Shoreside Toilet/Shower Facilities - Naming & Shaming

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How about a Forum dedicated to the bloody awful toilet/shower facilities we have to pay heavily for.
eg Cowes Yacht Haven - Shower area is a swamp which needs serious draining on a Sunday morning.
Shephards Wharf - only one year old, with filthy floors which do not drain, never get properly cleaned & open to all in sundry.
Why do we put up with it, when places like Yarmouth, most of the Hamble & Weymouth can do it properly.
Doesn't the IOW have any shame? What are the health inspectors doing about it?
How many of us bother to complain?

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Quite like what they do in Weymouth Marina. Bucket and mop in every shower room (room, not cubicle, with shower cubicle, sink, loo, draining floor etc). Endless supply of hot water with water pressure from shower head capable of causing numb areas on skin.

Immaculate, as just about everyone runs the mop over floor before they leave.

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Mayflower Plymouth very well looked after

I have always considered Cowes to be the worst of all..especially given the ststus of the place



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Newport very good, never use Cowes normally as I am a tight b-----d.

French now normally very good now eg Carentan but Honfleur is too small considering it has to serve Motor Caravans as well as visiting yachts.

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Cowes Yacht Haven has to be the worst in the world. Last 2 times we had no hot water. Never again will I go there and I always recommend that friends do no go there.

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Had the misfortune to be at East Cowes this weekend, £20.50, another £3.00 if I wanted electricity. The showers and toilets were disgusting. Resembled the floor of a barbers with a roof that leaked. Would have been better off going for a swim. Mind you, ever been to Warsash, thats so bad I just believe that I dreamt that visit.

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You lot are luuucky!
Here at Oare Creek we have a cardboard box, no hot water, corrogated roof, paper if you're lucky. Showers? What are they? Don't know where the effluent goes but it's very muddy here.
Briani

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Yarmouth (shower heads) were ok this weekend, they seem newish this year, these still have to be the best facilities, at least you have some room to move in the cubicle.

For 'bad' facilities, how about Dolphin Marina in Poole, Bembridge (mile walk)?

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agreed re mayflower- bathroom suites, not just loos & showers

haslar almost as good

but for the wooden spoon, Port Edgar (firth of forth). cold & stinking!

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Yes Haslar was good on the lightship a couple of weeks ago, for the others it's ages since I was at any of them. Mind you for my £33 for a night at Haslar I deserved it, the cost has put me off marinas, swinging moorings I can run to, my own anchor best.

Marinas are a convenient place to leave from, but it's a sad person who goes to one by choice.



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Don't tell everyone about Mayflower....lets keep it a closely guarded secret!!!!
Especially the "Super-loos".....were as clean as always when I left yesterday afternoon, apart from one which had been left in such a "sh*t-order" state be the occupant that the marine staff were on the way to his boat to "ask" him to go back and clean it up!!!!!!!1
Yeeeaaayyy!!!!!!!
Nick


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CGull
Don't tell everyone about Mayflower....lets keep it a closely guarded secret!!!!
Especially the "Super-loos".....were as clean as always when I left yesterday afternoon, apart from one which had been left in such a "sh*t-order" state by the previous user that the marina staff were on the way to his boat to "ask" him to go back and clean it up!!!!!!!
Yeeeaaayyy!!!!!!!
Nick


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My top three worst places for a shower:

1. Yacht Club(Ha! if this is an Egyptian yacht club we should never have given them back their canal) at Port Said. Floor permanently awash, with uneven and broken tiles, complete with random jaggy bits of metal sticking out of the floor and lots of unfinished wiring, some of which made strange/worrying sizzling noises. On the plus side there was plenty of hot water.......

2. Monklands Sailing Club (Especially in mid-winter). You can tell it's below zero because the drips/icicles from the leaking roof stop giving you St. Vitus' dance, and you need to break through the ice/slime crust to get the drain working. I think Porton Down used the shower trays for culture samples. All these delights housed in a drafty shed with grills AND bars over the windows, a steel door and a ten foot high barbed-wire topped steel picket fence to keep the local wildlife at bay. Occasionally the aforementioned neds would amuse themselves by floating barrels on the reservoir and using them for target practise for a shotgun. If they were very bored, and someone left their dinghy too near the fence, a little molotov cocktail party soon warmed things up a bit.

3. Sunsail base at Milina(sp?) in the Volos gulf. Not bad on the sanitation side of things, but the solar water heater was too small, so you ended up frozen.

cheers,
David

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