a wee problem

Suggest you use the disabled toilets, they have much more room

Moo moo ....you've got a foofoo ?
Nanna58 .....my dream holiday would be a safari in Africa...lucky you !

Make the most of them, however small. Here in a holiday destination in the south coast the council have closed public lavatories by the bus station, the Quay, the waterfront, the public gardens, but have posted helpful notices about the local shops, theatre, cinema etc you can use instead. Really good on an evening or Sunday.

I think toilets are designed by men on paper
Bijou; You've obviously got "Englishmen" in your sights Here in OZ I've taken to borrowing the shopping centre's electric scooter and therefore able to use the "disabled" facilities. Always immaculate! The door design is excellent! You press the green button, the door slides open sideways, enter, press the black button and the door slides shut and automatically locks, so obviously only one user. Exit by pressing the red button. Eliminates hand contact of door which in normal loos occurs after users have, or have not, washed hands.
Simple!

In my younger days I hitch hiked through Yugoslavia. In a public loo there, you had to squat over a hole beneath the disconcerting gaze of a huge portrait of President Tito.
My daughter once moved into a house where a loo area had been built off the kitchen, but the partition wall was built of those see through glass bricks.

B9exchange - that photo has made my day. We returned from Thailand last night (after exhausting 22 hours door to door) and our hotel certainly did not have such prestigious bathroom arrangements

I was mid flow when my grandson decided to crawl out under the gap in the door ?

On a safari holiday men and women’s toileting arrangements very unequal, the men wee’d at the back of the jeep with the Ranger and his gun next to them, women were sent round the back of a large termite mound and told to ‘ be on high alert’ So scary I most definitely didn’t need help going to the loo!!?????

Have become much more aware of the state of public loos since having a stoma as a result of a colostomy. The Colostomy Society suggests that the loos should have a hook and a shelf at the very least to enable dealing with the stoma bag.So far ,in nine months,I have only found that M and S and Our Shopping Centre main loos have a hook. Never seen a shelf in any of them.
We are given keys for disabled loos, but several people have reported being shouted ,or even sworn at for using one! A ‘hidden disability’ is not recognised ,especiallly by some who believe only those in wheelchairs are disabled. Loos in this country do leave a lot to be desired for everyone-not just those with young children or babies as well as the disabled.

Totally agree about cramped toilets and GC. I try to take them into baby changing ones or disabled where there’s room for 1 or even 2 GC plus Nanny. The GC all hate the loud hand driers, I think it actually hurts their young sensitive hearing.

I once had a horrendous experience in a Sainsbury’s loo. I put my handbag on the sanitary bin as there was no hook to hang it and the floor was awash. As I was leaving I grabbed my bag and somehow the straps got caught in the lid and pulled the bin over sending contents and a vile smelling liquid ( which was most probably disinfectant) all over the floor. Awful, just awful.

The loos I used in Greece once were manned by a very old man, sitting on a chair inside the door. He solemnly handed me one sheet of toilet paper as I went in. When I came out of the cubicle he was literally right outside the door. He grabbed my arm and walked me over to the washbasins where he mimed hand washing.

I wonder why he said that from inside the loo?

I took my grandson to the toilet in an M&S store he must have been about 4, because of the toilet being small I let him go in on his own whilst I waited outside. A queue of People were behind me when my grandson shouted grandma have you got a willy I said no he then said have you got a foo foo then.

Were they unisex loos, Petunia? Hope not.

Yes, the mega loo rolls annoy me too and I usually resort to finding a tissue in my bag in frustration. We have recently had a touring holiday in Chile. On one very long day we stopped in a small village to use the public toilets. On the wall by the wash basins was a large toilet roll holder. It was only after the first lady in the group went into a cubicle that we realised you were supposed to pull off the paper before you went in! Reminded me of school from years ago.

Not to mention the shiver that goes down my spine if I’m withh my grandson who’s 10 and he says he wants to use the public toilets . Do I drag him kicking and screaming into the ladies or let him go in the men’s loo. It’s been a worry for a while now. I dread him walking into gents Lois and always tell him to use the cubicle.

Good bladder control Petunia . I used to be like that, but since I read somewhere that bladders should be emptied as often as you can, not just when "bursting", I go as often as I remember .

Can't remember where it is (definitely in England), but last year, whilst on a coach trip, the eating place we stopped at, went to the loo and there were TWO toilets side by side. Thought what an excellent idea for Mums and Children. The friend with me thought it was hilarious, took a photo to share!!

What annoys me most is the mega toilet rolls where you have to poke down and up inside groping forever for the end so you can roll some off - designed by a man, no doubt.

Talking about public toilets reminded me of the time some years ago when my granddaughter was just a few weeks old. Her parents were off to Australia on holiday and needed a photo of the baby for her passport. Daughter and I went to a supermarket where they had a photo machine. Every time we sat in the booth with the baby she started to cry,gave up,went to the ladies to sort her out and the noise of the hand dryer soothed her and sent her to sleep. Back to the photo booth by which time she had woken again and was crying. We must have done the trip to the loo about three time before we managed to get the requisite photo,goodness know what people thought we were doing keep dashing to the loo with this tiny baby.

Having just made two long train journeys, with somewhat unhygienic toilet facilities, the toilets in the station didn’t seem so bad in retrospect.

One had those automatic doors, which I didn’t feel very confident about either!

How very British of you all, I always have to check the door opening and closing mechanism before I settle down (well hover actually) horror of getting shut in after unfortunate time in a French loo, nearly getting left behind on a coach trip. I do remember years ago small DGS about 8 years old telling me he was too big and should go in the Gents, ended up dragging him in the ladies, wonder what the latest thinking on that is?

After four coach trips to Europe , I dread coming home to our frankly dirty English loos . Italy, Germany ,Holland and Spain , beautifully clean loos, decent bins, proper loo paper , and somewhere to wash and dry hands .
Back to the uk , rubbish on the floor, sanitary bin under the cheek of your left buttock , Giant loo roll dispenser banging my head on the right (empty) with a soggy loo roll propped on the wet floor , unflushed loo clogged with paper and dribble all over the seats. English loos are usually unhygienic and dirty . I dread having to take my grandchildren