Poll: do you use the comfort station?

[Napria]

Please no flaming. I'm honestly curious whether you use the campground comfort station, your rig's bathroom or both. If you use the comfort station, why?

We have used the campground's showers only once in ten years, due to four people having to get ready for dinner reservations in a short period of time.

[Halmfamily]

If we have full hookups we will use our shower but igpf we stay at the lake no sewer hookups. The kids take their showers at the bath house as they take loooong showers the wife and I will usually use ours.

[stickdog]

I'll use the campground shower in order to save water for DW's shower. I want her to smell good too.

[fla-gypsy]

Rarely

[Scott_85]

Only use the bath house when we don't have a sewer hookup.

[greende]

We use the campground facilities except at night. As many have posted, we use state parks and almost never have full hookups.

[travelnutz]

Back when fuel and cheap the purchase price of MH's was reasonable and the insurance fair priced there were about as many MH's as TT's with there being less 5th wheels as it was a new type of RV in CG's. Today, TT's and 5th wheels easily outnumber MH's in CG's about 2+ to 1 each. In National Parks more than 3 to 1. That's what we see in the eastern, southeastern, and midwest states.

As for using CG bathrooms and showers, it depends. National Parks and many state parks around the country have no hookups but decent bathouses, or electric only, or water and electric. Duh! When the gray water tank is full, it's full, so what good does water at the site do without having a sewer to dump in? Dumb! We use what ever is best in what area or CG depending on how clean the bathouse is and yes, we are fussy. Some states are very demanding about showers and bathrooms and constantly inspect the bathouses while other states couldn't care less and the average bathouse is putrid at best and usually stinks.

Our home state is extremely fussy so yes, we will use them but not very often in the southern states. Some bathouses are very modern, tiled, and kept extremely clean and why not use them if desired? Not constantly or only but when the situation favors them.

For instance: The bathouses at Platte River CG in Sleeping Bear Dunes National lakeshore Park bathouses put most home bathouses to shame and they are cleaned and disinfected 3+ times a day as we see it done so what's the issue as to using them?

[skipnchar]

One of the reasons we bought our trailer was so we'd always have a clean bathroom with no waiting line for it's use. That would be a big old NO for the most part but if I"m walking by and the need arises I"m flexible 🙂

[Seattle_Lion]

We camp at state parks and all we visit have full hookups. Our camper has a wonderful bathroom and a 12gal fast recovery hot water heater so we have an endless supply. I avoid public toilets for all except standing up. And we only use our own shower. I don't want other people's cooties.

[tomkaren13]

Hondavalk wrote:
I camp at State Parks and generally only have electricity but not water. To save water I use there showers and there toilets during the daytime.

x2 with a qualfication. If we have FHU we use our own.

[TexasShadow]

We use whatever toilet is handiest..public or ours. For showers we like our own better, for the convenience and cleanliness factor.

[obgraham]

I use both at times.

I don't care what everyone else does.

[waltbennett]

Hondavalk wrote:
I camp at State Parks and generally only have electricity but not water. To save water I use there showers and there toilets during the daytime.

Same with us and any time we're at a CG that for whatever reason doesn't have sewer.

[waltbennett]

Hondavalk wrote:
I camp at State Parks and generally only have electricity but not water. To save water I use there showers and there toilets during the daytime.

Same with us and any time we're at a CG that for whatever reason doesn't have sewer.

[Padlin]

Normally use the CG facilities unless they are subpar, wife being the judge. Use our toilet at night. We have relatively small tanks at 30G, a wet bath, and try and stay in places without hookups.

[Kittykath]

Our new camper has a huge shower, water heater and tanks. But I 100% prefer the campground's comfort station showers. Our favorite campground has hot, clean, private, free showers that are better than back home.