Beach toilets are disgusting.

[Latchkey]

I've seen some shockers when it comes to public facilities, but these are up there with the worst. Seaside Councils - do better.

I hate beach toilets because I was temporarily blinded in one years ago and the memory haunts me. Most painful experience of my life. I was rushing and they had this metal handwashing and drying machine thing i think you’re meant to push the button for soap and then the water comes out after then there was another button for the hand dryer but I did something catastrophically wrong and managed to push the soap dispenser button and then the hand drier one and managed to get what felt like a 50mph knife like jet of pink handwash blasted into both eyeballs. Couldn’t see , screamed , fell to the floor and crying made them foam up. It was awful. Couldnt see for 4 hours after and had to have them washed out at a and e 😭

It’s not the toilets that are grim, it’s the visitors.
Out of high season the loos are fine.

Stansted loos are shameful. I feel embarrassed that visitors to our country will use them.

Oh my days @TurnmyselfoffshallI 😳

Beach toilets must be a bugger to clean with that all sand added to the mix. I also hate sitting on those stainless steel toilets. They always tend to look more filthy than regular toilets for some reason.

I think it’s to do with the volume of people using the facilities. I’m not next to the sea but close to a loch. An American firm have bought up a massive estate / most of a village near me and fenced off the land which really pissed off the locals. Then they refurbished and reopened a free public toilet at the loch beach which are regularly cleaned . It’s amazing the amount of goodwill you can buy with a clean toilet.

Beer beach toilets were spotless.I Pebble beach .

I was in Tenerife the other week. Went to use the beach toilets and they were possibly worse than the Glastonbury festival toilets. I don’t understand how people can consistently fail to get their arses at least near the toilet, then walk away from the crime scene?

I actually don’t mind paying to use a beach toilet if it means it’s actually clean, they flush and there’s loo roll and soap.

Cinema toilets when I was growing up always seemed to be gross - not flushing, no loo roll, toilet doors which don’t lock etc. I always thought it dreadful given how much cinema tickets cost. But to be fair, in the last 15 years or so they seem to have been better.

If we want decent toilets then we will need to pay a fee to use them. Unfortunately most councils are broke and can’t afford to pay the staff needed to keep up with the cleaning needed to deal with the vile people who make such a mess public loos.

Councils have no legal obligation to provide or maintain public toilets.

At this point, it’s lucky if you find one that is even open.

I’m in a seaside tourist area where most have been closed, or sold off. Those that are still open are cleaned and maintained by community volunteers or local businesses.

Pretty much this, lack of money plus an influx of people who lack basic consideration. I know most people are considerate but if you have 100 people using a toilet and five of them make a mess that they don't bother cleaning up then the toilet is very quickly going to become disgusting (and it's way more than 100 people using the facilities each day).

I live in a coastal area and on sunny days it's largely not the locals using the toilets as we don't tend to go to the beaches popular with the tourists. Toilets end up minging due to the sheer volume of people using them, tracking sand in, leaving a mess, etc.

They're much cleaner in the winter when there are less people, albeit much colder!

I found the Stansted airport ones quite /very clean ( the ones near all the eateries)

I would quite happily pay £1 to use a toilet is said toilet was clean and pleasant. Public toilets in essence are revolting.

I made a complaint to John Lewis the other week as their toilets were disgusting. It was a Sunday and they obviously had no cleaners on shift, they were filthy, piss on the floor, even the white walls were disgusting.

I haven’t been to one since I was a child and even now I don’t use public toilets unless the place we’re visiting is somewhere very nice so I expect the toilets to be clean too

Who should fund the cost of the public loos in popular tourist destinations? If it is the council, then the local residents are funding it via their council tax, but are unlikely to be the main users. Paying for staff and toilet cleaning are not statutory requirements unlike social care and education. I would be all for local authorities in tourist areas charging a tourist tax to raise income to fund public loos. Or having them chargeable on use.

But it is the people who are disgusting. Leaving loos in that state is caused by revolting people.

Last time I went to the beach, there was Carrie amounts of blood in one toilet but oddly all down the back of the pan and cistern almost like someone poured it down. I dont think it was a medical issue because it was so neat. I didnt look past the door but it definitely looked like blood and wasnt fresh.

Another toilet was almost overflowing. There was something wrong with another 2 as well. So basically there was one toilet. As you can imagine that was struggling!

ii cant believe it isn't mandatory for a town to have a toilet for the public to use

Me too. Such a basic need. Pubs and restaurants don’t want non customers trailing in without buying so what are we supposed to do? I was in Bakewell last week and they had a pay as you go lol which accepted cash and contactless. 20p. Marvellous!

What is wrong with people? Why can’t they clean up after themselves? Disgusting.

Exactly this

The ones at our local beach are pretty good. There’s a set at either end of the prom. I prefer the old ones without the fancy all in one soap/water/dryer machines, just normal sinks and soap dispensers with wall mounted dryers

Very strange - I wonder if someone had urinated on bleach in the toilet - some urine turns red on contact with hypochlorite bleach

Had our annual UK beach holiday and I spend the day dehydrated (slight exaggeration but I don't drink much) to eliminate the need to use the vulnerable toilets.

I then chug the water when I know I'm were back at our cottage and repeat all holiday.

The kids wee in the sea / have better bladders than I do so hold it. DP says the mens loos are "bearable for a quick wee"

It's such a shame and I'm another one who would happily pay for clean, decent toilet facilities.

Yes - YOU'VE reminded ME of school. About 90% of the girls at my school signed a very detailed report on that greaseproof paper we had, advocating for the soft stuff. The headmistress was so impressed with the way we'd gone about it that she persuaded the governors (or whoever was responsible) to get the soft stuff for us! I'd like to think the deciding line was mine: "are we supposed to be wiping or sandpapering our urethras?".