What a shower?

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I’m sitting out a gale in wonderful Lochmaddy, North Uist

The marina shower here is £1 for 2 minuted. It is a very nice shower: clean, warm, spacious.

How does this price compare to others around the coast?

Where is the most expensive marina PAYG shower in the UK?
 
Fascadale said:
I’m sitting out a gale in wonderful Lochmaddy, North Uist

The marina shower here is £1 for 2 minuted. It is a very nice shower: clean, warm, spacious.

How does this price compare to others around the coast?

Where is the most expensive marina PAYG shower in the UK?
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I dont know the answer to your question, but some years ago First Mate and I blued the £1.00 each to use the showers in the Salcombe Yacht Club.

When we met after showering I mentioned that my shower was like a fire hose and almost blasted me out of the cubicle.

She said hers was the same, almost to the point of being painfull. The following visit, all was normal.

So, the old Salcombe YC showers were probably the most powerful for the price!
 
It's been a long time since we used marina showers - we tend to use the showers on our boat now as they may be small and not very high flow, but all our wash kit is there and no need to tramp up and down the pontoon with clothes and towels.

And if the engine's been running there's hot water anyway and if not then 30 mins of the immersion heater from marina mains and it's done.
 
Port Bannatyne is £1 for seven minutes. The really important thing to know, though, is whether a PAYG marina shower is a turner-offer or a goer-colder. PB is a turner-offer.
 
Excellent showers at Loch Aline pontoons. £1 for a long 4 minutes. I do know of some places where there are FREE showers. (Not telling).:D
 
I can't remember paying for a shower at a British marina, or harbour for that matter. Certainly at clubs such as Salcombe, which is fair enough, but is thought that charging was one of those things that those dastardly Continentals did. 1 to 1.5 euros seems to be normal.
 
johnalison said:
I can't remember paying for a shower at a British marina, or harbour for that matter. Certainly at clubs such as Salcombe, which is fair enough, but is thought that charging was one of those things that those dastardly Continentals did. 1 to 1.5 euros seems to be normal.
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You will be pleased to hear that no Belgian marinas charge separately for showers.
Even in the Netherlands some marinas now charge an all inclusive price per night, although most still operate coins or token machines, not only for showers, but also electricity and sometimes even water.
 
johnalison said:
I can't remember paying for a shower at a British marina, or harbour for that matter. Certainly at clubs such as Salcombe, which is fair enough, but is thought that charging was one of those things that those dastardly Continentals did. 1 to 1.5 euros seems to be normal.
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It's been years since I have paid for a shower in France.
 
johnalison said:
I can't remember paying for a shower at a British marina, or harbour for that matter. Certainly at clubs such as Salcombe, which is fair enough, but is thought that charging was one of those things that those dastardly Continentals did. 1 to 1.5 euros seems to be normal.
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I'd expect a marina to include showers, and I don't think I've come across one in the UK that charged (Cherbourg used to, but hasn't for some years). But I don't think charging separately in a traditional mixed-use harbour, or somewhere like a West Country river, is unreasonable. In that sort of place I expect the mooring fee to cover only the mooring; the availability of showers is welcome but not assumed, and free ones are a bonus.

Yarmouth felt egregious because it's a de-facto marina, with marina-style showers in a reception building at the top of the pontoon ramp where they charge marina prices for a marina-style berth - yet still demanded coins in the slot in the ablutions. Fortunately they saw the light on that a couple of years ago.

Pete
 
A further update on the Lochmaddy shower:

£1 for 2 minutes but annoyingly the meter will only take one coin at a time. Thus one has to step out of the shower cubicle every two minutes resulting in a flooded floor followed by a dose of cold then very hot water . Unsatisfactory or what?

Marina price £2.50 per metre
 
westhinder said:
You will be pleased to hear that no Belgian marinas charge separately for showers.
Even in the Netherlands some marinas now charge an all inclusive price per night, although most still operate coins or token machines, not only for showers, but also electricity and sometimes even water.
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We also tend to shower on board, so I'm a bit rusty on Dutch and Belgian practices even though I've been that way for the last three years. My impression is that marina showers tend to be free, whereas yacht club marinas, such as at Gouda or Harlingen tend to charge. German marinas have largely gone to tally card systems, the entertaining bit being that they a all different and have different uses. The best is Cuxhaven, which is redeemable at all hours.
 
i have used the showers at queenborough YC, Medway YC and like our club showers are free. Used limehouse and St kats and theirs are included in the stay
 
Best showers I've used are Craighouse and Arinagour (in the new community hall). In both cases I will admit to using the disabled ones as I was the only one around! The Craighouse showers were very agricultural before the new block was built a few years ago. Managed to get away with just 3 minutes for £1 in Arinagour, but it was touch and go. Worst shower was probably The old Forge at Inverie, not cheap either as I recall. Once had a frustrating experience heading up Sound of Jura early season. Gigha showers were not working, Craighouse were in the middle of building the new block and had already decommissioned the old one, and when we got to Crinan the guy in the office mentioned that the meter was a bit dodgy and you had to insert the £1 coin just right with a bit of a spin to get it to work. I exhausted my supply of coins without managing it and had to get dressed again and get him to show me how it's done. He did refund the failed attempts though. Nothing better than a good shower after a few days away from civilisation, but going ashore full of expectation only to be thwarted is irritating. A bucket in the cockpit just doesn't cut it.
 
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