out haha (just kidding I grew up in Germany and it took me 20 years to find out that I am bisexual).
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u/BalooBot 20d ago
Almost every hotel that I stayed at in Thailand has this, so I asked a local why that is. He told me it's so you can keep an eye on your stuff if you have a "visitor".
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u/Raft_Master 19d ago
That's funny because the immediete one that came to mind for me was in Thailand. It did have a screen you could lower, but was also a pretty fancy corporate meeting hotel, so probably more than some offer. I didnt mind too much, it was just my wife and i in the room.
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u/dragn99 20d ago
Just had a big ol "oh, duh" moment.
But what about couples? I've been with my wife for nearly eighteen years now, and still would rather not watch her use the bathroom. Same with me, I need privacy.
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u/yungrii 20d ago
I visited a pretty nice resort. Full of couples. The rooms were open concept. That included a bathroom where the only wall between you and the bed / rest of the space was a frosted half piece of glass.
Bring back not listening to your partner shitting on your honeymoon.
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u/Koviera 20d ago
Ppbpp FLOOOP pshhhhh pppppbb floooo
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u/Extension_Problem223 20d ago
Honey, is that you?
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u/Moistly-Dumb-Answers 20d ago
Hnnnmnggggg give.... me... a... seecond... struggle poop...
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u/dracorotor1 20d ago
I used to think it was because they expect a mostly kinky clientele.
Now I’ve stayed at enough “fancy” hotels to no longer believe they think.
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u/M1ssy_M3 20d ago
That's what I thought too! But the "so friends don't share a room" makes a lot more sense.
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u/dracorotor1 20d ago
True, but I offer you this counterpoint:
One of the hotels I stayed at, in Xi’an, China, had the window specifically situated to look from the single king bed into the little nook with the toilet, and not into the large sauna-style shower and bath tub. A bathtub which had a big plastic bag stretched over it that they explained should be filled instead of the porcelain bowl of the tub (If you’re picturing a bathtub condom… yes, that).
This was a single room, with the same fittings as their doubles. This leads me to surmise either kinky or crazy… Their dining room smelled cloyingly of mid rose-scented perfume and had a Little Shop of Horrors-esquire flower display in one corner, so I’m going with the crazy option
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u/GenericFatGuy 20d ago
The hotel would love if you and your wife felt compelled to get different rooms.
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u/yungrii 20d ago
It's so gross and crazy.
I have a fucked up abdomen, colon removed, adhesions fucking up everything... And needing toilets is often and very grossly acoustic.
And I'm going to give a hotel money, to share with my partner, and you're going to give me a bathroom with a partially sliding slatted door?
Die in hell, unfettered capitalism.
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u/VerySuccor 20d ago
But but but... "Modernism"
Seriously though. Fecal matter is known to spread through the air on flush and expelling. It leaves the room unhygienic. Unless the cleaners are overly diligent which is not likely.
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u/TGin-the-goldy 20d ago
Not when management give housekeepers mere minutes to turn over a room
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u/Bob_Droll 20d ago
Every damn hotel I stay at has a barn door with a 2-inch gap. My poor wife gets to hear every unfortunate sound.
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u/xanoran84 20d ago
Not much pisses me off more than enshittification disguised as instagramability.
Gonna take a moment to plug bringbackdoors.com because fuck these bullshit designs.
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u/Cavalish 19d ago
It’s not just hotels, I recently built my home (from a volume builder, sue me) and in practically every option from multiple builders the bathroom was just OPEN to the bedroom in some way. We had to request a door.
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u/GinjaNinja-NZ 19d ago
I personally don't mind an open plan bedroom/shower/bath, my wife and I are considering options along these lines.
But a toilet? That shit's going behind a door! (no pun intended)
A relationship's gotta have SOME mystery 🤣
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u/no___personality 19d ago edited 19d ago
I used to work for a company that rented apartments in a major US city and there was a remodeled one bedroom that had the bathroom positioned at the end of the large bedroom closet, fully open to the bedroom.
The rooms weren't big either so you were very likely to be able to see your loved one take a shit while laying in your bed.
Edited a word.
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u/totallyrealname 19d ago
I just don't understand why this is becoming such a staple! It's happening in my country too, where you have apartments and their en-suite bathroom has no door. I get it, it discourages sharing, but also wtf how is it not illegal??? At some point this violates basic human dignity.
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u/DistractionCitron 19d ago
It's to stop family members and business travelers from sharing rooms.
Bringbackdoors.com is protesting this.
