Bathrooms Cost Money - SURVIVING GERMANY
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I never minded paying the 50 cents because I'd rather pay that small amount and do it in a romm that actually has white walls and isn't disgusting. The bathrooms in restaurants are free if you're a customer though. If you just rushed into the restaurant you'll probably have to pay the 50 cents or whatever unless you're a very young child.
Often there is also a cleaning lady with a small plate or bowl where you put the money in. Sometimes they'll tell you that you have to pay but most of the time it's optional and you can put in as much money as you want. Pro tip for those places: Pay afterwards, so you know how much it's worth.
This is actually something that i didn't appreciate until i went to the states. I was always so frustrated that i had to pay to use the restroom, but now ive been to the states and saw the bathrooms there. one bathroom at a starbucks was so disgusting :( There were maxi-pads sticking on the wall and the floor was covered in pee... when i told the workers they just said, that they had already seen that and it was unfortunate...
In San Francisco, near the piers, there are a couple bathrooms that you do have to pay for but the door will unlock automatically if you are in there for too long.
In fact, it don't cost you anything. It's voluntary to put some cents on the plate by the cleaning lady, like a tip. Often it's no use at all anyway since they sometimes get their salary reduced by the amount of "extra money" they make.
But you can go avoid the peer pressured tip by going into a restaurant or café, because the cleaning ladies are more common in bars or fast food restaurants.
***** but still there are some toilets, where you have to spend money, because theres this barrier that will only open after you put some money in.
I don't mean toilets at train stations or stationary ones in the city, I only talked about the ones in restaurants, cafés and bars.
i'd like to add that you most likely won't encounter ANY toilet women or paid barriers in smaller cities and towns. his city (stuttgart) is a state capital. not quite the biggest of cities in germany but way bigger than the vast majority.
The most expensive one i came across are the one at the Trainstations. Just hit the toilet in the trains instead. These are free and more or less clean.
That's different at each public bathroom.
For some, you have to pay. Those are usually really clean (and sometimes you can get coupons, for example by "Sanifair")
For some, you can pay if you want to, and you are kind of expected to give a little tip, but you don't have to. These bathrooms are generally clean, but not like super-ultra modern. They are okay (mostly found in shopping centers or resaurants).
And some are free. Most of the time little houses on the sides of the Autobahn. Only go there if you REALLY have to. It's probably better if you go behind a tree nearby. They are really disgusting, but they are free.
There are free bathromms which are clean and good, but they ar rare.
+Siram Asile gibt sie großer tip für die großer Scheiße?
+Nyu Atreides haha, no :D
Also, in the bathroom is usually an attendant to keep it clean. I was surprised to see a woman in the men's toilette, and Germans have no idea why we call them bathrooms or restrooms!
There were pay toilets in the U. S. until about 45 years ago. It used to cost a dime. They were made illegal because they discriminate against poor people. I remember a homeless guy in Budapest seeing me go into a glorified port-a-potty and waiting at the door for me to come out, so he could save the toll (worth about a nickel in American money). That's about as good an illustration of poverty as you will see. A tour guide told me that money in the tip tray goes to pay the lady who sits there and cleans up, and when put in that perspective, the people who do that job earn every penny they collect.
If you running a business in Germany like a shop or a restaurant, where you serving customers, you have to provide free restrooms by law (only for their costumers of course) . There are only a few exceptions for very small businesses. You must have separate toilets for genders and for employees too!
If there is a lady at the entrance of a bathroom who collects money, it's optional to pay. If you do, she wishes you a nice day. If you don't and she complains, it's not appropriate - especially at the wasen beer tents where a litre beer costs a "fortune".
Other public bathroom provides may take money. The managed rest areas are a little tricky. They have to provide free restrooms, because they running a business. Therefore they invented that coupon system, where you can get a refund, but generally not for the full amount. Someone should sue them for that. That annoys me.
Thats just in some big cities and there only in trainstations etc. mostly they dont take money
I'm living in Munich and I have never paid anything yet... neither in any mall nor at the central station. Just at Highwayrestaurants I've paid yet. But if you have to pay, whats honestly really seldom the case, try to find Mcdonalds, Subway etc. instead, there it's usually free or voluntarily to give something like a tip..
I'm German. I don't think you have to pay something everywhere. The first think I would say is the autobahn/Highway. There you have to pay some money very often. But else... I don't know not really often.
Hey Sam,
as one of the Germans, who watches your videos, i got a little tip about public restrooms. If your near the center of a city or some big tourist attraction or in a big train station, they are quite expensive. Walk away a few streets and they cost half as much.
Also I must say, that your right; they are pretty clean (usually).
I was in Italy ones with my Mum and we were looking for a restroom at a small train station and I went back out and said "Mama, somebody stole the toilette" because there was nothing but like a small canal with water on the ground.
Hey, i was little. I didn't know better ;D
But now I really appreciate our clean, pricy toiletts.
