Showers v wash cubicles
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Being DNA implanted with a thrifty gene (Yorkshire), we occasionally share a shower if we come across a site run by some expert in cash extraction. The last one was a campsite that wanted a £1 per shower, ( lasted around 5 minutes, luke warm!). There are strict etiquette rules applied pre shower though! And no, we never use soap, only hanging shower gel bottles!
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Knock all the toilet blocks down and use the space for more pitches, don't caravans and M/H's come with their own facilities
Write your comments here...Great suggestion. Why do we need the old fashioned idea of public lavatories when we have those facilities in our own vans.
The cost of wages for CC workers would be cut, because all sites would only need one Warden couple.
K
Ok for those who want to spend their holiday lugging water about and having short showers in tiny cubicles , a site without facilities is called a CL (and not always without even then)
Write your comments here...Wrong !!! A site without facilities is called a "low amenity site". ----
A cl is a totally different camping place. It is privately owned and only licensed for up to 5 vans. It may or may not have a public lavatory.
As far as lugging water about - Nowadays, available from camping outlets, there are aquarolls and wastemasters which roll along with little effort..., so no lugging required. They are relatively inexpensive as well.
K
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The only time I have to queue for the shower is whilst I wait for the OH to finish with the one in the washroom of the van
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As far as lugging water about - Nowadays, available from camping outlets, there are aquarolls and wastemasters which roll along with little effort..., so no lugging required.
They are relatively inexpensive as well.K
You would not say little effort was required if you tried it at sites like Berwick K.
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I was wondering while queuing for the showers on one of the club sites this week while the cubicles with wash basins were all free is there a call for so many of these cubicles nowadays and then it got me wondering as I'm new to the caravan club having only
been a member for three years was there ever such a demand that on most sites I have been to there's usually more cubicles than showers and in some cases there bigger than the showers. I presume that at some point there was and maybe there still is. Does anyone
know as well if when the club invests into renovating the toilet blocks does it keep the same number of showers and cubicles or does it increase the showers and decrease the cubicles. I look forward to your responses.Write your comments here...It always baffles me why someone would spend a kings ransom on a caravan or Motorhome with all the comforts of home on board and then queue to use the shower
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to his or her own I guess.Brian & Jo
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Availability of showers is alright on most sites, it's toilets that there tends to be a queue for - especially at busy times.
So replace the wash cubicles (maybe leaving one / two at the most) with toilets.
As stated up thread never queued for a shower yet and never for a toilet either. What sites are these that folk are queueing on.
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That's a good point TG. Although I don't tend to use the facilities at probably the busiest times (would that be 8 - 9 in the morning?), I've never had to queue either.
As far as provision of these facilities is concerned, like so much else with our hobby, it's all down to personal choice I guess and it's dead easy to call for something to be removed if you don't use it without regard to the number of folk who do.
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pwrhaps make the showers a tiny bit larger and include a mirror and sink and you have something where all cubicles could be removed and folk who move between these two 'rooms' (and back again....) would save much time...
so instead of (say) 10 showers and 10 (mostly unused cubicles) you could get (say) 14/16 or so combined shower/cubicles (and even leave two cubicles) where there might be no waiting for showers and no unused cubicles standing idle and taking up valuable
shower space.Definitely a need for cubicles. Pointless my taking up showering space just to trim my beard, shave and have a wash.
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pwrhaps make the showers a tiny bit larger and include a mirror and sink and you have something where all cubicles could be removed and folk who move between these two 'rooms' (and back again....) would save much time...
so instead of (say) 10 showers and 10 (mostly unused cubicles) you could get (say) 14/16 or so combined shower/cubicles (and even leave two cubicles) where there might be no waiting for showers and no unused cubicles standing idle and taking up valuable
shower space.Definitely a need for cubicles. Pointless my taking up showering space just to trim my beard, shave and have a wash.
But surely you wouldn't use a shower cubicle to do any of those things??
