My wife and I will be visiting Hong Kong in the month of May and plan on doing a lot of walking as we explore the different areas. Would appreciate your thoughts on where we might find restrooms/clean toilets in areas such as Stanley, Central, Nathan Road, Temple Street, Wanchai. I know that generally the shopping malls and hotels are good places. Also wanted to know if there are any facilities in the subway stations. Thank you.
Finding restrooms and clean toilets
Restrooms in hotels and shopping malls are very well maintained, and you shouldn%26#39;t have problems finding them in Central, Wanchai, Causeway Bay, Tsimshatsui, etc. In Mongkok, the best bet is Langham Place and Hotel.
In Stanley, head to the old Murray House or the mall next to it.
It%26#39;s more troublesome looking for toilets along Nathan Road. There%26#39;s a couple of hotels near Yau Ma Tei (Eaton Hotel in particular). Otherwise I would look for some fast food place, but they won%26#39;t be the best. Chinese restaurants (the big ones that offer dim sum) should have better toilets.
If you%26#39;re on Temple Street, well just hold it best as you can :D
Except for the East Rail and West Rail lines, there are no restrooms in MTR (subway) stations. But if it%26#39;s an emergency, you can contact the station staff and they%26#39;ll let you use their hidden toilets.
Finding restrooms and clean toilets
if you are in fa yuen street in prince edward... the royal plaza hotel would be your best pit stop
subways do not have toilet facilities
otherwise... if you really cannot hold it- go to a mcdonalds or a coffe shop like starbucks, pacific coffee
You are right about the subways, BUT my daughter had to go and we asked at one of the information booths where we might find a toilet and a lovely attendant escorted us to the staff toilets. He was lovely.
The worst we found was at SOGO department store, it was disgusting.
Thank you everyone for the information. It is very helpful.
The toilets at SOGO were disgusting? Wow I would have thought they were quite well kept. But usually the basement and the first couple of floors receive a lot of traffic, so they may not be in tip top condition. Better go several floors up and those should be better.
One thing we discovered when in HK- if you go to a public toilet and they%26#39;re all the traditional squat toilet (which I prefer not to use unless I have to due to bad knees), if you look for the handicapped toilet (often just around the side or back of the building), it will be a Western style pedastal toilet.
We found most toilets in HK were spotless, though not all had toilet paper- so carry tissues with you.
Just wanted to let you know that in Hong Kong, the government also has public toilets placed all around. I found one accidentally one night and it was great. Completely clean and odorless. I don%26#39;t know if they are all like this or not though. They are basically a small room with an entrance on the sidewalk and (from what I remember) a lock on the door (so you can lock yourself in. You would never find anything like this in New York - or if you do, there would most likely be some homeless guy passed out in it.
Here are some links you can check out:
fehd.gov.hk/pleasant_environment/鈥lean1.htm
(scroll down to the ';Public Toilets'; paragraph for links to lists of public toilet locations)
fehd.gov.hk/pleasant_environment/cleansing/l鈥?/a>
fehd.gov.hk/pleasant_environment/cleansing/l鈥?/a>
fehd.gov.hk/pleasant_environment/cleansing/l鈥?/a>
鈥logspot.com/2007/04/lung-kong-road-public-鈥?/a>
Finding a toilet in hong kong will be the least of your worries. I have never found anywhere in the world where relieving oneself is so convenient, and free. There are too many shopping centers around.
After 2 weeks in China we were amazed at how few loo%26#39;s there were in HK. We hadnt thought about it on previous trips until we went into the mainland for 2 weeks before doing HK on the way out. There were toilets everywhere in China. Shensend, Guangzhou, Xi谩n etc, but when we returned to HK we had to really look for toilets in public places.
take some wet ones as well - they come in very handy.
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