What does you wear for first/last thing toilet block trips

[Gravitygirl]

I should now this by now, but every year we are left scrabbling around trying to find somthing to put on and go to the toilets/showers and then see everyone else looking serence/organised etc etc so this year I want to get more prepared.

So do you go in nightie/pjs/dressing gown ?
I am talking cote d azur in august hot not devon in january.
Kids and adults?

Last year I did the whole crumpled face, hair standing up, PJs, crocs & ratty fleece etc but when I think about it everyone I encountered on the (long) way to the showers always looked fabulous. Reading these threads, I clearly need to have a rethink.
A mirror in the tent might be a start

Last time I ran to the loo in my pjs - a thalf term in Cardigan - I fell down a hole and sprained my ankle. My look after that - bloody big bandage up to my knee and Dh's flip flop on one foot and my sparkly silver one on the other - was soooo much more attractive .

i go to bed in joggy bottoms and an older looser t shirt because its always freezing then go to the loo block in them the next morning and in my flippy floppers with all my clean clohtes ready to put on , hairdryer etc. rolled up in my big fluffy towel and my toiletries in a little wash bag. I hate the hwole trip as seeing others hairs in sink plugs makes me wretch

PMSL at this.

Sometimes, when it is super cold, i just sleep in my clothes!

What an interesting thread and how our standards all differ!! Surfermum tell me about your camping toilet - this is something I want but DH says a bucket is enough. Now I must explain that I have a terribly weak bladder and often need to go to the toiler in the middle of the night, and I also have to go after I have put my pj's on even if I have just been beforehand . So even after the trip to the toilet block I come back and wee in the bucket before getting zipped in. THere is nothing worse than getting zipped in, lieing there, thinking oh god i need another wee, and if I don't go now I will be bursting come 3am. That means trying to sneak out without waking dd2 who likes to sleep holding my hand, and not tripping over the dog . I have not yet knocked the bucket over, but I will do one day - so tell me is a toilet a good idea? What do you have to put in them (chemicals I mean, I know what other things to put in there!) And now the children are a bit big for the potty it might be worth it for them too.

Oh goodness I have rattled on with all my night time secrets, but I swear my bladder hates me - could just sleep in a tenalady I suppose .

Tina, I'm always going on about my special "toilet bucket" so now I have to share .

We line a bucket with a bin liner and some wood or paper based cat litter in the bottom. Its ideal for during the night peed (especially after all that beer/wine). In the morning you just lift out the bag and the cat litter has soaked up all the pee!

Pee not PEED! lol

Also what do you lot wear to bed? I'm always cold at night. Am thinking my lovely Ikea jammies that I never go anywhere without and a big fluffy pair of socks. But would I would LOVE is an all in one pair of jammies, you know like a baby's sleepsuit with sown in feet and everything

I like the look of this

Hi Mumhadenough - now that is a good idea, why have I never thought of that before - its a long time since I had cats I suppose!!
I will try it for the next trip (we are off on Friday and am very excited - about the trip, but also slightly excited about the special toilet bucket).

That does look a good buy Mspontipine, but I think I will try the cat litter option first - DH will have a fit if we have strap a toilet to the roof of the car .

I can't help with the all in one pj's I'm afraid, I just where some woolyish ones from M&S, and socks and sometimes a fleece. I have a cotton liner in may sleeping bag (3 season) and tbh I am usually too hot

We have one of those Mspontipine, it's fab. And you can take the bucket out and stuff all sorts inside the casing so you can argue it takes no space at all in a car

We can get two campingaz 907 gas bottles in it and a couple of towels! The bucket can then be used for travel sickness emergencies.

Lol at the toilet strapped to the roof of the car. Now that WOULD be a sight to behold!

If you are my Mum in the 80s you go in your floor length Victorian style cotton nightie, then fling it off and do a starkers strip wash at the sinks.

OMG charitygirl - we used to do that! We'd roll up at a campsite with no showers and my mum would say, 'never mind, we can have a strip wash' - I still shudder to think about it!

Nowadays it's much more civilised.... Just had the Joules catalogue through - apparently it's not called camping anymore - it's called 'Glamping'. You wear a pretty dress, cute cardi and some Joules Wellies and voila, you're 'glamping'.
Not sure that outfit would be quite the right thing for the early morning 'loo run' tho