See-through shower wall in the hotel - WWYD?

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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.

Mirrors on the ceiling and rotating beds? When's the last time you were in Vegas, 1977?

I go several times a year. And btw, mirrors on the ceiling are awesome!! Even when just laying there. It was fun to wake up and just see us snuggled in bed.

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I would hang a sheet over it. That will definitely cover it. It will get soaked but no big deal. Ask house cleaning for a stack of top sheets.

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Crap. Literally. I read this thread and then it prompted me to check out our Vegas hotel we have booked for April. I am big on doing research but somehow I missed that the door to the small toilet room is made of frosted glass and is pretty much see through. Sure, you can close the door to the bathroom completely (I think), but this is supposed to be a sexy weekend for me and DH. We don't need to see each other taking a crap. Why do hotels think this is a good idea?

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Anonymous wrote:Who take kids to Vegas?

Entitled jackasses like OP who thinks the hotel should be held accountable because *gasp* you can see an outline of someone in the shower!

Well actually if they turned the lights off in the bedroom area they would have a much better show of their family member. Even with the light on in the room they could see the outline of the person in the shower because their particular room at least was fairly dark even with the light on.

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Better than the highly reflective floors in Vegas bathrooms so you can see everything in the stall next to you.

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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.

Ok, I have to think you're grasping here. Do you really have people looking through the crack of the door just to see someone on the toilet? The issue might lie elsewhere.

IDK if I missed something about the layout but can't the non-showering folks just face in the other direction while someone is showering so they can avoid the awful silhouette situation??

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Anonymous wrote:Crap. Literally. I read this thread and then it prompted me to check out our Vegas hotel we have booked for April. I am big on doing research but somehow I missed that the door to the small toilet room is made of frosted glass and is pretty much see through. Sure, you can close the door to the bathroom completely (I think), but this is supposed to be a sexy weekend for me and DH. We don't need to see each other taking a crap. Why do hotels think this is a good idea?

I really have no desire to go to Vegas. Especially after reading this crap. How gross.

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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.

Ok, I have to think you're grasping here. Do you really have people looking through the crack of the door just to see someone on the toilet? The issue might lie elsewhere.

IDK if I missed something about the layout but can't the non-showering folks just face in the other direction while someone is showering so they can avoid the awful silhouette situation??

Well, of course, they *could* spend their time averting their eyes, turning the other way, unseeing what can't be unseen.....but why the hell go through that? Might as well remove the doors off of all the bathrooms in your house and tell visitors and family members to "please be a dear and look the other way, father is sitting on the potty in the powder room again". Gross.

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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.

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Im.guessing it didn't show up that often on TripAdvisor or yelp because most people just wouldn't care about this. And I agree with others. Unless you have a suite. You shod have 2 rooms. I'm guessing the hotel also thinks its main clientele wouldnt care.

Is this really an issue?

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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.

Ugh. It's a big deal because the two way mirror is not an obvious design issue with the room. A plainly visible see through glass wall is obvious. A mirror hanging on the wall that becomes a window into the privacy of the shower stall area when the lights are adjusted just so...is not so much an architectural design feature, IMO.

If that mirrored ceiling over your bed in your hotel room also gives the people in the room above you a bird's eye glimpse of your bed w/o your knowledge or consent you might very well have an issue with that.

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Anonymous wrote:Im.guessing it didn't show up that often on TripAdvisor or yelp because most people just wouldn't care about this. And I agree with others. Unless you have a suite. You shod have 2 rooms. I'm guessing the hotel also thinks its main clientele wouldnt care.

Is this really an issue?

Probably, many of the guests are unaware of this feature. And the ones who are aware of it choose to stay there because of that feature.

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Yes, I would take a stroll while each person has to shower.

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Some people are more modest than others. I would be mortified at not being able to fully close the bathroom door over anything else!

And the two-way mirror thing is awful.

I get it, OP.

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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.