No en suite?

The B&B that Mr P has been staying in for weeks now doesn't have en suite for every room (Mr P's doesn't but the rate is reduced and he shares a lovely bathroom with only one other guest). Personally I would always only book rooms with en suite, but Mr P says that this one is so much better than some others he was using.

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Fat chance Greatnan.

Like all 'reality' TV shows, the contestants are obviously urged on by the producers to be as confrontational as possible. I have noticed on 'Come Dine with Me' that episodes where all the entrants get on well and are nice to each other are not nearly so entertaining!
In 'Holiday Showdown' and 'Wife Swap' the producers clearly have a simple mantra in mind when choosing contestants: Pair up a well-educated couple who enjoy cultural pursuits with a couple whose idea of heaven is boozing until 3 a.m. in Benidorm , preferably with toddler asleep in pushchair. It doesn't always work out, though - I have seen a couple of programmes where both families actually enjoyed the other's choice of holiday and they became friends. The children especially seem to relish doing something different.

Now, I wonder if every member of Gransnet agreed all the time with every other member, if it would be a bit less 'entertaining'?

I love the idea of the production team deliberately contaminating the shower cubicle lol.

I love the show and the way they try to catch each other out....all is fair in love and four in a bed lol. There was one episode when a contestant stuck a q-tip into any tiny gap and then gleefully said that the room was dirty.

En suite or not I always pack a silk dressing gown, which weighs virtually nothing and takes up no space. I once had to vacate tower-block type of accomodation at a conference due to a fire alarm going off in the middle of the night. Once embarassed, never again!

Ana I thought everybody had en suites

My parents had a twelve bedroom B&B on the Isle of Wight during the sixties. I remember the manic Saturday morning change-overs. My poor mum would have had a heart attack if she thought anyone was going to run a finger over the top of a door to check for dust.

I love the hissy fits

You may be right, merlot - I saw that episode where the woman proprietor was almost in tears, insisting that she'd cleaned the shower cubicle that very morning and it was pristine!

I love Four In A Bed. I'm convinced a member of the production team places a pubic hair in an otherwise pristine shower cubicle just as the cameras are about to roll.

harrigran, you do sound hard to please!
I don't know anyone who has an en suite in their own home - you are very lucky.

As I have said, I wasn't thinking of being a visitor in a private house - just in commercial accommodation.
Yes, it is much more likely that you will find shared bathrooms in French guest houses - just as you often find one unisex toilet in smaller restaurants or bars. Not the end of the world - I just don't like it!

En suite is a must have and must be palatial, if I am to leave my own which is very large. I don't do camping or any kind of roughing it. When I stay at DD's she has a guest suite so don't have to pad around the house. It was not an issue when I was younger.

Must have an en-suite; both DH and I invariably have to get up during the night. For this reason, I would rather not stay with friends or relatives for fear of disturbing everyone by padding about in the early hours, flushing toilets.

If I'm in a hotel I like an en-suite but if I'm camping sharing facilities doesn't bother me.

En suites are preferable... otherwise in the middle of the night the thought of getting dressed to go for a pee is awful... and to pack any type of dressing gown is a nuisance!

En suite never bothers me. Price and location of the hotel are much more important.

One of the reasons we like staying at the "Choice " group is that we get points for staying .

Soon add up then we get free nights here and there

Of course I prefer a en-suite - but I can do without if I have to.

When we visit our daughter and grand-children I have to go along the landing to the loo at night- I do so in the dark, and don't flush the loo and close the lid - and our grand-son knows to flush before opening the lid in the morning. I would not miss out on visiting my grand-children just because I haven't got an en-suite. And in Switzerland we often stay in some simpler and older hotels, with the bathroom on the landing. If I have to 'go' I do so as quietly as poss. Those hotels cost have loads of character and cost perhaps a 1/4 of the others- so well worth that little bit of inconvenience.

BTW all Formula 1 Hotels we've stayed at had an en-suite shower, WC and sink. Great value.

When my mum was in the early stages of dementia she had to stay with us for a night or two after her cataract op. Very carefully, we showed her where the loo was, left the door open and the light on, only to find that she had turned right instead of left and appeared in our room, nighty up round her waist ready to sit on the loo. Luckily she turned the light on and realised she was in the wrong room.

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If anything like my DH , horses come to mind LOL

My friend and her DH were visiting his aunt many years ago and in the mddle of the night her DH got up to use the loo (as you do) he was half asleep and realised only too late that what he had taken for the en suite was in fact the built in wardrobe oops

On a practical level, one's own bathroom in the vague proximity of the bedroom is ideal and very necessary for DH who gets up several times in the night, but there are many times when I would wish it down a long corridor, maybe even at the bottom of the garden- anywhere OUT OF EARSHOT.

When we were in Paris in the Summer , we stayed at the "CHoice " group and very nice it was too.

WHen we then moved onto Anguleme for the family party , we stayed in a smallish hotel , very nice again, en suite to boot .

However , when we walked down the corridors could see where the communal showers and toilets were , so think that might have been quite prevalent in rural France or even France per se .

Is it the end of the world , although perhaps for females not so good .

When I was surfing for a reasonably priced hotel in Paris, I was surprised at the number that did not have en-suites as, even in London, comparably priced hotels did.

My flat is so small that the bathroom door is only about a yard away from my living room, but I wasn't thinking about private homes, just hotels and guest houses. There is a very cheap chain in France called Formule 1, which has a basin in the bedroom, but I won't use it because I imagine that some lazy men might have used it instead of going out to the bathroom and toilet!
Now, I usually look for a Premiere Classe, where each room has a 'pod' shower room, with a tiny basin and a toilet.

Agreed must have an en-suite my days of sharing bathrooms are long gone.