Showers v wash cubicles
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I would be tempted to use the toilet for solids but Mrs H is not too keen.....so perhaps unlikely to happen.
When OH and I first got together about 16 years ago she was out of work for quite a while. I would say let's go away in the caravan. She had a teachers pension coming in as she had retired from teaching on ill health grounds about 5 years earlier and later
found work as a receptionist in a law practice before being made redundant. We would have about 4 weeks abroad and 6 or 7 weeks in the caravan. Over 2 years she had never seen the inside of the toilet compartment
I had used own facilities a lot when I caravanned with my late wife and children as some of our favourite sites were none facility at the time. We stopped caravanning for a couple of years as she was unable to match my leave and our time was spent on packages
abroad. I donated the caravan to a local scout group who used it as a sick bay on a permanent camp site. WE then bought a caravan together and new tow car together. We have since been caravanning together for the first 11 years. For the first two years OH
would not let us use non facukity sites much as, I expect, your OH Ian. That changed when our friendship group were meeting up on Anglesey. It ws at the end of one of our tours and we decided to drop in at Anglesey for a few days. It was peak season and a
problem getting a weekend booking and so OH conceeded to using the CC none facility site Cae Mawr on Anglesey. She then realised that it was no big deal using caravan facilities. Following that time we have been equally happy to use either facility or non
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dont you just love the luxury of the onboard loo ? Getting up in the middle of the night for a tinkle and not having to drag the wellies and dressing gown on ..... Sheer bliss! Hubby uses a " comfort " bottle which is a giant fabric conditioner bottle eg
lenor , comfort , or fairykeeps it in the loo and emptys it next morning. We keep one in back of car too for emergencies ... (Recent prostate troubles, altho all clear now) cheers mrs bc:)0 -
As a family with 2 teenagers, I'd spend my whole holiday filling aquarolls and waiting my turn to get in.
This comment concerns me. Teenagers don't have many practical uses, but one of the few is filling the aquaroll. You will be telling us next, they don't even empty the toilet.
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We have a saying in our family - them as don't work don't eat.
If they want to use the facilities they should be helping.
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Morning, you're both quite correct and they are both great at doing all of the jobs concerned with caravanning. We have done " non-facility " camping, but not often. I tend to get up first, shower, then go and re-fill the aquarolls for the kids, then they
would re-fill for the missus. So to allay your concern Boff, my post isn't 100%factually correct, sorry.My post was in response to the suggestion that the CC should do away with facilities blocks all together and my point is that as a family of 4, this is not our preferred option as it is more hassle to have 4 showering in the van, than just all go the block.
Have a good one both, Alex.
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Trust me if they are teenagers. You are very quickly approaching the point where they won't want to come just in case you ask them to fill an aquaroll. They do tend to drift back after a few years when they see an opportunity for subsidised holidays. Well
this has been our experience.0 -
Trust me if they are teenagers. You are very quickly approaching the point where they won't want to come just in case you ask them to fill an aquaroll. They do tend to drift back after a few years when they see an opportunity for subsidised holidays. Well this has been our experience.
and ours, usually at the same time when they start work and have to pay for things out of their own money
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One of the reasons I prefer Caravan Club sites is that they have wash cubicles as well as showers. BTW, I can't remember having to queue for a shower since I joined the CC in 2007. As an older man who doesn't wish to stand in a communal washbasin area, usually
without adequate nearby pegs for hanging things up, when I shave each morning, I prefer the CC arrangements to commercial sites which just have a line of washbasins in a communal area. I generally find that the washbasin cubicles are used quite a lot. Before
someone makes the obvious comment about using the facilities in my motor home- it is a rather compact MH and there isn't room to swing the proverbial cat in the toilet/washroom, and anyway I have paid in my nightly fees to use the spacious CC site facilities!0 -
I don't think the OP was ever doubting their use ..... I use them from time to time myself to have my fortnightly shave - whether I need it or not
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The question was, why do we have so many of them? You rarely see more than 1 or 2 in use at any one time and the space would probably be better used with a shower cubicle0 -
How many of what are in use does depend on what time of day you visit. I admit that I would rather have one surplus WC if I have decided to use that facility rather than surplus wash basin. I have never queued for a shower (but then I wouldn't but have never not had one available on a CC site
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I don't normally go for a shower before 6.30am
If for any reason I went at, say, 7am turned and all the showers were wet I would probably just have a strip down wash. I don't like wet shower cubicles
Yep, I know - nowt as strange as folk
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At home I usually wake between 6.am and 6.30am. Once I wake I like to get up. I have always been the same as long as I can recall. I would be up at 6am when I was working and if I was up much later on a day off I used to feel that I was missing out on the day.
