See-through shower wall in the hotel - WWYD?

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Can you actually see the person in the shower, or a silhouette? Some hotel rooms in NYC are like this (you can see silhouette), I think to make the room seem larger.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, this will be a funny story in a few years. It doesn't seem like tha big of a deal to me. You didn't read the reviews and were disappointed to find an aspect of the design is not to your liking. This isn't exacty new, I stayed in the W hotel in NYC and the wall between the room and bathroom was glass, and that was maybe 10 years ago. I've since stayed in maybe 5 or 6 hotels with similar features that lack privacy. I always read reviews and check pictures on trip advisor for this reason. It would have been nice if the hotel mentioned this on the website, but it's pretty common in big cities and most couples probanly wouldn't car. You have the towel for privacy, that's about as much as you can ask for. Next time make sure the hotel you book is familiar friendly.

I think all the Ws I've stayed at have had something like this. Window wall shower in Ft Lauderdale and zero-privacy bathroom in DC. Luckily it's just been me and DH on those stays.

I thought that those glass walls normally turn opaque and non-transparent with a turn of a switch - at least the ones I experienced did.
If they did not have clear-to-opaque switch it almost seems like it was ment to have it but somehow along the line this feature disappeared (manufacturers of the space age glass went out of business, contractors decided to save during the process, the original glass was broken and replaced by an ordinary one).
Cannot imagine anyone designing this with relat glass for some reason.

[Anonymous]

Aren't you guys savvy enough to just avert your eyes when someone is in the shower? Or leave the living room light on? Or the shower light off? (I mean really, how much light do you need to soap up and rinse off?)

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OP here. I spoke with a receptionist, she apologized a number of times, but really couldn't explain why they don't inform the guests about the feature. She told me it's an adult-themed hotel, and we should have known about that - though I didn't see anything else adult-themed, besides their weird bathroom. She spoke with a manager and offered us a $25 food credit, which sounded like a joke. Then she spoke with a manager one more time and offered to waive a resort fee for 2 days of our staying. She also said they'll not charge us for the "personal use of refrigerator" - which I was quite surprised to hear. We put a box with some lunch leftovers into the fridge on the top of cans sitting there, and it turned out that they normally do charge for that!

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Vegas is not for kids. Why, why, why? There are so many better places. Magic shows? Are your kids budding magicians? Other than that NYC has better shows, Utah better parks, and about any other city is more kid friendly and actually has smoke free hotels (I feel gross just walking thru most hotel lobbies there).

I assume this was your DH idea, since you are late middle age and have retired your sex life (booking a single room for a Vegas trip to bunk with your kids and your Puritan freak out suggests you haven't seen your DH naked in a while too). I would keep a close eye on him after lights out...

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Anonymous wrote:Vegas is not for kids. Why, why, why? There are so many better places. Magic shows? Are your kids budding magicians? Other than that NYC has better shows, Utah better parks, and about any other city is more kid friendly and actually has smoke free hotels (I feel gross just walking thru most hotel lobbies there).

I assume this was your DH idea, since you are late middle age and have retired your sex life (booking a single room for a Vegas trip to bunk with your kids and your Puritan freak out suggests you haven't seen your DH naked in a while too). I would keep a close eye on him after lights out...

+100. Your kids are teenagers! Why would you go to sin city and be sharing a room with them!!!

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Anonymous wrote:I can't get over sharing a room with the teenagers. You tried to cheap out and look what happened.

Really? People do this? My kids are little still but it never occurred to me to get a second room once they reached a certain age. My parents never did, and what's more, there were five of us so one of us (usually me...) always slept on the floor.

Most adults like to have sex. If you're cool with having sex while your kids at in the room, then no need to book separate rooms. It sounds like your parents were cool with it, so you might be too.

