Guests are tired of the disturbing change in hotels

You don’t think so: in more and more hotel rooms, the doors and walls in the bathrooms have become transparent. Some of them have a button that makes the glass frosted and thus gives some privacy, but there are also places where this is not present. And the guests are fed up.

An article recently published in the Wall Street Journal was entirely devoted to the disturbing change that is gaining momentum. The reason for this is, of course, money. The hotels state that the alternative walls inside the room save them quite a bit of money in construction, maintenance and energy. The change, in the bottom line, is intended to simplify the construction of the rooms and reduce costs in the long term.

Many guests note that the price compromise comes at the expense of comfort. On social networks you can find quite a few complaints about the lack of privacy in the hotel’s bathrooms. Thus, quite a few guests shared stories about staying in hotels that include bathrooms with no doors at all, partially closed spaces, sliding doors that don’t close all the way, and frosted glass panels that separate the toilet or shower from the rest of the room. Quite a few also raised complaints about the problem of noise insulation that does not exist in these alternatives.

The main complaint is that the glass walls and doors made the joint stay uncomfortable, especially if you come to stay with your spouse or family. “I don’t want to see anyone using the bathroom, and I want some privacy,” wrote one surfer.

Another complaint is that this critical thing is not specified when booking the hotel room, making it difficult to know what to expect until after check-in. “I started calling hotels and asking if all the rooms had doors,” wrote a Reddit user.

As a result, there are websites that have started to gather information about hotels that have glass walls or doors in the bathrooms. For example, Sadie Lowell, of the website Bring Back Doors, started tracking hotel bathrooms after she came across rooms without traditional doors. Lowell compiled informal lists of hotels based on bathroom design, separating places that offer traditional doors from those that use partially closed doors or no doors at all.