I also keep noticing the imagery and association of high cliffs and water. This is featured in Morini’s dream of the pool as well as Pelletier’s dream where he has a beach house high on a cliff overlooking the sea. Liz is associated with both men in both their respective dreams (Is it too much of a stretch to point out that after decapitating the Medusa, Perseus flies off to rescue Andromeda who has been tied to a cliff as a sacrifice to a sea monster that has been plaguing the Levant?) I believe the same word is used in the Spanish version to describe both of the cliffs: “barranca”. I have to double back and check, but I think it is also a “barranca” over which Edwin Johns “falls” to his death, a suicide as far as I am concerned. The Amalfi Coast, in Italy, is a promontory south of Naples which is, in essence, one huge sea cliff–Almalfitano in Italian would mean someone from the Amalfi Coast. Interestingly the Amalfitano can’t swim. I keep finding it odd that in the Spanish version that he is called simply “Amalfitano” and not “El Amalifitano”. Someone from the US might be nick named “El Americano” but not simply “Americano”, for example.
The image of submersion in water in a perilous context crops up with Liz diving into the hotel pool in Morini’s dream and Amalfitano sinking into the hotel pool where Pelletier has to rescue him from drowning.

That aside aside, I agree that this is a funny detail balancing the more surreal bits the urinal is otherwise associated with.

“The clerk told me they were planning to replace the toilet but they couldn’t find the right model. He didn’t want me to leave with a negative impression of the hotel. A nice person, after all,” said Pelletier.

Bolaño knows Mexico.