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toilets on the french slopes

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:46:19 GMT

yes sorry another bladder issue! lol,not that I am paranoid or anything but following on from my "shewee" debate, I was a bit worried about some of the replies that I got about peeing over holes in the ground. Is this the case? (I am going to Valmorel) do they have these in mountain restaurants or in normal restuarants? sorry to ask these questions but i have never been to France before and the thought of having to squat over one of these holes in the ground, with my ski boots, salopettes and thermals on whilst trying to hold my jacket in one hand and toilet paper in the other, just doesnt fill me with glee :shock:

is it regular to find these types of toilets on the slopes? if so, where have you found them so I can compile a list of places to avoid lol :wink:

toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:05:46 GMT

karen72 wrote:yes sorry another bladder issue! lol,not that I am paranoid or anything but following on from my "shewee" debate, I was a bit worried about some of the replies that I got about peeing over holes in the ground. Is this the case? (I am going to Valmorel) do they have these in mountain restaurants or in normal restuarants? sorry to ask these questions but i have never been to France before and the thought of having to squat over one of these holes in the ground, with my ski boots, salopettes and thermals on whilst trying to hold my jacket in one hand and toilet paper in the other, just doesnt fill me with glee :shock:

is it regular to find these types of toilets on the slopes? if so, where have you found them so I can compile a list of places to avoid lol :wink:

Karen You should be Ok in Valmorel I can't remember any dodgy toilets the last hole in the ground I used was in Bormio in Italy many years ago, so fear not many cold seats await you. :wink:

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:53:31 GMT

Karen I can't remember the last time I saw a hole in the floor toilet in Europe. I think they are very few and far between these days.

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:03:08 GMT

Saw one in Tignes last time I was there. Public loos are often porcelain standers'. French restaurant loos, may have doors and seats, but quite often have coin slots or an attendant to harrass folk for money.

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:12:29 GMT

Karen,
I was really shocked to see one in the newish sports centre in Val Thorens. It's a really huge modern complex of undercover shops with a swimming pool etc. but the toilets were definitely holes in the floor :shock:

I'm afraid I didn't even attempt to use them, but went off to find some other ones, which I found in the shower/changing area for the sports hall.

Ally

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:13:19 GMT

Brimster wrote:Karen I can't remember the last time I saw a hole in the floor toilet in Europe. I think they are very few and far between these days.

You don't drive much? They are all the way up and down the French Autoroutes.

toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:26:06 GMT

Ian Wickham wrote:

karen72 wrote:yes sorry another bladder issue! lol,not that I am paranoid or anything but following on from my "shewee" debate, I was a bit worried about some of the replies that I got about peeing over holes in the ground. Is this the case? (I am going to Valmorel) do they have these in mountain restaurants or in normal restuarants? sorry to ask these questions but i have never been to France before and the thought of having to squat over one of these holes in the ground, with my ski boots, salopettes and thermals on whilst trying to hold my jacket in one hand and toilet paper in the other, just doesnt fill me with glee :shock:

is it regular to find these types of toilets on the slopes? if so, where have you found them so I can compile a list of places to avoid lol :wink:

Karen You should be Ok in Valmorel I can't remember any dodgy toilets the last hole in the ground I used was in Bormio in Italy many years ago, so fear not many cold seats await you. :wink:

Wickers why were you in the women s toilets :roll:

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:26:35 GMT

shouldn't raise any problems for a skier, consider it strength training :-) and they're more hygienic you know...

toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:33:47 GMT

brooksy wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:

karen72 wrote:yes sorry another bladder issue! lol,not that I am paranoid or anything but following on from my "shewee" debate, I was a bit worried about some of the replies that I got about peeing over holes in the ground. Is this the case? (I am going to Valmorel) do they have these in mountain restaurants or in normal restuarants? sorry to ask these questions but i have never been to France before and the thought of having to squat over one of these holes in the ground, with my ski boots, salopettes and thermals on whilst trying to hold my jacket in one hand and toilet paper in the other, just doesnt fill me with glee :shock:

is it regular to find these types of toilets on the slopes? if so, where have you found them so I can compile a list of places to avoid lol :wink:

Karen You should be Ok in Valmorel I can't remember any dodgy toilets the last hole in the ground I used was in Bormio in Italy many years ago, so fear not many cold seats await you. :wink:

Wickers why were you in the women s toilets :roll:

Unisex :oops:

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:34:59 GMT

benny12345 wrote:shouldn't raise any problems for a skier, consider it strength training :-) and they're more hygienic you know...

They are a disgusting experience, you get splashes on boots and clothing :roll: Invariably an earlier user has used the same stall incorrectly, and left the evidence :shock: :oops:

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:56:30 GMT

I really can't stand the holes in the floor toilets. Came across one in Serre Chevalier last year, and was no amused.

