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clients VS rooms without doors in the bathrooms

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If you travel frequently, it’s probably happened to you. You arrive at the hotel, tired, wanting to take a good shower, and suddenly you realize that the room you are going to share with your brother, a friend or a co-worker has a small problem: there is no door in the bathroom. The beds are soft, the closet is spacious, the room is spacious and well-lit, but there is nothing to isolate the toilet from the rest of the room. So… How the hell do you shower or use the toilet without the other person seeing/hearing everything? There are those who have said ‘Enough’. What has happened? Fed up with finding more and more hotels that do away with the doors that should separate the bathroom from the rest of the room, recently a tiktoker named Sadie had a curious idea: launch a crusade against this trend in accommodation design. Literally. The young woman created a website and several profiles in networks from which he dedicates himself to two things. First, denounce hotels that have banished toilet doors. Second, promote others who remain faithful to the idea that when you enter a bathroom (whether it is your home, office, a restaurant or a hotel located on the other side of the planet) what you want is privacy. After all, you don’t always share a room with people you trust enough to take a shower or use the sink in plain view. @bring_back_doors Hotel Name 👇👇👇 Riu Plaza Times Square New York City, NY, USA I don’t know if I can make a difference, but I do know it’s not too late for the hotel industry. The airline industry is a lost cause, but only a few hotels have really hopped on this glass trend, which means it’s very possible to always make sure you are giving your money to hotels with proper bathroom doors. Find hotels with proper doors visit BringBackDoors.com Hotel submitted by many people, photo from Google images. Submit your own bad hotels by sending me a DM with the hotel name, location, and door type (none, glass, or sliding). If you have a photo I’ll (try to) post it, but either way it will be added to the website. #hotel #bathroom #hoteldesignfail Bathroom doors | hotel bathrooms | hotel privacy | no privacy | travel problems | hotel issues | travel | hotel design | hotel design fail | hotel designers | design fail | concept hotel | bathrooms | hotel recommendations | hotels in NYC | NYC hotels | new york hotels | visit nyc | visit new york city | travel to new york ♬ original sound – Bring Back Bathroom Doors But… Why? Sadie explains it clearly in her Bring Back Doors websitein which he has posted a kind of manifesto in which he proclaims his hatred towards businesses that have decided to do without doors. “I can’t stand arriving at hotels and discovering that they have removed the bathroom door. Something that should be as common as having a bed has been sacrificed in the name of aesthetics,” the young woman laments. “That’s why I created this website, where I compile hotels that guarantee doors in the bathrooms and others that need to work on their privacy.” To that end Sadie assures who has sent emails to “hundreds” of accommodations to ask them two questions: Do their toilets have doors? And if so… Are they glass? “Everyone who says yes to closing doors and no to glass doors has been sorted by price range and city so you can easily find accommodation,” the manifesto continues published on Brongbackdoors.com, which invites all users who come across hotels that leave their toilets exposed to report it by sending an email. Thanks to these collaborations, the website includes a list of businesses in different cities around the world that do and do not have open toilets. @bring_back_doors Hotel Name 👇👇👇 Pendry Hotel San Diego, CA, USA I get it, you save a few inches on every room and eventually you get to make an extra room without any noticing. That doesn’t mean I accept it. Find hotels with proper doors visit BringBackDoors.com Photo submitted by @allisonsmyname (Hotel submitted by so many people) Submit your own bad hotels by sending me a DM with the hotel name, location, and door type (none, glass, or sliding). If you have a photo I’ll (try to) post it, but either way it will be added to the website. #hotel #bathroom #hoteldesignfail Bathroom doors | hotel bathrooms | hotel privacy | no privacy | travel problems | hotel issues | travel | hotel design | hotel design fail | hotel designers | design fail | concept hotel | bathrooms | hotel recommendations | hotels in San Diego | san diego hotels | hotels in california | visit san diego | san diego tourism | visit California ♬ original sound – Bring Back Bathroom Doors Why do without doors? The tiktoker ventures with a theory that explains the increase in accommodations that banish toilet doors. They do it, he says, because it allows them to save on materials and make their rooms look larger without having to invest more money. “And my dignity?” he wonders the young woman, clearly upset. She is not the only one who uses that explanation. A year ago Thrillist already published an article (‘Where have all the hotel bathroom doors gone?’, is titled) in which he slips that the beginning of the trend probably dates back to the Japanese capsule hotelsa notion (that of ‘microhotel’) that has not taken long to expand to Western countries. Behind doorless bathrooms, however, there would not only be a practical issue. The phenomenon is also explained by design and psychology. Without doors, spaces appear larger and this generates a feeling of spaciousness, a highly appreciated value in large cities. Are there so many cases? Thrillist assures that the problem is not just hotels without doors. The same feeling of discomfort … Read more

