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Home » Remarkable » Ministry of Tourism wants 'National Toilet Cleaning Day'
The Thai Minister of Sports and Tourism says that cleaning public toilets at major traffic junctions has the highest priority.
“On July 4, officials will give the go-ahead for a nationwide cleaning campaign of public toilets in bus stations, train stations, and ferries,” says Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul. Under the name “Big Cleaning Day”, the Ministry of Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Health will ensure that toilets become cleaner. Dirty toilets in public transport are a source of annoyance for many Thais and tourists.
Thailand's State Railways announced in March that toilets in train stations and trains will be refurbished over the next six months.
Source: Khaosod http://goo.gl/7pxuzi
Ministry of Tourism? Shouldn't it instruct the municipalities and point them to their responsibilities?
The Railways will renew toilets. Typical Thai approach! Maintenance let alone preventive (??? what is that????) maintenance does not occur in Thai vocabulary. They replace the pot and if it is too dirty for words after a few years, you put a new one in it. However?
Compared to other countries, including the Netherlands, I believe that there are plenty of public toilets in Thailand at bus/train stations and shopping malls. In shopping centers the toilets are cleaned regularly and are often free and at the stations there is usually supervision and you can gain access for only 3 or 5 Bath. In addition, many petrol stations, especially outside the cities, often have spacious and free toilets. Only at the BTS and MRT in Bangkok, I think they forgot the toilets.
Dear Leo,
Your comparison is flawed, and not only in comparison with the Netherlands and other countries. Usually, with exceptions, public toilets in Thailand are too dirty to use. I have NEVER come across a clean public restroom at a gas station. I always have various things with me to protect myself somewhat against the filth of those toilets. But only if I can't wait any longer. Otherwise not seen me in a public toilet in Thailand. I never pay for use in advance. I'll check the hygiene first. Often I walk away. If there is no other way, I will only pay afterwards. I'm not talking about the luxury malls in Bangkok, of course. It may well be arranged there. But at markets or gas stations “in the country” it is often grim and angry.
Compared to other countries, including the Netherlands, I believe that there are plenty of public toilets in Thailand at bus/train stations and shopping malls. In shopping centers the toilets are cleaned regularly and are often free and at the stations there is usually supervision and you can gain access for only 3 or 5 Bath. In addition, many petrol stations, especially outside the cities, often have spacious and free toilets. Only at the BTS and MRT in Bangkok, I think they forgot the toilets.
Dear Frans, bad luck for you that you have never seen a clean toilet at a gas station in Thailand. Fortunately, I have different experiences, hence my previous response. I have traveled thousands of kilometers by car throughout Thailand and emptied my bladder many times at gas stations. Ladies and gentlemen are separated, and for the gentlemen, usually outside under a canopy, a row of urinals and sinks to wash your hands afterwards. I regularly saw a cleaner using a garden hose to hose down the outdoor urinals and also the indoor (squat) toilets. At bus stations, e.g. in Pattaya Klang, where the bus to Bangkok leaves and in Bankgok itself, both at Ekomai and Morchit, you go through a kind of entrance gate that rotates and there you really have to pay first (3 Bath) to the lady who supervises and you cannot, as you put it, check in advance whether it is clean. In shopping centers in Bangkok, Phuket, Hua Hin, Pattaya and nowadays in almost every city in Thailand, free public toilets are plentiful and they are kept very clean. Compared to the Netherlands, where you have to pay at least €0,50 at a train station and often have to collect a key first at a petrol station, in my opinion there are very few (free) public toilets. I take it for granted that it is bitterly disappointing at a market in the Thai countryside. And of course, nothing beats your own toilet bowl at home!
Dear Leo Th.; I like to believe those thousands of kilometers you traveled by car, but in my humble opinion you are also one of those people who cannot hear a bad word about Thailand. I am a simple holidaymaker who has traveled many kilometers in Thailand by rental car over many years. Unfortunately, I have rarely found a reasonably clean toilet at a gas station. Mostly dirty yellowed urinals with an associated malodorous smell. And Leo; making price comparisons with the NS is a cheap argument. For a comparable bottle of wine I also pay three to four times as much in Thailand as in the Netherlands. Do you have any idea what that toilet lady in Thailand earns for that unsavory job? Let's estimate it very high: 300 baht for ten hours of work. That you have to pick up a key at a gas station in the Netherlands is correct and also very wise. This prevents it – as in your and my favorite Thailand – from degenerating into a pigsty. Hate all those who glorify cats and Thailand so much in the Netherlands. I cherish my native country, one of the richest countries in the world, where life is good and many forget that. We Dutch are and will remain real Calvinist whiners. Never satisfied and complain about everything more or less unfounded.