Also, the only "public" restrooms, that are free, are the ones in cafes and restaurants BUT only if you eat and/or drink something there. Same in other European countries too, for instance, Poland.
It really depends on where you are. If the worst comes to the worst, just go inside a restaurant (not a snack bar or shop. They usually don't let "customers" to their employee toilets) and ASK POLITELY if they'll let you to use the restrooms.
A little change in the pocket although can always come in handy.
OMGosh! I remember that! I got off the plane and needed to pee. I had to crawl under the stall! Then the TP cost money too! The Army stationed us there, they did not give us tips before we went! Back then pfennige were in use.
But you don't have to pay everywhere, where i live you can use it for free in a lot of places, especially in restaurants you ordered something before
you could always seek out the next mcdonalds those toilettes are usually free
and some of the public restrooms have child entrances where you can go through when you don't have change on you .. I did it a lot when I travelled to spain by bus because I wasn't going to buy anything at those stores and there wasn't someone supervising the entrance
but not at main staitions Mc D.s! there is also a Rollercoster thing in front of the bathroom door...:p
nico justfun WTF? Zu was für McDonaldses gehst du denn!?
andi456245 in Hauptbahnhöfen und Raststätten Mcs/Burger Kings ist das Standart
ähm ich wohn in Berlin ... da sind die fast immer kostenlos auch in bahnhöfen... außer am hauptbahnhof
Johanna .Ohler ja sage ich doch...HAUPTBAHNHOF!!!! xD
the restrooms you speak from are those on highway- parking lots... at the most restaurants you could voluntarily give some money like a tip, but amricans i know bad service means bad tip in states but here in germany its bad service means most times no tip keep
There is a public bathroom in Bückeburg that is free. But in general You are right. And I think it sucks.
This hit me sooooo hard went I went to Europe on holiday... In venice it costed me 3 € to go to the toilet :(
actually you don't have to pay at the fest. But there is a person sitting and it is expected from you but any place that sales food has to give you free access to the bathroom. (They still might ask for tips, what is practically what you pay). And that is btw the reason you get the coupon. You can charge non customers to use the bathroom but people eating there have to get it free so they get the bathroom money waved from there bill.
I was actually quite outraged when this deplorable custom of demanding money for going to the rest room started about 10-15 years ago. Still, many places like malls are still free, or at least they don't make paying mandatory. There is a plate with a few cents on it, and the cleaning person sometimes sits next to it, but you can just go by - in case of a mall, it's after all you who are there to bring them money by doing business there, so it should be included just like the use of the parking garage.
However, I have gotten used to it in such a way that most of the times, I find a place where I can go for free (or buy something to drink and then go, so they won't demand money and I paid a bit more, but still got something out of it).
But it seems you haven't seen the "City Toilette" yet? These are automated boxes where you have to pay for them in order to open the door for you (and after 30 minutes, they throw you out again by opening up mercilessly, no matter what you're doing), they even clean themselves after usage and stuff...I appreciate the technology, but despise the concept of having to pay money for basic physical needs. Fortunately, the air to breathe is still free.
i'm not sure if this is true, because i was pretty young back then. but i got the feeling, that it started when horror news about victims of drug overdose in public bathrooms increased. so in many big cities it seems to me that the main reason for paying for bathrooms at central stations is to keep the junkies away. but as i mentioned before, i'm not sure if this is true.
as always there are exceptions but generally he's right about the money - restroom thing
In Stuttgart in this big new mall, and in the trainstation, the bathrooms cost 0.5 - 1 € but in not that big citys, they are for free
Easy life hack if you're in the city and need to pee: look for a bakery shop or fast food restaurant. Bathrooms are almost always free to use and pretty much always clean enough to not get 12 STD's at once. Just look for a "Stadtbäckerei Junge" or any other bakery that has tables inside or outside. McDonalds is also a good call, but it's kinda weird walking in, taking a dump and then just walk out again.
only at train stations and maybe airports these super cleaned ones where 3 people kinda work fulltime cost something. However i never saw a Restaurant where it costs something. Some have a cup for the toilet guy if there is one where you dont need to put someting in.
Depends on the place where you actually are. Most Supermarkets like Kaufland you can visit the bathroom for free ^^
That's what I hate, especially when I travel by Bus for hours I haven't coins with me at the short stop.
In Hamburg it is illegal that toilets cost money. (The Deutsche Bahn and the Highway are special and don't are from Hamburg)
To watch this as a german is really funny. I am in the US as a exchange student right now :)
"turn style type thing" is a Personenvereinzelungsanlage
Just a little factoid here...
What does that translate into?
lollymarbles peopleseparationfacility (that actually sounds kinda nazi)
Sebastian Schneider peoplesinglingsystem sounds better! :D
if you want to went into germany you have to come to the Saarland.. its realy tiny but very beautiful :) i live in Germany/Saarland in the city of Blieskasteland its so amazing :)
Hey Sam,
one question.
