Now this is a bathroom worth blogging about. It doesn’t happen often, but there are clean bathrooms out there, and they’re usually at places like the Paradise. It’s a perky little establishment that offers the usual assortment of seemingly fresh cookies and sandwiches, served up by a staff of friendly people with their home countries printed on their name tags. I assume that’s an immigration department regulation.

Places like this actually get inspected every now and again, I guess, so they take good care of their bathrooms. The floors and walls are spotless and a pleasant fruity aroma greets you as soon as you walk in. The stall door latches and, saints be praised, there is enough toilet paper to prank every teacher you ever hated with plenty left over for all your wiping needs.

My favorite part of this bathroom was the hand towel dispenser. I’m sure you’ve seen the ‘no touch’ sensor operated dispensers that are popping up in restrooms everywhere. I think they operate by magic or something, I don’t know and I don’t care. The point is that they never, ever give you enough paper towel in one go. You stand there waving your hands like a lunatic and eventually it spits out a meager offering, hardly bigger than an index card. I believe this is meant to save paper, presumably because your hands are air dried by all the frantic waving long before any towels are actually dispensed. Fortunately for the Paradise, their dispensers have been adjusted by some kind person to actually give out a reasonable amount on every go. Good work, team Paradise!

Cleanliness: 10/10
Amenities: 9/10
Décor: 8/10
Functionality: 10/10
Who puts that much horseradish on a sandwich? Seriously, it was all I could taste and it totally ruined my whole Paradise experience: 0/10

FINAL GRADE: 37/50

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 at 10:07 am.