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Quote: Originally posted by emmitdb on 03/8/2011

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Greetings,

While I understand the owners concerns about theft, there are many obvious ways to circumvent the opportunities for stealing.

I've been on sites where the rolls of toilet paper are within a locked cassette and the soap is in a dispenser.
Should he/she be worried that some miscreant camper come and continually press the dispenser and collect it in a bottle ( I have seen this done!!!) There is a type which dispenses foam that can hardly be stored.

I think, in the case of the roll, he has a point but the soap is a necessity and overall I think the owner is being squeaky (and not clean).

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What they said !

Cheapskate owner I'd say - it's ridiculous

What if you are a bit absent minded and just head off to the loo forgetting about the soap and toilet roll.  You can always wash your hands when you return to your outfit but you can hardly wait to wipe your bum!!  We've never been anywhere that didn't have loo roll and soap.

They're being skinflints.

Hi Jax365, No your are not being Picky. Always thought that having sanitizing equipment like soap, disinfectant, driers was a must to satisfy the Environmental Health Authorities, and was a condition of them being granted a licence.

Have also seen countless people using the loo and not washing their hands, then going on to handle food, the body’s immune system can coupe with a lot of germs if you are healthy, if some one has a weak immune system it could be fatal to them. Think the site owner is being a cheep skate (even at £15 a night), as has been pointed out there is the foam type soap. If he is not providing any soap or toiled paper, he should make his customers aware of this when arriving or booking the site. rant over.

Quote: Originally posted by ally b on 03/8/2011

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What if you are a bit absent minded and just head off to the loo forgetting about the soap and toilet roll.  You can always wash your hands when you return to your outfit but you can hardly wait to wipe your bum!!  We've never been anywhere that didn't have loo roll and soap.

They're being skinflints.

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Hi ally b, Maybe the owners grows rhubarb  leafs for that.

Quote: Originally posted by dazson on 03/8/2011

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You would think it would come under a health and safety requirement when they are providing this type of facility.

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I can see this from both sides, so people will vandalise anything to get what they want to steal, so expensive for the owners to replace, not just the normal cost of providing the stuff in the first place,  also the PC brigade with their 'no win no fee' law suits because 'little Jonny came out in an ichy rash after using the nasty soap in the sites dispensers, which in turn ruined his holiday' mentality of some people.

Personally, I prefare to take my own stuff over to the loo with me, and always carry a hand gel mini bottle in my bag or pocket for use after using the toilet or before eating whilst out and about. Its not just door handles in loo blocks that become contaminated by peoples unwashed hands, its also the tops of taps and the leavers of the soap dispensers themselves as people touch them after leaving the toilet whilst their hands are still unclean, likewise with the toilet rolls unless they are of the 'one sheet at a time' dispensing canisters such as found in some motorway service station loos. I certainly wouldnt use a loo roll that had been lurking on the back of the toilet cystern, or worse still on the cubicle floor as i have come across in some sites toilets.

If we need loo roll we always carry the small compact Andrex packs which are ideal for the job, and easy enough to keep in your pocket or bag.

Julia