# Poll: Coffee Makers in hotel bathrooms? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 8, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360 "2012-11-08T15:43:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/1 "2012-11-08T15:43:56Z")
In [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15676190&posted=1#post15676190) a tangent started about whether hotel coffee makers are placed in the bathroom. We’re not talking about a sink that’s outside the vestibule here, but specifically a coffee maker sharing space with the toilet. A couple of posters insist they’ve stayed in every sort of hotel imaginable, but have never seen this. Have you? Poll coming. . . ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/2 "2012-11-08T15:49:44Z")
I haven’t, but I’d probably use it, unless it was perched on the toilet itself. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/3 "2012-11-08T15:52:18Z")
I can’t recall ever seeing a coffee maker sharing the same room with the toilet. I have on a number of occasions seen a coffee maker on the counter next to the sink, and in the same room as the shower/tub, but in those cases there was a separate ‘water closet’ containing the toilet. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/4 "2012-11-08T15:55:51Z")
I don’t ever use the coffee maker in hotel rooms. They don’t clean those things, and one time as I was putting water in the back of one, I looked close and there were very vile things in there. Now I just don’t bother with the coffee maker. They’ve usually got hot coffee on in the lobby anyway. I’ve spent so much time in hotel rooms over the years, with one life-changing experience in a jacuzzi, that I’ve seriously become a bit germ-phobic. This refusal to use the in-room coffee pot is an extension of that. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/5 "2012-11-08T15:59:06Z")
I don’t use the coffeemakers in hotel rooms anyway. They make TERRIBLE coffee. Bad enough that I, a coffee-lover, stopped drinking coffee for a week after having one of these in the beginning of a vacation. Switched to tea instead. But I was one of the people in the other thread who’d never seen it. As I said there, I’ve stayed in hotels from Motel 6 to Hotel Wales in Manhattan to everything in between and even in tiny, tiny hotel rooms in Montreal (very European) and never saw a coffeemaker in the bathroom. And it isn’t just regional. There’s obviously tons of places I haven’t stayed, but we’re talking about hotels all over the northeast, Canada, also Las vegas (three different hotels), LA, the whole corridor from MI to FL, as well as Ohio, PA - nowhere have I ever seen a coffemaker in the bathroom! They generally squeexe them somewhere in the main room. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/6 "2012-11-08T16:10:23Z")
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen it in all my years of traveling…until _just this week_ when I stayed at a cheapo Best Western in Virginia. They did have a fridge and a microwave in the room so they must have run out of room for the coffee setup. I don’t drink coffee so I wasn’t able to vote on the other options. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/7 "2012-11-08T16:11:02Z")
I have sometimes, in good hotels. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/8 "2012-11-08T16:15:13Z")
I don’t recall ever seeing the coffeemaker in the same area as the toilet. Next to the sink, but separate from the toilet, yes. Most of the time, they are on a a separate shelf outside the bathroom area altogether. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/9 "2012-11-08T16:17:11Z")
I’ve seen it, I’ve used 'em. Voted for both in the poll. Some days the need for coffee outweighs the squick factor. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/10 "2012-11-08T16:18:22Z")
I’ve never seen one in a bathroom, but I’d be willing to use one. I’d probably rinse it out first. I probably wouldn’t start using it while someone was in mid crap/fart, though. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/11 "2012-11-08T16:19:24Z")
I have never seen a coffeemaker in the same space as the toilet. It’s always either by the tv or on the vanity separated from the toilet by a door. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/12 "2012-11-08T16:49:38Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > . . . with one life-changing experience in a jacuzzi, that I’ve seriously become a bit germ-phobic. . . . You didn’t seriously expect us leave it at that, did you? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/13 "2012-11-08T17:02:59Z")
I’ve seen it. I’ve never used it but I didn’t vote that way because it was due to the fact that I don’t drink coffee. But I would have no aversion to it. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/14 "2012-11-08T17:18:38Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > You didn’t seriously expect us leave it at that, did you? 😕 Oh sweet Eephus. [_sigh_](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=356483) ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/15 "2012-11-08T17:33:57Z")
I brought it up in the other thread so yes, I have seen it. I am not saying I _endorse_ it, necessarily, but on the other hand it doesn’t bother me at all. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/16 "2012-11-08T17:34:52Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > You didn’t seriously expect us leave it at that, did you? 😕 I think he’s talked about it here, if he’s the one I am thinking of, and it would make ANYONE a germaphobe. \ ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/17 "2012-11-08T17:40:26Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Oh sweet Eephus. [_sigh_](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=356483) Reads OP of linked thread. Seriously considers re-establishing my long-neglected personal relationship with Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![SmellMyWort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/18 "2012-11-08T18:15:50Z")
I stayed at a place just a couple months ago that had the coffee maker in the bathroom (single room). The maker was on the counter next to the sink. Seems like it’s probably more common in older hotels. I also stayed at a place where you couldn’t even open the bathroom door all the way because they’d retrofitted the shower with one of those curved shower curtain rods that all the fancy hotels have. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/19 "2012-11-08T18:32:23Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Reads OP of linked thread. > > Seriously considers re-establishing my long-neglected personal relationship with Jesus. If you haven’t already you need to scroll down and read the whole thing. Happy: I apologize from the depths of my heart for bringing that horror back to mind. I pray it may recede quickly from your consciousness. \ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360/20 "2012-11-08T18:39:38Z")
Here’s how screwed up I am: I’ve used such a coffee maker without ever pausing to consider that it was in the bathroom. However, in my defense, I enjoy hotel living by clinging to the fiction that I am the first person ever to occupy that room. eta: Except that one time in L.A. when we discovered blood on the walls. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-coffee-makers-in-hotel-bathrooms/640360.md?page=2)