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Check your Ohm's Law calculations when you design the bathrooms.
Think about what hair dryers and electric hair curlers draw in amps; towel warmers etc. You may want to put in more than "a" meaning "one" circuit to a bathroom such as the master bathroom. Run a hair dryer and curler and you will probably trip the breaker. In a good sized master bath I would run several 20 amp circuits for this reason. Also if you have vanity lights and a room light for the same bathroom I would put them on two different circuits. This way if a breaker trips and the person who knows how to reset breakers is not home at least there will still be a light in that bathroom that functions. I say this because you mentioned a suite.

Also when I designed electrical for complete renovations or new builds I split up rooms into at least two different circuits for receptacles. Nothing is more annoying than having a breaker trip or a problem with a circuit in a bedroom and now no receptacles work in that bedroom. A common wall from one bedroom to another I shared a circuit. Partial may be out in two bedrooms but at least some of the receptacles worked in both bedrooms so a bedroom would not have to run an extension cord from the bedroom to another room just to have power in the bedroom.

I also stressed to home owners for renos or a new build that all receptacles are pigtailed. This way if there is a fault with a receptacle it does not knock out power downline from that receptacle. It costs a bit more in labor and materials but saves headaches in the future trying to troubleshoot receptacles. Landlords usually liked this so if a tenant said they had a bad receptacle at least that one bad receptacle did not knock out power to several of them downline and it gave the landlord time to respond.

Splitting up your circuits will add more circuit spaces and will add to the AFCI required breakers cost overall but "convenience" is the name of the game.
All of this is truth.
 
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