I am surprised by how easy it is to find a bathroom in Mexico when you need one. I’ve seen everything from dedicated rest areas to people actually giving access to their own personal bathroom in their home! Look for a sign that says ba\u00f1o or servicios. I have yet to come across a Pemex gas station that doesn’t have a public bathroom<\/p>\n
Bathrooms are often a little worn and grotty but still clean. I have yet to find a Mexican bathroom that is as scary as some bathrooms I’ve encountered in the US and Canada. Sometimes, there will be an attendant and you will need to pay a token amount to this person (usually 5 pesos), who will give you a few squares of toilet paper and possibly paper towels.<\/p>\n
Of particular interest to ladies, often toilets do not have seats. I think this is because seats and toilets are sold separately in Mexico (don’t quote me on this, but I’m sure I read it in someone’s blog about building a home in Mexico). Today, both the bathroom at Pemex and at Soriana were luxurious — free to use and stocked with toilet paper, paper towels, and<\/em> hand soap, but they had no seats. You can’t have everything, right?!<\/p>\n Ladies will also want to carry tissues and sanitizer in their purse, or, even better, wet wipes, as sometimes there is no toilet paper and\/or water and soap to wash your hands. Always check the stall before sitting\/squatting to make sure there is paper. Sometimes, as I learned at Ley this week and Soriana today, the paper dispenser is actually by the door (either inside or out!) and you have to grab some on the way in!<\/p>\n If there is a bin by the toilet, you need to put the paper in there, not into the bowl (ie. do not flush it). Please, please, please, cover your paper if it is messy. I really wish I didn’t have to say this…<\/p>\n Mazatl\u00e1n Centro Hist\u00f3rico bathroom tip: pay admission at the Museo Arqueol\u00f3gico (less than 30 pesos and free on Sundays!) on Sixto Osuna (just past Plazuela Machado en route to Olas Altas). They have super clean newly renovated bathrooms with toilet paper, paper towels, water, hand soap, AND SEATS.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am surprised by how easy it is to find a bathroom in Mexico when you need one. I’ve seen everything from dedicated rest areas to people actually giving access to their own personal bathroom in their home! Look for a sign that says ba\u00f1o or servicios. I have yet to come across a Pemex […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[815,14,635,814,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mazatlan","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-sinaloa","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}