<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd'>; <html><head><title>Article Directory Online : Free Online Article Submission - Articleonlinedirectory | Bathrooms With A View -- Of You!</title></head><body><h3>Bathrooms With A View -- Of You!</h3><br /><br />By: <br /><br /><p><p>Just when you thought you had a firm handle on all the things to check on before booking into a hotel comes this news:</P><p>"From the chic boutiques of London and Los Angeles to hot new hotels in more exotic locales like India and China, exposed bathrooms are a growing trend," reports the New York Times, "whether in the form of transparent glass walls and shower stalls or bathtubs set in the middle of the bedroom like free-standing sculptures."</P><p>That last reference is to London's Sanctum Hotel, where bathtubs sit in the middle of the room on a bed of "backlit black pebbles."</P><p>The experience is supposed to be "glamorous and otherworldly."</P><p>Hmmm. Then why does the dictionary define "sanctum" as "a private room where one is not to be disturbed" (or, presumably, spied upon)? Maybe they should call it the Flasher Hotel.</P><p>Exposed bathrooms, also called "open bathrooms," have a number of rationales, according to their defenders.</P><p>Some say they are "***." Designers say they save space and create a "sense of added luxury." One says that they allow visitors to "multitask" by watching TV in the other room.</P><p>Now I'll be the first to admit that a beautiful young starlet might be *** taking a bubble bath. But how many of us are starlets or travel with one?</P><p>And how *** will she look when the bath is over and she attends to even more personal matters?</P><p>As for multitasking, people have been taking the newspaper into the bathroom for decades and they don't need glass walls to read it, either.</P><p>The best justification cited by the Times comes from designer Alicia Loo (I'm not making that name up) who says her exposed bathrooms serve as a "design ambassador" for Renaissance Capitol Hotel Beijing.</P><p>"Exposed toilets may strike some as a rather literal interpretation of China's open door policy," she explains.</P><p>Michael Attenborough, who heads up interior design at Radisson Edwardian Hotels, is equally enthusiastic. "All our friends who've seen it say, 'Oh, my god, that's so fantastic," he gushes.</P><p>"Some people are very prudey," he sniffs at those who disagree. Prudey may be current Brit-speak for normal.</P><p>Now I'm a big believer in travel as an opportunity to (ahem) expose yourself to new ideas, but I tend to agree with seasoned traveler Lisa Feder-Feitel, who is given the last word in the Times piece:</P><p>"This is the design equivalent of 'too much information.'"</P><p>Travelers and the travel agents who book them may also be interested to know that Ms. Feder-Feitel, having surveyed her exposed bathroom with its equally exposed toilet, immediately decamped for another hotel.<br></P></p> <br /><br /><b>Author Resource:-></b> Kelly Monaghan is a home-based travel agent and writer. He has been helping people succeed as home-based travel agents since 1994. He offers further guidance for those who want to become a travel agent at his web site <a href=http://hometravelagency.com/how-to-succeed/>http://HomeTravelAgency.com/how-to-succeed/</A><br /><br /><b>Article From</b> <a href='http://www.articleonlinedirectory.com/'>Article Directory Online : Free Online Article Submission - Articleonlinedirectory</a><br /></body></html>
