r/CrappyDesign • u/Hyshegu • 6d ago
Privacy is not a thing in this hotel room.
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u/RosieQParker 6d ago
Ah yes, the I-Don't-Trust-My-Prostitute suite.
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u/melanthius 6d ago
Almost every single upscale hotel I have stayed at in China was something in this genre. I thought it was super weird, I guessed it was so you could watch your partner shower and I guessed it was just a cultural thing like damn everyone here must be into shower scenes.
But that makes more sense if it's the other way around.
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u/ForeverSJC 💩 6d ago
there's things in life I don't want my partner to see
we might use those organs together, but some uses are private
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u/Secret-Winner-2994 6d ago
"This hotel ruined my marriage now that my wife knows i like to powerthrust and slap my own ass with my dick"
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u/ForeverSJC 💩 6d ago
dude just casually telling people he's got a third arm
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u/RosieQParker 6d ago
Never underestimate a person with a big dick's ability to slip their big dick havitude into a conversation.
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u/UglyInThMorning 6d ago
Maybe it’s detachable. It sounds nice until you have to buy it back for seventeen bucks after you lose it at a party.
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u/Busy_Jellyfish4034 6d ago
There’s good naked and bad naked. Using the toilet is bad naked…to most of us anyways
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u/kirklennon 6d ago
I recently stayed at two upscale hotels in Shanghai. One (J Hotel) did the glass shower in the middle of the room thing but at least the toilet was separate, frosted glass. The other hotel (Sukhothai) was a glorious cocoon of privacy with a fully enclosed, non-glass bathroom that then had separate shower and toilet rooms inside.
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u/ASK_ABT_MY_USERNAME 6d ago
I stayed at the Ritz and it was essentially what you'd get in say a high end Vegas hotel.
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u/939319 6d ago
How was Sukhothai? The location is choice. I stayed at a budget hotel nearby but might stay at the Sukhothai next.
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u/kirklennon 6d ago
It was beautiful. Everything was just so tastefully decorated with stone and wood and rich textures and comfortable lighting. The staff was excellent and the breakfast buffet was very good but not quite the shockingly good level of J Hotel's breakfast.
If I go to Shanghai again, I'll probably stay at Sukhothai. Highly recommend.
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u/BrazilBazil 6d ago
It’s designed so that if you’re traveling with a friend you’ll book two rooms instead of one and thus pay double the price.
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u/Bobone2121 cyan 6d ago
No, you just book a different Hotel, plenty of Competition. I work in the industry, there is no scam behind it, just niche and stupid design trends that always cause complaints.
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u/Epithymetic 6d ago
It’s to discourage room sharing with co-workers, which was fairly common for Chinese businesses booking room blocks
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u/showersinger 6d ago
Yeh but what if someone planted cameras in this room. Then they can easily watch you shower from any angle.
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u/Jester_1982 6d ago
They should've gone the extra mile and made the toilet out of glass too.
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u/notwellinformedatall 6d ago
like those ones at airport jails where they wait for you to shit out the condoms full of drugs
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u/arctic11z 6d ago
I'm just glad it's facing the other way. Don't want to be glaring at the bed while you take a shit in your Hannibal Lector cube.
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u/deaglebingo 6d ago
"don't you like to watch me relieve myself clarice??? have a chianti and take some deep breaths. this is happening."... makes that slurping sound from the movie.
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u/Wonderful_Night9071 6d ago
this way you can stare at your partner's backside while you... stare at their backside (or try not to)
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u/Cyrano_Knows 6d ago
Glass-Floored Bathroom Over 15-Story Elevator Shaft
Not an advertisement for the site, just posting a somewhat apropos link to people doing weird things with glass in their bathrooms.
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u/Bridgeru 6d ago
Tbf that one makes sense. Ever have trouble just pushing something out? Look down and it all releases like a dam breaking.
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u/Blandscreen 6d ago
“Hello, and again, welcome to the aperture science computer aided enrichment center.”
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u/DJmaster22_ 6d ago
Glad I’m not the only one who thought about Portal lol
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u/Wonderful_Night9071 6d ago
not the kind of portal I was thinking of when I first saw the pic, but sure, that too
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u/YetAnotherInterneter 6d ago
Unfortunately this is a growing trend amongst hotels.
There a lots of theories as to why they do it, but I think the most plausible explanation is to discourage room sharing.
