Background: when China made a bid for the Olympics the International Olympic Committee said, yes, if you fix up your toilet situaiton. They added a few Western-style toilets here and there and gave the toilets a rating system, one-to-four stars.
The more the stars, the better the toilet, supposedly. Although, you are hard-pressed to find toilet paper in any of the bathrooms.
This is a four-star toilet, so you can imagine they go down from here!
This is a one-star on the Great Wall of China, let's just say--gross.
This one I would give a two to, but the outside was pretty!
The ancient toilet in the Forbidden City, Bejing. The toilet for emperors!
The bathrooms in the hotels were funny too - they all had see through walls that luckily, we found a switch to lower a curtian over. They also don't throw away their toilet paper - they leave the paper in open waste baskets next to the toilets, so they stink! You can smell a toilet from a mile away.
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China? Man! Wherewill you go next? Love it! Love the rating system.
Ha ha. I wonder how my toilets would rate :). I still remember when we were playing a game forever ago and somehow you came up with the most creative comment ever: "bathrooms are really nice this time of year!" We about died laughing. I'm thinking it was Balderdash - one of our favorites, but I don't know how that would have worked. Hee hee. I hope you survived China's bathrooms this time of year :).
That's funny Heidi, it was probably either Balderdash or maybe it was pshychiatrist?
You had me at "toilet tour", hahaha. One for the brochures, I'm sure! ;)
I am so excited to have stumbed on your post about Toilets in China! I am an avid traveler, but I've never aspired to visit China, so I know very little about it. I value this wonderful random bundle of facts about some thing so simple as a toilet. The unexpected differances that can mean so much! Gosh I love getting out of the USA.
hahaha i laughed when i read this post. the "toilet tour" - you would!! haha... and i thought some of the toilets in italy were bad.... doesnt even compare to china!
laughing so hard
I'm having flashbacks to Romania. They had the same sort of hole-in-the-ground that was "fancied" up and called a toilet. I don't understand how that's supposed to help us girls?
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