Having a phone in the bathroom used to be a mandatory requirement for 4-5 star hotels.
If you travel abroad often, you must have seen the telephone (type of extension cord) equipped in the bathroom . Especially with luxury hotels built more than 10 years ago. The bathroom and the phone seem to have nothing to do with each other but always go hand in hand, causing many people to wonder. Not to mention, nowadays, everyone has a cell phone with them, the fact that the desk phone appears in the bathroom seems quite confusing.
Bathrooms of 4-5 star hotels must have telephones for guests to use.
You may not know that the hotel equipped with a phone in the bathroom and toilet used to be a mandatory requirement when evaluating the rating and star number of that place . This provision is in effect until December 2008. Accordingly, the AAA hotel rating organization stipulates that the bathrooms of 4-5 star hotels must have phones for guests to use.
Before the mobile phone boom, the desk phone seemed to be very busy, serving at full capacity for business customers, rich people, VIPs… Communication by phone Desk phones are also considered safe, secure, and of stable quality. There are people who have the habit of spending hours in the bathroom, and if they have a phone at this time, it will be very inconvenient to have to change clothes outside.
At that time, the condition of installing a phone in the bathroom is a necessary requirement to upgrade a hotel from 3 stars to 4 stars. However, after 2009, when cell phones became popular, this rule was changed to only need to have a phone in the room. Even so, if you rent luxury hotels built before 2008, you will still find phones in bathrooms.
In an emergency situation, you can dial the front desk or rescue immediately.
Even as mobile devices become familiar, the bathroom phone isn’t useless. Imagine if you were lounging in the bathtub and the room phone (landline) suddenly rang. You will hurry to change clothes and run out to listen, it is likely that you will slip and have an accident.
And if you bring your mobile phone into the bathroom, while listening to the phone while soaking in the tub, can you avoid the case of carelessly slipping your hand and the phone falling into the water? The vast majority of mobile devices, including cell phones, are damaged when dropped in water, or at least take a long time to recover.
In case of an emergency such as a sudden health problem or other unexpected situation, instead of running to find a mobile phone, you can dial the reception or rescue immediately . You also do not need to describe how many rooms you are in, because listeners can always see your room number, saving time handling situations.