See-through shower wall in the hotel - WWYD?

[Anonymous]

LOL, the same thing happened to me. Booked a room in Mandalay bay with a guy friend (just a friend) and we figured out in about 2 seconds that there was no real privacy! We figured out a workaround, but it was hella awkward for a few minutes there.

[Anonymous]

Honestly all hotels in Vegas are somewhat like this. Mirrors on the ceilings, rotating beds, open showers... It's not really the place for kids. Stay somewhere cheaper and get two hotel rooms.

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry but LMAO.

Trust me, some day you too will laugh. This is Vegas comedy gold.

Your children are not scarred. It's just nudity (unless one of teenagers was with a hooker...? Is there more to this story beyond simple nudity?)

Good for a laugh and really NBD. But please ask for compensation so that the hotel employees may have a good laugh.

[Anonymous]

We stayed at a hotel in China that had this too. Luckily, though, they also had blinds on that window so you had the option of keeping the blinds closed. As we were a family of 4 with 2 parents and 2 young children, we kept the blinds closed the entire time we were there! Problem solved....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely, if it was just my husband and I, it wouldn't be a problem, but I strongly believe that they should inform the families in advance or don't allow families with kids in the hotel. Even if I stayed with my mom or my girlfriend, I would be quite upset to make that unexpected discovery.

I believe this would be illegal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly all hotels in Vegas are somewhat like this. Mirrors on the ceilings, rotating beds, open showers... It's not really the place for kids. Stay somewhere cheaper and get two hotel rooms.

I get the kids part, and would have no problem with my husband and the shower, but other posters have a good point about hotels really needing to keep bathrooms private or proactively warning you if certain things are not private. No doors and configurations like that would never fly for me.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Yes, we are at The Cromwell. Our teens are younger girls - like 13-14 y.o., so I'm not that sure they are ready for their own room in Vegas. We planned a lot of family activities here - magic shows, trip to Grand Canyon. By accountable, I wonder if at least they could be obligated to disclose the nature of their design beforehand. Their room is also so dark that even when all lights are on, you can still see a silhuette of a person in the shower. There is also no lock on the bathroom door, it's sliding, and through the crack you can see a person on the toilet. Oh well! The hotel personnel just apologized and said they'll inform their management, but it didn't seem like they were going to offer us anything extra - vouchers, etc. I'm more concerned about making them informing other families in advance than refunding us our money.

I'm grateful for your responses, they made me happy that at least we weren't watched having sex or doing anything else in that matter.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

It's Vegas. Vegas is icky. Really Op, you took teenagers to Vegas? Why oh why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We made a mistake booking a hotel in Vegas without carefully reading the reviews. When we came here, it turned out that there is a see-through wall between the shower and a living space. When the lights are on in the shower, and the lights are off in the room, you can see a person in the shower. Under the normal day light, the wall looks like a mirror on both sides. Nobody in the hotel informed us about that trick, and we are a family of 2 parents and 2 teenagers, so it was a very unpleasant discovery to make. When I spoke to the receptionist, she sounded very aware about the issue and sent a couple of maintenance workers who covered the "mirror" with the towels on the room side.

It's an expensive hotel, and I feel very uneasy with the situation. Should the hotel be held accountable in any way? I just read their reviews on yelp, and people have been complaining about the issue for quite a while. I don't understand why they designed the wall that way and why they don't inform their guests, especially staying with the kids, about that.

Accountable for what, exactly?

[Anonymous]

A silhouette is a big deal for familymembers???

Tsa saw your silhouette before the flight out...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Yes, we are at The Cromwell. Our teens are younger girls - like 13-14 y.o., so I'm not that sure they are ready for their own room in Vegas. We planned a lot of family activities here - magic shows, trip to Grand Canyon. By accountable, I wonder if at least they could be obligated to disclose the nature of their design beforehand. Their room is also so dark that even when all lights are on, you can still see a silhuette of a person in the shower. There is also no lock on the bathroom door, it's sliding, and through the crack you can see a person on the toilet. Oh well! The hotel personnel just apologized and said they'll inform their management, but it didn't seem like they were going to offer us anything extra - vouchers, etc. I'm more concerned about making them informing other families in advance than refunding us our money.

I'm grateful for your responses, they made me happy that at least we weren't watched having sex or doing anything else in that matter.

I would try to get another room somewhere else. That place sounds awful. Absolutely awful. How ridiculous of that hotel to assume that their guests are all up for that kind of exhibitionism. And to think that you're paying top dollar for that "experience". Absolutely read the reviews from now on. But, honestly, who would have thought to even look into something like that?

[Anonymous]

Go back and ask for vouchers!

Say, "this is still really upsetting, isn't there anything you can do? My kids would really love to ..... We paid a lot of money for the room and it's very disappointing every time we go in there."

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Who take kids to Vegas?