You can see who is watching your videos, right?
Are there really a lot of Americans watching your videos, or are most of the viewers Germans, like me, who are interested on an outsiders view of Germany.
Also concening the bathrooms.
It´s more common to pay at bathrooms along the Autobahn or at public restrooms in big Cities or near places a lot of tourists visit.
In smaller cities, usually the bathrooms at big parking spaces outside of the city, are free.
***** that is kinda sad...
Still, there are definitely Americans who enjoy these videos. Yeah, it's an outside look of Germany for Germans, but it's also an inside look of Germany for United-States-of-Americans. For example, I'm from Pennsylvania, and I like these videos. :D
Kyle Kruse
It's great that you enjoy his videos. As a german, I watch this, because his videos make me think about things, which are actually just normal for me, but after every video, i realize how special some little things seem to be compared with other countries, like doorknobs or opening of windows :D
I'm from New Zealand and i love watching these videos about Germany. I'd rather watch a vlog as oppose to reading outdated blogs on the interne
I'm from the U.S. and love learning about German culture and hopefully can do study abroad in Germany in a year or so =)
Where I live in Germany, you do not pay for bathrooms like everywhere else.
Falcon Turtlehybrid And where do you live please?
I think when I was a kid, restrooms were mostly free and a mess.
The ones in the train stations are quite vile though... xP
all kindz of premium bathrooms in germany, gettin reduced prize for coffee if you took a shit - thats nice
Some are free tho
It's not everywhere
Anywhere?
Totally wrong. Most toilettes in public, which I know, are free.
Oh, Sam, you!
I miss the Music at the End of your Videos.
i tell u what... paying money for using restrooms is not okay haha.... cuz if u have to go and u have no money.... u have a problem cuz often times they wont let u use the restroom. okayy next thing u can do is simply taking a piss outside in the bushes or somewhere. but if they catch u, u have to pay 20€ ! and yes, i already experienced this
plus: if you should ever get caught doing your business in public you'd get fined, too.
In some points i disagree with you because there are many free bathrooms and yes there are some that cost money but sometimes they are not clean to. (I live in Münster, NRW). So i think there are
free&clean
free¬ clean
not free&clean
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FACT NUMBER ONE: You cant refuil your drinks in Mc Donalds, when I fame back from the US and I visited a mc D nearly cried:D
In our German Mc Donalds you are allowed to refill, but it wasn't always that way. ;)
Yeah, some mc Donald's restaurants allow to refill your drink, and some don't. I think it is a decision of the franchisee.
our had allowed it and now doesent...-.-
At some McDonalds you can Do that in germany too
wrong, you can, just not everywhere
Not everywhere, malls are free
U feel me? u feel me dog???
You really should become a tv-host or something like that, you know like those guys like jimmy kimmel
Even in Restaurants?
Travel tip: the toilets in gas stations are usually free.
***** yeah, but there are worse examples. Most gas station toilets are cleaned at least once daily. But you can always have bad luck.
***** yeah, that's right, but most within a city are.
as you said "50 cent is for the toilet" :-)))
I am from German and your Videos Take me whats typical German :D
I'm back not because I wanna learn something about Germany, but because I wanna find some flaws in your videos and point them out to you! ;-)
advice: peeing in public eg against a tree or something isnt allowed and costs you money
The toilets in museums are free though.
dont go to netherlands...even in mcdonalds there is sitting a lady at the WC and wants your cash. :P
You should not have to pay to go the bathroom. That’s ridiculous!
This videos are not part of your Vlog list right?
I ask because your limit was at...123 videos right?
Was it on purpose that this video is number 2? :D
And they want them to be very clean because everyone sits for peeing... even guys. That was the most striking thing to me!
This is wrong, the most guys don't sit for peeing
Well, it may be because most German men I know are 1,85-2m tall, but they all sit down to pee and told me it's the regular (whenever clean toilets are available). Bavarian, from Niedersachsen, Berlin and Köln...
baumbueffel 1 if you're single and wonder why: you gave the answer yourself. Nobody wants to have pee on the surroundings. this is why you sit when you pee. You either SIT or you clean the WHOLE friggin bathroom everytime you pee-d. Welcome to real life my child! you pee- you sit. It's a matter of respect (and hygiene)
Oh. Please do. I always wanted to imprison a teenage boy in my bathroom and feed him through a small gap, hearing him crying and banging against the door until he begs to be freed. While I just pretent he is mute, instead shoving him some mashed food on a disposible plate now and then between the door and the floor until he gives me the pleasure of a cleansed bathroom he totally ruined by himself.
Aah. I should totally do that. I wish your mom would do that.
Herr der Zeiten oh, are you telling this to your mom, too?
Muezgeld ziemlich macht mir ganz verrucekt........
i mean you kind of get what you pay for xD