Quite a few in Bormio too!

I also came across quite a few squat pedestal toilets, which are at least a bit easier to use!

I cross out the restaurant on the piste map if they don't have a nice toilet.

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:06:34 GMT

bandit wrote: You don't drive much? They are all the way up and down the French Autoroutes.

I obviously don't get out much :oops:

Seriously though I can't remember the last time I saw one in Europe, granted I usually fly than drive and haven't skiied France. In fact on my round the world trip I only found hole in the floor toilets in Malaysia and that was out of 18 countries!

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:17:59 GMT

Its defo more of a French thing rather than european thing, but yes Karen - get used to it as thats what you are likely to find.

Holes in the ground, small toilets with saloon doors, and people expecting you to pay for the privelage too.

Interestingly, we didnt come across any in ADH, but then we tended to use one particular restaurant and our chalet to be honest. Mrs H did complain about the hole in the ground in several mountain cafes in Serre Che last year.

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:33:49 GMT

There is just a technique to using them this is what you do.......

1. Carefully drop sallos and any under garments you may be waring

2. Hook your arm through your sallo braces so they do not flap behind you or it could end up messy.

3. Slightly squat at 45 degrees.

4. Remember right arm holding the sallos braces and left arm behind you against the wall or system pipe

5. Now you should be at the correct angle for a successful number two's

6. Mission accomplished :lol: :lol:

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:13:59 GMT

Karen,

I must have been very lucky as the last time the hole in the floor loos were a problem in a ski resort for us was in Italy.

You do find them in France, but in my experience they've been few and far between, though in some public loos you actually get a choice between them and normal ones.
Seems some people must prefer them! :shock:

They are at the stops off the motorways, but easier to use if not in ski gear and if you stop at the service stations you are unlikely to find them.

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:43:05 GMT

Very common in the Middle East. Even more confusing when there is no toilet paper and just a hose in its place :shock:

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:46:41 GMT

This is going to get messy.

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:54:40 GMT

Japanese bullet trains have both. I always go for the sit down option!

Its a nightmare when you're skiing, its never happened to me, but imagine being in the 'one hand on the wall' position when your boots lose traction with the suspiciously wet floor......

Another tick in the box for Austria as far as I'm concerned, most of their bogs are classified blue (easy/beginners)!!!

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:54:57 GMT

Pablo Escobar wrote:Very common in the Middle East. Even more confusing when there is no toilet paper and just a hose in its place :shock:

And in Mumbai airport holes in the floors, bad smells and a lady handing out toilet paper. Ugh!

And in the Italian ski resort it was very messy..someone had had a bad night and should've stayed in bed I reckon.... :cry:

My daughter slipped and we had to throw her top away as I just couldn't look at it again...

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:02:36 GMT

Its got messy now.

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:55:50 GMT

Ian Wickham wrote:There is just a technique to using them this is what you do.......

1. Carefully drop sallos and any under garments you may be waring

2. Hook your arm through your sallo braces so they do not flap behind you or it could end up messy.

3. Slightly squat at 45 degrees.

4. Remember right arm holding the sallos braces and left arm behind you against the wall or system pipe

5. Now you should be at the correct angle for a successful number two's

6. Mission accomplished :lol: :lol:

Wickers, you put your heart & soul & a whole lot more into that post. Brilliant.

Finn

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:07:54 GMT

well this post has certainly made me curious...the last squatter I came across on the ski slopes was one in La Thuille in the lift station at the bottom (excuse me) a really new one ...they are a bit awkward so I have done some research...

http://www.metaefficient.com/bathroom-products/squat-toilets-composting-toilets-bidets.html

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/squat-poop/

makes you think ...

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:17:27 GMT

daved wrote:well this post has certainly made me curious...the last squatter I came across on the ski slopes was one in La Thuille in the lift station at the bottom (excuse me) a really new one ...they are a bit awkward so I have done some research...

http://www.metaefficient.com/bathroom-products/squat-toilets-composting-toilets-bidets.html

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/squat-poop/

makes you think ...

My knees could not cope with that squat poop position :wink:

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:26:21 GMT

I absolutely loved those links, especially the comments:

Guys, push your dangly bits through your lap and make sure they're pointing down.

:lol:

Class 8)

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:35:57 GMT

bandit wrote:I absolutely loved those links, especially the comments:

Guys, push your dangly bits through your lap and make sure they're pointing down.

:lol:

Class 8)

Also very difficult with a semi on

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:17:38 GMT

Ian Wickham wrote:There is just a technique to using them this is what you do.......

