Marina toilets, a moan.

[Seajet]

I'd rather the marina staff took lines, allocated berths rather than clean bogs. But I take your point.

I must say I feel the opposite, I can find a berth and tie up ta very much, but after stumping up my extortionate fee I don't expect to have to clean bogs !

 

[Sans Bateau]

Fairly obvious for a selfish person - if it's your own loo at home, you're going to have to use it again and it will still be in the state you left it. If it's a public loo, you will either never use it again, or by the time you do someone will have cleaned it.

Pete

Just about sums it up.

 

[dylanwinter]

As my school master used to say

"either you are part of the solution or you are part of the problem"

the obvious answer is to leave the loo better than you found it

so clean it before you use it and afterwards if necessary

moaning about marina staff is not really being very helpful

D

 

[AuntyRinum]

Odd people use marina heads. I remember at Brighton once that the toilets were out of action for a day. The plumbing detectives arrived and discovered that someone had managed to push a towel down a toilet which had blocked the main pump, putting the whole block out of action.
How are they supposed to prevent that?

 

[LittleShip]

I don't often use marinas, but in the past couple of years I have been in to Largs, Port Bannatyne, Portavadie, Ardfern, Mallaig, Stranraer, Carrickfergus, Bangor, Kirkcudbright and Girvan. In every case the toilets have been clean at all times I have used them - except for Girvan, which doesn't have any, and even then the council cludgie in the car park opposite was fine.

Conclusion: Southerners are pigs.

Does Stranrear still have the visitors book.

Tom.

 

[Sans Bateau]

As my school master used to say

"either you are part of the solution or you are part of the problem"

the obvious answer is to leave the loo better than you found it

so clean it before you use it and afterwards if necessary

moaning about marina staff is not really being very helpful

D

Indeed it has nothing to do with the staff or the location or the bricks and mortar which the marina is constructed of. A perfect marina on a perfect location with perfect staff would suffer the same, its the people who visit which is the problem.

 

[Seajet]

OK, let marinas fit barbed wire and gatling guns to see off visitors even if waving £ mega pound notes and credit cards, the funds from which may well see the whole company through the winter.

I for one am very prepared to do a 180 if I get a snotty reply, my lift keel boat can go almost anywehere, we have a cooker and beer aboard so up theirs ! - This has happened...

 

[SimbaDog]

Simple solution, fit cameras in them

 

[LionsDen]

I understand from the cleaners @ Haslar Marina that someone took a dog into the shower to wash him or her down and left a dog turd in there afterwards - How quaint.

 

[xyachtdave]

I understand from the cleaners @ Haslar Marina that someone took a dog into the shower to wash him or her down and left a dog turd in there afterwards - How quaint.

Straight to execution for the owner of the dog!

 

[l'escargot]

I understand from the cleaners @ Haslar Marina that someone took a dog into the shower to wash him or her down and left a dog turd in there afterwards - How quaint.

That must have been a challenge with those cubicle showers and the shower heads fixed 6' up the wall ? You'd think it would've been easier to hose the beast down on the pontoon...

 

[LionsDen]

That must have been a challenge with those cubicle showers and the shower heads fixed 6' up the wall �� You'd think it would've been easier to hose the beast down on the pontoon...

You get all sorts in there that is why I use the facilities on board :biggrin-new:

 

[pvb]

I've been at MDL Brixham Marina for the last week, and was impressed by how clean the facilities were - even at the height of the season. Very impressive. Moved yesterday to Brighton Marina, which used to have good clean toilets and showers, but no longer sadly.

 

[Corribee Boy]

Yes, Brixham seem to constantly clean through the day, which makes pleasant to use - handy, as 'bucket and chuckit' doesn't work in a crowded marina!

 

[JumbleDuck]

Does Stranrear still have the visitors book.

In the cludgie? Yes indeed.

 

[JumbleDuck]

At least in most marinas people know what they're *supposed* to do which is more than can be said for the London IT ghetto of a certain retail bank...even the clipper lot at royal clarence didn't prepare me for the khasis in this place..

If the owners of toilets fitted plugs there would be a lot less paper stuffed into plug 'oles.

 

[JumbleDuck]

I understand from the cleaners @ Haslar Marina that someone took a dog into the shower to wash him or her down and left a dog turd in there afterwards - How quaint.

A friend of mine runs a visitor attraction in Scotland which includes a viewing tower to treetop height. He assures me that staff have to remove human turds from the tower most days. And, as another friend of mine who ran a hotel said, "You learn a lot about human nature when you discover that people steal the disinfectant cubes from urinals."

 

[MrB]

I've been at MDL Brixham Marina for the last week, and was impressed by how clean the facilities were - even at the height of the season. Very impressive. Moved yesterday to Brighton Marina, which used to have good clean toilets and showers, but no longer sadly.

Brighton does have a lot of live-aboards, maybe that's why.

 

[dylanwinter]

Brighton does have a lot of live-aboards, maybe that's why.

perhaps a low loader or maybe even the royal engineers might help

D

 

[MrB]

perhaps a low loader or maybe even the royal engineers might help

D

Maybe, i just noticed a live-aboard boat for sale on ebay i think, stating it was part of the "live-aboard community" in Brighton and quoting the monthly marina fees. Best marina position too apparently. I'll try and find it.