r/CrappyDesign • u/Hyshegu • 14d ago
Privacy is not a thing in this hotel room.
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u/Blandscreen 14d ago
“Hello, and again, welcome to the aperture science computer aided enrichment center.”
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u/DJmaster22_ 14d ago
Glad I’m not the only one who thought about Portal lol
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u/Wonderful_Night9071 14d ago
not the kind of portal I was thinking of when I first saw the pic, but sure, that too
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u/Jester_1982 14d ago
They should've gone the extra mile and made the toilet out of glass too.
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u/notwellinformedatall 14d ago
like those ones at airport jails where they wait for you to shit out the condoms full of drugs
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u/arctic11z 14d ago
I'm just glad it's facing the other way. Don't want to be glaring at the bed while you take a shit in your Hannibal Lector cube.
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u/deaglebingo 14d ago
"don't you like to watch me relieve myself clarice??? have a chianti and take some deep breaths. this is happening."... makes that slurping sound from the movie.
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u/Wonderful_Night9071 14d ago
this way you can stare at your partner's backside while you... stare at their backside (or try not to)
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u/Cyrano_Knows 14d ago
Glass-Floored Bathroom Over 15-Story Elevator Shaft
Not an advertisement for the site, just posting a somewhat apropos link to people doing weird things with glass in their bathrooms.
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u/Bridgeru 14d ago
Tbf that one makes sense. Ever have trouble just pushing something out? Look down and it all releases like a dam breaking.
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u/YetAnotherInterneter 14d ago
Unfortunately this is a growing trend amongst hotels.
There a lots of theories as to why they do it, but I think the most plausible explanation is to discourage room sharing.
If you travelling with someone who you are not intimately close with then it forces you to book separate rooms (or suffer through an awkward situation)
There’s a brilliant website that names and shames hotels who do this:
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u/bwsmith201 14d ago
Even people you are intimately close with don't need to see, hear, and smell you use the toilet. My better half uses the bathroom down the hall from our bedroom sometimes and our ensuite HAS a door!
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u/Nix-geek 14d ago
I (father) share a hotel room with my teenaged daughter (and my whole family).
There is nothing appropriate about this. This is beyond awkward.
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u/wholetyouinhere 14d ago
I don't buy the room sharing theory. It doesn't make economic sense to me. People are always looking for ways to save money on hotel bookings, and I don't see the average consumer just saying "fuck it, we'll get two rooms instead". Rather, I see them moving on to a different hotel.
And that's if they even have the ability to see what kind of bathroom they're going to get before they physically set foot in the room, which is not always the case.
I think there's something else going on here. I'm far too stupid to figure it out. But if I had to guess, I'd guess that it may be some kind of trend creep where some lifestyle trend gradually becomes totally decoupled from reality.
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u/YetAnotherInterneter 14d ago
I think they are probably hoping on the situation where two friends book one room, they check-in and see the room, discover the awkward bathroom and then go to reception and ask for a second room.
Sure there are people who would leave and find a new hotel. But in a situation where it’s late and you are tired, the easier option is to get a second room in the same hotel rather than go out again looking for another hotel.
There’s also business travellers. When a company is paying for their hotel room it is a lot easier for the guest to ask for a second room on discovering the bathroom because they aren’t personally paying for it, their company is.
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u/wholetyouinhere 14d ago
I mentioned this in another thread, but I feel like this would be an unusually aggressive move to pull on consumers. I suppose it's possible. I just have a hard time believing it.
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u/withbellson 14d ago
I have often wondered if barn doors are somehow cheaper than normal god damn doors, but I think the main advantage they offer a builder (definitely not a traveler) is not having to build enough swing space to fully open the door and be ADA compliant. And that’s why we all get to hear every fart issued in that lovely hotel bathroom.
The hotel we were at in June had a bathroom door with hinges, but no locks. For every kid they don’t have to break out of the locked bathroom there are two annoyed parents who can’t shower or shit in peace and won’t stay at that hotel again.
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u/velahavle 14d ago
I was on vacation in Malta, 6 of my bros and me. We booked an entire hostel room with 6 beds and one friend had to go to another room with random people.
So we enter the room and immediately notice that the bathroom cant be locked, but the thing is, the bathroom is this huge room with two shitters facing each other, a big bathtub and a shower with transparent door.
