Never any toilets anywhere

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Is there any country in the world or any region or town/city in the UK that has plentiful, clean available public toilets? Anywhere will do. Thank you.

It really puts me off public transport and walking

Second that. It was liberating not to have to do my usual thing of severely restricting fluids.

Norway is also very civilised when it comes to toilets. You just need to use your debit card.

Monaco was, in my experience, the worst. I remember the police officers proudly telling me there were zero public facilities.

Not really, the U.K. is actually better than many places, pubs, shops, cafes etc all tend to be decent whereas in France for instance they may even lack a sink (probably illegal there but nobody is checking up) public loos in the street are not something most countries ever had. I have never had an issue locating a toilet in the U.K. or overseas though I was pretty fussy where in India!

The supermarket I use turned the male and female toilets into staff only toilets with a keypad and now there is only one unisex/disabled/baby changing room toilet for customers to use.

Trouble is, men take so long sitting on the toilet, there's often a queue waiting for it. I was desperate once and had been waiting several minutes when a staff member took pity on me and let me into the staff toilets. The unisex toilet was still engaged when I came out.

I live in a town of around 20k people and there are 4 lots of public toilets. However, if you need a piss after 7pm, you have to find an alternative because the council come and lock them all up around then. There were another lot of toilets at the bus station, but the bus station has been closed for a few years and will be redeveloped into flats and shops.

If you popped into Waitrose for a pee, you'd be disappointed because our Waitrose doesn't have customer toilets. You'd have to walk (or drive) to the edge of town Tesco instead. There are toilets at the railway station, but they're on the platforms so you need a ticket.

There's a town of similar size a few miles away that only has 2 public toilets, and it's the same council so they are also closed in the evenings, and the supermarket (Morrisons) doesn't have a customer toilet, either.

Me!

I always have a small stash of assorted change in my bag because I resent paying an extra 20p when I use my debit card to pay for parking in town.

Don’t get me started on this. The thing that annoys me is that older large stores always had customer toilets but now large furniture stores etc. are not built with customer toilets and when you are in a place for a while looking at furniture for example this is really annoying. I feel like starting a government petition for a rule to be put in place that shops over a certain size have to provide customer toilets.

Keep an eye out for the 'Use our loos' and similar signs in pubs etc. Our local village no longer has public toilets, but there is at least one pub, a public hall and a church where the public can use the toilets without using the premises otherwise.

Like a previous poster mentioned, St Ives is surprisingly well supplied with public loos which seems especially rare for the seaside.

Elsewhere, Chester is pretty good, there are a few sets of public loos around the city including in the park and by the river and on race days extra portaloos are placed on City centre streets. There's also council run loos in Storyhouse which are open late.

Manchester is awful, only one set of council run loos in the city and they are often closed.

Further afield I was pleasantly surprised by the availability of loos in Paris.

Just go into a coffee shop and use theirs. Pubs have loos as well.

Lots of places, quite reasonably, keep loos for customers only. I think this is an increasing issue with the closure of public toilets. It pushes people into supermarkets, cafes and pubs. Get through consumables faster, need cleaned more often, staff get fed up and a sign goes up and then a keypad where you get code with purchase.

there’s one in the train station as of last month it was clean enough but not what you’d expect for Monaco, there were toilets on the amazing trains too. we might of gone as customers in the cafe opposite the casino. as for here? f#%k being charged for toilets! The council tax is nearly £300pcm for a normal house 🤬

Try using your local Town Hall toilets. In a local town to me I have found their toilets clean and user friendly. If your Council won't provide public facilities use theirs.

I spent a few days in the Lake District. All the public toilets in Windermere and Ambleside were locked up, even the Disabled ones. I had to ask in a hotel to use their toilet.

Oooh yea, they’re great in Jersey!

I travel a lot and tend to keep a mental note of the shops that normally have publicly available loos.

The closing of public loos really annoys me though. My poor mum can’t go too long without access to a loo, and as a result she’s been effectively housebound for 5 years because she doesn’t want to risk it. No exaggeration.

That’s a bit unfair. I however was in there clearly needed more than a couple of minutes. That’s can happen to women too. And women are typically slower than men which is why ladies’ loos are more likely to have a queue than men’s.

Tenby and Saundersfoot are well provided for

Ive never had success with that at all. This week for example, the answer was 'yes, if you would like to buy something....'

The cheapest 'something' was 3 euro.

I know where all the toilets are in my (small) city. There’s enough for me (a menopausal woman who always needs the loo). Some of them are in shops/pubs and there are two sets of public toilets.

That said, they’re not always nice because a lot of women are filthy.

I don't think we do too bad for toilets where we are

Japan. Absolutely amazing, and really clearly signposted with the same pictogram throughout the couy. And the loos themselves are clean and sweet smelling to the sound of bird song.

But someone has to maintain the toilets then the users are going to wreck them or spoil them in all the usual ways, tampons, excrement, drug paraphernalia, no toilet paper etc, cottaging so now the toilets get shut down

The trouble with those places is that if you feel obliged to buy a drink in order to use the facilities then you're going to need to go again before long.