I have been perusing some Thai real estate advertisements, no intention to buy, just interested in the differences in style between what I am used to & what the ‘norm’ is in Thailand.

Many houses I have seen have more bathrooms than bedrooms. I just looked at a 3 bedroom house with 5 bathrooms & am struggling to see the point.

Please enlighten me.

My guess, the owner doesn't wanna walk too far to have a pee

No idea.

My neighbors in Rhek Thum just pee off their back porches.

No. Really.

I will enlighten you OP.

If you have read on TV all farangs suffer from loose bowels.

You have to have many toilets around you otherwise you are in serious trouble.

As for the Thais, being soooooo health conscious, must have many bathrooms with washbasins to wash their hands.

Of course this is before they use the toilet and not after as these silly farangs do.

Edited September 12, 201411 yr by Costas2008

Probably the same as people going on about en-suite bathrooms in the UK in the eighties.

Same reason they all want a Mercedes or even the biggest, built for the developing world, tank like a fortuner.

One downstairs, one in the garden/garage, and an ensuite in each bedroom.

Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

One downstairs, one in the garden/garage, and an ensuite in each bedroom.

Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Yeah, works for me too, particularly if there's a pool / barbie area, saves the guests tracking stuff into the house.

One for each of the bedrooms, one downstairs for casual guests, one for the maid and children, one by the pool.

Are you telling me that in this day and age, people actually live in houses with less than five bathrooms?

Well we have one downstairs and one upstairs but just 1 bedroom.

Seems normal

Many Thai people to one bedroom = many bathrooms needed, Sah!!!

Or else they do as Costas said

Fascinating.

we got two- but my favorite one is Nr 3: my wife calls it the garden.

Edited September 12, 201411 yr by Crazy chef 1

No closets so there is often room left over in the design too small for a room so bathrooms are added but all above reasons seem somewhat reasonable also.

My wife uses our downstairs one as a wash room its so bloody large

Each bedroom in our house has an ensuite bathroom; I do not want guests going through a bedroom to find the toilet to relieve themselves thus an extra bathroom for them.

Edited September 12, 201411 yr by buhi

I have several & my reasoning? A secret.

No need. The world is our oyster; the moat our bathroom.

More visitors than occupants...

Thai food/diets sometimes requires a quick exit plan....my wife probably makes twice as many visits to the necessary room than me....littler people smaller bladders.....

* Don't listen to them, Cuppa. I alone have the Lisence to tell the Truth!

* I have the only plausible explanation.

* Every guest in your house needs to use a bathroom.

* Not every guest you can drag into the bedroom.

BTW, the only post here that asked a better question was about advantages of using toilet paper VS bum gun.

Have a nice day.

Edited September 13, 201411 yr by ABCer

I can only wonder what you all must think of us filthy Aussies & Poms (yes I’m both) who seem to manage perfectly well with a single shared bathroom in the average 3 bedroom house

A number of responses have also made me smile because of the differing interpretation of the term bathroom, which here, presumably under American influence, has been taken to mean toilet. Of course the civilised world refers to a toilet as a toilet (or perhaps WC, loo or dunny or even ‘the shitter’ late at night & under the influence of peer pressure & alcohol) and expects a bathroom to be just that, a room with a bath (&/or shower).

Offhand I can think of these reasons:

1. You can put more people in a bed than can sit on bathroom "throne" at one time.
2. If you are married and have 3 kids all going to school at the same time each morning, you wouldn't ask silly questions like ,"Why do we need more bathrooms than bedrooms"
3. Again if you have a family and everyone comes back home from the beach and wants to take a shower .......

P.S. I grew up in a house with 5 people and only one bathroom with a shower or bathtub.

We had another toilet downstairs off the kitchen however.

I use those two words in the old fashioned American sense from 50 years ago.

Edited September 13, 201411 yr by IMA_FARANG

Building costs tend to be much lower in Thailand and Thais also tend to bathe more often, which could help to explain more bathrooms. House guests and large extended families are another factor.

With no dividers in the typical Thai bathroom, the shower hose covers the entire room and could almost be used as a bum-gun in a pinch. The layout of a Thai bathroom really doesn’t lend itself to western terminology.

We have three western style bathrooms in the house and one Thai style out by the garage and Thai kitchen, and that is just for the two of us. Perhaps in Thailand we have more bathrooms because we can.

(Then again my parent's condo in Hawaii had four bathrooms.)

Edited September 13, 201411 yr by villagefarang