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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 th
by decimalenough 11mo ago
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.
- PessimalDecimal 11mo agoNot the Platonic ideal of a hotel room
- tsimionescu 11mo agoNo, but I bet the shower was a decent approximation of a Platonic solid.
- HansardExpert 11mo agoI like to leave my platonic solids in the toilet bowl.
- trhway 11mo agoThe world makes full circle. A 4-toilet (2 facing the other 2 for lively conversation) bathroom per floor, no walls whatsoever between the toilets, "open layout" so to speak, in our dormitory in high school (regional school for advanced science studies) in USSR in 80-ies come to mind. Looks like we were living the boutiquey avant-garde way of the future :)
- ecshafer 11mo ago[flagged]
- Ylpertnodi 11mo ago"Some artists are communists".
- crossroadsguy 11mo agoSeeing it was advanced science, authorities wanted to add venues to encourage constant communication and collaboration. Always working for the people and the state! No time wasted.
- philipallstar 11mo agoWe pretend to shit and they pretend to pay us
- madaxe_again 11mo agoSounds like the various RAF bases I did stints at as a cadet - the ablutions were just a great big room full of loos, showers, and bathtubs, all with dark brown water, and absolutely zero privacy of any variety. The exposed loos were a novelty for me, at school we at least had shoulder height partitions - but we had communal showers and baths so it wasn’t a huge leap. I also spent a year or so living in a studio where the loo was in the kitchen area - we at least installed a curtain.
- normie3000 11mo agoKitchen-loo must be illegal these days - I think rentals need to have 2 doors between the two. Did it seem reasonable at the time?!
- kergonath 11mo agoI would suspect that this is highly jurisdiction-dependent. Around here (random EU country), it would instantly make all studio flats unrentable, so I don’t think that’s the case. Most of them have a bathroom door, though.
- Ekaros 11mo agoI just recently(september) saw a sale advertisement for loo/bathroom-kitchen... With only small not full height partition next to seat...
- rsynnott 11mo ago> but we had communal showers and baths so it wasn’t a huge leap. I dunno, I've no problem with communal showers, or nudity in general, but partition-less toilets feels like a bridge too far.
- MPSimmons 11mo agoGrowing up in West Virginia, I was in a moderately sized city (40k people) but when traveling to smaller high schools for football games, you'd often find a shared latrine as the bathroom, and everyone who needed to pee would just crowd around a long sink thing and just let 'er rip. No idea what it was like in the ladies'
- FearNotDaniel 11mo ago> 80-ies eighty...ies? eightieies? why not just "80s"?
- lobsterthief 11mo agoEnglish is not their first language so please give them a break ;) Edit: I realize you are probably trying to help them learn. Carry on.
- krater23 11mo agoHad two toilets in my flat only parted with a thin wood wall. Better talking with another one that is shitting than playing on the smartphone.
- nickserv 11mo agoThis is similar to the arrangements of public toilets in ancient Rome, except for them the seats are arrangemed in a circle. Everything old is new again.
- fransje26 11mo agoThey had built some of those for the Olympics in Sochi, if memory serves.. :-)
- bamboozled 11mo agoWas it a "love hotel" because...that doesn't sound like a regular hotel?
- hotep99 11mo agoThat bathroom layout has become extremely common in normal hotels in parts of Asia and the Middle East.
- Al-Khwarizmi 11mo agoBut what's the logic? I have never seen it but it doesn't sound good even aesthetically (which is usually the justification for all kinds of violations of common sense). So what are they thinking?
- fph 11mo agoIt also sounds like a plumbing nightmare to build.
- graemep 11mo agoA number of hotels that were built with this lack of privacy (including one I love - but its been fixed there though - more subtle worse as you could see in from the stairs) were all designed by the same architect who is said to have had a kink about looking into toilets. Maybe he started it, and as his hotels are (otherwise) lovely it made it part of a cool aesthetic and was therefore copied? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Bawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Bawa
- Rastonbury 11mo agoWhere is Asia? I travel there often for work and have never come across such a layout
- nasmorn 11mo agoIt is the large landmass covering about half of the northern hemisphere.
