Doorless bathrooms, car crashes into Detroit Metro Airport, Heathrow increases liquid limit, and actual costs of JetBlue 25 for 25 (Saturday Selection)

Throughout the week, our team shares articles they’ve stumbled upon which may interest our readers, even if they might not otherwise merit a full post. Here are some of the posts we found interesting this week: Doorless bathrooms, car crashes into Detroit Metro Airport, Heathrow increases liquid limit, and actual costs of JetBlue 25 for 25.

The bathroom door scandal: why hotels are putting toilets in glass boxes

I know I can’t be the only one who’s checked into a hotel room, taken one look at the deceivingly trendy bathroom arrangement and thought, “thank God I’m not sharing this room with a colleague.” Some of these trendy bathroom arrangements are missing a feature once considered critical for a bathroom: a solid door. Am I crazy to think that’s essential? I feel quite validated that others are starting to take issue with this absurd trend. In fact, one woman took it upon herself to create a website called “BringBackDoors.com” where you can see which hotels are on the wrong and right side of this troubling trend. The YouTube video above shows an interview with the woman behind “BringBackDoors.com”. In her own words, “sometimes public shame is good.” She doesn’t mean public shame for us travelers trying to privately relieve ourselves without an audience, of course…she’s talking about those hotel designers who would have us doing that in front of our travel companions.

Travelers express security concerns after car crashes into Detroit Metro Airport

A man crashed a Mercedes into door 2 of the Detroit Metro Airport’s McNamara Terminal, ultimately plowing into a ticket counter inside the airport. There’s no word yet as to why or how he did this, though the “how” certainly highlights a lack of security barriers at this airport. This is what those giant concrete bollards are for.

Heathrow scraps 100ml liquid container limit

Gatwick, Edinburgh, and Birmingham airports all have new CT scanners in use, which have allowed them to nix the 100ml liquid container requirement and instead move to a 2-litre limit for liquids. And now, Heathrow is joining that list as well. I know this is very Millennial of me, but this new 2-litre limit shocks me. That’s enough for an entire bottle of water! I don’t think I’ve ever taken a flight (or at least certainly not in my adult life) where I would have been allowed such a luxury.

What It Really Cost Us to Complete JetBlue’s 25-for-25 Promotion

Nick wasn’t the only blogger motivated to complete the JetBlue 25 for 25 promotion. Your Mileage May Vary has added up how much they actually spent for Sharon to complete the JetBlue 25 for 25 challenge. The post is worth a read to see the full details, but in short, they spent just $5,041.12 and a smattering of hotel and airline points for 350,000 JetBlue TrueBlue points and 25 years of Mosaic 1 status. They value the JetBlue points at $4,375 and have calculated an additional avoided cost of ~$2,475 for credit card fees they’ll no longer bother paying now that they have the Mosaic 1 status. I love the work they’ve put into showing how they value this and why it added up for them.

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