Madrid has so many tourists that a company tried to do business with paid bathrooms. Now it has entered bankruptcy

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The news revealed it in February Antonio Giraldo, geographer, urban planner and PSOE councilor in the Madrid City Council. In a tweet that ended up going viral told how a commercial ground floor in the city center that had once housed a bank branch was living a second life as a private bathroom. It might seem like a curiosity without much significance, but that ‘transmutation’ says a lot about Madrid and the tourism that other destinations in Spain experience. Now the toilets are back in the news, but for a very different reason: although Madrid tourism moves in record numbersthe business hasn’t taken off. Where I said bench, I say bathroom. To understand the controversy we have to go back a few months, to February 5, the day Giraldo published the tweet in which he warned of the change of use of a ground floor located in the heart of Madrid, to be more precise in the Plaza de San Miguel, near the Plaza Mayor. The space, which had once housed a bank branch, had been converted into private bathrooms. And to demonstrate it Giraldo included several photographs in which you could see the window with a huge ‘WC’ logo and the access to the new business, with automatic turnstile, lights, fence and card reader included. Click on the image to go to the tweet. “The tourism uncontrolled from the center”. Is it news that a commercial premises changes its use, that they open private bathrooms in the center of Madrid? The answer is yes. It may seem like a curiosity, but the change represents a much deeper and broader transformation: the loss of services aimed at residents in favor of others focused on passing customers, such as tourists. From BBVA office to private toilet that is accessed after payment by card. “The phenomenon of uncontrolled touristification in the center of Madrid brings us something new: a traditional commercial premises transformed into private toilets at a cost of one euro that you pay with a card at an entrance turnstile,” I was reflecting. “If the ultra-pressure that tourists put on public services, such as public bathrooms, is not passed on via a tax, ignore the fact that the private sector is already arriving.” Private bathrooms and much more. In reality, private toilets were just one piece of a much larger phenomenon. The residents of the Plaza de San Miguel may have seen how a commercial ground floor was converted into a paid toilet instead of hosting a pharmacy, fruit shop, shoe store, a supermarket or any other neighborhood business, but something similar has happened in other areas of the city with establishments clearly oriented towards tourism, such as slogans, accommodations or souvenir shops. It is nothing strange or exclusive to the capital. Not long ago in Santiago de Compostela they did the math and they discovered that in the historic center it is now easier to buy a souvenir than a loaf of bread. Another clear example Malaga leaves it. Over there a report of the City Council warns that “mass tourism can lead to the proliferation of low-quality gastronomic establishments” and points out the risks entailed by “the expulsion of native and value-added businesses, replaced by souvenir shops and other businesses for tourists.” A business not so business? The news about the private bathrooms in the center of Madrid could have stopped there, in another example of urban tourism. A few days ago, however, he once again made another headline, in this case in an information advanced by The Confidential: although Madrid has reached a record of overnight stays by foreign tourists, paying toilets have turned out to be less business than was believed. According to reveals the newspaper, the company behind it, The Mad Toilets, has filed bankruptcy proceedings overwhelmed by the losses. The news is even more interesting because initially the project was linked to Victor de Aldamaa businessman associated with such controversial episodes as the Ábalos case wave hydrocarbon plot. Political issues aside, The Confidential explains that the company presented the special procedure for microenterprises before the commercial court, suffocated by the accounts. In court they declared the opening of the special liquidation procedure and the company’s attorney opted for a continuation process. Now a Madrid firm specialized in restructuring has been chosen. Is there anything else known about the firm? Yes. According to the data sent to the court, the company found itself with losses that made its continuity unfeasible: the turnover was zero while the liabilities exceeded 750,000 euros. Consequently, the judge opted for the special procedure for liquidating the microenterprise. On the Empresite platform can be seen that its current status is that of competition. To provide the service, the company had four workers who were in charge of cleaning and supervision, for example. In its day, the premises were equipped with individual cubicles, paper dispensers, sinks and dryers. Searching for the causes. The question at this point is… Why didn’t the project work? Why has it not managed to become a profitable business in the midst of a tourism boom? From the outset, the place had a significant handicap: not far from there, a few minutes walk, there is public toilets that are part of the 129 WC network free access whose maintenance, clarifies the City Councilis paid for with advertising. Added to this competition is that exercised by other businesses such as cafes, bars and restaurants available to tourists. To access the private toilets it was necessary to pay one euro by card and the service was not available 24 hours a day either. In February elDiario explained that the business was operating with a provisional schedule, although the objective was to operate from nine in the morning to twelve at night. To do this, however, an employee explained, more staff would be necessary. In a post Published on LinkedIn, Esteban Mancuso points out that and some other key that explain what happened. Specifically speaks of an “underestimation of real … Read more

