Travel tip #147: How to find out if a hotel room bathroom has doors
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Today's tip is a funny and fun one, a light hearted one to hopefully make you smile in the current grim news cycle, and it is also one of my pet peeves: How to find out if the bathrooms in the hotel you are about to book has proper doors.
Yes, you read this right, I am very displeased when I enter a hotel room and realise that it is all open plan and / or that the bathroom has thin or worse, glass doors, so this week I wanted to tell you how you can find out if that is the case.
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How to find out if a hotel room bathroom has doors
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Have you ever checked in to a luxury hotel room and realised that the bathroom has no doors, or that the toilet is in a glass box whose door doesn't even close properly?
What about being sick or having looser than usual "needs" because you are eating a lot of spicy foods, or just need foods, or a lot of food, and then noticing that the bathroom door is thin like paper?
Lack of bathroom or toilet doors or the existence of pointless ones is one of my pet peeves, it is also something I specifically check when choosing the hotels for our tours, because the last thing I want is for our guests to have to listen to the cacophony of sounds of their room mate.
This is all made worse by the latest design trends in hotel architecture that are removing walls and going for more open plan, or more glass, or windows in bathrooms that open to the rest of the bedroom...
In Japan, when I was scouting hotels for our trips last year, I had to discard so many options because not only the toilet, but also the shower, provided no privacy to guests.
This makes so little sense to me.
Who wants to see or hear what their significant other, or their friend, does in the bathroom? Some things should never be shared.
What's more, many hotel room designs show that the person who decided on the distribution, interior design and style of the room has never stayed in hotels long enough to actually "use" them or "live" in them, or know what travelers really want.
The beauty of a room fades REALLY fast when you have to spent 5min every night looking for the right switch to turn off the lights, or wrestling with the plugs to fit all the adaptors and chargers or hearing your room mate doing the things that shouldn't be shared.
Luckily, there is a website for that.
โBring bak doors started last year by Sadie, who was as outraged as me about hotel designs foregoing bathroom doors after a trip with her dad.
In there, you will find several cities where she has listed hotels with bathroom doors. The list isn't complete, the website is new after all, but she keeps adding, and you can always submit a suggestion.
Let's all get behind this and help bring back bathroom doors! ๐
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