Transparent toilets - your worst nightmare?

Having a bath tub actually in the bedroom is bad enough, but I saw somewhere that one hotel chain are taking it further by having the loo also in the room, both with nothing to conceal them. Just the place for a romantic weekend!

I've been in one of these in a cafe in Brussels. It was, naturally, an odd feeling when you went in but it worked perfectly.

It’s a bit like those Tardis type toilets that you had to put money in and they automatically open. I’ve very rarely used one being convinced that they will just open while I’m.....

Sorry but i don't have that much faith in technology, so I certainly couldn't relax to "go" in such a toilet. Interestingly, it was designed by a man. Firstly, I think that men would be more relaxed about using them as they are more used to "going" publicly (i.e. .using urinals) and secondly, I do wonder if a woman, who had experienced the need to change sanitary protection whilst in a toilet would have designed the same?

Like Linanna I often have dreams where I am desperate but the only loo is in a very public place like a restaurant with no door but I still have tp use it! Then I wake up and find I still need to go.
I wouldn't be comfortable using the loo in a glass cubicle. I don’t even like using one that opens directly into a public place in case the door doesn’t lock properly. Like one at a school I taught at which opened directly into a busy corridor.

Touring the USSR as it was then in the 80s as part of a girl’s choir. We gave a concert in a college.
We badly needed the toilet before we went on as we had been travelling for hours.
On entering the room where it was situated the actual toilet door was made from clear glass.
You can imagine us all trying to cover the door with our cardigans and jackets shielding each other from view as we all “went”

Most of the newer hotels have shower/loos with clear glass partitions, they do have a curtain you can close though. They do warn you to be on first name terms with the person you'll be sharing a room with!

In a local big named chain restaurant, there is a full length mirror on the toilet door. I sit on toilet with eyes closed. Who wants to see themselves sitting on toilet, not me thats for sure

We went to a posh hotel in India and the en suite had a huge, curved glass wall. In theory I could have sat on the loo and waved to my husband in bed. Fortunately they had provided a curtain which we firmly shut.

Loads of my dreams have toilets featuring in them - or should I say nightmares! I hate public toilets at the best of times and my dreams are about toilets which are filthy, have no doors, are communal and open-plan! Not sure I would be happy using the Japanese ones!

A definite no! I like my privacy and that's that!

I visited a ladies room that was all glass, cubicles and windows floor to ceiling. It is a very strange feeling but got over my fear by waiting until my sister had been in the cubicle and was reassured that you can see absolutely nothing.

At the school where I work we have one way glass in the physiotherapy rooms. From inside the view is normal and you can see what is going on outside but you can't see in from outside so students having physio have privacy. I'd been working there for years before someone pointed it out to me, but I'm not sure I'd trust it in a public loo! I even sometimes feel insecure if I use one of the disabled loos in our department as it is so big, with a hoist etc to get disabled students out of wheelchairs, as you cant reach the door from the loo, even though I know I've locked it.

I visited my sons new flat at the weekend. The hugely expensive houses opposite have bathrooms at the front of the house. The toilet is right next to the window which is sort of frosted.
Well you can clearly see people sitting on the loo and and we got a good eyeful of naked bottom when a chap got off the loo and worse. He didn’t wash his hands either.
A note needs popping through the door. It put me off my breakfast whilst sitting on the balcony

I read this too. I dont like using public loos anyway but these would freak me out!!

If you are desperate you won't mind!

Oh. It just gets worse!

I can imagine some folk will press their nose to the glass to peer in and see how it works. Now I’m picturing myself sitting on the throne with some stranger’s face trying to peer in ?

They are safe and gives assurance to potential users when it gets dark.
Because of the way the glass changes colour no one can see you except a silhouette. I worked at a company that had such toilets. After the initial surprise you get used to it. There was once installed near the Madame Tussaud a toilet with one way mirrors. The occupant could see every thing happening outside but no one on the outside could see in. Bit unnerving initially but after not a problem

Frankly nothing would stop me going if I needed to! A nettle patch suits me these days. My daughter went to Japan, public (clean) loos everywhere. Wonderful. I went to Sweden - virtually none.

Think they would be very good for the UK. Once the door is unlocked it may be easy to see any damage, mess left with paper and everything else found in UK public conveniences. At times I shudder at having to use a public toilet anywhere. Been to Japan and the toilets I visited were spotless.

Is the effect the same or different from the inside? Is it like the 'one way' mirrors, where the glass is a mirror one side and a window the other? I mean, how do you know for sure when you're inside, that the glass walls have become sufficiently opaque?

In any event, I would be anxious about the technology failing!

They do look very pretty.....but it’s hard to get our heads around the whole transparent thing!

I went into a cafe here and the doors to the cubicles were clear glass. They changed colour on the outside but stayed clear inside.
I was desperate but really did not feel comfortable. I will be there again soon and have warned my friend I am going with in advance.

And while I’m on the subject of trains I do dislike that thing on the mirror in the cubicle, that has a smiley face and tells you to have a nice day or something similar.
It just makes me feel as though I’m being watched.