In electronics I would use two 2P2T switch. One side for the light's for each room and the other for a two way switching

Maybe a diodes going to the fan from each switch (just thinking out loud here) to stop power going to the other switch and light.

But I wouldn't use relays as they have a life of 5000 switches, and don't know if they do a logic gate for 230v
 
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Can you just use double pole switches, one pole for the lights and the other pole switches the fan.
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Just make sure both lights are on the same circuit though EDS!

I know that might sound obvious, but as it's 2 bathrooms they may be on different floors and be on seperate circuits, so you wouldn't be able to use Richards diagram then unless you changed them to the same circuit.
 
In electronics I would use two 2P2T switch. One side for the light's for each room and the other for a two way switching

Maybe a diodes going to the fan from each switch (just thinking out loud here) to stop power going to the other switch and light.

But I wouldn't use relays as they have a life of 5000 switches, and don't know if they do a logic gate for 230v

Using diodes will lead to a very amusing post on here from the bloke asking why one room's light comes on at half power when the other room' slight is switched on!
 
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In electronics I would use two 2P2T switch. One side for the light's for each room and the other for a two way switching

Maybe a diodes going to the fan from each switch (just thinking out loud here) to stop power going to the other switch and light.

But I wouldn't use relays as they have a life of 5000 switches, and don't know if they do a logic gate for 230v

Diodes will only block DC....on AC they will chop the wave resulting in 100 hz instead of 50 hz. Now that would be interesting on a domestic lighting supply.
 
Diodes will only block DC....on AC they will chop the wave resulting in 100 hz instead of 50 hz. Now that would be interesting on a domestic lighting supply.

It's not that interesting, it has the same effect as an phase angle dimmer set to 50%
I've seen it done in a house where a 2G switch was used with one switch switching a supply to the second switch and the second switch switching a diode into the switched live to form a fixed dimmer.
 
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It's not that interesting, it has the same effect as an phase angle dimmer set to 50%
I've seen it done in a house where a 2G switch was used with one switch switching a supply to the second switch and the second switch switching a diode into the switched live to form a fixed dimmer.

I had a hoover a few years ago where the 2 position speed selector switched a diode in to chop out half of the AC and thus cut power. Cheap and nasty but it worked I suppose. Daz
 
I wouldn't use relays as they have a life of 5000 switches

I am not sure where you got this number from but rest assured that half the world is controlled by relays and most of them go on to do hundreds of thousands, or millions of switching cycles. The lowest quoted figures of maybe 10,000 ops are for a relay fully loaded with the most aggresive kind of load it's able to handle, and pushing anything to its maximum always limits its life. If the OP were stuck with SP switches I would definitely suggest relays, and they would outlast 100 fans.
 
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