Paid toilets are not uncommon at European train stations. At airports these are normally available free of charge as a service. Not so at Charleroi Airport in Belgium, because here you have to shell out a euro when you need to go to the toilet.
A long time ago, Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary publicly considered charging for the use of on-board toilets. The topic was never implemented, so that the low-cost airline has not charged a « toilet fee » to this day. It is different at Charleroi Airport, whose biggest customer is the famous low-cost group: For a few days now, when have passengers who – for whatever reason – have to go to the toilet pay one euro.
Anyone who does not have a bank or credit card, which can often be the case with children and young people, for example, cannot even get in, because the new access lockers do not accept cash at all. So there is no choice between cash or card for (always was), but if you have a card that is accepted by the device, you are not allowed to go to the toilet.
Unsurprisingly, Charleroi Airport’s paid toilet facilities are already sparking heated debates on social media and TV. Passengers wrote to local television stations that they felt ripped off for having to pay for the toilets after landing.
Anyone who thinks that only those « quiet places » outside the security area would be affected is wrong. Charleroi has provided all toilet facilities with pay cabinets. This expressly includes those directly at the baggage carousel and in the security area around the gates. So there is no legal way to escape the « toilet fee ». At one euro per use, this is probably high because, unlike at gas stations, you get a voucher that can be redeemed in shops.
But why does Charleroi actually charge extra for the toilets? Each passenger pays a so-called passenger fee via the booked airline, the amount of which varies depending on the airport. This includes the use of the terminal and consequently the use of the toilet facilities. Until the “Charleroi case” this question did not even arise. The airport justifies the introduction of the « toilet tax » of one euro per use with the fact that the facilities were « often left very dirty » by the users and that « although they are cleaned every hour ». The airport no longer wants to bear the costs of cleaning alone and is now demanding money. However, passengers more likely that the airport was looking for a new source of income and according to the motto « if you have to, then you have to » the toilets could have offered themselves…
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