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20/7/2010 at 8:17am
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Quote: Originally posted by nikkid21 on 11/7/2010

I wear pj's & dressing gown on the way and just the towelling dresing gown on the way back as it dries me off.  I prefer to get dressed in the tent rather than hog a shower  or toilet stall when others are waiting. 

It drives me nuts when you only have a couple of showers on a site and some dossy women choose to take their own mirror in the shower stall and put a full face of make up on (as well as get dressed and fiddle with their hair) before they come out of the shower.  It's not their own private bathroom like the one at home


Oh yes the 'miss worlds of camping'. Cousin came with me camping and she came out the shower to find both plug sockets taken up with a young girl using a double plug for straighteners and phone charger she had her hair dryer plugged into the other one!!


21/7/2010 at 5:11am
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I'll be using showers on a campsite for the first time this August and I can guarantee now I will be wearing crocs each and every time, shared facilities are bad enough in a house let alone on a site with potentially hundreds of other people.

It isn't the cleanliness of the facilities that bother me... if ya know what I mean.


21/7/2010 at 7:42am
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I usually wear a t shirt and tracksuit bottoms to the showers, then get changed into my normal clothes once back at the caravan/tent. I have always worn flip flops in public showers too, have done since I was in school and we used the sports facilities at the local recretation centre. Teachers always advised this practice to reduce the risk of catching any foot infections and even though it might be rare that you catch anything I still prefer to wear them. 

Bit of a balancing act trying to get dressed and put your outside shoes on without putting bare feet on the floor but I'm used to it now.



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21/7/2010 at 8:52am
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Thank you to the very pretty lady staying at Dafarn Rhos last Friday, (or was it Thursday?) who came out of the shower wearing a very small towel which didnt quite meet and walked across to her motorhome.  You made my OH's morning!

On the occasions when I do use site showers, I wear joggers and tshirt there and back and change in the van.  I also take our shower mat (one of those plastic round ones that fits in our van shower) to step out on and so that I have a dryish surface to change on.



21/7/2010 at 11:33am
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I just hobble over in whatever I've shoved on when getting out of bed in the mornng tbh. Wouldn't dream of hobbling over in what I wear in bed coz, quite frankly it would scare children and animals and put humans off that s*x word for life! I sleep in me birfdee suit and it's in definite need of a good iron these days.

Howsomever, regarding the footwear issue. I only ever wear C***s anyhoo but take with me the ones I purely use as poolshoes when I go to the swimming pool so they're not likely to have any detritus from outside elements on 'em at any time. I daren't risk trying to stand and not fall over on wet surfaces with me being a decrepit and with dodgy bones, so I'm afraid for me, it has to be some sort of footwear in the shower too when on campsites or at swimming pools.

But I have also been known to only trot over to the showers in a large, (VERY LARGE), towel wrapped around me if I happen to have been for a swim first. I never risk having it drop off though, one hand on me walking stick, (flower powered natch), and t'other on towel



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23/7/2010 at 10:36pm
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Wow, I had no idea this thread would create this much of a stir! Many thanks to everyone for all their replies :-)


26/7/2010 at 1:05pm
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I wear my P.JS and dressing gown, also wear my crocs in shower!


26/7/2010 at 3:14pm
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I'm very germ aware so go to the showers fully protected at all times.

 

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26/7/2010 at 4:34pm
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Quote: Originally posted by cathyh on 19/7/2010
It's actually quite hard to catch verrucas from a camp site shower. Feet need to be well waterlogged and 'macerated' (as they are after spending half an hour in a swimming pool) and with cracks in the skin, to stand a chance of catching one. In addition, in a campsite shower, hopefully you are using soap with your water, which should effectively wash away virus particles.
I shower barefoot and wash my feet thoroughly.


Veruca's maybe, however fungal infections such as Athlete's Foot are very easy to pick up and a swine to shake off. The itchy/painful symptoms may take days to show up, by which time it has had time to spread further between your toes and transmit to other people as well.

Nasty little bugger, which I've had the misfortune to pick up in communal showers a couple of times, despite drying thoroughly and using anti-fungal talcum powders. Now it's a pair of dedicated rubber flip-flops in the towel bag every time for me.


26/7/2010 at 7:33pm
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Ah Damon, you beat me to it! As is so often the case, it's not the dirt you can see that you need to worry about. If someone tracks some grass and mud into the shower - well I can easily rinse that out. I don't fancy picking up a fungal foot infection, however.


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26/7/2010 at 8:43pm
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i wear a separate pair of flip flops in communal showers. It amazes me that so many people think it's ok to wear outdoor shoes in a shower. If the shower is good enough to clean any crud from your outdoor shoes, why do you bother wearing them at all? Surely you,d be ok without anything using that logic?

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Been camping for 40 years and have never thought to wear footwear in public showers. I have also never caught anything from a public shower.....well not that I know of! However after reading these posts I think I will start to wear my outdoor shoes too as I'm starting to feel the odd one out. I have thought of taking a shower mat just don't fancy carrying it back to the tent.

 

I tend to wear tracksuit bottoms and t-shirt to the shower and then get changed back in the tent. Otherwise I end up dropping all my clean clothes on the floor.



26/7/2010 at 9:21pm
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Absolutely agree with people wearing shower-specific flipflops or crocs into the shower if they have concerns about cleanliness, but showering in outdoor flipflops or crocs they've just tracked across a campsite in is pretty minging.

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26/7/2010 at 10:25pm
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Don't think wearing outdoor footwear in the shower is acceptable, if only for use in the shower then crocs or flipflops are alright. I don't think washing feet that have been trotting about barefoot is on either, I discourage my kids from doing this but if necessary hose down dirty tootsies with the solar shower first. Why worry about picking up something from a dirty shower when you've been running around barefoot? On grass where dogs have pooped, cats have p***ed, cars have driven over and someone has just wiped off the cow pat they trod on!!



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