No en suite?

no your not !

I'm surprised there are still establishments out there that don't have en suite's for every room.

We had a holding tank on our boat.

Yes; I think I'd have to have one now. As for camping, I gave up on that years ago [although Eurocamp with it's nice frame tents and beds was ok]. My ex still goes camping using small tents that my knees can't cope with [once I'm down I'm down for good] which is another reason why he's my ex. The treck across a field to a loo became a nightmare years ago. I must admit to enjoying that programme when I catch it.

I insisted as I wasn't going to the 'facilities' in the dark!
The men had 'en suite' ie male portable urinals that they took up to empty in the morning.

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.

With you on that greatnan ,if camping have a portaloo....hate visiting for that reason.

Oh and I like four in a bed also.

A complete necessity!

Not keen on the programme 4 in a bed

The people seem very amateur , not business like , so how do they expect to make money ?

Lets face it , if you are in business on your own account , and don"t want to make money , what is the point of all the hassle .

Greatnan I always insist on en-suite facilities when we go away it just seems correct to do so,this is the only thing that I miss in our apartment,mind it is only one bedroom but the fact that there is no en-suite has always bugged me as we always had the facility in the big family house and had the same when we lived abroad, I found it hard to adjust when we came back here,we could only find bigger apartments or houses available which included en-suites and if we had more bedrooms we would no excuse in telling people they could not stay overnight (how mean am I)

Yes, must have 'en suite' facilities and if the rest is not as good as or better than home, I'm not interested!

The wet rooms on QE have made me

Don't have an ensuite at home..but lucky enough to sleep next door to bathroom,..oh and have a downstairs loo...proper posh to the outside lav I grew up with...just find 'holiday tummy' a problem.

i have many moons ago had to share a bathroom in small hotels .also trailed over fields when camping for toilet block .them days long gone

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

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.

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.

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 .

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.

If anything like my DH , horses come to mind LOL

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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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.

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

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