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Public, no, but in general every Walmart / Starbucks / ... (except Subway) have a restroom available. Try finding a place in Belgium... if you find one, you ha
by WirelessGigabit 3y ago
Public, no, but in general every Walmart / Starbucks / ... (except Subway) have a restroom available.
Try finding a place in Belgium... if you find one, you have to pay, even if you area already a paying customer (e.g. Kinepolis, a large theater chain) or when you're in a park there's a restroom with a friggin' card reader to charge you half a Euro to take a piss. I found a tree close-by.
And grocery chains aren't even legally required to have a restroom available to customers.
- beardedwizard 3y agoSitting in Amsterdam thinking the same thing. America is practically covered in accessible restrooms in comparison.
- archagon 3y agoHaving just gone through Belgium and the Netherlands, it’s a huge relief to know that public restrooms are definitely around if you’re willing to part with some change.
- nness 3y agoProbably most of EU, too. And the extra coins it takes means it is at least moderately clean. But just in case, always good to carry a few Euro coins around for the attendants. The card readers are all over the UK's largest parks, too. (A nasty issue I encountered in Iceland was that my debit card did not support Icelandic vendors, and as a result, could not be used to purchase anything which the strip reader. I jumped many turnstiles, sorry Iceland...)
- gsa 3y agoDefinitely not true in most of the Netherlands. Once you leave the touristy city centres you are down to very limited or no options. It's even worse for women because most urinals in the city centre of Amsterdam are for men only.
- namibj 3y agoThankfully there are "adapters". Essentially just suitably shaped funnels, and thankfully there are materials that shed the droplets so one won't need to clean much before stowing.