The Dressing Gown Brigade

[TM59]

Posted on another thread, then thought it worthy of its own.

Why is it people with onboard facilities don’t use them. Surely in this day and age 99% of motorhomes and caravans are self contained. Toilet blocks should only be for campers. One of my pet hates people walking about campsites in dressing gowns. Each to there own.

 

[The general]

Sounds horrendous

 

[Ridgeway]

Don't spoil it, my only chance of seeing a bit of ankle these days.

 

[Landy Andy]

Some people are very fat, and some showers are very small
Some old farts don’t like hoses, and prefer watering cans
Some woman shed loads of hair whilst washing it, and use massive amounts of hot water


They are the reasons I can think of

But, for me

Live and let live.

 

[ambulancekidd]

Oh the sights you see when you don't have a gun.

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[David and Sally]

If the site facilities are good we will use them out of preference to filling with water then having to drain it.

That's also what we are paying for on a site too.

 

[steve 6644]

I think a lot of it is down to how much stress it is to clean up afterwards, especially the shower. The interior of some bathroom layouts defies all logic, melamine edging just waiting to get soaked and fall off, more or less the whole area needing to be wiped down dry. I use ours every time as I hate using site facilities but I do have to clean everything down afterwards. I had a strip wash in a bowl outside the van a few weeks back, brilliant, no splashed bathroom to clean up, plus an eye candy treat for the wife

 

[Gellyneck]

Each to there own.

You would appear to have answered your own question.

 

[Rachelc]

Why would you go to the bother of having to fill a water tank up and empty it and why wouldn't you use the facilities that you have paid for the luxury of using? Do you use the onsite toilet? I really don't see the difference. I would only use the MH shower if there was not an alternative.

 

[gus-lopez]

One of my pet hates people walking about campsites in dressing gowns.

Do you mean I have to take a dressing gown with me now?
In fact have I got to by one?

That's also what we are paying for on a site too.

That's why I don't use them.

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[Richard n Ann]

Our shower is only a small 'wet room' ok when no alternative. Used it about 4 times.

 

[pandas]

Posted on another thread, then thought it worthy of its own.

Why is it people with onboard facilities don’t use them. Surely in this day and age 99% of motorhomes and caravans are self contained. Toilet blocks should only be for campers. One of my pet hates people walking about campsites in dressing gowns. Each to there own.

Don’t understand the dressing gown thing either.

 

[TM59]

Why would you go to the bother of having to fill a water tank up and empty it and why wouldn't you use the facilities that you have paid for the luxury of using? Do you use the onsite toilet? I really don't see the difference. I would only use the MH shower if there was not an alternative.

I have always used the toilet and shower in all the vans I have owned. Why own a van if it is not fit for purpose.

 

[XxAnthxX]

eye candy treat for the wife

But who’s wife?

 

[Minxy]

I think a lot of it is down to how much stress it is to clean up afterwards, especially the shower. The interior of some bathroom layouts defies all logic, melamine edging just waiting to get soaked and fall off, more or less the whole area needing to be wiped down dry. I use ours every time as I hate using site facilities but I do have to clean everything down afterwards. I had a strip wash in a bowl outside the van a few weeks back, brilliant, no splashed bathroom to clean up, plus an eye candy treat for the wife

We need to be the judge of that ... photo evidence required please.

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[Minxy]

Do you mean I have to take a dressing gown with me now?
In fact have I got to by one?

For a minute I thought you were going 'al fresco' when walking to the block!

 

[chaser]

When I built ours the shower and toilet were the first things in, got to be right, then everything else had to fit round it, the main thing with ours is not to have to use showers and toilets that everyman and has dog have used before, even seconds before on sites.

 

[Themselves]

Posted on another thread, then thought it worthy of its own.

Why is it people with onboard facilities don’t use them. Surely in this day and age 99% of motorhomes and caravans are self contained. Toilet blocks should only be for campers. One of my pet hates people walking about campsites in dressing gowns. Each to there own.

You forgot to mention the Crocs. Dressing gown and crocs. Jeeves would certainly have a word or two to say.

 

[phase3begins]

Posted on another thread, then thought it worthy of its own.

Why is it people with onboard facilities don’t use them. Surely in this day and age 99% of motorhomes and caravans are self contained. Toilet blocks should only be for campers. One of my pet hates people walking about campsites in dressing gowns. Each to there own.

How about a thread about all the apparel we don’t like to see on site?
lets start with singlets , just saying

 

[TM59]

You forgot to mention the Crocs. Dressing gown and crocs. Jeeves would certainly have a word or two to say.

And the roll of toilet paper.

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[Geo]

I think a lot of it is down to how much stress it is to clean up afterwards, especially the shower. The interior of some bathroom layouts defies all logic, melamine edging just waiting to get soaked and fall off, more or less the whole area needing to be wiped down dry. I use ours every time as I hate using site facilities but I do have to clean everything down afterwards. I had a strip wash in a bowl outside the van a few weeks back, brilliant, no splashed bathroom to clean up, plus an eye candy treat for the wife

Do Fiamma do a bike rack mounted Tin Bath?

 

[Landy Andy]

When I built ours the shower and toilet were the first things in, got to be right, then everything else had to fit round it, the main thing with ours is not to have to use showers and toilets that everyman and has dog have used before, even seconds before on sites.

Why? Don‘t you like showering when you can hear men straining on the toilet, and smell their performance



We use are onboard facilities too, most of the time.

 

[XxAnthxX]

No don’t worry Cary.....the dressing gown is fine for the showers, it’s an independent site.

 

[Cheshirecat57]

You forgot to mention the Crocs. Dressing gown and crocs. Jeeves would certainly have a word or two to say.

Speedos and crocs in this mild weather

 

[chaser]

Why? Don‘t you like showering when you can hear men straining on the toilet, and smell their performance



We use are onboard facilities too, most of the time.

Actually no, never been one for multiple toilets, I suppose leading a life of working on my own and not been in army and gyms and stuff, it just doesn't appeal to me one little bit I'm afraid.

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[Kannon Fodda]

Quite happy to use my van's facilities and they've been great during this Covid stuff. The convenience of the onboard toilet is the real luxury of having the van. But in a PVC they are small, and I am a bit rotund, there is also a finite water supply and I do like to get drenched when showering. If I am on a site with good and clean amenities, especially shower, I'll take a walk. But I'd never wear a dressing gown on that walk.

 

[XxAnthxX]

It’s the social distanced queue outside that gets me

 

[Rachelc]

I have always used the toilet and shower in all the vans I have owned. Why own a van if it is not fit for purpose.

Who said anything about the van not being fit for purpose? You can't tell me that you can have the same shower in your van as you could in your house or in the campsite shower block.

Why go on a campsite and pay for facilities that you don't intend to use, or worse judge others for using facilities they have paid for?

 

[chaser]

Actually no, never been one for multiple toilets, I suppose leading a life of working on my own and not been in army and gyms and stuff, it just doesn't appeal to me one little bit I'm afraid.

In fact that's why I like vans in the first place.

 

[TM59]

Who said anything about the van not being fit for purpose? You can't tell me that you can have the same shower in your van as you could in your house or in the campsite shower block.

Why go on a campsite and pay for facilities that you don't intend to use, or worse judge others for using facilities they have paid for?

At no point have I judged others, I just asked Why. More facilities to use on sites other than the toilet block. As previously stated each to their own.

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