Toilets?

[Mal]

I have visited many bad toilets, some good in my flying career. But I am very interested in knowing which toilets others recommend around the world.

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[TonyHancock]

Worst - France

 

[ozmille]

France is high on the list but the dirtiest foulest ones I walked into and ran out of were a bus station in central Mexico... Still shiver when I think of them

 

[Cruiser Elite]

China by the length of the straight - and I will get to experience them first hand again next week when I visit some factories in Tianjin, Nanjing and Suzhou - vomitous!!!

 

[kpc]

Worst: China, near the Great Wall...I should have got the big hint when I saw a local having a leak OUTSIDE the toilet block :shock::shock::shock::shock:....I'm still haunted by the images i saw inside the toilet 5 years later!!
Best...Japan where the toilets play music to mask natural sounds, and warm your bum on a cold morning! and can blow dry your nether regions!!!

 

[Boris spatsky]

Best - Japan

Worst - middle East or Malaysia. When the walls are brown up to armpit height, it is not a good sign.

 

[mella2007]

MM.....loving this thread Mal!

Best: Abu Dhabi Business Lounge excellent, as are all the fine hotels in Asia (KL, SIN, HKG).
Publicly the USA is pretty good as is Canada and some in Italy

Worst: China...Shenzhen ...hole in floor in the shopping centre. Mr Mella almost had a heart attack and thank god I had tissues in my bag by luck

Australian public toilets are nothing to rave about...seem some shockers in my time

 

[Major]

Worst ones I saw were in Istanbul many years ago....thanks for bringing back that memory :shock:

 

[munitalP]

KPC, the toilet block at the great wall badaling at the top of the chairlift. OMG! A handy travel tip though, if you smear some hand sanitizer around the inside of each nostril, you loose all sense of smell for a few minutes...

 

[Fantic125]

Japan for the best!

Worst would be India - where they do have public toilets they're often more filthy than the surrounding area.
In the non-residential areas most blokes just urinate against the closest wall, and the women find a vacant block or a handy bit of shrubbery to hide behind.

In Delhi our company had a market stocking point in a street in a commercial area which the locals called "S**t Street". You had to pick your route to the front door fairly carefully each morning.....

 

[anat0l]

I've been told that China sports some of, if not the, worst toilets. I have to say even the toilets in Beijing airport T3 were rather average (with possible exception of the ones in the lounge), thankful that they were being very regularly serviced by the janitors.

My parents have been to China twice and they say that they carefully regulate their liquid intake in the morning and during the day so that they never have to be forced to use a public toilet. That was really difficult for them because they both drink a lot of water every day, especially in the morning.

Any toilet made completely of metal is hard to appreciate as being good. That pretty much covers all toilets I've seen on European trains.

I have to say that in Australia, even the toilets in the public areas of 4 or 5 star hotels can be of pretty poor quality or cleanliness. Considering that these hotels are often sites of various events (conventions, meetings etc.), I'm flabbergasted sometimes at the appalling mismatch of standards (or rather 'promoted' standard versus actual standard).

Definitely agree that Japan has some of the better toilets around!

 

[amaroo]

Yes, Japan however, I've come across quite a few in the last few days that looked fantastic.......but, no soap:shock:

 

[whatmeworry]

A bit OT. In ancient Rome they had communal toilets!

I also remember reading somewhere a visitor from Vienna Austria, in 1900 raved about the toilets and sewage system of Melbourne.

 

[k_sheep]

Somewhere in rural Cambodia they had squats all in a row, with the floor of the squats sloping down into a pig pen. Once the pigs saw a big white bum, they got all excited and started squealing for their incoming meal Not a very relaxing way to do ones business.

 

[amaroo]

Somewhere in rural Cambodia they had squats all in a row, with the floor of the squats sloping down into a pig pen. Once the pigs saw a big white bum, they got all excited and started squealing for their incoming meal Not a very relaxing way to do ones business.

Thanks.....last time I'll enjoy some pig in Siem Reap:shock:

 

[jetlagger]

Worst: On the Bombay Mail train in India - usual hole in the floor, however train was such a rattle trap people obviously missed the spot - there was sh$t everywhere. Had 42 hours of this to endure with a bad stomach to match.
Best: +1 for Japan - what a delight everywhere.

 

[mella2007]

Somewhere in rural Cambodia they had squats all in a row, with the floor of the squats sloping down into a pig pen. Once the pigs saw a big white bum, they got all excited and started squealing for their incoming meal Not a very relaxing way to do ones business.

The thought of that is just disturbing

 

[Happy Trails]

Somewhere in rural Cambodia they had squats all in a row, with the floor of the squats sloping down into a pig pen. Once the pigs saw a big white bum, they got all excited and started squealing for their incoming meal Not a very relaxing way to do ones business.

Wild boars in rural Thailand too; I've heard that the locals carry a pointed stick to fend them off until they've finished their business.

 

[tuapekastar]

IMHO McDonalds serves three useful purposes in life:
1) Emergency chips (fries) in a strange city (any other 'food' they sell is not really food, but inedible muck)
2) Emergency strawberry thickshakes in a strange and hot city
3) Emergency clean western toilets in a strange city (travel can 'do' things to you, and the same Maccas in Kyoto got three visits in the one afternoon :shock

I have not tested this theory in India or China.

Someone I know was visiting a mate years ago in Kambalda, they were in the pub and he had to go (sitting), but some exuberant youths had destroyed the cubicle, no walls, door etc. left, so he had to just do his business, giving a friendly wave and greeting to those who came in to use the urinal.

Oh, and after those posts above, I believe I now share amaroo's aversion to porcine products in certain parts of Asia.

 

[samh004]

Somewhere in rural Cambodia they had squats all in a row, with the floor of the squats sloping down into a pig pen. Once the pigs saw a big white bum, they got all excited and started squealing for their incoming meal Not a very relaxing way to do ones business.

I don't know where you were, but I never saw that in Siem Reap.


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