convert commercial premises of the center into payment bathrooms

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The Tourist Mold the cities. That is not new. Nor anything they have not experienced in their meats streets the residents of the cities with the highest flow of visitors, such as Barcelona, Madrid either Palmto name just a handful of examples. Vacation rent increases, which pull up From housing prices, it contributes to the gentrification of The most central neighborhoods and redraws trade and hospitality, as already He has recognized Malaga. In Madrid that process threatens, however, with something else: to make the city look like a music festival. For now you already have a few Settings for travelers and commercial premises converted into toilets. A private bath … and something else. Trends (and Tourist of a city is) cook to ‘slow fire’, with the passage of time and by accumulation. But that does not mean that from time to time we find specific cases that stand out for their symbolic value. Represent. Personalize. Madrid has just left A clear example. There, in one of their most central and tourist areas, they just reconvert an old bank branch in some toilets. The case I commented Recently in X Antonio GiraldoUrbanist and Socialist Edil in Madrid, and has not taken to attract the attention of the networks and means. Near the Plaza Mayor, one of the most tourist points in the capital, has just opened a peculiar business: private bathrooms at street levels that can be accessed prior to payment of a euro. The business occupies a bass in the Plaza de San Miguel. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Why is it important? For what it is. And also for what it represents. In Street view It can be seen that a few years ago that same bass was occupied by the offices of a bank. Today is a private toilet at street level, with a huge ‘WC’ poster in La Gensrera, an access lathe, a reader for card payment, a poster with the price and everything else that would be expected in a toilet : cubicles, toilets, bins, toilet paper dispensers, sink … eldiario.es precise That the place has 273 m2, although in reality there are two stores and one is still closed. The business does not make distinctions and toilets can pass both neighbors and tourists prior payment of a euro, but in this case where it matters almost as much as what. The business has opened at a very tourist point, at the exit of the San Miguel market, near the Plaza Mayor. In fact, just a few minutes from there there are Several public toiletspart of The 129 network Bathrooms Free access whose maintenance –The City Council clarifies– It is paid thanks to advertising. Two approaches, two audiences. So much before, when it was a BBVA office, as now, converted into a WC that can be accessed by paying, the place was basically the same: offer services. Very different, true; But services after all. The big question is … Who uses a bank branch and who a private bathroom? That key is what Leave driving Giraldo himself in X. “Yes, a bank office serves the residents, especially the older people. I do not critic … “, The councilor warns. Talk about Madrid, but it is not something exceptional. Neither Madrid is the only city that experiences that phenomenon. “Quality decreases”. In An official document in which he acknowledges that the city is reaching “unprecedented saturation levels”, the Malaga City Council speaks of that same reality. And in a very critical tone. “Mass tourism can lead to the proliferation of low quality gastronomic establishments, deteriorating the experience for both tourists and local,” he says The report Before warning of the risk of “the expulsion of native business and added value, replaced by souvenir stores and other tourist -oriented shops.” It is nothing that they have lived great destinations Like Amsterdam. Private toilets and something else. The case of the toilets has also raised interest in part also for Who has driven The business, but is not the only example of spaces that tourism has been making its own in the streets of Madrid. In the center of the city you can find a good number of Souvenir stores and slogan businesses Clearly focused on travelers. In fact there are already chains focused on that service that expand through the most visited capitals in the country, such as Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Valencia and Malaga. Also shops that facilitate the Check-in In Airbnb flats. An unequal impact. The hospitality is not alien to that trend either. In 2024 Fedea published A report that analyzes the impact that the conversion of historical buildings in hotels has in its surroundings. And your reading is bittersweet. The study found that the new accommodations have “a positive effect” on the trade and employment of the neighborhood and even speaks of a “significant economic revitalization.” Of course, not all business profiles are favored. “The positive impact is not homogeneous. Activities related to tourism and the services sector, such as restaurants, fashion stores and souvenirs, are benefited, while traditional industries have been displaced from the center of cities,” summarize. The study also confirms that the opening of hotels in the cities favored mainly business with societies behind the freelancers. In fact, he talks about a “displacement of local bars and restaurants” in favor of chains, businesses with a “greater size”. Housing, great protagonist. If there is a front in which the Tourist He feels especially clear is that of housing. At the end of 2024 the INE counted in Madrid almost 17,300 tourist homes, of which around 7,300They brought together in the central almond, the ‘District 1’. And in 2013 Fravm provided data Airbnb that suggested that at least on that platform the local offer could be quite larger. Whether or not, the truth is that the City Council He has taken measures To control the offer. It is not the only one. Similar measures, in one sense or another, more or … Read more

