I usually stay 50+ nights/year at hotels all across the value spectrum and haven't thought about this until now! Proper bathroom doors _are_ hard to come by. "

I usually stay 50+ nights/year at hotels all across the value spectrum and haven't thought about this until now! Proper bathroom doors _are_ hard to come by. "There has to be a safety/design reason for this," I thought. And, sure enough, there is: https://old.reddit.com/r/hotels/comments/1gmearh/hotel_designers_please_stop_with_the_sliding/lw3va5y/?context=3#lw3va5y https://old.reddit.com/r/hotels/comments/1gmearh/hotel_desig... TL;DR: Sliding doors are an easier way to keep hotel rooms up to code long-term than doors that need to be refitted/redesigned if the room changes. To me, what's more annoying than sliding bathroom doors (which honestly haven't bothered me that much, though I usually travel alone) are: 1) Sliding shower doors that are ill-fitted and don't close properly, and 2) Bathrooms without proper ventilation (though I learned why vent fans are uncommon in hotels in the US: https://old.reddit.com/r/CasualConversation/comments/18z9sd0/why_dont_hotel_bathrooms_have_fans/kgh59ch/?context=3#kgh59ch https://old.reddit.com/r/CasualConversation/comments/18z9sd0...)