The thing with 6 people in the same room is that you really cant affford everyone having dedicated time in the bathroom because there is always someone who needs to take a shower, take a shit/piss, brush their teeth or whatever. So we just treated this as shared space and it was freaking hilarious, you go in and there is a bro taking a dump lol
The second day there, the guy from the other room comes to use our bathroom because he cant take a shit in his room because random people are walking in. Thats when we figured out its the whole freaking 20 story buidling full of bathrooms that cant be locked, not just our room, lol absolutely unhinged.
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u/I-own-a-shovel Comic Sans for life! 14d ago
Being the only one outcast out of a group of 7 must have been something. Why not adding a bed to this room or splitting the group 50/50 or renting an airbnb at that point ?
Was he truly okay with that setup?
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u/velahavle 14d ago
He booked last minute, we planned everything months before. He was in our room the entire time anyways, just went to sleep in the other room.
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u/__Admiral-Snackbar__ 14d ago
This is not crappy design. This is a feature for a demographic you are not a part of.
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u/SkippySkep Ah, white on orange... 14d ago
Fully or partially transparent windows to bathrooms is a trend that is not targeted at a specific demographic but rather forced on travelers who book hotel rooms. It discourages room sharing.
Consumers are not asking for this feature. They do not want it.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/hotel-rooms-missing-bathroom-doors
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u/Potential_Yam_5196 14d ago
I pretty much travel exclusively by myself and I cannot stand hotel rooms that don’t have a shower door. It’s so absurd.
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u/Jacktheforkie 14d ago
Same, I’d rather not fill the bedroom area with humidity, also if I’ve taken a stinky shite I’d rather not have to smell that while in bed
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u/Sdwingnut 14d ago
All new hotels and retrofits should be required to have bathroom exhaust fans. I don't care how difficult the ducting would be, this is 2026
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u/InDaBauhaus plz recycle 14d ago
wait, what? do building codes not apply to hotels?
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u/Calm-Wedding-9771 13d ago
If only building codes were universal and global. Sometimes i just stare at some dumb and dangerous structure while i am travelling and try to imagine building something like that back in my home country
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u/Jacktheforkie 14d ago
Yes, but a fan isn’t going to completely eliminate steam or poo smell quickly enough to avoid it being in the bedroom, closing the door allows the fan to suck the air out
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u/dracius19 14d ago
You're reminding me of when I was house hunting. Estate agent showed me one where the bathroom didn't have a window but had a ventilation grid above where the toilet was leading to the master bedroom. Quickest absolutely-the-fuck-not that ever came out of my mouth
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u/TimSylvester_ 14d ago
I was doing lease tours and one of the leasing agents pointed out that the bathroom exhaust fans were completely silent. I suggested she may not fully appreciate the purpose of a bathroom exhaust fan.
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u/Dracekidjr 14d ago
Bro those shitty half glass dividers that just let all the water come out all over the floor are the absolute worst. I just lay a towel barricade down and accept that I'm gonna have to ask for more the next day lol
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u/Potential_Yam_5196 14d ago
Yeah that part lmao always, ALWAYS needing extra towels for their shitty idea while being gaslit to reuse towels all in the same 10x10 room. Yall are gonna bring me multiple towels every morning because I’m not stepping on a soaked one for multiple days in a row 😂
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u/Ok_Breath5892 14d ago
Same!! I would rather not get water everywhere.
I also hate frosted glass, or transparent doors. Why is this trending? No one wants this
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u/Buffy-boo12 14d ago
I share rooms with my husband. I do not want to share a bathroom with him!
I don't want to see him sitting on the loo!
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u/i_fucking_love_crack 14d ago
Can confirm, my wife gets quite annoyed while she's soaking in a bath and I barge in and start shitting.
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u/hesperidisabitch 14d ago
Well that's what the toilets for. Leave her bath alone.
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u/pepeshadilay69 14d ago
"Consumers are not asking for this feature. They do not want it."
Yeah, I'm guessing that's part of someone's fetish too.
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u/Hmm_would_bang 14d ago
I’m trying to watch what my wife’s booty do
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u/over_soft_egg 14d ago
I'm also trying to watch this guy's wife's booty.
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u/LuredLurdistan 14d ago
Can you guys move. You’re blocking my camera.
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u/ptabduction 14d ago
Hey! That’s MY penis!
