What's wrong with using facilities?

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I don't run a power station on wheels!
I don't like having a one minute shower in a broom cupboard which will invariably leak to areas I cannot see!
I don't like emptying the cassette when it has poo in it!
I do like a hot shower if it is clean - not all are!
I do like to use a clean loo - not all are!
I do like value for money!!
So if the facilities are there why not use them if they do not add a ridiculous amount to the cost.
The seems to be an underlying feeling amongst some that off grid is the only way to go and if I choose to use EHU or site showers then there is something wrong with me.
I am happy to use stellplatze or Aires but the quality and cleanliness varies drastically between countries.
Price also varies dramatically - we had an extended stay on great site near Lorient for six nights for €93. Then having to unexpectedly return to UK early we stayed at a regular haunt near Polzeath we had to pay £30 per night.
Both were spotlessly clean, had EHU and were near sandy beaches and bars and restaurants.
So why wouldn't I plug and use their facilities?
I could have stayed disconnected and used my loo but chose not to!
We will return to Europe in September and will no doubt use a variety of overnight options.
 
Personally speaking we don't run a power station on wheels because we go out and talk to our friends or read books.

As for the I minute shower in a broom cupboard, nonsense. If you have a whoosh bang I can see what your gripe is, but for me, a person that sleeps au natural to get out of bed, walk passed my full size shower to get dressed to venture out to a shower block in either rain or shine I frankly what could be a ramshackle shower block to walk back to the van. I choose to get out of bed, take a 4 minute shower at a temperature a choosenthe dry myself off and get dressed. All in the warmth and comfort of my A class motorhome. No contest.
Nothing wrong with whooshbang showers, unless of course your of the larger persuasion
But then a bigger van may required.
 
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Ha Ha, interesting how some people only read what they think they want to read and miss the detail. Glad I have stirred a few comments.
Well said Jim!
Who polishes your gold taps Eddie :giggle:
 
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"Mind you having a dump listening to other people fart, bubble and plop in adjacent stalls doesn't do it for me either, so a poo in a Tupperware box would be preferable to listening and smelling strangers shit the other side of a flimsy stall"

Must admit that is not the Best way to start your Day listening to all that 😒😒😒

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I do both. Sometimes I go for facilities if it's cheap enough or there is no alternative but I am happy to use the facilities on board in other circumstances.

What I don't understand is the type of motorhomer who ONLY goes to full fat campsites and stay there for long periods. The mileage of many 2nd hand motorhomes suggests this kind of use. If this was all I wanted to do I think a caravan on a campsite is far more sensible.

For me the beauty of a motorhome is it's flexibility, quick set up take down and it's fully contained abilities. It's a touring vehicle.
why does a low mileage (I assume) mean spending lots of time on full fat sites, not using van facilities?
Our van (woosh bang) has a perfectly adequate shower and loo which we use. We use the van loo in preference to facilities blocks. I dont know how people can ensure that they dont poo in their van loo! If on a site with showers we MIGHT use them. We also dont shower every day.
Our van is four years old and has done 8600 miles. So for some a low mileage. But certainly not spent on full fat sites staying for long periods and using site facilities. Most of our stops are CL type sites, usually without facilities. We rarely stay more than three nights on a site, often only one. However, we dont go abroad and living in Lincs a three hour journey in any direction takes us to many different places, but probably only driving 150 miles.
 
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Just use your van how "you" enjoy it the most and thats the key thing. Enjoyment! If thats staying on a fully serviced manicured pitch on a site for £50 a night with a marble shower block or wild camping up an Alp hunting Marmots for your supper who cares? Well the Marmot protection police probably would but you get my point.

Its a shame to sometimes see people being ridiculed for the style of camping or van usage they do. WTF is that about?
 
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"Mind you having a dump listening to other people fart, bubble and plop in adjacent stalls doesn't do it for me either, so a poo in a Tupperware box would be preferable to listening and smelling strangers shit the other side of a flimsy stall"

Must admit that is not the Best way to start your Day listening to all that 😒😒😒
 
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fart, bubble and plop ,( wonderful description) , is the same for all nationalities girls or boys ,
no translation needed !

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Mind you having a dump listening to other people fart, bubble and plop in adjacent stalls doesn't do it for me either, so a poo in a Tupperware box would be preferable to listening and smelling strangers shit the other side of a flimsy stall
Still remember it now, New Year and away for the week at Moreton in Marsh, busting for a crap and walked to the toilets. Doing a poop in the cassette was emergencies only.

Hit with the stink wall of other peoples plops as I entered, began to queue as it was busy. The smell was making me gag, I soon got used to one Richard the 3rd, then it was replaced with another.

I have cleaned every type of bodily fluid up, I mean every one! This was something else, like a swarm of freshly produced faecal matter entering my nose.

With relief I got an empty cubicle, flushed, clean and brushed and I sat down to add to maelstrom. The seat was too warm, freshly so, then all the plopping noises from adjacent cubicles, sounded like a disgusting orchestra of bum wetting splashes.

