Just returned to Aus from US. One of the most annoying things while travelling was lack of public bathrooms. I could believe that some restaurants just didn’t have a bathroom. I was surprised at how few bathrooms lighthaven seemed to have. Though didn’t go into any of the sleeping areas.
Even a place like Disneyland, or a mall. Here is AUS, if I go to a mall I expect to have bathrooms every ~hundred meters. I expect them to be clearly marked, easy to navigate towards and extremely rarely out of order. I can’t imagine needed to pay to use something like a bathroom. Though I did see cafes charging for cups of water.
Charging for that type of thing in public places feels like a mistake to me.
FYI Lighthaven isn’t super representative – most of the bathrooms are in private rooms because it was a hotel designed for people being in private rooms, and it’s expensive to build more (both because it costs money, and because each bathroom is one fewer breakout room, which we also wanted in many contexts).
Just returned to Aus from US. One of the most annoying things while travelling was lack of public bathrooms. I could believe that some restaurants just didn’t have a bathroom. I was surprised at how few bathrooms lighthaven seemed to have. Though didn’t go into any of the sleeping areas. Even a place like Disneyland, or a mall. Here is AUS, if I go to a mall I expect to have bathrooms every ~hundred meters. I expect them to be clearly marked, easy to navigate towards and extremely rarely out of order. I can’t imagine needed to pay to use something like a bathroom. Though I did see cafes charging for cups of water. Charging for that type of thing in public places feels like a mistake to me.
FYI Lighthaven isn’t super representative – most of the bathrooms are in private rooms because it was a hotel designed for people being in private rooms, and it’s expensive to build more (both because it costs money, and because each bathroom is one fewer breakout room, which we also wanted in many contexts).