Keep your eyes open Leo and as proof I can send you a few pictures of those pissoirs -sounds nicer than pissboxes- from Thai gas stations.
Well Joseph, you seem quite pedantic with your comment that I should keep my eyes open; It's not that bad that you didn't add any “beaks” to it. And why you think you conclude that I cannot hear a bad word about Thailand, just because I state (and fortunately others on this blog) that there are many and often fairly clean public toilets in Thailand, escapes me and is a assumption of yours, which is based on nothing. I did not make a price comparison, I stated that there are virtually no free public toilets in the Netherlands and cited the example that you can only use a toilet at train stations after paying at least €0,50. We are used to that in the Netherlands and that doesn't imply that I'm trashing the Netherlands, does it? I'm definitely not going to join in with a Calvinist whiner, or should we just stick to nonsense about this subject, but rather the opposite. I am not interested in photos of piss boxes (I was talking about urinals by the way), and I don't understand why anyone would take a photo of that. To be clear: I only applaud the ministry's plan to organize a national toilet cleaning day!
Dear editors,
Wouldn't it be better if every inhabitant of this beautiful (?) country cleaned up their own rubbish on the street on Friday before the weekend? What a mess they make of this.
If you go to a residential park or similar with guests here, they are already cured before they enter the gate.
The rubbish on the roads completely disfigures this country and prevents investors from investing money in it.
Such a beautiful country and so much garbage on and off the street.
It used to be mandatory in a number of countries to clean your street on Friday. Would help to improve their image in Thailand.
Now you often have the idea that you are driving through a rubbish dump.
Clean toilets at petrol stations would certainly not be out of place. And we can go on like this for a while.
In the Netherlands they are going to abolish the plastic bags at the supermarkets. Good example for Thailand packing everything in 3 plastic bags is good for the environment ???
cleaning the public toilets is indeed not a superfluous luxury. What a mess you always find there.
Moderator: The article is about Thailand and not about the Netherlands.
It is indeed true, the toilets are only reasonably clean, emphatically reasonable in the larger supermarkets. The police station in my hometown where my wife works doesn't want to see you, let alone relieve you. And then you are talking about a government building. The garbage along the streets but also in houses is more than terrible. They are at least 50 years behind on everything here.
Everything depends on where you are. I know smaller towns where in local public parks. Beautifully maintained free toilets, also with a disabled toilet. PTT gas stations are known for their excellent toilets. Even along tourist roads in the North, rest areas have very clean toilets.
On the other hand, if you go to the real countryside it is often a dirty and dirty place.
But often the toilets in shopping centres, supermarkets and the like are often more nicely decorated and of higher quality than I have ever seen in Belgium or the Netherlands. I even know shopping malls where they have fully automatic Hi-Tech toilets, and that for free.
Honestly, I don't really have bad experiences with the public toilets here in Thailad. as I am often on the road with the motorcycle I use it regularly, usually in large gas stations and that is really not a bad experience. They are cleaned very regularly and there is the possibility to wash hands almost everywhere ….
Here, in the train station of Pathiu, you can literally eat on the floor in the sanitary facilities. There is even the possibility to take a shower! Employ a person who daily cleans the platform, cleans the toilets, maintains the plants ... Also along the streets here in Pathiu you can find little or no garbage. There are green garbage cans almost everywhere that are emptied daily, even on Sundays. In the large shopping centers in Chumphon also immaculate. Do I happen to live in a nice area? Much depends of course on the local population, if they throw everything along the road it will of course become a mess and it will be mopping with the tap open. After all, dirt attracts more dirt.
When it comes to public toilets, I have had much worse experiences in France, where you can say that they are really filthy. In Wallonia, in Belgium, about the same…. it is better to pee against a tree than in a public toilet.
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I must say that I find the toilets in Thailand and certainly in the many shopping centers very clean.
in most places you don't even have to pay, in the petrol stations it is also not too bad given the many users who come there, my experience is that the least clean toilets are the paying ones, but if you have to go urgently you can .... take you that too.
I think it is a nice initiative of course there are many other things such as litter, etc. but this is already a start Rome was not built in 1 day.
I am certainly not someone who is for or against Thailand, but I think there are many sourpusses on the blog who immediately tear down any government or Thai initiative and spew their bile apparently to do nothing else.
my girlfriend was still very surprised that she had to pay to go to the toilet in the shopping center here in Belgium.
During our visit to Paris, after a long search, we had to spend about 20 euros on 2 drinks to go to the toilet.
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