Dublin Airport Toilets - welcome to Angola International Airport

jetsonx

Recently traveled through Dublin Airport.

Most of the electronic hand sensor taps did not work.

And just behind the taps you can see the metalware is now all nice and crusty black.

Really, I have not seen the likes of this in airports in places like Spain, Austria or Germany.

That is not a great introduction to the country or a parting memory.

Our average hotel rooms are something like €280 a night in Dublin. If the country is going to charge premium prices, surely our tourist infrastructure should also be premium and not looking like Angola International airport.

Count Dracula

You've obviously never been to LAX, Orly or Heathrow.

Get a Grip.

My last arrival back to Dublin was from Japan, the land of ultra clean toilets that actually flush, what a contrast. Toilets don’t fare too well in dear old Ireland, more especially when flushing mechanisms are poor and they are not cleaned regularly.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058296205/dublin-airport-toilets-welcome-to-angola-international-airport

Actually speaking of Africa, in Namibia they tend to clean the toilet after each use of it, it’s quite embarassing 😂

jetsonx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120589674#Comment_120589674

I think a country might get away with it in other locations.

However, if a international airport is the "good room" of a country, having non-working and crusty facilities really does not send out a good signal to visitors.

Yurt2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120589674#Comment_120589674

Japan does indeed do toilets well. But only because they are trying to psychologically cleanse themselves of the mass guilt of war crimes - and it finds expression in the national character via talking toilets that spray your bumhole with warm water at just the right temperature. Mr Yoshida, your caboose may be sparkling clean, but the shame of what you're grandfather did in the Dutch East Indies dishonours your family name for all time.

Maybe. That's my Slavoj Zizekian take on the Japanese toilet anyhow.

Star Bingo

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tinytobe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058296205/dublin-airport-toilets-welcome-to-angola-international-airport

I've noticed that as well, that most of the electronic hand sensors tabs don't work.

It's the value and price which isn't ok in Dublin, and Dublin airport only adds to that impression.

Euro 280 a night also get's you a lot more even in cities like London or Paris.

Complaining doesn't help much, it's always countered with "other cities and places are worse".

spurious

Why is it not possible in many public buildings (airports, cinemas, offices, schools) to get jacks seats that fit/are properly fitted?

In between (it seems) pissing all over seats, do people also swing their lardy arses around so much as to disconnect the fittings, leaving the jacks seat at an angle half hanging on to one post at the back?

jetsonx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120596681#Comment_120596681

It's actually hard to believe that an international airport will have toilets where the taps consistently don't work. This is not too long after a pandemic as well where the importance of hand washing message was widely conveyed.

And I agree, that sadly €280 spent a night in other "premium destination" cities will probably get you more than Dublin.

Beechwoodspark

There is an awful sewerage smell in some of the toilets in the airport too.

Awful advertisement or welcome to Ireland for tourists.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

No such thing as a good airport. Overpriced food and drink and you have to be there ages before your flight actually lives.

Guildenstern

It's the luck of the draw. You might find the toilets recently cleaned or not for a couple of hours.

Aren't they cleaned every 2-3 hours?

tinytobe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120597009#Comment_120597009

The thing is, even Madrid or Athens have their airports connected by a rail transport. In Dublin that has always been just talk and no execution.

And yes, the tabs at the airport are supposed to work. It's not only hygiene but also the question on the impression of the country.

I was surprised that even a youth hostel and a bed in a dorm in Dublin can be around 60 or 70 Euros even. Even in Frankfurt or in Munich in Germany you get a average hotel room for a night and a decent breakfast for that.

murpho999

Am I alone in not finding there to be any issue with the toilets in Dublin airport.

Plenty of theme there and they are clean.

This is just one of those posts you see that like run Ireland down for any reason and it gets tiresome.

Also, comparing to Angola shows that people have never been to a country like that.

ElJaguar

Dublin airport has become very grubby since covid, no question.

griffin100

I flew from Dublin to San Francisco and back last September. The difference between the 2 airports is unreal. Dublin was dirty, toilets were manky and hand driers and sinks didn't work. The waiting area before boarding USA flights was basic to say the leas. SF airport was the complete opposite, clean, airy and with lovely conformable seats to wait on before boarding (pity the city is such a dump).

jetsonx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120599162#Comment_120599162

So Mr and Mrs Tourist arrive in a grubby airport and then want to see the main street which is also grubby. They cross over O'Connell bridge which is manky with chewing gum. Then cross over the Hapenny bridge which is even worse on the manky-gum scale. And in the middle of this they get stopped about 3 times from people looking for spare change. Then they go back to their €280 a night hotel. Then next morning they get fleeced for an over-priced breakfast. What a great start to a holiday....

Nigel Fairservice

Dublin airport toilets are OK. Not the best but not the worst I've used. Japanese public toilets are amazing. I used one in a park and one in a subway station in Tokyo. You'd be expecting the worst but they were spotless. Pee everywhere in Irish ones. Colbert station in Limerick was an experience.

jetsonx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120601396#Comment_120601396

Having taps that don't work in an international airport is not ok, really.

I would not mind if it's a one-off. Or, even if the taps went kaputt a few times. But having taps in a major gateway into Ireland that consistently don't work not only detracts from, (to use that dreaded Americanism) "the customer experience", it also sends out a subliminal message that a lot of other things don't work in the country. And that's not a good image for any country to have.

tinytobe

The problem is that Irish people don't really like criticism. Oh, it's happening as well in other cities, in other countries in other airports, end of discussion.

The problem only is that at an airport you're talking to a traveller, and people who travel from one airport to the next are able to compare.