At the CG do you mainly use the CG showers or your RV's?

Expyinflight wrote:
Two things come to my mind when thinking of public showers.
Athlete's foot. Toe nail fungus.
No thanks. We use our own shower.

Just wear a pair of crocs and leave them on in the shower. Probably 80-90% of the time we use the bathhouse showers and have yet to have either issues traveling most of the time since 2007 and many shorter trips in the years before that.

I use the outside shower. When I drop the soap, the neighbors close their shades for some reason. ;)

Seriously, it depends:
- No sewer and we are staying more than a day or two, it's off to the bath house.
- Bath house is nasty, it's in the RV.
- With sewer and clean bathhouse, depends on the weather. If its nice, I'll usually go up to the bathhouse as I'm not limited on hot water (we full time and running out of hot water mid-week is unusual) but if it's cold out, a walk back with wet hair is no fun.

Two things come to my mind when thinking of public showers.
Athlete's foot. Toe nail fungus.
No thanks. We use our own shower.

We haven't used the shower in our rig yet, i.e., over 5 years. The stuff we store there will get wet! Always use the CG showers, except if they are nasty. No shower that day. If I want, I will sponge bath quickly in the BR, shave and the rest. To each their own way of doing things.

I can definitely see where fulltimers and snowbirds, etc., would always use their own. That just makes sense when you're living in it as a home.

I think the differences between the short trip users is more about their particular setup than anything else. Small cramped shower stalls, small water tanks, etc., may have folks enjoying the campground/park facilities. Full hookups with a stall you can stand in will encourage using your own.

As for the "germs", I always wear rubber flip flops in a public shower - even as a kid at camp. Keeps your feet off the floors until you can dress and dry off your feet and put socks and shoes on.

Many years ago when we bought our new to us self contained TT we went camping to a bare bones federal campground. decided to see how the shower worked. "You go first honey" so DW had a great shower. Now my turn, got wet, soaped (GI shower) from head to toe turned on water to rinse, what water? Only have a 20 gal fresh water tank and you know who used it for her shower. Only water available was a 2 qt pitcher setting out on the picnic table in the cold night air. Yes you can rinse in 2 qts of water.
Now we use the campground shower if they have one as the Aliner is just a tent on wheels.

Kiddo and I use camper shower, I bought the darn thing to use it ya know :)
Hubby will default to any shower house if wanted cause he just doesn't care one bit if needed!
So we got our setup schedule good in this household LOL

We have a 21' camper with a marine bath, we dry it when we use it. We also have small tanks so it's GI showers when we use them. Campground showers work fine for us unless there is a reason not to do so. Most are fine, a few are not, some campgrounds don't have them, and some aren't heated when it's cold.

doc brown wrote:
Mine. I'm amazed at the number of people I run into that not only use CG showers but also CG toilets. To each his own!

Some even use the shower as the toilet.

stickdog wrote:
We're not campers we're fulltime RVers and this is our home. Why would I go down the street to shower?

:)That pretty well sums it up for us now too. We have changed how we do things over time from 20 years tent camping with our family out of the trunk of our car to years of pop-up campers, Class Cs and now where we are at. Each step of the way was fun but, having a residential shower is a luxury compared to our early days and we use it.