- stefanfisk 11mo agoPlease tell my that you have pictures of this to show!
- growt 11mo agoWouldn’t be very platonic to take pictures.
- baxtr 11mo agoThat's how platonic friendships usually end.
- fransje26 11mo agoBeauty lies in the eye of the beholder..
- rwmj 11mo agoThere'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.
- 4ggr0 11mo agowas it a travelodge? with that smoked glass bathrom being right behind the bed?
- rwmj 11mo agoIt was "The Hub by Premier Inn". There are some photos on Google.
- 4ggr0 11mo agowow, it is actually the one me and my SO stayed at! specifically this[0] kind of room. when reading your description i immediately thought about this one. we did have a gentleman's agreement, "can you please put on your noise cancelling headphones and don't look back, i gotta..." only stayed there for one or two nights, it says a lot when a campervan gives more comfort than a hotel room :) [0]https://www.premierinn.com/content/dam/pi/websites/desktop/new-hotel-details-content/Hub/xHub-Standard-Room.jpg.pagespeed.ic.XF2Oo2H6fp.jpg https://www.premierinn.com/content/dam/pi/websites/desktop/n...
- cobertos 11mo agoSuch an odd decision. No privacy or isolation for the shower, but yes for the two twin beds. Sleep apart but shower together.
- nickserv 11mo agoMy SO and I move and snore, not a bad arrangement. Somehow I don't think that's what they were going for though.
- maininformer 11mo agoIt builds tension
- nephanth 11mo agoIn between the beds?? Does that mean the shower was right in the middle of the room ? So that it would be impossible to place a double bed ? This is the weirdest part to me
- ralferoo 11mo agoI've only really encountered glass walls for the shower room in Asia, and in almost every case there's been a curtain that could be drawn across the glass if required.
- KineticLensman 11mo agoIn London's Shard, the gent's toilets of the observation deck (on approx the 70th floor) have glass walls behind the urinals so if you look straight ahead while using them it is as if you are peeing on the city of London from a great height.
- technothrasher 11mo agoI always enjoy a "loo with a view", including that one at the Shard. I also enjoyed the outdoor one I utilized in Botswana that had the toilet isolated from camp behind a small wooden fence, but while sitting on the throne you are facing out from a slight elevation onto a sweeping 180 degree view of the savanna, with antelopes, giraffes, and elephants roaming around.
- noduerme 11mo agoPretty sure I went to a bar in NYC that still had a urinal trough running directly below the bar as you were standing there... so one wouldn't need to leave the bar to take a leak. This was 30 years ago. McSorleys maybe?
- ralnivar 11mo agoIt could be a spittoon, which is designed for chewing tobacco. https://www.kegworks.com/blog/a-lesson-in-tavern-history-the-fresh-flow-trough-spittoon https://www.kegworks.com/blog/a-lesson-in-tavern-history-the... But it seems like they also where used as urinals
- alexfoo 11mo agoThe old Warner stand at Lord's cricket ground used to be where the press watched from (before the new Media Centre was built). The urinals in old stand used to have windows above them looking out over the pitch so that the journalists wouldn't miss anything whilst they urinated. Image: https://d3rcx32iafnn0o.cloudfront.net/Pictures/980x653fitpad[0]/4/3/0/1834430_Warner_Stand_WeLiveCricket_Flickr.JPG https://d3rcx32iafnn0o.cloudfront.net/Pictures/980x653fitpad... The three square windows under the second tier, just below where the sportingbet.com and Jaguar advertising boards meet.
- smusamashah 11mo agoI went looking for pictures (someone must have shared this on internet ...). This is the closes I could find https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/if6ahf/the_shower_cubicle_in_this_twin_bed_hotel_room/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/if6ahf/the_sh...
- mikesabat 11mo agoIt's called foreplay. Jk. I've seen a glass shower where the glass turned to smoked opaque glass with the push of a button. Maybe this shower had something similar? But this is no excuse, still completely awkward and horrible design.
- DontchaKnowit 11mo agoIn my high school the toilet stalls had no doors and the walls were only about waist high brick walls. Horrific
- everdev 11mo ago[dead]