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For those implying that the two way mirror is some dirty trick, you are forgetting that it goes into YOUR room. If you can't trust the person with whom you're sharing your hotel room to turn on the lights or look the other way while you're showering, you have problems of your own that have nothing to do with the design of the hotel room b

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Anonymous wrote:
I assume this was your DH idea, since you are late middle age and have retired your sex life (booking a single room for a Vegas trip to bunk with your kids and your Puritan freak out suggests you haven't seen your DH naked in a while too). I would keep a close eye on him after lights out...

What on earth does that mean?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, there is a dollar store about a mile due east of your hotel. Go there, find either a shower curtain or a plastic tablecloth and a roll of packing tape. Go back and tape the plastic over the inside of the shower so that the person in the shower is the only one who can remove it. If the window all is large, buy 2 shower curtains or tablecloths. Done.

Two maintenance workers taped 2 towels from the room side yesterday, and they told us they didn't know people can see through that "mirror" - not sure whether to believe them.

I'm the PP above. The problem with the towels is that they can be taken down or parted for a peak from the bedroom side. The plastic covering is on the bathroom side and the control of the person in the shower. Much safer.

As for the hotel maintenance, it's possible that they didn't know about the mirrors if they only work day shift and only see the wall during daylight. For your description, it is much more obvious when the bedroom is dark and the bathroom is lit. Not the usual situation when they are working. I tend to agree with the other PP that it is very unlikely, but still possible due to the circumstances. Many hotel maintenance crew do not work in the evenings unless called back to work for an emergency.

If OP is concerned that her husband is going to take down towels put up to give the teenage daughters privacy, she's got bigger problems than this hotel room.

OP, it sounds like the hotel staff solved the immediate problem. So what's the problem now?

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OP here. We actually had a good time in Vegas overall: attended 4 very family-friendly shows, such as Mat Franco's, who was the winner of America's got talent in 2014, spent a day in Grand Canyon, and walked around the center of Vegas, looking at the hotels, fountains, etc.

It was indeed an interesting life lesson with that mirror, and hopefully our experience will help others too. I still don't understand why the hotel doesn't inform the guests about the feature and feel in the right with that. In my opinion, they should inform the families and any group of guests that don't look like a couple - e.g., there were 2 queen size beds in our room, and why would a couple book a room with the separate beds, especially in Vegas? So perhaps everyone who books a room with 2 beds should be informed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. We actually had a good time in Vegas overall: attended 4 very family-friendly shows, such as Mat Franco's, who was the winner of America's got talent in 2014, spent a day in Grand Canyon, and walked around the center of Vegas, looking at the hotels, fountains, etc.

It was indeed an interesting life lesson with that mirror, and hopefully our experience will help others too. I still don't understand why the hotel doesn't inform the guests about the feature and feel in the right with that. In my opinion, they should inform the families and any group of guests that don't look like a couple - e.g., there were 2 queen size beds in our room, and why would a couple book a room with the separate beds, especially in Vegas? So perhaps everyone who books a room with 2 beds should be informed.

Are your kids the same sex? Assuming they are since they are sharing a bed.

Hotel manager must have thought you guys were so cheap for sharing a room and then bitching about it. He gave you free rooms to shut you up.

You glanced at one of your children nude. Get over it. Sheesh.

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A) Americans are so crazy about nudity! Of their own children!

B) We've stayed in hotels in NYC like this several times. This is not only a Vegas thing.

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Does OP wear mom jeans and have a Kate Gosselin haircut?

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Anonymous wrote:For those implying that the two way mirror is some dirty trick, you are forgetting that it goes into YOUR room. If you can't trust the person with whom you're sharing your hotel room to turn on the lights or look the other way while you're showering, you have problems of your own that have nothing to do with the design of the hotel room b

Oh BULL. That would be a total shock to have your roomie go into the bathroom, you turn over to turn off the light to go to sleep and sleepily look across the room only to see your roomie naked in the mirror - WTF???. Maybe the roomie is your sibling or your coworker or just a friend that you are sharing expenses with.

Even if you speedily process what you're seeing and know to turn the light back on ASAP you have still seen something that you were not supposed to see.