It's a tale as old as time. You and your partner are on your first romantic break away and realising the Spring of your love is fleeting and to be treasured, decide to go all out on a luxury hotel room.
From the kind flight attendant at the airport check-in desk to the warm welcome that awaits you in the hotel lobby, everything is going perfectly.
That is, until you swing open your room door to discover that you will be spending the next fortnight going to the toilet mere feet from one another, with no bathroom door - meaning absolutely no privacy.
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This horror situation is one raised by a Mumsnet user, sparking hundreds of impassioned responses.
"I'm on a short holiday with my husband and we arrive at our hotel room," the user explains.
"It looked like a reasonably nice room, so I was excited to see it. But when I do, I find it's one of those "honeymoon villa" type rooms with no door on the bathroom!
"The bathroom leads to the bedroom. The toilet is around a corner so not directly in eye sight but still.
"Am I being unreasonable to think it's so much better to have a privacy, even staying with a partner? It's supposed to be romantic.
"How are bathroom sounds and smells romantic? Not having a lock is bad enough, but no door... argh. Or am I just a prude?"
The overwhelming response was that the commenter was not being unreasonable, with the doorless bathrooms coming in for a huge amount of heat.
"Oh god you're not wrong, that sounds genuinely horrendous," one sympathetic Mumsnet user wrote.
Another added: "Why is this layout becoming popular? Is it supposed to be fancy or something. It isn't!"
A third chimed in that they had spent an entire holiday using the toilets in the hotel's reception, explaining that their "bathroom was open to the bedroom", with "no door to shut in smells or noises".
A fourth went further, saying that they hated en suites because using the loo "is bad enough with a door let alone without".
The controversial bathrooms are well documented, with many people taking to Tripadvisor to complain about hotels subjecting them to such a lack of privacy.
"This is our second day at the hotel and we still have a couple of nights to go unfortunately," one person wrote about accommodation in Gran Canaria.
"I say unfortunately because in the room we were given, the door to the bathroom is just a glass screen which doesn't close.
"In fact there is a 5cm gap between that glass screen and the wall which means you can hear everything from the bathroom."
Some hotels have gone even further, opening up the bathroom to the outside world.
Juliet Kinsman, editor-in-chief of the boutique hotel specialists Mr & Mrs Smith, recalled staying at a hotel in New York which had an outside-facing glass wall. "I could see a guy standing in a building looking at me having a shower," she told The Guardian.
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