I felt really vulnerable if I had to check a toilet area with a door to the corridor. Would always go and get another member of staff as a witness first. We’d only go in if we knew there was a problem and I’d never go in the boys’. Obviously the ideal is individual toilets with no communal area.
Everywhich way but loos.
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Flushdance… What a feeling!
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‘to pee or not to pee that is the question’ this argument is rapidly going down the pan
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Think the cleaning rota in public loos is the most important thing…
in the present climate no teacher with any sense would go to check a toilet area used by children for fear of being accused of assault.
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Lol! - I think this must come down a lot to each school then, I can only speak of the area I live in to be fair, at my kids school the teachers DID routinely check. shrugs 
the whole argument of someone getting assaulted in a gender neutral loo by a stranger is dumb, a person is more likely to be assaulted by someone they know, yes assault by a stranger does happen but its not as common as people like to think.
people tend to go the the toilet for 2 reason and than leave. If the women’s bathroom had a huge line, of course I’ve used the mens and no one said a word, I just yelled into the room a woman is coming in before I went in. that was in Canada tho, I do tend to find the people around here would probably freak out if I did that. but if you got to go, you got to go. (then again I’ve never understood why some women cant go the the bathroom themselves, they have to go in packs)
and we had teachers of either gender check the washroom were not getting destroyed or no one was getting hurt at school. (or smoking, that was a popular one)
I totally agree!
Agreed!
I think I must be quite open minded about loos, it doesn’t bother me either way and I have just been to some loos which seemed to be a bit of a free for all. I went to a club where the clubbers included transvestites and some alternative people, the loos were magnificent. It was a huge walk in area with marble type walls, a large sitting middle area with stools and big mirrors and it was a social area. So all manner of people male or female were sitting round with drinks, some in sparkly dresses and high heels, chatting about this that and t’other. It was brill, I loved it. I also went to one accidently in Stoke (only went out for a quiet pint) and we got locked in, it was sadly when the gay-bashing was going on in the late 1980s early 1990s. It was great fun at this place, I was sat on the loo when a very deep voice asked if there was any loo roll in my loo. I said yes, loads, should I pass some through. Yes please, said the very low voice. So I passed the loo paper underneath and then after whilst drying my hands, the very beautifully dressed sparkly dressed person came out and we had a discussion about his/her dress and the new boobs. It made me feel very drab as a wash and go girl, compared to the care and attention of the dress, the make up, the nails etc.
I travelled a bit with ex husband to Italy in 1983 and remember being up an Italian mountain during a storm and the only dry place I found was when I popped to the loo. Does anyone remember the loos with a hole in the floor and a bar on the door to hold on to for balance? Oh my, horrid.
Anyway, any loo will do for me, I spend my whole life planning each day around loo stops and regularly will pee in a field round the corner from me as I am still lucky enough to go for a walk. Unfortunately, the brain is willing but the bladder is weak. I do like a loo with a ceiling that is private. There are some places even though excellent, I will not eat because the loos are like some portocabin experience with no ceiling so no privacy. I don’t want anyone hearing my gasps as I try to organise clothes removal, handbag on the door (always too high as my arms don’t work properly sometimes) and trying not to let my sticks fall down and clatter bringing attention from everywhere. I have one exception, Dave’s in Trentham, I will eat there but there is an automatic flusher so when I try to organise my drawers, stick, handbag it flushes before you are ready and many people even able-bodied can get a bit of a smattering.
I think the accessible. loos at Trentham (outside ones) are brilliant and I love the dog wash! My mother was a bit perplexed by the sign in the big shop loos, ‘please do not wash feet in basin’, had to explain, that will be because of the mud walk…lol.
I just remembered the gents loos at the Philharmonic pub in Liverpool. Everyone has to have a look at them, regardless of gender. They are Grade 1 listed.
Sue
They are stunning Sue, a pleasure to need to go in them!! Used them frequently, being a pub I knew them well!
Has anyone been in the outside loo down the steps in Manchester which has been turned into a bar? My son showed it to me, he said it is really cool, but I was too tired to go down the stairs.
I suspect the Victorian facilities at Rothesay will take a lot of beating.
Granted. But that’s a long way to go to visit some, admittedly lovely, gents lavs.
And btw, did they really need that many urinals? I wonder if the ladies loos have the same capacity? And the same beauty?
Sue
Not really much of a toilet tourist, but I was sailing back from the Hebrides and quite handy at the time. Good point about the female facilities and suspect the Victorians were not too big on equality. More research needed methinks.
A quick check revealed this helpfull review.
“Mens better than ladies”
Reviewed 13 April 2015
10 of us visiting Rothesay and had to visit toilets after watching Elaine C Smith’s visit. Ladies- normal toilets but the men’s Victorian urinals were lovely (the women in the group just had to have a peep, and we did apologise to the gentleman waiting)
Visited April 2015