The German 25 Hour Bikini Berlin Hotel is an upscale, mega-trendy destination for swanky European jet-setters. The recently-opened hot-spot looks pretty cool, grabbing favorable write-ups from travel magazines who marvel at its spectacular views into the Berlin Zoo.
But the Berlin hotel has one little design flaw that, unfortunately, makes its guests feel like they, themselves, are on display in a zoo.
Now, this flaw actually does not affect the guest rooms, but whoever designed the aptly named “Monkey Bar” restaurant in the hotel has some explaining to do. It appears that the designer thought that the hotel’s signature floor-to-ceiling windows would work great not only in the restaurant, but in the rest rooms as well.
Yes, that’s right, restaurant patrons feeling the need to unburden themselves must do so in full view of the zoo, and any other human passers-by. Maybe the architects assumed that because the highly visible bathroom facilities are on the 10th floor, that the view from the street wouldn’t be a problem.
Not so. The sight lines offer a clear view of patrons in their private moments, as this unfortunate young lady found out, in this photo which went viral on the internet this week.
You would think that, once alerted to this embarrassing design drawback, the hotel’s proprietors would do — something. Maybe put up blinds, or tint the windows, at a minimum. But if you would think that, you would think wrong.
The German hotel appeared to treat the exposure of its guests as some kind of a joke. After numerous passers-by snapped pictures similar to the one above, the hotel put up a sign in the rest room reading:
“Please be careful, not only the monkeys are watching.”
Get it? The zoo? Monkeys?
Right, anyway, the hotel advertises itself as combining the best of “nature and culture,” but it may have leaned a bit to heavily on the nature side.
So far there has been no further word from the German hotel about any further measures to shield its guests from public display as they go about their business in the privy.
