Comments on: RV showers – yours or the campground’s?

By: camping showers

camping showers — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:03:03 +0000

If the public camping showers are clean and don’t require quarters, I’m OK with them in most situations. But unfortunately most of them are usually rather disgusting – and having to head back to the campsite to scrounge up quarters is just annoying. If we’re staying for a few days I’ll setup a camping shower enclosure on site but if it’s just an overnight thing I’ll often just suck it up, grab the shower shoes and head for the public facilities as setting up the portable shower ensemble isn’t necessarily worth the hassle.

By: Joel T.

Joel T. — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:13:26 +0000

Well I guess I’m part of the 70% of people who use their own shower.
Just can’t stand using public showers
I admit that if it’s really clean I won’t mind too much but in general I’m someone who likes to use his own stuff. It just makes me feel nice and fuzzy inside

By: Jaimie Hall Bruzenak

Jaimie Hall Bruzenak — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:34:50 +0000

That would work if the shower isn’t built in. I also found a product that is like an extend-a-room for a shower, giving you more upper body room. I blogged about it at http://blog.rvlifestyleexperts.com/2009/02/product-makes-your-shower-larger.html

Thanks for the suggestion.

BTW, thanks to those who participated in the poll. 70% of RVers use their own shower!

Jaimie

By: Mark Corgan

Mark Corgan — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:42:44 +0000

@butterbean

Maybe you could try installing a curved shower curtain rod? These are ideal for creating a little more elbow room in an otherwise small RV shower. Here is a link to an example mod:

http://www.modmyrv.com/2008/07/25/rv-curved-shower-curtain-rod

By: Jaimie Hall Bruzenak

Jaimie Hall Bruzenak — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:57:28 +0000

Hi Butterbean, That has to be frustrating. I’ll venture a guess and say that RV manufacturers are working with a very small amount of sq ft and people spend a very small portion of their time in the bathroom. They make those as spacious as possible and short change the bathroom/shower area, especially in smaller units. It does make it difficult for a larger person.

Jaimie

By: butterbean carpenter

butterbean carpenter — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:20:39 +0000

Howdy Jamie,
I’ve been looking to purchase a used motorhome and have looked at quite a
few…all of the commodes and showers in the ones I have seen are TOO SMALL
for my 278# body.. The only showers I can fit into are the ‘corner’ showers and they are out of my price range… We have been using a travel trailer with a smallersized
shower, but it is sufficiently large enough…
Why don’t they put in adequate sized showers??
This was a really good topic!!
thank you,

butterbean

By: Jaimie Hall Bruzenak

Jaimie Hall Bruzenak — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:25:17 +0000

Wow! I had no idea. Glad your mom is ok now. I’d use my own shower after that. Thanks for the heads up.

Jaimie

By: Lynne

Lynne — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:50:19 +0000

I used to camp in a small trailer that didn’t have a full bath, so campground showers were the only option. I never seemed to mind that– I only stayed at full-service RV parks that typically had clean, highly rated showers. But, that all changed last winter!

My mid-60’s mother was traveling with me and we were staying at a few very nice RV parks along the Gulf Coast. As we drove home, my mom developed flu-like symptoms which turned into a month-long hospital stay (including 10 days on life support in the ICU). She had contracted Legionnaire’s Disease (a severe form of pneumonia that kills 1 in 3 who get it) from one of these very nice RV park showers!

Legionella bacteria typically turns up in commercial hot water systems found at hotels, campgrounds, water parks, etc if the system is not properly sanitized and cared for by the owner or HVAC maintenance company. It only becomes life-threatening if a person happens to aspartate (slightly choke on) the infected warm water vapor and get it down into their lungs. Smokers’ are much more prone to this than non-smokers (which explains how my mom got it and I did not). The CDC and doctors I spoke to said that Legionnaire’s has become more common in recent years, but not as concentrated or a publicized as when it first was named back in the ’70’s for the group of conventioners who got it at a hotel.

This whole fluke of an experience has now made me question even the nicest-looking RV park showers & hot tubs in the future– sure, it most likely is perfectly safe and clean, but why even take the risk? So this year, I’ve bought a new RV with it’s own shower.

By: Johnny G...AKA The NYC Castaway

Johnny G...AKA The NYC Castaway — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:03:43 +0000

With the prices of propane, we prefer to use the Parks shower to save on propane fuel.

By: carverant

carverant — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:45:11 +0000

we have a SunLite truck camper and have never used it, we always use the parks! We have a nice cardboard dresser in our shower and gives us lots of storage’ We are rarely in a place long enough to hook up the sewer except to dumpit so park showers are fine for us though we do use “crocs’ for our feet.