I'm putting together my next TC, and wondering, if it doesn't have a shower, why pay for a cassette toilet, when a $99 porta potty does the same thing. Besides much cheaper, a whole lot less complicated. Comments or suggestions? Thanks.

Or, you could put a toilet seat on a 5 gallon bucket. That would be cheaper than a porta potty. :B

I think a cassette is easier to empty, but I don't have either one!

Hi Stan,I agree that space for a cassette without a shower could be wasted space. For me I would not be without a shower and the wet bath combo with cassette is ideal. My first camper was a NorthStar TC-800 pop-up, it had neither shower nor cassette, but did have the porta-potty. The only downside I had with the porta was the need for a little more modesty when using it... there is the situation with whom one is camping needs to exit the camper in order to use it. While there is little containment in the wet bath combos, they do offer a little more privacy.

I would have both. Having had a cassette poti in an older pop-up camper and enjoying the simple ease use factor, I now have a daughter. I prefer when possible, that both girls use our shower.I wouldn't want a unit without a shower. Have you ever seen the creepy people now that use the showers at Campgrounds...nowadays? So, I would be fine without the black water tank, but would demand a bigger gray instead.

My pre-Tiger, which I camped in often and happily for 15 years, had a PortaPotti which was inside an enclosed bathroom area which also had a sink with running water and a shower. It had no black tank, just the PP's own tank. When I wanted to shower, I could lift the PP out onto a rubber mat in the living area and then have a shower stall big enough to use comfortably. Cleanup after the shower was easier than drying off a whole wet bath area. Emptying the PP was not a problem either on the road (into dump station or camp toilet) or at home (into house toilet). The PP tank does not have the wheels and handle often found on cassette toilets, so you have to carry it. A PP seals well and creates less odor than an RV toilet plus black tank; do watch out for altitude changes. If something breaks on a PP, you can buy the parts to replace it; I had to do this several times for the pump bellows. For extreme boondocking, you could use non-potable water in the flush tank; I guess you could also do that for a cassette toilet.If you need extra tank capacity, you could buy a second tank and switch them out; you could also do that with a cassette toilet. Either way, you would have to have space to store the second tank.

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Bubtoofat
Explorer
Jul 27, 2016
DutchmenSport wrote:

I think Cassette toilets are a bit more complicated, and more parts to clean. Often they require using bags to catch everything.

Bags?:h
Deb_and_Ed_M
Explorer II
Jul 27, 2016
DutchmenSport wrote:
We have a Wall Mart purchased port-a-potty that is simply a bucket in a container with a plastic toilet seat on top. We use it when we don't have water in the tanks (mostly in the winter for winter camping when we camp witout water in the tanks).

I have a "Luggable Loo" - same idea. Bucket, seat and lid. I use WAG bags and kitty litter in ours, and can toss it in a dumpster when we're done using it. We first used it for our 5th wheel, when traveling (winterized) in sub-freezing temps; now it's in our Bronco pop-up TC.

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