We were lucky enough to travel across the Irish Sea on Jonathan Swift last week (the ferry not the writer) and took the opportunity to sample the facilities at sea.
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| a. Jonathan Swift (ferry) |
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b. Jonathan Swift (Irish writer & satirist)
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The toilets were well equipped and clean. The doors were very heavy which led to some embarrassment in front of other travellers as I struggled to escape the cubicle. I suspect that heavy doors may be a necessary feature aboard ferries though so I haven't based my score on this factor.
There were some very detailed instructions on how to wash your hands on the wall of the toilets, which we later found to be a common occurrence across Ireland (see exhibit c). One of the steps was to dry your hands with a paper towel and then use a fresh paper towel to turn off the tap. This seemed a bit paranoid to me and as there were no paper towels in the toilets I was unable to complete my hand-washing chore list. It doesn't appear to have done me any harm.
One last feature to mention were the air sickness bags next to the sink. Do people get airsick on ferries?
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2 comments:
Ha, I like how stern the the HAVE YOU WASHED YOUR HANDS sign is (even though they forgot the question mark). Weird compulsive satire-ferry!
Re the sick bags: we have them on Condor Ferries (UK- Channel Islands - France) too. People puking into the toilets makes them block. And the comment about airsick isn't as far off as you might think, because a number of people who have no problems on conventional ferries suffer terribly on high-speed boats like ours and like the Jonathan Swift
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