Also sometimes the toilet paper is several arm lengths away from the toilet or really hard to reach since the toilet isn’t near a wall.

I remember the first time I stayed in a hotel with a sliding barn door for the bathroom. It was an expensive hotel! Now I flip through all the photos online to make sure the bathroom has a real door. I live my DH and also we require bathroom privacy from each other to keep that love alive.

Seriously - I have a friend who is always instagramming her hotel bathrooms and is apparently obsessed with them. They may be pretty but they're sure as hell not functional!!

Sliding bathroom doors are in now

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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:Never enough towel racks.

This. How hard is it to add a few extra hooks?

Completely agree, OP. More counter space needed, hooks for towels/clothes/bags. Finally, shelving is appreciated.

Anonymous wrote:What do you mean by poor level of privacy for the toilet. The toilet is in the bathroom -- what more privacy do you want?

NP. Last year I stayed in a hotel with a glass opaque bathroom door! Zero privacy.

yeah, barn doors for hotel bathrooms are pretty egregious also, imho. They don't block any noise (and a lot of light gets through). And an even bigger issue because they are 'modern' and so many of the hotels with them don't have carpet, meaning the sound reverberates even more.
I agree that frosted glass in hotel bathrooms for privacy is ridiculous. Had this on a cruise ship also fwiw.

Never enough towel racks.

Anonymous wrote:What do you mean by poor level of privacy for the toilet. The toilet is in the bathroom -- what more privacy do you want?

I won’t explain this well, but in a couple of the hotels, the toilet is in its own separate room, but that room is comprised of glass walls. So you can literally see the toilet from both the bedroom and the sink/mirror area, if you’re so inclined. It’s all very slick and designy, but seems to neglect the fact that no matter how close, most people don’t want to use the toilet in front of their companions.

Anonymous wrote:What do you mean by poor level of privacy for the toilet. The toilet is in the bathroom -- what more privacy do you want?

Most hotels do not have fans in their bathroom. Which is also gross post shower.

What do you mean by poor level of privacy for the toilet. The toilet is in the bathroom -- what more privacy do you want?

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?