1. Carefully drop sallos and any under garments you may be waring

2. Hook your arm through your sallo braces so they do not flap behind you or it could end up messy.

3. Slightly squat at 45 degrees.

4. Remember right arm holding the sallos braces and left arm behind you against the wall or system pipe

5. Now you should be at the correct angle for a successful number two's

6. Mission accomplished :lol: :lol:

You missed No. 7.

all the while singing "Staaaaaaaaaaaand and Deliver"

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:23:58 GMT

Haha, wow this thread is just something else !

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:43:08 GMT

Tony_H wrote:

bandit wrote:I absolutely loved those links, especially the comments:

Guys, push your dangly bits through your lap and make sure they're pointing down.

:lol:

Class 8)

Also very difficult with a semi on

I'm not sure you should be telling people that you get a 'semi on', especially in the gents.

Should Admin change your name to 'George Michael'?

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:50:59 GMT

Coop - is your mind permanently in the gutter?

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:53:08 GMT

Eljay wrote:Coop - is your mind permanently in the gutter?

I think Tony was there 1st, at least today :shock:

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:53:22 GMT

Coop - is your mind permanently in the gutter?

Only on days when I'm not skiing.

So, that'll be most days :lol:

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:30:04 GMT

Ian Wickham wrote:There is just a technique to using them this is what you do.......

1. Carefully drop sallos and any under garments you may be waring

2. Hook your arm through your sallo braces so they do not flap behind you or it could end up messy.

3. Slightly squat at 45 degrees.

4. Remember right arm holding the sallos braces and left arm behind you against the wall or system pipe

5. Now you should be at the correct angle for a successful number two's

6. Mission accomplished :lol: :lol:

haha ian, when i first started reading it I half expected you to say, and left hand green, right foot blue, it started to sound like a game of twister.

I think what I should do is get a catheter bag fitted before I go. I work in a hospital so it shouldnt be a problem lol. :wink:

Maybe I should get one of those shewees after all lol or just not drink anything after leaving the apartment.

I just hope that I dont come across any of those toilets.

Also if the long drops only have stable doors and you are squatting surely you can see underneath? :oops:

thanks for the replies.
Karen

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:47:00 GMT

Karen,
Seriously, don't worry about it. It really won't be an issue.

I reckon though that the squatty loos would have a full length door. We aren't that different form the people across the water you know. I bet they hate em too.

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:15:02 GMT

Memory of having to walk past all the (occupied) standers, to get to the hole in the floor with a saloon swing door :mrgreen: Must be a memory of skiing France. Trying not to stare..failing :lol:

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:38:50 GMT

bandit wrote:Memory of having to walk past all the (occupied) standers, to get to the hole in the floor with a saloon swing door :mrgreen: Must be a memory of skiing France. Trying not to stare..failing :lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:47:30 GMT

I've only seen one in Perigueux in the Dordogne and didn't use it :shock:

*politely put mode*
I've never seen one on the mountains, but we do make the odd refreshment stop where the facilities are, I've found, quite respectable and I've never been so desperate as to go to extreme measures.
*end politely put mode*

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:49:16 GMT

The only 'hole in the floor' toilets that I have come across was in ADH recently. It was the ladies toilets in Les Bergers center. They had full length lockable doors I am happy to report! :thumbup:

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:16:59 GMT

I've seen alot of these in Serre Ch.....they are ok when you get used to them. Didn't think i'd ever come arcoss them in Europe until I went skiing in France. I first used them driving across Russia, and trust me the one's I found in France are alot higher standard. I still have nightmares about one's in Russia!

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:13:37 GMT

Finn wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:There is just a technique to using them this is what you do.......

1. Carefully drop sallos and any under garments you may be waring

2. Hook your arm through your sallo braces so they do not flap behind you or it could end up messy.

3. Slightly squat at 45 degrees.

4. Remember right arm holding the sallos braces and left arm behind you against the wall or system pipe

5. Now you should be at the correct angle for a successful number two's

6. Mission accomplished :lol: :lol:

Wickers, you put your heart & soul & a whole lot more into that post. Brilliant.

Finn

IMO not that clever as there's no mention of how you would hold & read a newspaper :roll:

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:47:40 GMT

here are a few we haven't seen on the slopes

http://smilepanic.com/index.php/fun/34-crazy/91-weird-toilets-urinals-and-sinks-from-around-the-world.html

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:00:39 GMT

daved wrote:here are a few we haven't seen on the slopes

http://smilepanic.com/index.php/fun/34-crazy/91-weird-toilets-urinals-and-sinks-from-around-the-world.html

Some of these are absolutely brilliant :D :lol:

Re:toilets on the french slopes

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:08:28 GMT

would need a shee wee to use some of them :oops: :oops: :oops: