Glastonbury: Did you find the Peequal female urinals?

[Daisydoesnt]

If you went to Glastonbury this year, did you find the Peequal female urinals? There were some near the Pyramid stage although there might have been others. Not smelly, hardly ever a queue, quick to use, oh and did I mention not smelly? They are nothing to do with me (this is not an ad) but having been dreading the thought of the disgusting Glasto loos they were a complete and utter game changer. They will be at other festivals this summer so look out for them!!

Women's urinal inventors

I had trousers on - I just rolled them down! You squat down so no, there's no splashing. The urinal bit in the floor is big, the size of a potty (I don't have kids so I'm guessing).

So you use them like the old style "continental" stand up toilets?

I saw these being advertised somewhere and first thought was a camera over the top to take pictures of you, second thought was trailing clothing on a pee soaked floor and finally how to hold your clothes off the floor and squat to pee if you have even faintly dodgy knees or fuck all thigh muscles.
It was a no from me, but I guess much younger women may not have these issues?

I've used loads of loos like this when backpacking through France in the 90s. Although they had a door! They were fairly common, not sure if they still have them.

I'd definitely use them as hate queueing for thr loos at festivals.

*Yes. How the hell are they more private? You're out in the open air with men walking within a few feet of you. There are no doors within the facilities. How voyeuristic.

I assume you're affiliated with this company.*

I am ABSOLUTELY NOT affiliated with the company in any way. I have been dreading the loos at Glastonbury. These loos were a complete game changer. My motivation was just to make other festival-goers aware of them. That's it. they might not be for everyone but just because you don't like the idea, no-one should have the choice?

And as far as I can tell you weren't there so didn't see the set up. It WAS more private than all the other facilities, there was nothing voyeuristic about it. It was a well designed layout; there was a whole fenced off area with canvas walls and then the individual cubicles round the back of that.

You'd have an absolute heart attack at the long drop loos at Glastonbury which are right out out in the middle of the fields with everyone walking right past them.

Yes, or an Asian style squat toilet - they’ve just made them portable. And with less privacy.

I think they look great, and as someone with bladder issues, the option for a quick pee would be welcomed. They would free up the conventional facilities for people who have mobility or privacy issues.

Why do they have to be such garish colours though? It would be like peeing in a barbie play house or something.

Yes or how you manage to use them more efficiently than toilets that are at lease secured by a door?

Make urinals work because a man just whips his piece out, but surely women still have to pull trousers/underwear down to past their knees to be able to sit on it? Looks a bit like a bidet?

So we have our bums out with no door? Or am I missing something

I saw these being advertised somewhere and first thought was a camera over the top to take pictures of you

You could say exactly the same for all the other loos though. You do know there are more than 200,000 people milling about so Im not sure it's very likely?

second thought was trailing clothing on a pee soaked floor and finally how to hold your clothes off the floor and squat to pee if you have even faintly dodgy knees or fuck all thigh muscles

You could say exactly the same for the other loos.

here's the Glastonbury long drops for those that haven't been:

@Daisydoesnt I think some people are giving you a bit of a hard time without really interpreting your post properly. These are meant to save time at festivals, not replace all female toilet facilities at all places. If you’ve not been to these major festivals you won’t appreciate that much of the current offering is queueing for hours for essentially a hole in a bit of wood over a swimming pool of piss and shit with not much more than a 4ft high bit of plywood covering the middle bit of your body. These being wees only means if you need a poo the queue is reduced there and if you need a wee you don’t have to queue with all the people who will take longer. It gives people who would otherwise go and piss in a bush a tidier place to do it. No it won’t suit everyone and that’s fine. Men have had festival urinals for years and they still provide the same options for number twos so ‘standard’ toilets will of course still continue to exist.

I think they are a great idea.

So we have our bums out with no door? Or am I missing something

You don't have your bum out - you are tucked round a corner with an angled screen. Your bum is to the back like you'd be in a normal loo, knees to the front. The only thing anyone can see is your face when you stand up but that's the same with the other loos.

Yes. I was at Glastonbury and found them first in the stone circle field and then the pyramid stage ones, and I absolutely loved them.

For PP who haven’t been and don’t understand the concept, there are lots of male urinals, and general toilets, but the queues for the toilets are normally quite long, so these are a female urinal to help cut the queues.

They are like the continental squatting toilets, but with a grate over them so it’s just wee that goes down, as they don’t have a flush to deal with anything else. For those who can’t fathom the logistics, imagine you’re out walking and take a squat behind a bush.

I highly recommend them and I hope they’re back next year!

@lampygirl
Thank you. I just want other festival-goers to be aware of them! They improved by experience so much and I say that as a menopausal women who needs to pee a lot.

Those look horrific and I can see how the Peequal seems a nicer alternative.

My question is about how they are more efficient than using a toilet, if you're still rolling things down to be able to wee freely

Weren't these a thing back in the nineties?

These being wees only means if you need a poo the queue is reduced there and if you need a wee you don’t have to queue with all the people who will take longer.

@lampygirl ok thank you for this it's makes much more sense now how it's considered a timesaver, I was thinking of it saving time in the more practical sense of use

Ok, I think a nifty animated video would do wonders in helping me understand how it actually works, it's hard to figure it out from descriptions but I'm forming a clearer picture

@AnotherDelphinium
Thank you. I never imagined I'd get such a hard time with such a seemingly innocuous post! Yes they were great though and I hope they are back next year (I intend to be).

I don't do festivals, but at any event where I'm desperate for a wee and facing long queues I happily pee in a bush, so this seems a nicer alternative 😂

My question is about how they are more efficient than using a toilet, if you're still rolling things down to be able to wee freely

I suppose because you squat and don't sit? There's no sitting down and getting comfortable for a poo. There's no flush either, and no door to lock or unlock (cue howls of outrage again).

I don't do festivals, but at any event where I'm desperate for a wee and facing long queues I happily pee in a bush, so this seems a nicer alternative

I'm a wild wee-er out walking my dogs etc but there are signs everywhere at the festival saying don't pee on the land. From their site "Peeing on the ground causes toxic pollution of the water table. The ground water runs into the central Whitelake River and down the valley for miles around. Wildlife and fish are affected if 200,000 people pee everywhere.

The Environment Agency tests the water regularly, and has the power to close down the site if too many people have urinated and polluted the site. It really could be the end of Glastonbury if you pee where you shouldn’t. Please only pee in our thousands of toilets and urinals."

@RaisinGhost There's a bit of a knack with squat loos. I found it helped to raise my arms out in front of me for balance while I found the right height and angle. You also need to squat flat footed for the ideal angle rather than on the balls of your feet (if you're not used to it, you get used to it once you've done it a few times). I suspect the bar to hold onto on Peequal loos helps a great deal with positioning!

I saw them and avoided them because I assumed they were similar to the sheepee type of thing that I didn't get on with at all when I've tried previously.

I happily squat for a wee on a country walk, so would have given these a go.

The grab rail you mentioned sounds like a serious improvement for accessibility. I can't see them on the picture in the link?

Nope didn’t see them or know about them

Great idea. Always loved the squat loos in French campsites (although the Brit pearl clutchers often have an issue with these too).