Free Hotel Bathroom Design Advice

To readers who come here for kicky digital inclusion and language access insights and sundry other observations, please bear with RantWoman's need to address something more mundane.

RantWoman has made two out of state trips this summer. RantWoman has wound up staying in two hotels with the same brand. RantWoman will ensure that these comments reach the appropriate brand, However RantWoman generously provides these comments as a public service for the benefit of anyone designing or remodeling hotel bathrooms and planning cleaning regimens..

Cleaning regimen

RantWoman has few objections to the current practice of cleaning rooms only every fourth day of a stay. RantWoman does not change her sheets or wash her towels every day at home. One of RantWoman's first steps when first settling down to sleep in a hotel room is ruthlessly to undo the tightly tucked bedding at the foot of the bed. Why should hardworking cleaning staff have to break their backs on daily efforts to redo something RantWoman is not properly appreciative about in the first place.

It would be awesome to have more frequent trash removal. Guests could be invited to bag their own trash, tie it and place it outside their doors. 

One major hesitation though: towel racks. Perhaps because RantWoman lives in the NW where growing mold is frighteningly easy, RantWoman ALWAYS wants to be able to hang towels to dry. For that to be practical hotel bathrooms need more towel racks than either room RantWoman stayed in had. In both rooms, RantWoman hung a wet bath mat over the side of the tub and hung towels over the shower curtain rod. One bath tub even had a very sturdy rack in the tub. That stay, RantWoman had a roommate. Hanging one person's drying towels inside the tub got in the way of the other person taking a shower.

Other basics

What is it with kid-sized toilets? RantWoman understands the needs of people much shorter than she is. The toilets in both hotel rooms, though, were definitely on the low side for RantWoman.

While toilets were too low, showerheads in both hotels were too high and could not be adjusted! The showerheads are at a height Kareem Abdul Jabbar might find helpful but that RantWoman can barely reach and that is completely out of reach of anyone shorter.

Grab bars: 

If low toilets are to be the thing, RantWoman would not in the least mind a grab bar near the toilet.

RantWoman is also spoiled. RantWoman has an apartment with grab bars on both ends of the bathtub, in the middle of the tub, and more grab bars outside of the tub around the toilet.

Flooring and slippery surfaces

RantWoman loves tile floors. RantWoman does not love slipping on tile floors when she has wet feet. RantWoman's roommate on one trip fell in the bathroom early in the trip and spent the whole rest of the event limping around painfully. RantWoman's roommate learned that several other guests at the same event had also slipped on their bathroom floors. RantWoman thinks surely in the age of modern materials science there must be some way to make floors less slippery and still maintain high sanitation standards.

Ditto for a less slippery bathtub. RantWoman fell while getting out of the shower on the second to last day of her most recent event. Luckily RantWoman slipped in a way that miraculously did not bruise anything, but RantWoman had to use a grab bar and crawl out inelegantly.

Luckily also, all of these design conniptions inspired RantWoman to offer free advice and not to take other more dramatic actions.

Happy Hotelling.