Bathrooms at Festivals

Bathrooms at summer music festivals are notoriously bad – with dirty, smelly toilets that just get worse as the weekend goes on. To find out more visit http://padstyle.com/category/bathroom

The next time you complain that your bathroom constantly needs cleaning, or moan at your partner for leaving damp towels on the floor, spare a thought for this summer’s hardy festival goers. When they need to answer a call to nature, they won’t be greeted by the lovely white bathroom suite that you are whingeing about. Instead it will be filthy toilets, a scarcity of loo roll, and three days without a shower. Here’s the lowdown to the festivals bathroom experience.

Festival Bathrooms: Toilets from Hell

May people forego the festival experience, citing an unwillingness to brave the toilets as their reason for missing out. And they could be forgiven, considering that the combined bodily functions of thousands of people over a three-day period is not a pretty smell (or sight, if you’re foolish enough to take a look down). Glastonbury Festival is particularly famous for its undesirable bathroom facilities, the choice of which is as follows:

• Portaloos

The first day or two is bearable, after which time it becomes an ordeal to even think about going to the toilet. And that’s during the day, let alone the night. Despite a round-the-clock cleaning team, the toilets overflow, start to stink in hot weather, and generally put you off ever eating or drinking again.

• Long Drop Loos

Some regulars claim these are the preferable alternative to the portoloos, mainly because they are uncovered and allow in fresh air. But beware the unlocked doors and the long drop itself – you’d have no chance of fishing out your car keys if you were careless.

• Shee-Pee

These women-only urinals were introduced in 2004 in a bid to reduce loo queues. Painted bright pink on the outside, they’re also manned by staff to keep the guys out. Girls are handed a cardboard funnel to help with their aim.

Festival Bathrooms: Lack of Loo Roll

The other bathrooms nightmare at festivals is the lack of loo roll. You can be guaranteed that by the second day supplies in the portoloos are scarce, and if you don’t carry your own stash around with you, you’ll just have to go without. Kate Moss’s rocker boyfriend Jamie Hince of The Kills was reported to have given his girl an extra special gift for this year’s festival – 120 rolls of recycled Nouvelle toilet paper so she could be “comfortable”.

Festival Bathrooms: The Showers

Festival Goers will sigh with relief if they see the cabins of festival shower specialists Posh Wash, whose portable showers provide a much-needed blast of hot water. With proper power showers they are a heavenly sight for hungover revellers – but their popularity mean an early start is needed to beat the crowds. However, they’re still not a patch on your lovely clean shower at home in your own bathroom, where you can step out into a fluffy towel rather than a pair of wellies.

So now you’ve had an insight into bathrooms at festivals, aren’t you grateful for your lovely clean toilet, hot, steaming shower and luxurious bath tub?