Have the people who design hotel bathrooms ever…USED a bathroom?

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Anonymous wrote:I have been traveling for three weeks, staying in half a dozen hotels ranging from 3 to 5 stars, and am struck by how uniformly awful the bathrooms are. It’s like an alien with no knowledge of human ways designed them. The lighting is terrible for inserting contacts or applying makeup, there’s not enough counter space for toiletries, sometimes no hook for a hanging toiletry bag, there are different levels, perfect for stubbing one’s toe in the middle of the night, and the level of privacy for the toilet is often lacking. I also loathe those half-shower walls, thought I know some people prefer them. Why is it so difficult to get this right?

the worst are the ones with smoked glass doors where you can see the silhouette of the person on the pot.

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Anonymous wrote:In the 80s, I remember being dumb founded that hotels had free shampoo but no conditioner. I don’t think anybody with hair past their ears can wash their hair without conditioner right? So basically 95 percent of women couldn’t actually use the shampoo being given out by the hotel, because it was lacking an integral part of the steps. Meaning in the 80s, they had literally never sought a single woman’s feedback on hotel bathrooms. Ever. I remember being aware of that as a ten year old.

In more recent years, I assume the same about the stupid trend of rain shower heads attached to the ceiling. If you have any quantity of hair, a soft rain shower on the ceiling is unusable for washing your hair. It will take twenty minutes to rinse out shampoo. Some guy probably thought it was a great idea and should have test run it with the other half of the population.

Mine is halfway down my back, and I never use conditioner. I hate screaming high-maintenance, but come on, this is a dumb rant.

Not PP but your anecdata doesn’t negate the vast majority of the population with hair texture that would look absolutely disgusting without conditioner. Be aware that you’re just very lucky.

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Biggest complaint is the inability to turn off all the lights. All of them. So I can sleep. More problematic the more expensive the hotel. No idea why the lighting is so poorly designed that it takes me 20 minutes to figure out how to turn off the random lights here and there.

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Anonymous wrote:Never enough towel racks.

Yes! Why is this?

There is never anywhere to hang our bath towels or hand towels. Always so frustrating.

I have a feeling that they had to remove them over time because stupid/drunk people bash into them. It's my only hypothesis. If there are hooks on the door they are always wayyyy up high- above "poke your eye" out level for the stupids.

It's because people hang stuff on them that's way to heavy and the hook rips out of the wall.

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Anonymous wrote:In the 80s, I remember being dumb founded that hotels had free shampoo but no conditioner. I don’t think anybody with hair past their ears can wash their hair without conditioner right? So basically 95 percent of women couldn’t actually use the shampoo being given out by the hotel, because it was lacking an integral part of the steps. Meaning in the 80s, they had literally never sought a single woman’s feedback on hotel bathrooms. Ever. I remember being aware of that as a ten year old.

In more recent years, I assume the same about the stupid trend of rain shower heads attached to the ceiling. If you have any quantity of hair, a soft rain shower on the ceiling is unusable for washing your hair. It will take twenty minutes to rinse out shampoo. Some guy probably thought it was a great idea and should have test run it with the other half of the population.

Mine is halfway down my back, and I never use conditioner. I hate screaming high-maintenance, but come on, this is a dumb rant.

I found it interesting. The conditioner is always crappy when they have it. I always bring my own. But I didj't think it was a gendered thing, I just assumed the supplies were bare-boned.

More that most people don't use it.

Most women use conditioner.

Yes, but most don't use the cheap hotel conditioner. I always bring my own.

This! If you're someone who cares about conditioner, don't you pack your own preferred brand? I feel like the hotel shampoo and conditioner are there for people who forgot to, or whose luggage was lost.

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Absolutely. I would never use hotel toiletries by choice. My husband would, however. Most men don’t care.

Here’s why: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/3062df/how_men_shower/

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Staying at a hotel now with a motion sensor. Lights in the hallway and bathroom go on if you get out of bed or even take your foot out from under the covers. This wakes up anyone else in the room (would have been a nightmare when our son was a baby).

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I’ve been traveling a lot lately, and about 1/3 of the time, I have to call and ask for washcloths. Most places now have body wash attached to the wall of the shower instead of soap bars, and you go through so much more of it if you don’t have a washcloth to put it on. I guess some bean counter at Marriott has calculated that the cost of extra body wash is less than the cost of the laundry for washcloths, but man is it annoying.

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Agree, OP!

Put a fan in the bathroom. Put a real door wherever the toilet is. Put some hooks on the wall, especially if you’re giving guests the “reuse towels and save the environment” schtick.

Do not put semi-opaque walls between the bathroom and the bedroom.

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My hotel complaints (US and abroad):
1. Real door on the bathroom, that closes, not a barn door
2. Light switches INSIDE the bathroom, so when I get up in the middle of the night to pee, I don't wake the entire room
3. Shower door or shower curtain, no half glass door
4. More hooks, put them on the door, behind the door or in an odd place in the room - with 4 of us, we need places to hang the wet towels
5. And now I'm nit-picking, heat and A/C that aren't blowing on you while in bed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My hotel complaints (US and abroad):
1. Real door on the bathroom, that closes, not a barn door
2. Light switches INSIDE the bathroom, so when I get up in the middle of the night to pee, I don't wake the entire room
3. Shower door or shower curtain, no half glass door
4. More hooks, put them on the door, behind the door or in an odd place in the room - with 4 of us, we need places to hang the wet towels
5. And now I'm nit-picking, heat and A/C that aren't blowing on you while in bed

Ooh, I hate shower curtains. They stick to you. Only cheap hotels still have these.

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The big problem for us is that we have such a nice bathroom at home. The hotel showers have crappy shower heads where the water comes out slow or not enough water coming out. They don't have soft water (we have a softener at home). Regulating the temperature of the water is hard (yes, we have the $300 fancy valve at home and they have the regular $25 valve that doesn't work so well). And they are also usually cramped for space. And we often pay close to $300 for this kind of room.

But it just makes us happy to go home at some point so I guess there's that.

That’s why you should never leave your home. Either that or only vacation at properties you own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My hotel complaints (US and abroad):
1. Real door on the bathroom, that closes, not a barn door
2. Light switches INSIDE the bathroom, so when I get up in the middle of the night to pee, I don't wake the entire room
3. Shower door or shower curtain, no half glass door
4. More hooks, put them on the door, behind the door or in an odd place in the room - with 4 of us, we need places to hang the wet towels
5. And now I'm nit-picking, heat and A/C that aren't blowing on you while in bed

Why are 4 people in one room??!

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Anonymous wrote:My hotel complaints (US and abroad):
1. Real door on the bathroom, that closes, not a barn door
2. Light switches INSIDE the bathroom, so when I get up in the middle of the night to pee, I don't wake the entire room
3. Shower door or shower curtain, no half glass door
4. More hooks, put them on the door, behind the door or in an odd place in the room - with 4 of us, we need places to hang the wet towels
5. And now I'm nit-picking, heat and A/C that aren't blowing on you while in bed

Why are 4 people in one room??!

NP. You think a family of four doesn’t stay in the same hotel room?

[Anonymous]

Thank you OP and PPs. I agree on all.

I travel a lot for work in usually Kimpton type hotels. I hate when they redo the shower and it is lovely but you have to reach around the glass wall to turn the shower on. Why? Why do I have to get blasted by cold water to turn the shower on? I would actually prefer the old tub shower combo so I can turn it on without getting wet.

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All these pages in, and nobody has mentioned the “fresh” towels stored in a rack directly over the toilet?