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u/Scared_Comparison_22 19d ago
I also wouldn't want this if I was staying with a partner. I actively avoid this shit because sometimes I just want some privacy. My boyfriend doesn't need to see me shit and I don't need to see him shit. I'd much rather not have the visual during a romantic holiday
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u/SessileRaptor 20d ago
You would think that the hotel would want less glass to clean not more yet here we are.
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u/iberianwatersnake 20d ago
Hear hear
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u/adhding_nerd 19d ago
You can check if the hotel you're staying at is like this here
https://bringbackdoors.com/250
u/The_Oliverse 19d ago
As someone who worked in a hotel once: Lol. Lmao, even.
I had to ask to do that when I was being trained. Such as, "Oh, I should wipe down the walls of the showers, too, no?" And, "Can I just use the broom to knock down the cobwebs."
Hell, half the time I scrubbed the toilets, you could tell the other cleaners weren't doing it because mold fell out.
Of course, not ALL hotels, but I bounced around a few (same ownership,different buildings)** and they were all kind of mangy and gross.
Edit: Clarity to the once and multiple claim in the same story.
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u/AussieArlenBales 19d ago
Were they budget hotels? Doesn't sound like my experience in higher end properties
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u/The_Oliverse 19d ago
I wouldn't say budget, but affordable. We had all sorts of people come through, higher and lower income. We were just near the airport.
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u/AussieArlenBales 19d ago
That makes sense, my experience was a lot more corporate clients and we were (mostly) thorough because repeat business was the vast majority of our budget.
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u/ElliotsBuggyEyes 20d ago
Squeegee is so much easier than scrubbing tile I would imagine.
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u/bsubtilis 19d ago
Glass doesn't have to be translucent/transparent, opaque glass is a thing. All the benefit of the smoothness of glass without people being able to see you.
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u/burnalicious111 19d ago
Also why do so few have proper fans? Do they like water damage??
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u/icantswim2 19d ago
It's forced air circulation. Fresh air is pumped in from the hallway usually, and small vents located near the ceilings allow the pressurized air to escape along with humidity.
I don't know the reason for it over a normal vent, but it does allow moisture to be pulled from a room without relying on the occupant to switch something on.
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u/VashtaNeradaMatata 20d ago
The last pet friendly place I stayed had such a door. My dog learned she could nose open the sliding barn-style door and there was no latch to prevent it at all. 🤡 I loved flashing the family while taking a dump.
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u/Zombie_Cool 20d ago
Thats very weird if see-through bathrooms are showing in normal hotels. I could see that in a love hotel (maximum sexy and all that) but a standard 'i just need somewhere to place my suitcase on vacation' hotels? Nuh uh.
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u/ISketchDinosaurs 20d ago
Mmm, yes, hearing my partner shart loudly on the toilet and smelling it all night. So sexy. /S
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u/Von_Moistus 19d ago
I heard one theory that it was so you could keep an eye on your prostitute while you were in the bathroom. Make sure they're not rifling through your pockets and such.
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u/Hziak 19d ago
Just what I wanted, to panic chase through the public halls with my pants down, trialing TP because I was able to see my “close friend” going through my wallet. Don’t get me wrong, on paper, it sounds like accountability, but in reality, what are you gonna do from nearly the most compromised possible position? Call the front desk and order the exits sealed?
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u/dragon7449 20d ago
You jest, but there's not few who said such with full commitment in their hearths
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u/wilbur313 20d ago
Most of the nice (Hyatt, Crowne, etc.) hotels I've stayed in China have been like this. It's great, fold the walls open, crack open the worst lukewarm beer you've ever tasted, and watch some state sponsored TV.
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u/yepitsdad 19d ago
The bigger problem imo is the sliding barn doors to bathrooms.
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u/Proper-Beach8368 19d ago
I was scrolling to see this as well. I hate those things: noisy to open and close, don’t close tightly so smell and sound are totally not contained.
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u/StandardRaspberry131 19d ago
Was in one last year that this door didn’t even stay closed. It slowly rolled open and then picked up speed as it went. Luckily it was my wife and two toddlers, but I hate those doors so much
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u/D0bious 20d ago
I imagine one variable is that it makes the room seem bigger.
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u/Maleficent_Phase_698 20d ago
Yup, It’s to let in more light and create the illusion of more space.
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u/iberianwatersnake 20d ago
I did assume that was the reason but I'd prefer just to turn on the bathroom light
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u/OOO0OO00O 20d ago
No I think the top poster is right. This is to discourage sharing of rooms.
Same answer for most messed up things these days. Greed.
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u/CassandraTruth 19d ago
This doesn't carry water to me because the vast vast majority of people aren't going to know if this is the case when they book. Unless the rooms are advertised as "Single Room OPEN TOILET VIEW" people are not going to see this and then book an extra room. They're just gonna get to their room and be annoyed.
