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It's far more likely to discourage me and my friends from staying at that hotel entirely.
by autoexec 11mo ago
It's far more likely to discourage me and my friends from staying at that hotel entirely.
- throitallaway 11mo agoHow many people consider what a bathroom looks like before booking a hotel room? I can't say I've ever done so.
- RoyTyrell 11mo agoUntil recently, you never had to think about it. But as it becomes more common it will become something you might want to consider.
- mumber_typhoon 11mo agoAnd until then they will milk as much money as possible. If there is outrage or they see sales dropping, a few thousand dollars per hotel will replace those rooms with doors leaving with net profit and steady shareholder growth. Some statistical analysis ppt made by some mid level MBA must have proposed this and got a promotion.
- eru 11mo ago> Some statistical analysis ppt made by some mid level MBA must have proposed this and got a promotion. Not necessarily. Just like natural evolution doesn't requite its participants to understand themselves, neither does the market require anyone at a business to understand why they are successful.
- autoexec 11mo agoThis is why it falls on us to not simply put up with what little they expect us to settle for. Ask about their privacy and bathroom doors when booking and if caught by surprise by a lack of an actual door or inadequate privacy demand a new room, or go elsewhere taking a refund if necessary. I have to admit that I'm getting very tired of the unsustainable push for endless growth driving companies everywhere to jack up prices as high as people will tolerate and then also delivering the least and worst product/service they can possibly get away with on top of it. It means that everything is getting shittier unless you're willing to spend insane amounts of money to get what used to be standard and more affordable. It's becoming exhausting maintaining a list of businesses I no longer want to give money to and products/services I won't pay for. This is especially true as companies change names, redesign products, and buy up one another. the list just grows and grows all the time.
- thaumasiotes 11mo ago> Until recently, you never had to think about it. But as it becomes more common it will become something you might want to consider. This is closely related to a phenomenon I don't understand. Pretty much every proposed regulatory change (for example: letting drivers pump their own gas at gas stations) meets a fierce counterargument that says "currently, no one considers this situation at all because only one state of affairs is legal. If that thoughtlessness continues after we legalize other possibilities, TERRIBLE THINGS COULD HAPPEN!". But obviously this protasis† can never occur and so it doesn't matter what's in the apodosis. † https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/protasis#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/protasis#English (2)
- gpm 11mo agoActively? Almost no one. But I absolutely check out google maps reviews, and a single review saying that the hotel did not have a proper door on the bathroom would guarantee I would not stay there. Even traveling alone it's a clear indication they have no respect for their guests, and it's a significant hygiene issue.
- eru 11mo ago> [...] it's a significant hygiene issue. How so?
- cwillu 11mo agoShit particles are literally blown into the surrounding air when flushing; closing the door and running the fan contains the mess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_plume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_plume
- eru 11mo agoHave you considered closing the toilet lid?
- lukeschlather 11mo agoThere was a study which showed closing the lid reduces the acute problem but actually increases dwell time. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339650907_Real-time_Monitoring_of_Aerosols_Generated_from_Toilet_Flushing https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339650907_Real-time...
- neutronicus 11mo agoThe larger conclusion is that the health consequences of this alleged horror seem to be, in fact, fuck-all
- eru 11mo agoWell, as long as the closed toilet bowl has time in between to settle, it's all fine. And your hotel toilet isn't exactly a high traffic area.
- chatmasta 11mo agoReally? It's one of my main discriminators. The quality of the bathroom is the highest signal indicator of the quality of the hotel. I look for a stone shower basin, a rainhead, a bath tub, or at a least glass shower door... if it looks bolted onto a plastic box, I'm not staying there. If they're cheaping out on the shower then I'm not going to trust the mattress is clean or the linens are soft.
- sbarre 11mo agoI definitely do not return to a hotel where the bathroom was sub-par... And likewise I absolutely return to a hotel where the bathroom was good when going back to a city. I'm mostly talking about the water pressure for the shower here, but you get the idea.
- zapzupnz 11mo agoI want a hot bath after a long day. I don't have one at home so you best believe I'm having one when I'm travelling.
- rdtsc 11mo agoIt could discourage repeat customers? There is a website dedicated to it. It would take someone posting that to a few social media accounts and for hotel search sites to put "has an almost see through glass bathroom door" result category, and I think it could turn from a sneaky money maker into a reason people avoid the place.
- neutronicus 11mo agoMy wife is keenly interested in whether or not there is a bathtub. Keenly.
- devilbunny 11mo agoMine is as well. So far the only way I have found to locate such increasingly-rare rooms is booking.com followed by calling the hotel. For all their sins, Booking at least lets you search for hotels that have bathtubs in any rooms at all. Aside from rinsing off after a pool or ocean swim, or when she is actually dirty (e.g., after yard work), I think I have known her to voluntarily take three or four showers in 25 years together.
- jen20 11mo agoI do. Most of my travel is alone for work so I don’t care about a door, but I always call ahead and refuse to book hotels with shower curtains.
- ajsnigrutin 11mo agoYou don't, because you expect there to be a toilet, a sink, a shower, towels, a mirror etc. there. There's nothing to consider, it's just expected to be there. Same for the bathroom door. But if i got burned once or twice by a room without a bathroom door, i'd start checking that too and avoiding places that don't have them.
- TitaRusell 11mo agoDepends on how long I stay. For a two week vacation I definitely check out the layout. For a city trip I basically accept anything with a bed and running water.
- rolandog 11mo agoIt sometimes feels like hotels are taunting us: "we're behaving like a cartel, whaddaya gonna do? Regulate us!? We've already tricked you into thinking that's socialism!"
- autoexec 11mo agoIt's a weird flex for a time when airbnb and vrbo have options all over the place.
- Nextgrid 11mo agoWith hotels you're playing the lottery but there is generally a baseline consistent with the brand of the hotel. With those two you're also playing the lottery but there is no baseline. With a hotel, you're also generally paying when you check-in and can thus refuse a subpar room and argue with a real, mostly-reasonable person. With those two, you get charged before you even enter the place and any arguments will be with a bot or a call center drone in a third-world country pretending to be one.
- yunwal 11mo ago> there is generally a baseline consistent Not having a bathroom with a door is an incredibly low baseline. I can only think of a single Airbnb that I’ve stayed in that’s been worse than that (The key to the Airbnb was missing and the host was inaccessible)
- potato3732842 11mo ago>whaddaya gonna do? Regulate us!? We've already tricked you into thinking that's socialism!" More like "I dare you, regulation will only further increase our moat"
- gpm 11mo agoI'm gonna go ahead and suggest that the "bathrooms must have doors" public health regulation is unlikely to increase any moats.