During our trip to Shanghai, we encountered a little situation with my daughter that had us worried.
One morning during breakfast my daughter stated that she needed to use the bath. She went to utilize the bathroom and after 8 minutes I realized that she was in the bathroom rather long. I asked her brother did he see his sister and he stated no, so I went to see if she went back to grab something else to eat. When I noticed that she was not by the breakfast area and she had not returned to the table I immediately went to the bathroom to check on her. When I arrive at the bathroom I yelled out to my daughter and she responded and then I asked her, "are you okay", she stated that she couldn't get out of the bathroom so I inquired a little more as to what she was stating, she said that the lock was stuck so I attempted to coach her to unlock the door, however as she kept turning the lock, it was only turning halfway. At this point I became a little nervous because the bathroom stalls we're not the type of stalls in which you can crawl under or over because the walls were marble and the doors were floor-to-ceiling high hardwood doors.
A woman that was in the bathroom when it first started already alerted staff from the hotel . Several staff members attempted to unlock the door to no avail, including the maintenance personnel which could not unlock the door. They called another maintenance personnel to assist with unlocking the door. During this time I was talking to my daughter trying to keep her calm all at the same time trying to keep myself calm. It wasn't until a person in the middle stall hang out that I noticed that the middle stall on the left side has a temper frosted glass that had a 3 foot passage at the top. I immediately ran in and tried to climb on top of the toilet bowl to climb over and the asked me to wait for a ladder. When I saw my daughter laying up against the glass I noticed I saw her shadow so I decided to play shadow puppets with her. I asked her, hey do you know what this is and she said "YES! It's a bunny rabbit" then I did another one and she said oh yes that's a bird and we continued to play this game until the maintenance were able to bring over two ladders, one ladder to climb over to get to the other side and another ladder to return.
My daughter was able to come out safely and she remained calm the entire time. One of the managers at the hotel commended my daughter for being so brave and I must say I was proud of her as well!