I couldn’t expel what I came for as I realised I had a private, lovely plastic receptacle in the caravan.

I pulled my trousers up and haven’t pooped in facilities since. 🫣
 
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I don't run a power station on wheels!
I don't like having a one minute shower in a broom cupboard which will invariably leak to areas I cannot see!
I don't like emptying the cassette when it has poo in it!
I do like a hot shower if it is clean - not all are!
I do like to use a clean loo - not all are!
I do like value for money!!
So if the facilities are there why not use them if they do not add a ridiculous amount to the cost.
The seems to be an underlying feeling amongst some that off grid is the only way to go and if I choose to use EHU or site showers then there is something wrong with me.
I am happy to use stellplatze or Aires but the quality and cleanliness varies drastically between countries.
Price also varies dramatically - we had an extended stay on great site near Lorient for six nights for €93. Then having to unexpectedly return to UK early we stayed at a regular haunt near Polzeath we had to pay £30 per night.
Both were spotlessly clean, had EHU and were near sandy beaches and bars and restaurants.
So why wouldn't I plug and use their facilities?
I could have stayed disconnected and used my loo but chose not to!
We will return to Europe in September and will no doubt use a variety of overnight options.
I think you should just 'do you'.
For me; freedom (on a moho adventure), is about going with the flow of a particular day and, so long as it doesn't impinge on other's lives, it should be perfectly OK. Using a site's facilities can bring extra advantages - no need to clean the Moho shower or WC, for one but, also, the potential to meet others who we might otherwise never meet. (I don't mean in the shower or chatting from one trap to another btw, but outside those, in the general social interaction that may occur.

The OP has given me an idea though. I wonder whether someone, potentially me, with a supposedly 'power station moho' could carry backup batteries to assist those whose juice is run out?! OK so I have an active imagination but, just like London bikes; I wonder about whether a few would carry such batteries (rather than them sitting on a stand, as do the bikes) so that anyone who's in need of a boost can get one without too much difficulty or delay.
 
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Strewth, how much poo do yu produce Eddie ... are you full of it? :giggle:


Errrrrr ... isn't there a little fly in that bit of ointment now though Eddie seeing as you don't own the businesses anymore? Or did you put a specific clause in the sale contract to allow you to do it still? :LOL:
I still employ staff, a maid, chef, gardener and car valet

Although I have started cooking Sunday roast

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Never use site facilities, Eddie has it spot on, plus it doesn’t matter how clean they are first thing in the morning, by the time they’ve been used, pee’d in, wet floors etc, I’d rather go grubby. I also don’t want to sit on a toilet seat that’s also had some hairy strangers butt sat on it, nor dangle my gigantically huge and long winky down the front of a bowl that’s had the same hairy strangers bit dangling in. Plus most men are filth bags when on a site and seem to leave their brains at home and the stains, skids and pee on the floor is a big no no for me thanks chef.

I purposely brought the van I have now, because I liked the shower and the toilet and like that it’s only my dangly bits in it, although I usually have to open the blade to take the dangle 🙄🤭😀:pinocchio:

But as been said already, the joy of having the freedom to make a choice is what makes it so worth while 👍🏻
 
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So if the facilities are there why not use them if they do not add a ridiculous amount to the cost
I guess it is because very often, and seemingly increasingly so, the cost in the UK is just that - excessive.

Its a classic way of businesses making money - bundle a load of things into the price - keeps it simple, and if people pay without using it, you’re even more quids in.
The facilities arent just “there” - they dont appear out of thin air - they are paid for by customers through an increased nightly rate. If you like that then fine👍
We prefer something a little less organised and dont enjoy paying (again) for stuff we’ve got in the already expensive campervan.
 
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so there's no point in spending a load of dosh just to keep up with the Jones etc.

What have the Jones's bought now? I hate it when they buy something I haven't got, or didn't think about buying ..😁

This 'keeping up' business is only possible if you actually know what the Jones's have bought ....
 
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I not infrequently come back from ladies loos having a rant about loo paper or sanitary towels on the floor, do they leave them on the floor at home rather than in the bin? Infuriating as well as disgusting. Not just campsites of course.

At my gym recently I found a lump of chewing gum on the shower wall.
 
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I not infrequently come back from ladies loos having a rant about loo paper or sanitary towels on the floor, do they leave them on the floor at home rather than in the bin? Infuriating as well as disgusting. Not just campsites of course.

At my gym recently I found a lump of chewing gum on the shower wall.
Spearmint or Tutti-Frutti? 😁
 
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We’ve never used the site facility’s but we’ve got a lovely bathroom and shower a pleasure to use having camped for many years and motorcycled we think it’s heaven having our facility’s and we can be wasteful with our water still last 3 days and part of the life is Empty &Full and off you go Eddie I have to empty and wash my own havent got any staff now🤪and@gillbaro you do it your way nobody minds one little bit👍

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