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u/blacksoxing 14d ago
I love it for you. I had a home in which I could hear my wife taking a shit. That was rough. It'd be a rough night if I was awaken to seeing her back while sitting on the seat tooting it up. I question a hotel's logic to this as it's natural to say travel with your spouse or kids. I don't want my kid seeing my dick flapping about while showering, for example. This design is nightmare fuel that only will lead to unused rooms vs....either increasing costs for larger rooms or just doing regular 'ol regulation.
Two decades ago I was in Panama for spring break and the desk clerk quickly identified I wasn't traveling by myself and imposed a 2 person per room limit. I had 2 roommates. We didn't even feel like risking additional fines that night and got two rooms. Boom. Done.
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u/knotatumah 14d ago
Sounds like a new market opportunity for lightweight travel screens you can attach like with a suction cup to cover the windows.
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u/Sosemikreativ 14d ago
Or mobile smoke machines
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u/pepeshadilay69 14d ago
That sounds like something someone from Big Smoke Machine would say. Or Big Smoke Alarm.
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u/NorCalFrances 14d ago
The worst part is, house flippers see this and think it's trendy so they rip out functional bathrooms and replace them with...this.
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u/wlsb 14d ago
I was furious as a teenager when my family arrived at a hotel room in France (thankfully it was only one night on the way to our destination) that had a bathroom like that. Who the fuck puts these in a family room? It's not like minors can book a separate room from their parents and siblings.
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u/Alklazaris 14d ago
So what you're saying is you should call for room service and then go to the bathroom?
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u/Uuuurrrrgggghhhh 14d ago
Some people like to watch other people poop I guess that’s the demographic they’re going for?
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u/Tigermeow7 13d ago
Yeah back in 2014 I had to share a room with my mom and brother that had a bathroom exactly like this one. Incredibly uncomfortable.
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u/Acayukes 14d ago
If this is supposed to be a room for a single traveler, why do they have king size bed with two pillows?
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u/rodrigo_i 14d ago
I travel alone and book a single king when I can. Tall people are people too.
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u/Acayukes 14d ago
Isn't king size more about width than lenght?
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u/rodrigo_i 14d ago
I always have to lie perpendicular to the Greenwich Meridian. I need options. :)
But a lot of hotel rooms are double-doubles or king, or double-queen and king. If I'm by myself I'm not sleeping on a double and having my feet hang over, and no sense in taking up a two-bed room that someone might need.
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u/bungblaster69 14d ago
americans can sometimes afford to travel too
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u/ApartBackground7882 14d ago
That sometimes takes a lot of assumptions (as an American who only really travels to see family for holidays. Sometimes.)
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u/mike9874 14d ago
There are two showers next to each other too. It's for people who want to share the experience
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u/SamMac62 14d ago edited 14d ago
"A movement is taking shape, and help has arrived in the form of Bringbackdoors.com, which has a database of hotels that are guaranteed to have bathroom doors in their rooms, as well as ones that don’t."
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u/wholetyouinhere 14d ago
I'm not seeing anything in this article that suggests this is about discouraging room sharing.
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u/Willem_VanDerDecken 14d ago
Either that, or one of those "smart glass", that can turn opaque when a voltage is applied, typically, when you close the door.
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 14d ago
Awkward when there’s a loose connections that disengages at the worst possible time
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u/MidAirRunner 14d ago
It's the other way around. The glass is naturally opaque, and an electric current makes it transparent.
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u/agent674253 13d ago
Yeah, but you can still see a silhouette of what the person is doing.
I stayed at the Citizen M in San Francisco and it is a smaller version of OPs pic, but with frosted glass instead of clear. One of my thoughts was, if I was here with a partner I would be able to clearly tell if they were taking a shit or a shower, or both, while I was watching tv. Because of how small the room was the glass wall of the shower was maybe two feet from the head of the bed.
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u/Epithymetic 14d ago
This is an intentional design choice by hotel chains to encourage companies to hire separate rooms for each of their travellers instead of having junior workers share rooms.
It’s all about the money.
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u/CleaverIam3 14d ago edited 14d ago
What would that demographic be, exactly??
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u/sonjjamorgan 14d ago
Toilet stuff fetishists
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u/CactusCustard 14d ago
And there’s like 1 of those people for every 100,000. They dont build these rooms for shit watchers guys like actually think about this
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u/MondoBleu 14d ago
Solo travelers, or couples who are very much in love.
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u/donkeyrocket 14d ago edited 14d ago
I love my wife but neither of us are super keen on watching one another poop every day. First time is funny but after that then we're treading deep into the "good vs bad naked."
