AIBU to wish toilet cubicles were a decent size.

I use a mobility aid, difficult to get the three wheeled one into most publics toilets. I look for a wider one but often end up using the disabled facilities.

I’m sure there’s a guide online to loos in the UK! Might have made this up!

I often feel claustrophobic in a public toilet and then I get obsessed with checking that the door locks and unlocks ok before I actually stay in it. I’ve taken to use the disabled toilet sometimes which I feel guilty about.

I hardly ever use a public loo but they’re usually a lot cleaner now than they used to be. Travelling with lots of young children was a nightmare of filthy stinking loos with no paper, blocked sinks and never enough room to get in with more than one child.
Does anyone remember Tiddles, the enormous tabby cat in the ladies’ loo at Paddington station?

Fartooold

I also find public lavatories too low, my knees are up to my shoulders!!

Excellent position for emptying the bowel. Many countries prefer "squat" toilets (with no seat) for that reason.

Totally agree about size of public loos. I also think entrance doors in and out of public toilets should be automatic ( not the individual cubicle) as you wash your hands after using toilet then have to pull a dirty handle to open the exit door. Also some people don’t wash their hands after going to the toilet!! Disgusting!

one of our local pubs, you have to squeeze by the side of the toilet in order to shut the door. If you were large I imagine it would be impossible

I also find public lavatories too low, my knees are up to my shoulders!!

Tiny, not ting!

Big problem for pregnant women!

The toilets at a local community centre have ting cubicles that it is very difficult to wind your way in and out of. I have explained to them that some improvement could be achieved by simply moving the toilet roll holder to the other side .... even drew them a diagram! Needless to say they took no notice!

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NoodleNut

In a pub near us the toilet door actually has a 'cut out' so that door can open around the toilet seat!

How does that work?

It's wide but narrow? So you have to go in, stand by the side of toilet - plenty of room- then close the door.

It's in a Beefeater chain, old building with wonky walls... it't only the one toilet at the end of a row or normal doors.

But they will learn from their mistakes! Hopefully!

Nandalot

I try to avoid public toilets but had to visit one at the theatre yesterday. I knew it would be bad when the lady before me, a very slender person, told me it was very narrow bd a real squeeze. It was. You had to squash up right next to the toilet to be able to shut the door. This is a common occurrence. It wasn’t an old Victorian theatre and the toilets were located in the modern bar extension next door so no excuse really for this.
I really think architects should visit the buildings after they are built to find out if they actually function as they should.

Bit late then tho innit

Goldieoldie15

Public toilets in uk are difficult to find and so horrible that often feel wetting self is a better option.

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Youngerthanspringtime

I think at railway stations etc they should be bigger, it can be difficult to manoevre your suitcase plus your bag into them.
Agree about the doors opening outwards, it helps hugely.
They should all be like that at stations etc.

I heartily agree with you.

Youngerthanspringtime

I think at railway stations etc they should be bigger, it can be difficult to manoevre your suitcase plus your bag into them.
Agree about the doors opening outwards, it helps hugely.
They should all be like that at stations etc.

I reluctantly paid a visit to the ladies toilet at my local train station. What a wonderful surprise! It’s a ‘one in one out’ a large room with a nappy changing table a huge mirror and room to swing ten cats!
I was so impressed!

Public toilets in uk are difficult to find and so horrible that often feel wetting self is a better option.

Not only cramped but the toilets themselves are so low. I’m arthritic and find it difficult to rise when my knees are much higher than my bottom.

When my mother and I went out for the day when she was older we used to travel between the various loos, stopping at most of them "even if neither of us really needed to".
I lived in Bath then, and most of the old public WCs had been closed or had restricted opening hours. Those in shops were few and far between, with the result that the Ladies in Marks and Spencer usually had a long queue though there were quite a few cubicles inside.
It's fine if you go to a shopping mall, but even the large department stores have very limited facilities now. Locally we just have Morrisons, with three cubicles shared between the sexes - and usually at least one is out of order.

Reading through this lot, you realise why, when planning a day out, thinking about where the loos are become a priority!

Must be an age thing, never gave going to the loo a thought when I was young.

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Well I think it's so hard to find public toilets. The bus station where I live close at 3.30pm so it's difficult changing buses and there are no facilities. The size of each cubicle is unbelievable trying to get the door opened and closed especially with a shopping bag

All my bags are worn over the shoulder on along strap.

In public toilets, I put the long strap round my neck. No risk of leaving the bag behind on a hook.

I use the disabled cubicle in our local leisure centre, I've yet to see anybody disabled in the building, so please don't shout at me! The door opens outwards and it is slightly wider than the others. There is no way that anybody with a wheelchair could possibly use the space, once the chair was in there would be no room at all to manoeuvre.
I often find that the hooks on doors are useless, sometimes they're just horizontal posts which won't hold anything at all.

At the Everyman in Cheltenham they've got wall hung WCs which they've placed too low! Last time I genuinely feared I wouldn't be able to get up without help - and I'm relatively fit. God help anyone with mobility issues.

Yes, especially when the huge circular metal loo roll holder is on the wall where the door opens, and you have to REALLY try not to trap your legs against the loo and the sanitary bin while having to be a contortionist to squash around those and the door!

It must be even more difficult for the elderly and the disabled. And not just the women's but the men's too.