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u/GoodStuffOnly62 20d ago
I thought barn doors on bathrooms were bad, this is another level!
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u/psdpro7 19d ago
Crowd- sourced database covering just this issue: https://bringbackdoors.com/
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u/Consistent-Shoe-9602 19d ago
They think it's discouraging friends or coworkers from sharing a room, but it's discouraging all of us from staying at their hotel.
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u/FoxyGiGi14 19d ago
I work at a hotel with a logo of trees and they made that change to stop people from sharing hotel rooms. It forces them into separate rooms or to upgrade into connecting rooms. It's always about how to make more money.
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u/HATECELL 19d ago
It's to prevent people from sharing rooms. In a regular room there's usually some way to move the beds apart or have 2 separate sleeping spots somehow, so you could travel somewhere as business partners and just get one room. So they use see-through bathroom walls and other measures to reduce privacy, pressuring people into getting separate rooms.
That said, see-through walls aren't even the worst. Some hotels have this "super modern and minimalistic floor plan" where the shower is part of the same big room as the bed. And whilst I'm not a huge fan of super claustrophobic showers, imagine the moist air of two adults showering filling up the entire hotel room. Sometimes not even the toilet is in a separate room, so you better not get a stomach bug
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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 20d ago
Last year while traveling with my husband I got food poisoning and let me tell you it was torture to pull myself away from the toilet long enough to close the blinds on the glass wall for some privacy while I projectile vomited my internal organs.
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u/Mondrow 19d ago
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u/Rolen47 19d ago
That picture is fake. The toilet is photoshopped in. The room is in Fletcher Hotel Amsterdam and it's just a shower:
https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/0d/ce/ba/e0/futuristic-shower-in.jpg
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u/LeSpriteCranberry 19d ago
You dont know how oddly pleased I am to hear that a fake photo is photoshopped instead of ai'd these days
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u/RoarOfTheWorlds 19d ago
Still super weird
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u/Knotical_MK6 19d ago
Idk maybe I'm just a perv but the glass shower tune seems kinda fun for a couple
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u/AthenaAscendant 19d ago
Fair I guess, but the shower having carpet come right up to it is certainly still a bold choice
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u/iberianwatersnake 19d ago
LOL 10/10 best one so far
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u/currentmadman 19d ago
The only thing that could make it better is another one directly beside it like a horrible teleportion chamber powered by the most confounding voyeurism possible.
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u/Deervember 19d ago
Is that a shower and toilet? So you wash while you shit and your family can watch?
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u/StrawberryTerry 19d ago
This would be a great place to have a cry. Just get i there and turn the shower on, sit down on the toilet, and start shitting.
But all jokes aside, wouldn't the toilet overflow when the shower is on? And there's nowhere to stand? Is this AI.
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u/UdoTobias 20d ago
Mostly because faster and cheaper building. They order glass, install it between floor and ceiling and can use bathroom immediately. With other types of walls you usually have to build frame, install insulation when you want also sound proofing, then put drywall, plaster it, paint it, install trim boards. Doing real wall is too much work so hotels can save money but same time ask more from customers for premium look as glass is shiny.
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u/Annual-Telephone7520 19d ago
I don't know anything about construction, but is the difference that large? It seems like some of the tasks you added to the wall side would also apply to the glass side—you still gotta install it, if sound insulation matters to you then you wouldn't use glass either, and you still need the edging of the frame for glass which is the biggest part of the wall framing. All the drywall stuff, plaster, and painting is indeed more work. But I also think having large panes of glass is in general a more difficult, more expensive, and less versatile thing to purchase and keep around than the plaster and drywall you can get anywhere.
Anyways, not saying this isn't it, but it feels like the differences might be smaller.
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u/Scared-Section-5108 20d ago
Yeah, I think that's what it is. The annoying thing is that the hotel I have seen were not cheap - if I am to pay a premium rate, I want a wall...!
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u/its_yer_dad 20d ago
First/only time I ever saw this was at the hipster The Standard in NYC. I had to rebook a different hotel as my mother was going to stay with me one night and thats just a problem I didn't need to worry about.
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u/edit_thanxforthegold 19d ago
There's a woman who started a hilarious tik Tok and website dedicated to this problem! Bringbackdoors.com you can submit hotels with/without bathroom doors and search her database before you book a hotel
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u/Qwert-4 19d ago
There's a project to filter such hotels out https://bringbackdoors.com/. Also an appropriate tag is being discussed for OSM.