The requirement to install bathrooms in the field

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To Toledo farmers who are dedicated to the cultivation of olive there are something that these days worry so much or more than the drift of oil pricethe threat of hail and The drought either The pests: Portable toilets. And the reason is simple. Not having them has already translated into sanctioning files In the fields of the province, according to complaint Union of Unions of Castilla-La Mancha. “It is the drop that fills the glass”, regrets The union. Where is the restroom? The case denounced it on its website On January 16, the Union of Unions of Castilla-La Mancha and since then has jumped to Regional media and of the rest of the country. Basically and always according to the version of the union, recently, in full campaign of the olive, Some farmers Toledos found sanctioning files for not having toilets in their olive groves. “These days inspections are taking place during the olive campaign in the province of Toledo. Although it may seem incredible, some of the reasons for sanction are the absence of services to shit and piss in the field.” @encarnitamoramarin ♬ Original sound – Encarnita Mora Marin A ‘Caro’ mistake. In Your statement The Agrarian Union does not contribute many more details of what happened, beyond the reference to Toledo and denounce that the sanctions started from two work officials. During An interview With 20 minutes, Anastasio Yébenes, part of the union executive, provides some more clues and details that the episode occurred in the region of The Sacred. “There were two inspectors and when there were no public toilets in the countryside, they were opened sanctioning files,” He recounts. The problem is that these minutes are more than a call for attention to the owners of the fields. “They can carry large fines of more than 2,000 euros.” Furious complaint. That did not like union farmers. Nothing. In fact they launched A furious statement. “The situation exceeds absurd censorship The organization, which acknowledges not understanding how during the inspections one of the reasons for sanction was “the absence of services to shit and piss in the field.” “What the Labor Inspection asks is something like demanding to the brigade that fixes the high voltage line that carries a service or the high mountain group of the Civil Guard or the Seprona that in each and every one of its Outputs transport a mobile bath. They regretwithout hiding their anger: “The farmers have come to the conclusion that both the inspectors and the Civil Guard carry diapers.” @Pedropintoelloco Shit on squats is very good for colon cancer, you can better clean the rectum and maintain balance ♬ Original sound – Pedro Pinto. The madman “Is it hygienic?” Yébenes goes further and questions the bottom of the demand. “They talk about environmental issues, but do you think it is hygienic ! Underline. “The law says that any workplace has to have bathrooms, and of course they must have them, but the problem is what we understand by work center. If we apply that rule to Rajatabla, a traveler, a patrol of the civil guard or the own Inspectors who came to open the files would also have to wear a portable bath in the car, “he reflects on statements to 20 minutes. With the WC in tow. The spokesman remembers that it is not strange to meet toilets in agricultural farms, but they are not in the field, among the olive trees. They are located in “Warehouses or ships where machinery is saved”, Razon Yébenes Before clarifying that within the sector there are very different facilities: little has to do for example a greenhouse where the worker barely moves a few meters that an olive grove of 50 hectares, he argues. “By God! How do you do it? If one day you work in one hectare, then in another … Do you take the toilet by car?” Adding (more) pressure. The agrarian union also recalls that the episode of the toilets arrives at a particularly delicate time for the sector, which last year He starred Several tractors To claim “Just prices”the review of the common agrarian policy or an improvement of its conditions. The union itself cried out recently for “Speculation” which detects specifically around the price of oil and directly affects farmers. “If we join this new mess to the unjustified drop in the price of oil, speculation, the increase in production costs, bad weather and juggling games to meet the environmental and bureaucratic regulations of the new PAC, the desperate situation is understood of the olive and agricultural sector “. How did the case end? The union statement ended up begging for labor inspection that “Reconcited” and insisted that inspections such as Toledo’s, “in addition to ridiculous are generating uneasiness and animosity.” The petition seems to have had an effect. At least so believes yébenes, which assures that your complaint has reached the ministry and speaks of a “specific case.” “Common sense has been imposed and have paralyzed. The files are going to archive.” Images | Grand Teton (Flickr) and Junta de Andalucía In Xataka | A town in León wanted to force its farmers to collect the mouthpieces of their cows. Ranchers (and cows) had other plans

