Nov 28, 2025 16:00:00

'Bring Back Doors' checks whether hotel bathrooms have doors

Bring Back Doors is a website that allows you to check whether the bathrooms in your guest room have proper doors when searching for hotels in major cities in the United States and Europe. It lists hotels with removed doors, see-through glass doors, and sliding doors that don't have locks or tend to leak noise, allowing you to find the ideal bathroom door depending on the purpose of your stay and who you're with.

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According to Bring Back Doors, bathroom doors in hotel rooms are often removed. This could be because they're not installed to save on material costs, or because they're removed to make the room appear larger, or as a way to prevent people from secretly booking a single room and staying with multiple people. Below is a photo of a 'bathroom doorless hotel' in Poland posted to Bring Back Doors' Instagram . The bathroom right next to the bed only has a curtain, and the door cannot be closed or locked.

They also feature bathrooms that have doors but don't offer privacy. The bathroom in this four-star luxury hotel in Washington is completely covered in glass, making it completely visible from the bedroom. According to Bring Back Doors, bathrooms with glass doors like this are a common design seen in luxury hotels in Europe and the United States.

Bring Back Doors also takes issue with sliding doors, which save space because they don't require a lot of width to open, but some users feel they don't provide enough privacy due to weak locks or poor sealing.

If you want to avoid hotels without proper doors, visit Bring Back Doors, enter the name of the hotel you're considering, and click 'Find Hotels.'

You can check the door information. The hotel you searched for this time will show the door type as 'None,' which means the bathroom may not have a door. Clicking 'See More' will display the search results for that hotel on Booking.com, a hotel reservation site, so you can view more detailed hotel information.

You can also search by country or region name. I tried searching for 'Japan' and got a total of six results: five for the door type 'Glass' and one for 'None.'

Please note that Bring Back Doors lists hotels with no doors or rooms with glass doors when they are reported, so not all rooms are included. As a test, I checked the official website of

Hotel Groove Shinjuku , which listed the door type as 'None.' I couldn't find any rooms without doors on the guest room page, but they did have a ' Park Royal Suite ' with a glass-walled bathroom, which boasts the ability to enjoy the view from a high floor while bathing.

Click on 'Hotels with Bathroom Doors' on the left to see a list of hotels with bathroom doors in all rooms surveyed by Bring Back Doors, including hotels in Paris, New York, Rome, London, Los Angeles, Dubai, Lisbon, Amsterdam, and Barcelona.

Also, by clicking 'Hotels With No Bathroom Doors,' you can see a list of hotels that have reportedly no proper bathroom doors, categorized by type: 'Glass,' 'Mix,' 'None,' and 'Sliding.'

Here's a list of hotels that have been reported as not having proper bathroom doors:

Bring Back Doors is seeking information about doorless hotels by emailing [email protected] or sending a direct message to their Instagram account . 'To protect the dignity of future travelers, let's expose and condemn these hotels,' said Sadie, who runs Bring Back Doors.