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Write your comments here...It always baffles me why someone would spend a kings ransom on a caravan or Motorhome with all the comforts of home on board and then queue to use the shower
each
to his or her own I guess.Brian & Jo
I never have to queue
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I was wondering while queuing for the showers on one of the club sites this week while the cubicles with wash basins were all free is there a call for so many of these cubicles nowadays and then it got me wondering as I'm new to the caravan club having only
been a member for three years was there ever such a demand that on most sites I have been to there's usually more cubicles than showers and in some cases there bigger than the showers. I presume that at some point there was and maybe there still is. Does anyone
know as well if when the club invests into renovating the toilet blocks does it keep the same number of showers and cubicles or does it increase the showers and decrease the cubicles. I look forward to your responses.Write your comments here...It always baffles me why someone would spend a kings ransom on a caravan or Motorhome with all the comforts of home on board and then queue to use the shower
each
to his or her own I guess.Brian & Jo
We don't all pay a kings randsome for our leisure vehicles and some of us have to choose outfits that are a compromise taking into account budget, family needs and our tow car limitations hence why my daughter has a bed and we have a very small toilet room
that also doubles as the shower which I can't shower in due to my height.0 -
It was in response to BB's suggestion of combining hand basin with showers and making them karger whilst doing away with most privacy cubicles.
....but with almost as many 'combined' units as the cubicles and showers in total, it wouldnt matter what you did, there would always be room for other folk to shower.
the current issue seems to be that there are many cubicles that arent used and 'cant' be ised for showers (obviously) whereas a combined unit (albeit a few less...) would satisfy all demand.
in my example earlier, if 13 people wanted a shower and 2 wanted to trim beards or shave, then 3 people would be waiting for a shower while 8 cubicles remained empty.
in my 'combined' scenario, all 13 would be able to take a shower and both would be able to shave all at the same time.....
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I have been on a number of sites where there are say 6 cubicles and 8 showers. There is no room for a washbasin in shower cubicles, by the time they are widened to include a basin I doubt that there would more than 9 combined units. Can't see how that would
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Availability of showers is alright on most sites, it's toilets that there tends to be a queue for - especially at busy times.
So replace the wash cubicles (maybe leaving one / two at the most) with toilets.
As stated up thread never queued for a shower yet and never for a toilet either. What sites are these that folk are queueing on.
As I stated earlier I've neverqueued for a shower but have seen others standing round waiting their turn for a shower, when I was using one of the washbasin cubicles, on a number of club sites... Clumber springs to mind.
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Not at 6.30am
...another late night, Alan?
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Why, if shower/toilet facilities are not needed, do we see the most opulent vans with full width bathrooms on full facility sites?
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I have never ever queued for toilets, and if I did I wouldn't go back to the site - but have queued for a shower, and that was the first (and last) time I used the caravan shower. This was not on a Caravan Club site, but a privately
owned site, with metered showers and after the person in the (single) shower put four 20p coins in......... I went back to the van but the shower experience was so horrible that the next day I want much earlier to the shower, and used one 20p for a perfectly
acceptable shower!I think the washbasin private cubicles are outdated. They are a throwback to the days when you bathed once a week and had a 'strip-wash' on other days (my Grandma's era I think) and they should be reduced in number and the space turned over to showers.
I'm sure that most gents who want to shave and those people who use the basins to brush their teeth could do it in open washbasins, which take up far less space.0 -
I'm sure that most gents who want to shave and those people who use the basins to brush their teeth could do it in open washbasins, which take up far less space.
Like you see on most sites abroad, rows of lovely clean sinks.
I don't mind a couple of the cubicles but would like to see some sinks other than the 2 tiny little hand washing sinks We do clean our teeth in the van morning and night but I have seen people cleaning their teeth at the small handbasins, usually from small
camper vans or tenters maybe. I don't think some even now that there are cubicles.0
