See-through hotel bathrooms [oc]

[u/iberianwatersnake]

Too many popping up on my searches lately

[u/Far_Potato9948]

Forget where I saw it, but someone put forth a theory it's to discourage business travelers from sharing rooms

[u/BlueCaracal → u/Far_Potato9948]

I feel like that would be hostile design

[u/gaynorg → u/BlueCaracal]

Yeah hostile design is a real thing

[u/ColdCathodeTube → u/gaynorg]

Yet in this case it has the potential to bring us closer together.

Yes, I’ll take the HR training again.

[u/cgaWolf → u/ColdCathodeTube]

You know, you can just tell Janet from HR you like her. You don't have to keep making up excuses to go see her.

[u/guilty_bystander → u/BlueCaracal]

Not to be confused with hostel design

[u/Moomoobeef → u/guilty_bystander]

Or hostile hostel design 

[u/Adventurer_By_Trade → u/Moomoobeef]

You repeat yourself

[u/ERhyne → u/guilty_bystander]

No dad, my work wont cover your room on my business trip.

[u/Cheesetoast9 → u/guilty_bystander]

The hostel doesn't even have the glass.

[u/MultiverseCreatorXV → u/guilty_bystander]

r/angryupvote

[u/DoverBoys → u/BlueCaracal]

Many designs in society that deal with private property and profit are hostile, but many people don't notice. Pay more attention.

[u/cammcken → u/BlueCaracal]

Technically it's just reducing supply

[u/Slight-Web1696 → u/cammcken]

No, its not. If you mean its reducing the supply of shareable hotel rooms, technically its not that, as the amount of rooms is not changing. The design and features are being made to intentionally create social discomfort between people to encourage or discourage a behavior. It is technically hostile design.

Biz major?

[u/cammcken → u/Slight-Web1696]

It's reducing the quantity of customers they can accommodate.

If you're a hotel with 50 rooms and 2 beds per room, and you start enforcing 1 guest per room, then you go from being a hotel with 50 rooms that can hold 100 guests into a hotel with 50 rooms that can hold 50 guests.

Complete amateur, actually. Maybe that's not the technical definition, but that's the effect I can see.

[u/LostMyKeysInTheFade → u/cammcken]

Yep and you totally eliminate families from the equation. No way in hell am I using that bathroom with my kid around

[u/zenthor109 → u/cammcken]

But hotels dont care about the number of guests, they care about the number of rooms sold. I f the hotel normally sells 25 of their 50 rooms, and this change gets them to sell 50. Then its a good change for them.

[u/cammcken → u/zenthor109]

But the guests would have to pay x2 the price. Supply goes down, price goes up.

Of course it's a good deal for the hotel, if they can get away with it. I didn't mean to suggest otherwise.

[u/ProfPeanut → u/cammcken]

A business that can afford to fly employees to other countries can absolutely afford it. They're not gonna risk entangling employees in undesirable social conditions just to cheap out on a few hotel rooms

[u/TrulyOutrageous42 → u/cammcken]

But the guests would have to pay x2 the price

That's the point. People don't go to hotels when they have other choices.

[u/cammcken → u/TrulyOutrageous42]

Yes I'm not disagreeing with any of that.

Hotel wants to sell 1 guest per room rather than 2 guests per room = hotel is willing to halve quantity of customers = hotel is raising prices on customers.

And if there's no competitive pressure then they can get away with it.

[u/Lil_trble_n_bg_china → u/cammcken]

They can still accommodate that if it's a couple sharing the room or other people that don't care about showering naked in front of each other.

[u/cammcken → u/Lil_trble_n_bg_china]

Well if we're being pedantic, I would have added: "If you sometimes enforce 1 guest per room, your capacity becomes somewhere between 50 - 100."

[u/Lil_trble_n_bg_china → u/cammcken]

No. It can accommodate 100 customers period.

[u/Total_Mix9276 → u/Lil_trble_n_bg_china]

God forbid you tell your partner 'im shitting, don't look' or you know, go somewhere else. Imagine communicating?

[u/Lil_trble_n_bg_china → u/Total_Mix9276]

It's only the shower that's see through in these hotels (source- I've stayed at them before)

[u/Ketheres → u/cammcken]

More like increasing demand for individual rooms instead.

[u/j_shor → u/BlueCaracal]

Unregulated capitalism is a hostile design.