What happened to bathroom doors?

If you've been to a hotel built in the last 15 years you might be asking what happened to privacy? This video is all about the trend of removing bathroom doors from hotel rooms. I interviewed Sadie, from Bring Back Doors, about her mission to shame hotels into putting bathroom doors back in hotels. She created a website where you can find hotels with real bathrooms doors. I also look at a textbook from 2001 all about hotel design and planning to understand where it all went wrong (or right if you're into that kind of this.)

To find hotels with bathroom doors: https://bringbackdoors.com/
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And now for the always lovely list of sources!! (In order of most used to least)

Sources:
Bring Back Doors TikTok:   / bring_back_doors  

Hotel Design: Planning and Development by Walter A Rutes, Richard H Penner, Lawrence Adams - 2001 on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/hoteldesi...


Hotel rooms 20 years ago were twice as large as some of today's offerings, queviv special for USA TODAY published Nov 4, 2015: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class by Daniel Currell - Aug. 28, 2025: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/op...

1900-1910s image of Hotel Statler, Buffalo NY - https://loc.gov/pictures/resource/det...

2015 reddit post from r/crappydesign - Bathroom door and 'chic' handle at Dream Hotel in NYC:   / bathroom_door_and_chic_handle_at_dream_hot...  

Photo of shower in middle of guest room in thumbnail - from 2014 NYTimes Hotel Review: Fletcher Hotel in Amsterdam: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/tr...