Originally Posted by
saneman
All that concern for nothing. I got out of the plane, before leaving for passport control so I could check out the city, I just used some random toilet that looked just cleaned(had a wet floor sign). Stalls had full privacy and even two hooks where you could hang as much as you wanted without any of your stuff touching the ground. (except for the carry on suitcase of course). No bad odors. Clean stalls. Had plenty of TP and that washer thing. Best of both worlds.
2:30 in the afternoon , Dubai airport was desolate. Funny thing is the people on my plane were using the super cramped toilet from the very first minute of the flight to pretty much a few min before landing(ignoring any FA messages). Why they couldn't hold it and just use the more spacious and cleaner airport toilets is a mystery to me.
Of course the stalls have full privacy, this is the rest of the world, not America
Jokes aside, I think you hit the nail on the head: people expect airport toilets to not be any good, so they don't use them!
Glad to hear everything went ok! Just a hint for future trips, the L4 accessible lavatory on some 77Ws is noticeably larger than the other lavatories.