Bad design trends: hotel rooms without bathroom doors
2 December 2025
Bring Back Doors. A hopefully growing list of hotels where there are doors to the room’s bathroom.
I’ve emailed hundreds of hotels and I asked them two things: do your doors close all the way, and are they made of glass? Everyone that says yes to their doors closing, and no to being made of glass has been sorted by price range and city for you to easily find places to stay that are guaranteed to have a bathroom door.
I’m trying to think how this — hotel rooms without bathroom doors — became a thing.
Did an architect stay at the once sole establishment in the world that did not have bathroom doors in the room, and thought: now there’s an idea, I must incorporate it into my future hotel room designs.
One thing led to another, and suddenly bathrooms sans doors were a trend. A terrible trend.
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