Ever since the awful incident when 5 guys tried to stand at a urinal that was obviously designed for 4…

HotelsByCity [Ireland Travel Guide]

Our swanky bathroom at the hotel in Prague

Although Prague’s origins as a town can be traced back to around 870 AD with the foundation of Prague Castle, modern Prague is an oasis of contemporary culture and cool architecture. Swish boutique hotels also flourish in the Czech Republic’s capital city such as the property featured above.

We love avant-garde bathroom designs here at HotelThrone.com, although this image also makes our eyes water!

HotelsByCity [Prague Travel Guide] [Hotels in Prague, Czech Republic]

We love bathroom signage here at HotelThrone.com, and we’re delighted to feature hotels who push the envelope when choosing “artsy” gender signage to direct their guests to the appropriate facility.

Thanks to Kir and Jim for sending in this terrific example of gender confused-ish bathroom signage at the Aria Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic. We would have had no problem finding the ladies’ washroom, but we’re not too sure who exactly is welcome on the right!

I saw the entry on “hotel bathroom signage people,” and immediately thought of my experience a couple of years ago. After imbibing in a few glasses of fine Czech wine at the gorgeous Aria Hotel’s rooftop restaurant in Prague, I headed down to the washroom to find this sign. I don’t remember now whether there was more than one door, or if this sign was just on one door, but I stood there for awhile, stumped as to which door I should enter/whether I should open the door/whether I should keep searching for a washroom. I blame it on the wine! I did enter, and then sent my husband down with the camera to see the sign for himself.

HotelsByCity [Hotels in Prague Czech Republic] [Czech Republic Travel Guide]

We are constantly amazed at hotel design innovations being developed around the world. This Bulgarian throne takes the “bidet” to a whole…’nother…level.

Thanks Horst, for this terrific image.

Achieving AAA’s coveted Five-Diamond hotel designation is no easy task. Apart from having impeccable service delivered consistently every time hotels that achieve this level of quality have to maintain a pristine facility with all the bells and whistles.

Canadian-made Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, to their credit, have achieved Five Diamond status for a full 21 of their hotel properties around the World. Enormous effort had to have been made in order for that to happen, so congrats to Four Seasons.

Ladies, enjoy this image of a gentleman guest of the Four Seasons Hotel in Istanbul. Please note not only the friendly looking washroom patron, but also the well cared-for, immaculate environment in this male domain. Contrary to what you might believe, we are also fully capable of enjoying some of the finer accoutrements of luxury travel, such as cute little towels rolled up, and bathroom soaps pumped out of dainty little dispensors.

HotelsByCity [Istanbul Hotels] [Turkey Travel Guide]

While browsing Yahoo! Answers we came across this question:

Why are the Swiss so uptight and unpleasant?

We have Swiss fans here at BedJump.com, and they have certainly never been unpleasant. As for uptight? Perhaps the image above of a luxury hotel bathroom in Luzern, Switzerland can help us answer that question.

Luzern Hotels [HotelsByCity]

Thanks for the image “eklavier“.

For many guests, luxury service inspires an image of name recognition, anticipation of needs and extreme attention to detail.

Of course luxury can also mean getting a drink of water from the mouth of a gold-leaf swan-ish gargoyle!

…faucet in the bathroom at the Ritz Hotel, where I was drinking at the Bar Hemingway.

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Here is an interesting image of a luxury hotel bathroom in Logroño, Spain. We can’t quite tell whether the sinks are porcelain, marble, or something else.

This was uploaded by “sm!!”, along with an interesting note about the quaint Spanish town of Logroño:

Logroño is a small, peaceful and cute place. In just two days I’ve had enough time to attend a congress, walk through the centre streets and squares, eat pinchos and drink fine wine, stay in a five star hotel and finally have an interesting talk with far away partners in some typical northern bars.

We also like this image because it reminds us a great deal of the public bathrooms at Vancouver’s contemporary Opus Hotel. The Opus was recently voted by local Vancouver residents as the “most likely bathroom in Vancouver to spot a celebrity”:

Ladies, welcome to the men’s room.

[Logroño, Spain]
[Opus Hotel]

We tried to figure out which hotel in Malmo, Denmark this image came from. There are 35 hotels in the city, and interestingly - none of them post photographs of their toilets on their website!

We love square toilet seats here at HotelThrone.com. After all, it takes a pretty square hotel maven to edit a blog about hotel bathrooms!

Malmo Hotels

A meditative and serene bathroom throne at the Due Mori Hotel in Marostica, Italy.

This hotel is one of the cleanest you’ll ever stay in regardless of the number of stars and the staff is always congenial and helpful. We speak virtually no Italian, some of the staff speak fluent English and all speak hotel English…[more]

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The band hanging out back at the hotel bathroom after playing at Club W71 in Weikersheim, Germany.

Anni Rossi, Tara Barnes, Emily Beezhold & Carla Bozulich on tour in Europe to promote Carla’s new album “Evangelista”.

Club W71
[Anni Rossi] [Carla Bozulich]

This is the best hotel bathroom I have ever been in… and the coolest sink/vanity ever! All one piece of glass. Someday maybe in my house? At the A.C. Hotel in Algeciras, Spain

“…We loved the AC Algeciras! Everyone said not to stay in Algeciras, but it worked well for us (day trips to Gibraltar and Tangier) between stays in Seville and Granada…[more]“

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Location: Hotel Aequa-Vico Equense (na)
Guest Star: my friend Valentina

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novo hotel toilet, originally uploaded by Y.C..

This is the suite that I shared with my brother. that mineral water bottle over there…they put it there every time they clean up the place (every day), and you’re supposed to wash your face with it or something. I said, screw it, and just drank it. together with obligatory evian and perrier that were for, well, drinking purposes.