What's Wrong with this Bathroom?

Remember those brain teasers called "What's Wrong with This Picture?" (immortalized by Andrew Gold's album of the same name)? I think of that in virtually every hotel room I stay.

Honestly, wouldn't a major hotel chain require their designers to create a dummy of the standard room in which someone (maybe even, gasp, the designer) could spend a night or two in to see if it worked before replicating it over 150 times?

Apparently not in this hotel. Because glass is involved, the lack of 3-D makes the picture at left less than perfect to play the "What's Wrong" game...so let me cheat for you.

With the bathroom door open, the glass shower door cannot achieve even a 75 degree angle open, banging loudly into the opposing door. Even worse, note that these are not sliding glass shower doors. Thus, there is no way to turn on the shower without getting soaked with a blast of cold water.

Good morning, campers.

Had the designer been forced to actually spend 24 hours in the room that s/he designed...there would be no way this failure would have been foisted upon the poor guests of an exceptional brand hotel that should certainly know better.

But, apparently doesn't.

Comments

[Jeffrey L Mills]

Inferior desecraters at work.

[Tim Morrissey]

A little over a year ago my bride and I attended the wedding of my niece, a fiercely proud Michigan State grad. She had the reception at a facility on campus (staffed and run by students of the "famed" Michigan State School of Hospitality. We stayed at the "hotel", which is also part of the Hospitality School where they train probably half the future hotel executives in America. (It's a glorified dorm, BTW - built like a standard college dorm with a few mods.) The room we were in had the same problem as you described here. Since the students almost certainly live in dorms or in off-campus housing, the likelihood is they've never actually spent a night as a guest of the School's "hotel".

A one-night stay should be mandatory. They'd quickly discover issues like the one you pointed out, and would likely save future generations of hotel-goers the misery of having to stand in the cold-water blast just to turn the damn shower on.