The absence of proper doors in hotel bathrooms has become a contentious issue, with a campaign emerging to advocate for the return of doors for enhanced privacy and comfort. This trend, observed in various hotels worldwide, has sparked a significant debate among travelers and hospitality experts alike.
If you’ve stayed in a hotel recently, odds are you’ve experienced it too: You check in at the front desk, carry your luggage up to your room, open the door, kick off your shoes, and then you notice it. The bathroom does not have a door. Or maybe it does, but it’s a fully see-through glass door. Better Homes & Gardens notes that this design choice is part of a larger trend in the hospitality industry to make small rooms feel bigger or save money on room build-outs.
Doors Gone Missing
Sadie Lowell, a Lisbon-based digital marketer and content creator, is among the most vocal and visible critics of the trend. Late last year, she launched the website Bring Back Doors, which serves as both a tool to help travelers avoid booking a hotel without adequate bathroom privacy and an advocacy arm strongly opposing the design choice. According to Lowell’s website, her quest began when she was traveling in England with her father last January. While she had very intentionally booked a room that had twin beds for their trip’s final night in London, she was horrified to discover the room’s bathroom had no door.
A Popular Campaign
The response to her campaign has been “overwhelmingly positive,” she tells Better Homes & Gardens. The website attracts hundreds of thousands of views, and her TikTok account has already grown to over 10,000 followers. With the help of fellow travelers who submit examples of the trend for consideration on the site, she’s already identified more than 1,000 hotels worldwide that feature doorless in-room bathrooms. TikTok has been a significant platform for her campaign, allowing her to reach a broad audience and garner support.
Most Frequent Offenders
The hotels identified on the Bring Back Doors website offer a range of price points, from budget properties to five-star hotels. When it comes to hotel chains that most frequently appear on her site, she said Ruby Hotels, W, Moxy, and citizenM are frequent “no bathroom door” offenders, while the in-room bathrooms at some chains—like SpringHill Suites—often feature sliding doors “with large gaps around the edges.” Better Homes & Gardens suggests that travelers should research hotels thoroughly before booking to avoid such surprises.
Change on the Way?
But Lowell believes change could be coming—and proper doors could return. She tells Better Homes & Gardens that she’s received “so many” DMs from people working in the industry who are in agreement with her, though “they often don’t have the final say when having to answer to hotel developers.” In the meantime, it might be up to all of us to make our preference for privacy known by voting with our wallets, Lowell added. The original article on Better Homes & Gardens provides more insights into the campaign and its impact.
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