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Hi All,
Can you tell me what is the worst toilet you ever used on your travels.?
L.J

Low jack,

I reckon some of the worst toilets were acutually in western countries. Some bars late at night smell like the worst shithole along with a bit of chucked up beer. Of course, some 3rd world places may seem the worst...but i thing they are not so bad as long as you know how to clean your bum!

Cheers,

Rennie

French toilets for sure!!!
The more you pay to go, the worse they are.
Greetz, TP

The worst toilet has to be at the train station in Delhi. It was night when we arrived there and I had the misfortune of drinking a beer prior to the train trip...it was New Years Eve. The train stations are very spooky at night in India...surrhealistic with dim yellow lights. It was too scary to go find the toilet (hole) alone. Most of the locals were using the tracks for a toilet. A Chinese man went with me to look for the toilet. We found the toilets in a structure leaning up against a newstand. As I shined my torch into the structure, a rat ran out. I really had to go to the bathroom so I found the hole and went. That has to be the worst bathroom I've ever been in!

Corfu, the loo at the pier where you get onto the ferry to Brindisi. I chucked!!!!

China - Had to pay large sums of money to the attendent for using the "toilet" and one square of loo paper, then had to squat in a unisex shed over what appeared to be a pig trough, whilst trying to protect my privates from rats the size of small horses.

I remember one on the Annapurna Ciruit in Nepal. It was basically a shed with a pit inside. I'm used to strong smells, but when I opened the door the fumes were so strong I was almost knocked backwards. I couldn't actually use the toilet, a first for me!

A hut on a hillside next to some nameless coach stop on the route into Kashmir. It hummed as you approached. When you opened the door you found out why - a HUGE cloud of flies which had hatched in the heat escaped like a black swarm of bees. Inside was not even the customary hole, just piles of feaces heaving with maggots with two bricks thoughtfuly provided for you to stand on whilst you squated. We declined and used the toilet in the local police station which had a proper Coke can containing washing water next to a proper hole. Well you did ask.

i have to agree with everyone who claimed their worst toilets were in india. my worst potty experience was in the varanasi train station. if you have to question where the pool of blood on the floor of the women's bathroom came from, you have to assume the situation is not very good.

I'd have to say in Sarawak, on the island of Borneo. We were way out in the jungle and the toilet was a hole in the ground with a shed. That wouldn't have been so bad, except that the bees and wasps that flocked to the hole. I had at least 200 bees flying around my private parts while trying to get the job done. Talk about stage fright! Haven't experienced it, but have heard on more than one account, that the pig toilets in India are pretty disgusting.

Athens bus depot: we arrived in the middle of the night.....there were no lights, but I could tell there were dividers between the stalls because I walked into one, Feeling around the cubicle I could make out the dimentions, I didn't dare feel behind me to see where exactly the toilet seat was, if there was one, I couldn't tell, so as I was lowering my bottom to the 'don't dare touch the seat level' I could hear something/s moving on the floor I assumed it was the roaches/rats we were playing with earlier.....no doubt I dribbled on myself as I ran out.

are you aware of the open troughs that are behind cows in a barn? that is what they were like in China. . straddling them was some job. . and that is why I am wearing skirts next time I travel. .

While traveling through Germany I had the misfortune of feeling the effects of too much food and dunkel beer. So while flying low down the autobahn...I landed safely in a small rest area, dashed into the outhouse, where the place was miserably stained and smelly and had no paper. I was in shock to see such a mess in a country that felt so modern and clean everywhere else.

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Enough of bad experiences, anybody got funny ones?

You know you are not supposed to dunk the toilet paper back into the bowl in Greece. Me roomate just happened to do it by habit. Was just one piece actually but by reflex, the next thing he did was to try fish it out...

A 5 year bump!?

I could be mistaken, but I think that's illegal.

A BP gas station... you had to walk outside to go around to the bathroom, it had no door... evidently the toilet didnt flush, cause it was more sanitary to go out and find a bush!

Port-au-prince, I was really sick from something I ate & had to run through a"resteraunt"to find a toilet. It was a western-style toilet but there was no way to flush it, it just sort of drained on its own (and it was 98% full), and there was shit dripping down the sides of it and smeared all over the floor, and I *really* had to vomit, so I did into the toilet (WHY?!), splashing the most disgusting water EVER all over my upper region in the process, which only made me puke more, so at least I got it out of my system.
But next time I'll do it on the floor, thank you very much.

risingsun, that toilet description reminds me of Trainspotting.

well fortunately I never actually crawled into the thing..