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u/cortz_norman 19d ago
A few years ago I stayed in a hotel with my friend because we were going to a concert and then a festival together. I made sure we had separate beds but when I booked I didn't realise that there was some frosted glass between the shower and main part of the room. We had to shower with the overhead lights off otherwise the other person would see everything. It was a little bit awkward lol. He took the opportunity though to constantly press his ass cheeks up against the glass whenever he showered and call out to me until I looked up 🤦♀️🤦♀️
Now if I'm travelling with anyone else I try to keep an eye out for glass windows in the bathrooms because I really don't want to deal with that again
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u/Titanclass 19d ago
Sounds like a good friend, keep them around, laughter will make you live longer
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u/SacCyber 19d ago
Almost every hotel in Germany and Austria use these. They claim it's to make the room feel bigger, more premium, and to let natural light into the bathroom.
Supposedly Europeans don't care so much about the privacy but care more about it looking new. This seems to need partially true because I rarely found complaints about the glass bathrooms in hotel reviews.
I went out of my way to check all hotel pictures to make sure they don't have this, but I missed one or two when traveling with my dad. It was not great. Not just the silhouette of us pooping or showering but also glass doors have a gap that doesn't block light or smell from coming out.
In Austria they commonly put the shower in the main sleeping room with no frosting on the glass walls. That did get bad reviews and luckily I didn't end up with one of those rooms.
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u/tenuj 19d ago
Supposedly Europeans don't care so much about the privacy
I dunno... I like to poop alone. Our public bathroom stalls go all the way to the bottom.
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u/55365645868 19d ago
Wtf are you talking about? I live in Germany, been to many hotels, both in Austria and Germany, never encountered this.
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u/SacCyber 19d ago
We went to 9 cities and about half of the hotels in the €100-200 range had glass bathroom walls and doors. Despite my best effort I ended up with 3 out of 9 hotels with glass doors due to recent remodels or lack of pictures. It felt more common in Austria.
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u/cancerinos 20d ago
- Cheaper than to build a wall
- Keeps the room filling bigger
- Most people will think its nicer to look at and, because its an hotel, people aren't staying long enough to get angry at the obvious downsides
In that order of importance
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u/TheSpectreDM 20d ago
While I agree with points 2 and 3, I find it hard to believe that hotels have such good preferred pricing that a glass wall is cheaper than sheetrock. It has to be tempered glass since it's near a tub, and even if it were cheaper, regular glass, it's still more expensive/sqft than uninsulated, wood framed walls based on my experience in construction.
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u/pungen 20d ago
Ditto on that. Glass is hella expensive. My friend had a glass fence put around her not-that-big porch and it was like 60k
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u/dr-satan85 20d ago
I can not think of a single person I know who would walk into a hotel room, see a glass wall bathroom, and think to themselves "oooh, how fancy! A trendy glass wall, now I can watch my partner taking a shit before bed! Oh, and the room feels so much bigger, too!"
I also don't think a tampered glass panel the size of a wall is cheaper than plasterboard, either.
This is intentional hostile design.
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u/GreatStateOfSadness 20d ago
OP doesn't mention it but there's also a trend of retrofitting sliding barn doors that don't fully seal shut in addition to the glass new builds. I got to personally experience it while staying with my sibling at a newly renovated hotel.
It's hostile design all the way down.
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u/caze-original 20d ago
Wait that's a thing? I've been a lot of hotels throughout my entire life, but I've never seen anything like this. In my experience bathrooms are just another room where you can only see them if the door is open
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u/Tired-CottonCandy 20d ago
I assume its some kinds handwashing shame tactic, or a strange kink satisfaction like the giant mirrors facing the beds for no reason at all.
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u/Outrageous-Lemon-577 19d ago
To discourage friends sharing rooms.
To encourage social media content producers who utilise such spaces for their clicks and views, providing free publicity to such establishments.
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u/Empty-Part7106 20d ago
What Happened To Bathroom Doors? By Kendra Gaylord: https://youtu.be/QFPGUTyo9Yk
It was an interesting watch, saw it on Tom Scott's newsletter.
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u/Starship_Taru 20d ago
this should be an automatic 1 star from people on Google, same with the barn doors.
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u/Azerafael 19d ago
I have no idea about the actual costs involved but it may be likely that the hotel is just saving money on construction/renovations and then trying to market it out as a 'cool' new trend, while jacking up the prices.
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u/EldritchXena 19d ago
When I was 16 I went on a school trip to NYC and the hotel room we stayed in had a frosted glass divider between the shower and the rest of the room. The kind that if you got too close, you could see everything. In this room, it was me, my mom, a classmate, and her grandmother.
When we did showers, the TV became the most fascinating thing in the world.
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u/Far_Potato9948 20d ago edited 20d ago
Forget where I saw it, but someone put forth a theory it's to discourage business travelers from sharing rooms