As More Hotels Remove Solid Bathroom Doors, Some Guests Are Rebelling

Business owners who operate hotels— or entrepreneurs and employees who use those lodgings while traveling for work or vacation — should probably pick a side on yet another front in the nation's raging culture wars. The latest flashpoint hinges on the growing practice of hotels removing traditional, solid, tightly closing doors in their bathrooms. Either you favor it, or you're among the growing ranks of people who very, very much oppose the trend. There doesn't appear to be much room for nuance between those views.

There are, however, plenty of unwelcome views cited by business travelers and vacationers. Bathroom doors are being replaced by less than full-size partitions made of frosted glass, cloth, mesh or other materials as hotel operators try to reduce construction costs. Other times, they are simply removed, leaving the door jambs empty. Patrons would like to flush the practice away.

Now, opponents of the new, flimsier barriers are waging a counteroffensive to ensure shower and toilet areas are fully enclosed and obscured again. And they are willing to hold the hoteliers who resist to public account.

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