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One of the reasons I prefer Caravan Club sites is that they have wash cubicles as well as showers. BTW, I can't remember having to queue for a shower since I joined the CC in 2007. As an older man who doesn't wish to stand in a communal washbasin area, usually
without adequate nearby pegs for hanging things up, when I shave each morning,
I prefer the CC arrangements to commercial sites which just have a line of washbasins in a communal area. I generally find that the washbasin cubicles are used quite a lot.
Before someone makes the obvious comment about using the facilities in my motor home- it is a rather compact MH and there isn't room to swing the proverbial cat in the toilet/washroom, and anyway I have paid in my nightly fees to use the spacious CC
site facilities!I agree with that. I guess what one sees in use depends on what one uses oneself. I don't ever remember having to wait for a shower at a CC site, maybe because I tend to use them in the afternoon, after we've been out walking all day. I prefer to use the
cubicles in the morning for a wash and a shave precisely for the reasons given above.
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IMO The privacy cubicles should be converted to showers. We are into the 21st century where proper personal cleanliness and hygene is expected.
Gone are the days where vigorous washing of the face and neck combined with loads of perfume or aftershave is the extent of daily cleanliness on a CC site.
A good shower to start the day is to be advised both for personal hygene and the benefit of those who are around. . Therefore conversion to showers is important.
By all means leave one privacy cubicle for those who like privacy when shaving.
Cheers ..........K
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Whilst I would like to see a reduction in there numbers, and replacement with showers or WC's. I think to go down to one is a step to far. It would also depend on if the site is one of those welcoming tent camping. As in this case there is more of a need
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IMO The privacy cubicles should be converted to showers. We are into the 21st century where
proper personal cleanliness and hygene is expected.By whom?
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IMO The privacy cubicles should be converted to showers. We are into the 21st century where
proper personal cleanliness and hygene is expected.By whom?
+1, it's just that-personal. Everyone else can just give me a wide berth
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At home I usually wake between 6.am and 6.30am. Once I wake I like to get up. I have always been the same as long as I can recall. I would be up at 6am when I was working and if I was up much later on a day off I used to feel that I was missing out on the
day.Write your comments here...you sound like my dad EasyT...he used to talk about wasting the day and if I got up after 8am he'd say 'half the day's gone!'
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IMO The privacy cubicles should be converted to showers. We are into the 21st century where proper personal cleanliness and hygene is expected.
Gone are the days where vigorous washing of the face and neck combined with loads of perfume or aftershave is the extent of daily cleanliness on a CC site.
A good shower to start the day is to be advised both for personal hygene and the benefit of those who are around. . Therefore conversion to showers is important.
By all means leave one privacy cubicle for those who like privacy when shaving.
Cheers ..........K
Actually, I think it's all down to personal preference isn't it, K? It's a good job some of us shower at different times of the day, otherwise there would be huge queues!
I know you're not a fan of using "public" facilites and I guess that must be a factor in your search for a new MH. How's that search going, by the way?
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In my case I suffer from time to time with Psoriasis. Therefore if I were to shower every day I should avoid the use of most soaps and use a substitute. These substitutes tend to be 'oily' and do not lend themselves to showering safely. Also I may need to
'pat' some emolients into the skin and all in all this seems easier in a privacy cubicle for me. When I have a flare up it makes more sense to reduce the frequency of showering and use the cubcles0 -
A good shower to start the day is to be advised both for personal hygene and the benefit of those who are around
blimey, We've had this is how you must pitch thread, this is when you have to leave by thread, the washing pots in van v dishwashing thread, the shower in van v shower block thread...
Now we are being told to have a have a shower a day!!!!
What really? Does this apply to club sites alone?
I couldn't care less if those on site in another outfit shower once a day or once a week, or once a stay!
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