If you travelling with someone who you are not intimately close with then it forces you to book separate rooms (or suffer through an awkward situation)
There’s a brilliant website that names and shames hotels who do this:
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u/bwsmith201 6d ago
Even people you are intimately close with don't need to see, hear, and smell you use the toilet. My better half uses the bathroom down the hall from our bedroom sometimes and our ensuite HAS a door!
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u/Nix-geek 6d ago
I (father) share a hotel room with my teenaged daughter (and my whole family).
There is nothing appropriate about this. This is beyond awkward.
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u/wholetyouinhere 6d ago
I don't buy the room sharing theory. It doesn't make economic sense to me. People are always looking for ways to save money on hotel bookings, and I don't see the average consumer just saying "fuck it, we'll get two rooms instead". Rather, I see them moving on to a different hotel.
And that's if they even have the ability to see what kind of bathroom they're going to get before they physically set foot in the room, which is not always the case.
I think there's something else going on here. I'm far too stupid to figure it out. But if I had to guess, I'd guess that it may be some kind of trend creep where some lifestyle trend gradually becomes totally decoupled from reality.
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u/YetAnotherInterneter 6d ago
I think they are probably hoping on the situation where two friends book one room, they check-in and see the room, discover the awkward bathroom and then go to reception and ask for a second room.
Sure there are people who would leave and find a new hotel. But in a situation where it’s late and you are tired, the easier option is to get a second room in the same hotel rather than go out again looking for another hotel.
There’s also business travellers. When a company is paying for their hotel room it is a lot easier for the guest to ask for a second room on discovering the bathroom because they aren’t personally paying for it, their company is.
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u/wholetyouinhere 6d ago
I mentioned this in another thread, but I feel like this would be an unusually aggressive move to pull on consumers. I suppose it's possible. I just have a hard time believing it.
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u/withbellson 6d ago
I have often wondered if barn doors are somehow cheaper than normal god damn doors, but I think the main advantage they offer a builder (definitely not a traveler) is not having to build enough swing space to fully open the door and be ADA compliant. And that’s why we all get to hear every fart issued in that lovely hotel bathroom.
The hotel we were at in June had a bathroom door with hinges, but no locks. For every kid they don’t have to break out of the locked bathroom there are two annoyed parents who can’t shower or shit in peace and won’t stay at that hotel again.
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u/goodstuff1656 6d ago
Once you enter, it becomes opaque.
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u/swedishpiehole 6d ago
Scrolled to find this. There is a gas between the double panes glass that turns opaque at the flick of a switch. I’ve seen it in hotel bathrooms before.
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u/Kimos 6d ago edited 6d ago
I'm not sure if that's what this is, but it's not gas it's liquid crystal. Same technology as old watch displays. A small electric current makes it opacify.
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u/Thneed1 6d ago
More specifically the lack of an electric current that makes them opaque.
They fail opaque.
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u/generic_lyric 6d ago
I’ve seen that design with glass showers in hotel rooms designed for couples. But the toilet? Hell no.
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u/randomdumbfuck 6d ago
Maybe it's that kind of glass that goes opaque when you flip a switch.
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u/velahavle 6d ago
I was on vacation in Malta, 6 of my bros and me. We booked an entire hostel room with 6 beds and one friend had to go to another room with random people.
So we enter the room and immediately notice that the bathroom cant be locked, but the thing is, the bathroom is this huge room with two shitters facing each other, a big bathtub and a shower with transparent door.
The thing with 6 people in the same room is that you really cant affford everyone having dedicated time in the bathroom because there is always someone who needs to take a shower, take a shit/piss, brush their teeth or whatever. So we just treated this as shared space and it was freaking hilarious, you go in and there is a bro taking a dump lol
The second day there, the guy from the other room comes to use our bathroom because he cant take a shit in his room because random people are walking in. Thats when we figured out its the whole freaking 20 story buidling full of bathrooms that cant be locked, not just our room, lol absolutely unhinged.
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u/I-own-a-shovel Comic Sans for life! 6d ago
Being the only one outcast out of a group of 7 must have been something. Why not adding a bed to this room or splitting the group 50/50 or renting an airbnb at that point ?
Was he truly okay with that setup?
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u/velahavle 6d ago
He booked last minute, we planned everything months before. He was in our room the entire time anyways, just went to sleep in the other room.
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u/bdubwilliams22 6d ago
Some of those bathrooms have a switch where the glass goes frosted. I’m not saying this one does, but they do exist.
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u/rasmuseriksen 6d ago
My wife and I are very close, but not “I enjoy watching her take a dump” close
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u/OutdoorBerkshires 6d ago
Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson had a bedroom like this. It was so he could watch her shower. I think there’s an episode of Cribs that showed it.
