Paying to use the toilet.

its me_330 · 11-08-2014 03:39AM

Every public toilet in cork expect pubs and restaurants that I have used have a 20cent slot on the door. I jst wait for someone to come out and go in for nothin😄 Call me a cheap skate if ye want but im not goin to pay unless im really caught short&#55357;🙌😆

Jesus Wept · 11-08-2014 04:07AM

If they are going to charge me and the place isn't in great nick, I am going to get my money's worth and piss all over the place.

Tarzana · 11-08-2014 04:50AM

is mise spartacus wrote: »

I presume it's for maintenance.

Which makes it maddening when you've to pay and the toilets turn out to be filthy. :mad:

Strawwwbreeezz wrote: »

Paid toilets are usually cleaner because they have an attendant.

I wish this were true. But I have not found this to be the case at all. Free loos are often cleaner.

Pablodreamsofnew · 11-08-2014 07:31AM

I charge 50 cent for visitors to use my toilet. What's wrong with that?

Pablodreamsofnew · 11-08-2014 07:33AM

whirlpool wrote: »

It's the same in Eyre Square shopping centre in Galway.

I would guess it's to help prevent the place getting vandalised but also to make money.

I miss Galway!

Pablodreamsofnew · 11-08-2014 07:33AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

The wise Galwegian who appreciates luxury knows you can walk though the Radisson carpark to the toilets for the lobby

You will not meet a single staff member

I Love this

whisky_galore · 11-08-2014 08:20AM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

which just proves that "normal" people are absolute cretins aswell. So many toilets in places I've worked in have been absolute ****holes. If people cant even the lift the seat or otherwise not foul all over a toilet they know they'll be using regularly I don't know what hope there is.

Or break locks on doors, break the bog roll holder, break off coat hanger and write 'words of wisdom' on the walls. Some people are just animals when they use a bog that's not their own.

Chinasea · 11-08-2014 08:36AM

Hootanany wrote: »

We pay for this service in our taxes reduce tax then i will be happy with this service withdrawn.

How's that then seeing as there are none?. Want everything for free, begrudge paying towards sevices and expect everything to be magic'd in. This attitude has assisted bankrupting the country.

Chinasea · 11-08-2014 08:36AM

Hootanany wrote: »

We pay for this service in our taxes reduce tax then i will be happy with this service withdrawn.

How's that then seeing as there are none?. Want everything for free, begrudge paying towards sevices and expect everything to be magic'd in. This attitude has assisted bankrupting the country.

Frank Lee Midere · 11-08-2014 08:59AM

The fact that you "pay your taxes" doesn't stop local government from charging for use - like a car park. Otherwise car owners are subsidised by everybody else.

With public toilets the only way it will work is to charge because you need to keep a lot of people away. Imagine a loo on Talbot street. Since people won't treat free toilets well, and complain about damaged public toilets the best thing is not to do them. Plenty around in private businesses which can charge or not. Up to them.

Kimbot · 11-08-2014 09:02AM

Im actually suprised by this thread, that charge has been in place now in Stephens Green for at least 13+ years now.

Rathfarnham shopping centre used to charge aswell, you put your money in the slot and the door opens.

There are numerous places around the country that charge so I just simply move on to a toilet that doesnt charge haha

shruikan2553 · 11-08-2014 09:32AM

Some of the replies about entitlement and ruining the country are hilarious. Its a ****ing toilet. Not a free car for everyone with coke and hookers.

darkpagandeath · 11-08-2014 01:36PM

Chinasea wrote: »

How's that then seeing as there are none?. Want everything for free, begrudge paying towards sevices and expect everything to be magic'd in. This attitude has assisted bankrupting the country.

We are paying for them now Via property tax. We were told this would be spent on local services. But oh wait it just goes into 1 giant pot again.

phasers · 11-08-2014 01:51PM

The Brown Thomas bathrooms are free and they have tellys in the walls.

ebbsy · 11-08-2014 01:56PM

I remember in Germany paying 50c or 1 euro for the jacks. They had security and were spotless.

Then again I would'nt fancy getting a baton across the head either.

Red Pepper · 11-08-2014 01:58PM

Dublin is shockingly poor for public toilets.

unseenfootage · 11-08-2014 01:59PM

Library toilet's in Galway are free plus you can always take a novel to read but I wouldn't recommend it.

Red Pepper · 11-08-2014 02:00PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

The wise Galwegian who appreciates luxury knows you can walk though the Radisson carpark to the toilets for the lobby

You will not meet a single staff member

A wiser Galwegian will walk straight in the front door and smile like they own the place and then proceed to test their sewage pipes to the max!

Drakares · 11-08-2014 02:13PM

Strawwwbreeezz wrote: »

Refusing to pay to use a private toilet on private property??? Freeman bullšhīt.

Paid toilets are usually cleaner because they have an attendant.

It's the norm in Germany and The Netherlands.

Is it? I have been living here over a year and I have never payed to use a public toilet.

unseenfootage · 11-08-2014 02:16PM

Drakares wrote: »

Is it? I have been living here over a year and I have never payed to use a public toilet.

You should get out of your house more often.

Tarzana · 11-08-2014 02:35PM

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Some of the replies about entitlement and ruining the country are hilarious. Its a ****ing toilet. Not a free car for everyone with coke and hookers.

Agreed. Loos are one thing I don't think you should need to pay for. Especially as paying ones tends to be filthy.

Also, would people get over Germany already? :pac:

chellyry · 11-08-2014 02:51PM

OSI wrote: »

The toilets mentioned are all in shopping centres. Where people go to spend money in shops that pay rent and maintenance fees. Do you go to a restaurant and expect to have to pay to use a toilet there to?

You don't tend to walk into a restaurant, use the toilet and walk straight out again, as many people do in shopping centres (Some people do this anyway though - I know). The maintenance fee for the toilets would be included in the bill in a restaurant. When you use the toilet in a shopping centre you haven't necessarily bought something in one of the shops.

I completely agree with charging a small fee to use the toilets. It costs money to supply them with toilet roll, soap etc. and in Arthurs Quay in Limerick there is an attendant there most of the time. She needs to be paid too, and in fairness to her as public toilets go they're quite clean. 20c isn't going to break the bank.

Fred Swanson · 11-08-2014 03:10PM

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chellyry · 11-08-2014 03:26PM

OSI wrote: »

The maintenance fee for the toilets in the shopping would be included in your purchase price, part of which goes to rent and maintenance.

But you haven't necessarily bought anything in the shopping centre, particularly if it's in the city centre. I can only really speak of the one in Limerick, but if you didn't have to pay for that one a lot of people would just stroll in use it and leave again, without buying anything in the any of the shops there. How is it funded then? 20c each isn't that much to us but for the amount of people that use it, it pays for keeping it clean and well kept.

ebbsy · 11-08-2014 03:57PM

Drakares wrote: »

Is it? I have been living here over a year and I have never payed to use a public toilet.

It is

Paying to use the toilet.

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