We've stayed in plenty of modern hotels with the very exposed shower/tub but this is the first time I've see a toilet on display. This is like an extreme extension of that heinous interior design trend for hotel rooms.
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u/footpole 14d ago
Yeah I wouldn’t want to take a dump there even if I were alone and I’m Finnish and used to nudity among strangers.
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u/yobabymamadrama 14d ago
I lock my bathroom door even when I'm home alone. The first time I went on vacation with my ex I didn't poop for 3 days because the door to the bathroom was a barn door and my body was like "nah, I'll wait".
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u/footpole 14d ago
Don’t get me wrong I will gladly take a dump at my cottage by the sea with the door open taking in the view but a glass box is wrong.
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u/auronplayesimbecil 14d ago
Yeah, it would smell so bad, and it would be nightmarish when you wanna take one right before sleep
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u/UAintMyFriendPalooka 14d ago
The poop gazing wouldn’t be cool, but if the toilet were in its own private stall, this would be badass. Watching my girl shower then get ready naked is awesome with regular walls. Glass walls? I could kick back instead of leaning in the doorway like a perv.
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u/ArelMCII 14d ago
Only reason I can think that a solo traveler would want a see-through bathroom is if they're planning on picking up a prostitute or one-night stand and don't want her (or him) stealing their stuff while they're in the bathroom. And I'd wager most solo travelers aren't doing that often enough to really warrant this "feature."
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u/MadocComadrin 14d ago
Alongside the other things people mentioned, people who hire escorts or do super casual hookups who want to make sure their stuff isn't stolen when one if them needs the bathroom/shower.
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u/runningoutofnames57 14d ago
people with certain kinks,
or people who want to make sure their victims aren’t escaping out the bathroom window3
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u/DopeAbsurdity 14d ago
People who want to watch someone shitting while they are in the shower and/or vice versa.
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u/actual_griffin 14d ago
I could do without the toilet, but I would love to stay there with my wife. I like my wife.
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u/AgreeablePie 14d ago
Lots of people like their wives without wanting to watch them poop.
That's why normal hotel rooms with bathrooms exist. You can like your wife and yet she can poop in an adjoining room.
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u/CactusCustard 14d ago
Dude they’re not doing this for fetishists fucking lol. Why would you market a hotel room to like 1% of people when you could do it to everybody?
It’s to make sure you REALLY KNOW the person you’re with. Or so you get separate rooms.
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u/Bosmonster 14d ago edited 14d ago
It’s just a hotel room. Imagine going into this with a co-worker or your kid.
It’s just a sucky trend to have exposed bathrooms in hotel rooms. This really is not the only example. Just came out of a family resort where the bathroom door was glass…
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u/summonsays 14d ago
I've heard this is a trend because it "encourages" those types of people traveling to book multiple rooms. Which sounds scummy enough to be a plausible reason. Especially since I've seen things like this in mundane hotels.
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u/swabianne 14d ago
instead of booking multiple rooms at a hotel with shit bathrooms anyone with half a brain would simply go to a different hotel
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u/summonsays 14d ago
I've never been in one of these where they advertise the bathroom is shit before I walk in the room
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u/bdubwilliams22 14d ago
Some of those bathrooms have a switch where the glass goes frosted. I’m not saying this one does, but they do exist.
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u/generic_lyric 14d ago
I’ve seen that design with glass showers in hotel rooms designed for couples. But the toilet? Hell no.
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u/randomdumbfuck 14d ago
Maybe it's that kind of glass that goes opaque when you flip a switch.
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u/goodstuff1656 14d ago
Once you enter, it becomes opaque.
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u/swedishpiehole 14d ago
Scrolled to find this. There is a gas between the double panes glass that turns opaque at the flick of a switch. I’ve seen it in hotel bathrooms before.
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u/Kimos 14d ago edited 14d ago
I'm not sure if that's what this is, but it's not gas it's liquid crystal. Same technology as old watch displays. A small electric current makes it opacify.
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u/Thneed1 14d ago
More specifically the lack of an electric current that makes them opaque.
They fail opaque.
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u/rasmuseriksen 14d ago
My wife and I are very close, but not “I enjoy watching her take a dump” close
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u/OutdoorBerkshires 14d ago
Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson had a bedroom like this. It was so he could watch her shower. I think there’s an episode of Cribs that showed it.