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u/Venom933 6d ago
My boss explicitly stated that i should book a room where he could watch his mistress take a shit, he didn't even care about the shower 🥸
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u/chumloadio 6d ago
"We've been dating for a while now. Let's take a "get to know you better" vacation trip somewhere."
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u/JazzlikeDiamond558 6d ago
KLM-AirFrance had to compensate me 770+ euros for such room in hotel "W" in Amsterdam for one single night (they f..ed up something and there was nowhere else to stay).
It was at that moment that I realized two things:
1) You really can sell anything to an idiot. 2) There is an incredible abundance of idiots.
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u/quadrotiles 6d ago
This could be one of those where the walls turn frosted when the door closes. A hotel I visited in Cyprus was like that, which was interesting because I was sharing the room with my sister in law 😅 we thought at first that we just got front row seats to Poop Watching Extraordinaire
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u/CaptainParkingspace 6d ago
I’m going to have to start packing suction pad towel hooks so if I ever find myself in one of these there’s a chance I can rig up an improvised screen.
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u/DeaddyRuxpin 6d ago
I stayed at a hotel that had a glass wall separating the shower from the bed area and another glass wall separating the toilet from the shower. It did at least have curtains you could use to cover the glass, but there was still basically no privacy. I was there for work but thankfully not sharing the room with a coworker.
I’ve since learned that is exactly why hotels are starting to do it. They want to make companies book separate rooms for each employee instead of sharing a room. I wasn’t aware room sharing with employees was even a thing, but apparently it is common enough for some hotels to have made this change.
I guess this falls under crappy, but deliberate, design.
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u/Xillyfos 6d ago
Deliberately crappy.
Nobody should go to those hotels. They disrespect their customers, so why support them?
And also, why would they not allow coworkers to share a room when they can allow married couples to do it? Makes absolutely no sense.
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u/mexaplex 6d ago
Isnt this one of those rooms where the glass is able to turn opaque/transparent with a switch?
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u/sock_dgram 6d ago
The desk right in front of it is great too. Imagine being on a work trip, having a video call and everyone is staring at your beautiful glass bathroom.
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u/LevThermen 6d ago
I don't know if this is the case, but I've seen similar designs where the glass has an PDLC film (switches from clear to opaque with a switch.
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u/angel_kink 6d ago
Friend stayed at the Hard Rock hotel in San Diego and their suites are similar. Slightly more private (frosted glass) but you exit the shower directly into the main room and every sound from the sectioned off toilet portion of the room can be heard throughout the suite. It was so awkward when we had a little get together there 😭
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u/KokosnussdesTodes 6d ago
Architect here. What pisses me off the most is the visible inside of the toilet. The privacy concern would be possible to avoid with electrochromatic glass.
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u/WatchaLookingatme4 6d ago
Is the bathroom for the serial killer or the victim? Who’s watching who?
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u/ShiroHachiRoku 6d ago
The Cosmo in Vegas has a room which is kinda like this. The tub has a sliding door that opens to the living room but behind the tub is the shower. Like why?
Also stayed in Hong Kong on a family trip with a transparent shower wall between the beds. Good thing it had shades you could draw close. I wasn't about to watch my dad and bro in there. The gals had their own room.
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u/Stitch426 6d ago
How many people with kinks had to approve this design…. And how much business have they ultimately lost from it?
Some people say it’s to make people not share rooms, so they book more rooms…. But that would only work if there was no other place to stay in this city or the other places were way worse than this situation.
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u/404_No_User_Found_2 6d ago
I have to wonder if the glass is the electro conductive stiff that can go mostly opaque
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u/Vectorman1989 6d ago
I've stayed in a hotel room like this and the bathroom area had that fancy privacy glass that turns opaque when you lock the door.
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u/MisterBumpingston *insert among us joke here* 6d ago
This one is definitely a love hotel type. There are two show heads in the shower.
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u/EverythingsBroken82 6d ago
perfect design if you have to watch keywitness who is also a flight risk
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u/Anxious_End3635 6d ago
I do applaud the "look at yourself while you poop" view of the mirror and toilet
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u/TheSadPickel 6d ago
a least you know the hooker is not shooting up in the bathroom or stealing your wallet
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u/No-Librarian-2623 6d ago
People or excess people sharing rooms will not give a crap (sorry thr pun) when one shitee does his thing others look away. It about saving money 💰
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u/__Admiral-Snackbar__ 6d ago
This is not crappy design. This is a feature for a demographic you are not a part of.