Whats the best and worst toilet you´ve been in. The worst was probably in this bar in Jaipur, India. It was a disgrace and had an ill fitted light bulb. There was excellent loo in Thailand though in a shisha bar. Crisp and clean with complimentary mints.

The worst was in broadway books in Mpls years and years ago. It was an adult bookstore.
It was sooooo nasty!!

I'm not sure I can think of the best.

The first time I ever went to a hard rock was in Orlando, and I thought the bathroom was SOOOOO awesome. I was like 13, and they had perfume and hairspray and lotions and shit.

I seriously thoguht I had never seen anything cooler. It was heaven!

CarrieMpls said:

Why was it evil?

What the fuck.

JDINTERACTIVE said:

It was a unisex bathroom, there was no seat on the toilet (not that I'd have sat down anyway!!) and there was general filth everywhere!!!

But it was after bar close and I was quite drunk and needed to pee, so what do you do? Nothing else was open.

CarrieMpls said:

Good grief. The toilets in the Leadmill (Sheffield night club) are a bit vile on student nights. The floor is like a swimming pool.

Best toilet - the gents at the Philarmonic pub, in Liverpool.

Worst toilet - my mate Pete's. It looks like a nuclear shit bomb has gone off in it

The worst was at a karaoke bar in Korea

the men and women shared the same bathroom.. and it was just a hole in the floor

I had been drinking a bit and when I tried to pull my trousers down, but pull them up at the knees too, cos the floor was drenched in wee.. I lost my balance and hit my head against the wall..

when I came back out there was a guy just stood there having a wee.. not in a urinal or cubicle.. just there

:shudder:

and another worst was in Istanbul.. a prostitute had to take me by my hand to the toilet cos it was outside the club we were in and ppl had been raped, mugged and kidnapped out there..

worst is a muddy stinky outhouse at an outdoor concert
didn't matter how careful you were you were covered in mud and pee
but any outhouse, really, is bad... once you close the door it gets so dark

best hmm... there was one somewhere where it wasn't a stall it was it's own watercloset with a door... and i think there were real linens to wipe your hands.

otherwise it would be the one in banff with the heated slate floor and ornate fixtures and a jet tub big enough for three.

Best: Will always be whatever toilet I have at home, since I know who uses it and that I can relax in there without a line of people waiting to get in. Of the public toilets though, I'd say any handicap toilet since they're clean and roomy and always have their own sink and mirror.

Worst: A squat toilet in Venice, Italy that was just disgusting. I couldn't place my feet anywhere without them sticking to the ground or slipping on something barely identifiable.

the best AND worst bathroom i've ever been in was at a bar in NYC that i think was called SPY...the walls were one-way glass. i mean, nobody could see in, but...

though in years since, i always wished i could have gone back in and snuck in some company...

Anx said:

a friend of mine went with a lady friend of hers to SPY, and she didn't know how to work the bathroom properly, so lots of people could see in. literally.

Best room is a time between the old Bouley restaurant in Noho, where they had fresh apples to aromasize said men's room, and the lobby restroom at the Paramount Hotel in Manhattan.

Worst was in the train station in San Remo. there was a hole on the floor, and two ovals to demark where your feet went. that's it.

An outhouse. Hearing maggots squirming in piles of shit a few feet underneath you isn't fun...Add to that the fear of snakes and other assorted critters joining you in there...

As far as a "best" bathroom, there is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned. I get in and get out, 'cept for my own.
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JDINTERACTIVE said:

was it a 'squatty" ?

CarrieMpls said:

What's a girl doing in an adult book store?!?!

Ah... ok... I just read your explanation above.
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Best (or most ornate at least): used one of the toilets in the Al Faw Palace in Baghdad in January 2004.....gold leaf and fixtures EVERYWHERE!! And it was in the palace, so that says it all.....

Worst: Any number of port-o-lets used during Mardi Gras in New Orleans....so full that the waste would literally be pouring out of them...but when ya gotta go, ya gotta go....

The Worst was in Cairo, in a hotel that costs about $5 a room.
Lots of roaches, and probably never been cleaned.

The best was probably at the boarding school I was in. They had money. They used it well.

Even the worst can be the best when you really need one. But maybe the Brentwood Country Club or the Beverly Wilshire Hotel had ones I could remember being nice.

UCLA had some pretty nasty ones, with dick-sized holes cut into the stall walls.

gas stations & outhouses are generally horrid. But having never been far out of the US, I can't say I've really had the worst there is--holes in the floor, etc.

One club in Tijuana had no running water in theirs. That was bad. A person with a bloody nose had just collapsed into me

The worst was in China, at a HOSPITAL of all places! I was desperate, so I had to use it. I really don't want to say anthing more about the experience.


Best toilet? Probably in Washinton DC, because it had a plastic cover that replaced itself everytime someone new sat down. Very cool.

Oh. . . I've used lots of awful campground bathrooms. I still prefer it to squatting behind a tree, though, so. . .

Actually, there's one that I used to use at a mall downtown when I was in Americorps. . .I HATED it. The doors are tiny! They are barely chest-high when you stand up, and they are higher off the ground than most. I think they are trying to discourage bathroom drug use, but. . . geezus. . .I really don't like having my upper body exposed while I'm adjusting my underoos. It bothers me.

The best was probably at this little sushi place near my girlfriend's house. It had the nice stalls that have a whole floor-to-ceiling door (this is apparently a thing for me, I never quite realized this ), and a super cool gadgety Japanese hand dryer. I like no-touch bathroom technology.

Actually, that was the best but my FAVORITE is at this little dive of a cafe in one of the seedier areas in town. It's black and all covered with graffiti and stickers and stuff, pretty cruddy, but the toilet is up on this raised platform so you feel like you're really on a throne, and amongst all of the grime, they have this very ironic shiny new electronic paper towel dispenser. They had it before I had seen them ANYwhere else. Totally cracked me up.


Writing this post has made me feel like a freak.

The worst...was this one in a park. so sick.

The best...is my home toilet. At least I know it's clean.

for toilet threads!

reneGade20 said:

I'll piss in a field in front of people before I use a Porta Potty. I'll never forget having to use one while they were building our house years ago. I remember seeing a shit smear on the wall As a child I wasn't a germaphobe like I am now, but that was still the nastiest toilet ever. It even had this funny smell, like toilet bowl cleaner or something. Now I try to avoid public restrooms at all costs.

Protege said:

Exactly.

Best: The bathroom in the New Orleans Airport. They have the seat cover built into the toilet so that you just push the button and the seat cover spins around to reveal a new one I must have pushed that button at least 3 times and even have a picture of it.

Worst: It's a tie between the bathroom on the Greyhound bus, there was many a time on those long ass trips that I wished that I was a guy so I could just whip it out and pee in a bottle; and, the bathroom of this McDonald's that's across the street from Universal Studios in Orlando. There are ginormous, gold framed mirrors on every wall in that bathroom, including in the stall. Why would they do that? Who likes to look in the mirror and see themselves peeing?

Nowhere I've been, but worth a look:

worst: either a bus stop in guayaquil ecuador, or on the train to NY.

AnckSuNamun said:

Not trying to win a gross-out contest, but we share porta-pottys out here in Iraq with a whole bunch of local nationals and foreign workers who don't sit on the seat, choosing for whatever reason to stand and hover over the opening....of course, it being hard enough to aim whilst standing, these guys' "brown-eye" aiming leaves much more to be desired and its not unusual to be greeted by a steaming heap on the seat.....
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The org is pretty shitty lately.