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Last night I read a post about the above portable toilet on here and have since been trying to convince my husband that we should get one too.  I would like to get one for two reasons namely, we have two young children and I am not keen on using public loos.  We have a spare bedroom in our tent in which to house it.  My husband is concerned that it will smell.  We are newbies so far as camping is concerned and would appreciate knowledgable advice!  Thanks

Hi.

There are chemicals that you mix with the water in your tanks.One tank holds the flush mix and the other tank is for the soiled waste.We only use ours for passing of water I wouldn`t use it or empty it for anything else.the flush keeps it smelling nice so dont worry about that.Hope this helps.Cheers.Alex

We have a Fiamma Bi Pot and think it's a fab bit of kit (much better than the Thetford Porta Potti IMO)

It is easy to fill, empty and clean out and we have never had a problem with leaks or smells (and we use ours for everything!)

Pink fluid in the top flush tank and blue or green fluid in the waste.
We are a family of 5 and find we need to empty it every 2-3 days.

Definately useful if you have a young family - there is nothing worse than having to trek to the site's toilet block at 3am in the pouring rain!

We never camp without ours!

Thanks all for your advice.  Helen your post has been particularly helpful and I am sure it will convince my husband the Fiamma is a good idea

Having read all these comments, I have decided to try to convince my husband too into buying one of these toilets!!

Have got mine from World of Camping, not used it yet, but looks good! Well pleased.

Ali

We put a Thetford side by side with a Fiamma Bi Pot at the weekend (sad, I know!) and the pull-forward lever (to empty contents into the lower chamber) on the Thetford was miles easier to operate than the Fiamma, which stuck and was difficult to do. The Thetford lever was free-running and easy.

We already have a Thetford, never had any problems with it, but were considering getting the smaller Fiamma to save on space and for weekends. We won't now bother,but are looking for a bargain Thetford 135 instead (so if anyone knows where there's a good deal?).

Maybe so, but it was a devil; I ended up having to brace the loo with one hand and try to pull against it (wouldn't actually fancy doing that if it had been used!) We even took it apart, to inspect the mechanism, and it wouldn't even pull open easily then. The Thetford just slid out easily, no problem.

 It put me off, anyhow, but I'll admit it might have been a one-off. I'll stick with Thetford.