Haha, we just went to the Omni Parker House in Boston which had a door on the bathroom, but it was a sliding barn style door that had a fairly large gap around the edge, so anyone in the (small) room could easily hear you pooping.
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Man, if I’m staying at a hotel with someone and I have to outloaf a fatty brick, I sure as hell don’t want it heard, smelled, or noticed. Gimme a door and gimme a ventilation fan.
🤔 I think I'd try to avoid staying in a hotel with no bathroom doors. Sounds like a prison cell
I can think of a whole bunch of reasons why hotels went this route.
It forces domestic disputes out of rooms instead of creating a cell inside.
Glass doors are another item they can charge you for breaking
No door would help alleviate moisture/condensation from just sitting in a closed bathroom
Ups the chance acquaintances book multiple rooms instead of sharing one
A domestic dispute out in the hallway, just where you want it to be /s.
Keeping a DD in the room and keeping the partners separate is better for both parties and for your cleaners having to clean up blood.
You can charge the guest for repairs on the door if they break it. The moisture buildup is minimal if there is a central duct with a larger fan pulling air out of the bathrooms at a minimum at all times.
Yes, you want the dispute separate ASAP. But you also want eyes on it and in a place you can do something about it ASAP. What you don't want is a victim stuck in a bathroom with danger between them and help.
You want it in the hallway because you can monitor the hallway, you're not waiting for the neighbors to report it to you if it spills out there. It's not your employee's word vs theirs like it will be if you have to push your way into that bathroom. Hotels aren't thinking of customer satisfaction or cleaners' inconvenience over their liability once a situation gets to this point.
If the hallway is the only egress, that's where they'll flee. And for many of your lower tier disputes, someone going into the hall will be the end of it.
As to the door breaking, that's kinda my point. You replace wooden doors with more fragile and expensive glass doors so that you can charge the guests when they inevitably break the doors.
None of those (except for maybe the ventilation) are reasons why a hotel would do this