Best public toilet in the country?

[Ratti]

Had reason to avail myself of a public loo the other day.
South end of Otaki.
It was hilarious. Never, NEVER have I had a toilet talk to me!

Nice mans voice telling me I had 10 minutes before the door unlocked. Honestly, no pressure dude, but 10 minutes? and what happens if I need longer?

NO clock to tell how long I'd been inthere, DO i get a warning before the event or does it just fling open to reveal all?

It occurs to me that I could compile a list of 'must see' loos and arrange a road trip that would allow me to visit them all. COuld be a book in the making?

What toilets need to be on the list and why do you recommend them?
Do you have any memorable public loo moments?

I have one that involved a flatmate and a large amount of alcohol...

[marty]

sadly..... http://www.publictoilets.org/pt?context=0&item=19

[Ratti]

Not quite what I was after....

useful if it had more info..only 4 loos listed and no stories! or recommendations.

[Jizah]

Well you'd have to add the Hundertwasser toilets in Kawakawa. World famous they are.

[nudemetalz]

So,. let guess,...you heard the toilet talk and thought "oh crap"..... :lol:

[Scotty595]

Well you'd have to add the Hundertwasser toilets in Kawakawa. World famous they are.

They are good toilets :p

[Fatt Max]

The world is my toilet....and it's all good...!!!

[red mermaid]

The same speaking toilets are at Albany as well.

They also close at daily intervals and clean themselves...somehow!

[Monkeynz]

There are some public loo's in Balclutha that you don't even need to use your hands to do anything, well apart from wipe your butt or shaking the lizard. All done with sensors, so wave your hand here and soap comes out, wave your hands there and the water starts running, etc, etc, same with entry and exit. And apparently self cleaning, shame it didn't remove the graffiti too.....

[DougB]

Last week I had occasion to use the Hunterwasser toilet in Kawakawa. I had to wait for a bus load of tourists cleared the place. They were just admiring it. It is a huge tourist attraction well worth a visit. No straight lines to be seen, the floor is uneven. The roof is earth with plants growing on it. A wag got up there and planted a cannabis early on. He stopped my son from using a line when painting the plimsol line on his boat."Do it freehand I don't want any straight lines on my boat"

[McJim]

There are loads of trees in New Zealand. Do we really have to rate every single one? :rofl:

[LBD]

The two that I rate ...not for there speech, cleanliness or Gizmos are the Doc toilet at the Hodder Huts in Marlborough and the one at the old Dart hut but I suspect it has been up graded since my last visit....But eith dunny you could sit on for ages door open and admire the views....no need for a stack of MC mags for entertainment.

The other memorable ones but not in NZ were the newly installed porcelain urinals in the public carpark in Launcston on the UK...needed to stand on Tippie toes and squirt upwards over the rim...I am not tall but that height?

And lastly the urinal at a resteraunt in cullen bay Darwin...one way glass mirror....you stand there having a pee facing out over the other diners feeling completey exposed

[Ratti]

OMG...the one in Darwin sounds like a go! pity I don thave the equipment to use one standing up!

I like the sound of the fully automatic loos! could use one here at home, not much on housework and a teenage boy in residence...gross

what is it about boys that they feel the need to piss on the walls and up the seat?

[old fartz]

mcdonalds they are always clean and they are everywhere

[vifferman]

mcdonalds they are always clean and they are everywhere
The ones we used in some out-of-the-way place in California weren't that clean.
And their food wasn't too great. (Mind you, that's the first time I'd been to McD's in a very long time, and we only bought food because of the MutantTroglodyteSprogs...)
The ones in Wellington at Easter were marginally better, and the food was much better because we didn't buy any.

[nallac]

Well you'd have to add the Hundertwasser toilets in Kawakawa. World famous they are.

the biggest attraction to KawaKawa..

i did notice last time i was there,the WINZ building is the Biggest and flashest place there closely followed by the wholesalers..........

[EJK]

KFC Toilets.

Separated. Roomed. Toilet.

100% privacy guranteed.

[allycatz]

Well went to stop last week at Sanson desperate to go and the toilets arn't there anymore???? Not that i'd of rated them. Flat Hills north of Ohingaiti nice and clean

[Skyryder]

The best dunny in the country is the one you are in at your time of need.

But that arty one does raise the standard of the average bog.:eek5:


Skyryder


PS When last visiting SBP the I found myself in some marina up his way. Don't know the name of it but they were the cleanest I've been in.

They were spotless.

[Gwinch]

Definitely this one if it existed in New Zealand - http://www.icbe.org/2005/06/09/one-freaky-public-toilet/

[Tone165]

I had need of one in the late '80's...an emergency you might say...in Taihape!

It was the MOST disgusting place I have ever seen,,,and regrettably I will remember it till I die....reminded me of those prison movies where they lock ppl in those "hot boxes"

The other ones I will put forward were in Albert Park where there used to be free concerts (in the '70's) They were normally a hangout for gay men, and the walls were covered in, what these days would be "blogs" of the adventures that had happened in there.

Maccas etc, yeah..always clean.

Seems that a lot of Service stations now prefer to claim that the toilet is out of order......

[UberRhys]

There is clean one in Gordonton which looks like a little chapel. Nice place to stop, have a break refuel the body and purge. The ones at Mercer are also a clean stop with room to hang up your gear with out it having to sit in other peoples fluids - not that there is any... :-)

I don't like the automated ones as they open after a set time limit, sometimes with out warning, not very good when your a little gummed up after being in the saddle for a while. On top of that they only give you 6 or so squares of TP, not very good when you went for a vindaloo the night before...!

And on that - I just read this in Sideswipe: 'Margaret thinks the most irritating piece of technology she's come across was the talking toilet in the departure lounge at Auckland Airport. "This friendly toilet said something like, 'please leave the door slightly open when you leave. Thank you. Please come again.' I was surprised it didn't offer any comments on toilet paper usage or instructions on the best way to wash your hands!"'