Toilet lever? H*ll, you have to know where the bathroom is to need it. Wait until you've looked for the commode bowl in the closet. Of course, there's always the inheritance of ancient architects who hid toilets behind the bathroom doors or the current generation charged with remodeling old hotels who raise the bathroom floor a full step up to provide for new pipes and drains.

But there are saving graces....

First, the space between the hall door and its threshold is often enough to provide enough light by which to read the newspaper, and in many highway-side hotels, the blackout curtains are unable to block the light (adequate for an NBA night game) from the parking lot.