We just found the bathrooms of a Pompeii mansion. A sample of luxury and the darkest side of the Romans

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Pompeya is one of the great archaeological treasures of the world. 2,000 years ago, The pyroclastic wave of Vesubio He swept and buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculano and, although archaeological excavations began in 1739, we still continue discovering the secrets of that civilization. It is estimated that a third of the city continues to remain underground, but in recent years we have found interesting details such as the genome of a Pompeyan or carbonized papyrus rolls with such succulent details as the possible location of Plato’s tomb. During the past year, there was an important step to better understand what the society of the time was like. First, one “Black room”About 15 meters long by six wide that it is estimated, it would have been a banquet room. The black paint of the walls would serve to hide the soot of the oil lamps and something surprising is that the frescoes of the walls were perfectly preserved. The second great discovery was the “Blue room” This, perhaps, was more interesting due not only to the fact that the frescoes were also in a perfect condition, but to the blue pigment that is not common in Pompeian spaces, since it was reserved for the most outstanding rooms of the town. In addition, there were large amphorae and a multitude of remains of … clams. Now, everything makes sense thanks to what has been qualified as “a unique discovery in a century”: the blue and black room were part of a house for the richest among the rich. Pompeya’s house for the richest among the rich Both the black room and the blue room are part of the same complex: a luxury village with one of the largest and most structured private bathrooms that have been discovered … in history. And, to get an idea of ​​the magnitude of the installation, we must imagine something like a spa, but private. Archaeologists who are doing excavation work have detailed BBC News what the house was like, and the truth is that the bathroom occupies a luxury place. It is a spa complex that is the heart of the great residence and has hot and cold rooms, as well as a huge immersion pool. The rooms are decorated with red paint on the walls, fresh, stone banks and mosaic floor. Archaeologists define the place as the perfect example of the “Pompeii effect.” This means that it is preserved so well that it seems that the place has just been abandoned, alive until nothing is done when, really, almost 2,000 years ago that a soul is given a bath in those facilities. The house. In green, laundry. In orange, the bakery/kitchen. In pink, private residence. In purple, the bathrooms But it is not just the huge bathroom: the complex had the black room, the blue, the aforementioned spa, a laundry, rooms and a bakery, plus the private house itself. It is believed that it belonged to Aulus Rustius Verus, an influential Pompeyan politician, and can be the greatest discovery in the town so far. “There are only a few houses that have a private bathroom complex, so it was something really reserved for the richest of the rich. And this is so huge that it is probably the largest bathroom complex in a private house in Pompeya, ”says Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeya Archaeological Park. Detail of the bathrooms with the black room in purple and the direct access to the patio porticado with the pool. From there, you could go to other bathrooms such as the hot and cold And that the huge bathroom was next to the bakery and the dining room is not something unusual. The link between the BAOS and the great dining room gives an idea of ​​how the house was a scenario for the celebration of banquets and to make contacts between the high spheres of the time. Celebrating a gun with guests and then enjoying a bathroom, or vice versa, was a political tool to collect electoral support from guests or simply to boast power. And what attracts attention is the pool, with a depth of one meter, occupying the central space of a 10 x 10 meter porticated patio. Zuchtriegel comments that “everything was designed to set up a show in which the owner was the center of attention. The paintings, with themes of the Trojan War and scenes that represent athletes, represented an environment full of culture and erudition, as well as relaxation. ” In addition, he argues that “the public, grateful and satiated, would have applauded the show mounted by the host and owner of the house with sincere admiration, becoming the subject of conversation for a while.” And, beyond the bathrooms themselves, the rear boiler room has been found with pipes and lead systems that heated and distributed hot water, with a valve system that regulated the flow in the different spa rooms. And it is something that also allows you to see the differences of life between the classes, with the owners of the house giving sumptuous bathrooms while the slaves ‘roasted’ feeding the ovens to heat the water. You can see hot water pipes Not everyone was so lucky Now, not all discoveries allow us to look at scenes as relaxing as a good comilona or a relaxing bath. In a small room adjacent to the Blue Room, the remains of two Pompeyans who could not escape the eruption have been found. It is estimated that they were a man and a woman who could not escape because the pyroclastic flow already ran freely through the streets. It was what caused the collapse of a wall that crushed the man, while the woman was still alive. Quickly, the room was filled with the lava, causing the death of the woman. The bone analysis shows that the male skeleton was from someone of a young age, but with wear in the bones that indicates that it was someone of … Read more

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