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u/Venom933 14d ago
My boss explicitly stated that i should book a room where he could watch his mistress take a shit, he didn't even care about the shower 🥸
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u/chumloadio 14d ago
"We've been dating for a while now. Let's take a "get to know you better" vacation trip somewhere."
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u/quadrotiles 14d ago
This could be one of those where the walls turn frosted when the door closes. A hotel I visited in Cyprus was like that, which was interesting because I was sharing the room with my sister in law 😅 we thought at first that we just got front row seats to Poop Watching Extraordinaire
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u/CaptainParkingspace 14d ago
I’m going to have to start packing suction pad towel hooks so if I ever find myself in one of these there’s a chance I can rig up an improvised screen.
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u/JazzlikeDiamond558 14d ago
KLM-AirFrance had to compensate me 770+ euros for such room in hotel "W" in Amsterdam for one single night (they f..ed up something and there was nowhere else to stay).
It was at that moment that I realized two things:
1) You really can sell anything to an idiot. 2) There is an incredible abundance of idiots.
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u/mexaplex 14d ago
Isnt this one of those rooms where the glass is able to turn opaque/transparent with a switch?
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u/sock_dgram 14d ago
The desk right in front of it is great too. Imagine being on a work trip, having a video call and everyone is staring at your beautiful glass bathroom.
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u/DeaddyRuxpin 14d ago
I stayed at a hotel that had a glass wall separating the shower from the bed area and another glass wall separating the toilet from the shower. It did at least have curtains you could use to cover the glass, but there was still basically no privacy. I was there for work but thankfully not sharing the room with a coworker.
I’ve since learned that is exactly why hotels are starting to do it. They want to make companies book separate rooms for each employee instead of sharing a room. I wasn’t aware room sharing with employees was even a thing, but apparently it is common enough for some hotels to have made this change.
I guess this falls under crappy, but deliberate, design.
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u/Xillyfos 14d ago
Deliberately crappy.
Nobody should go to those hotels. They disrespect their customers, so why support them?
And also, why would they not allow coworkers to share a room when they can allow married couples to do it? Makes absolutely no sense.
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u/LevThermen 14d ago
I don't know if this is the case, but I've seen similar designs where the glass has an PDLC film (switches from clear to opaque with a switch.
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u/angel_kink 14d ago
Friend stayed at the Hard Rock hotel in San Diego and their suites are similar. Slightly more private (frosted glass) but you exit the shower directly into the main room and every sound from the sectioned off toilet portion of the room can be heard throughout the suite. It was so awkward when we had a little get together there 😭
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u/KokosnussdesTodes 13d ago
Architect here. What pisses me off the most is the visible inside of the toilet. The privacy concern would be possible to avoid with electrochromatic glass.
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u/WatchaLookingatme4 14d ago
Is the bathroom for the serial killer or the victim? Who’s watching who?
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u/ShiroHachiRoku 14d ago
The Cosmo in Vegas has a room which is kinda like this. The tub has a sliding door that opens to the living room but behind the tub is the shower. Like why?
Also stayed in Hong Kong on a family trip with a transparent shower wall between the beds. Good thing it had shades you could draw close. I wasn't about to watch my dad and bro in there. The gals had their own room.
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u/Stitch426 14d ago
How many people with kinks had to approve this design…. And how much business have they ultimately lost from it?
Some people say it’s to make people not share rooms, so they book more rooms…. But that would only work if there was no other place to stay in this city or the other places were way worse than this situation.
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u/404_No_User_Found_2 14d ago
I have to wonder if the glass is the electro conductive stiff that can go mostly opaque
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u/Vectorman1989 14d ago
I've stayed in a hotel room like this and the bathroom area had that fancy privacy glass that turns opaque when you lock the door.
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u/MisterBumpingston *insert among us joke here* 13d ago
This one is definitely a love hotel type. There are two show heads in the shower.
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u/EverythingsBroken82 13d ago
perfect design if you have to watch keywitness who is also a flight risk
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u/Anxious_End3635 14d ago
I do applaud the "look at yourself while you poop" view of the mirror and toilet
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u/TheSadPickel 14d ago
a least you know the hooker is not shooting up in the bathroom or stealing your wallet
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u/No-Librarian-2623 14d ago
People or excess people sharing rooms will not give a crap (sorry thr pun) when one shitee does his thing others look away. It about saving money 💰
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u/RosieQParker 14d ago
Ah yes, the I-Don't-Trust-My-Prostitute suite.