Greatnan I don't have an en suite bathroom in this house and, as I am not planning to stay, I am not going to the effort and cost of installing one. However, I do miss it. As far as hotels are concerned, I automatically assume there will be one. However, when I met up with some of the Scottish grannies in Glasgow a couple of months ago I stayed in a wonderfully idiosyncratic hotel that didn't have en suite bathrooms. There was a basin in the bedroom and a number of loos, bathrooms and shower rooms on the same floor. It was quite a small, intimate and friendly hotel and this really didn't seem to be a problem. When I think back to the travelling I did in my childhood with my parents (my mother got locked in a communal bathroom in Zurich for 2 hours) and my late teens and twenties on my own, the lack of an en suite bathroom was often the least of my worries.