Originally Posted by champignon

Travel can be and often is disgusting. I have been in public restrooms rendered unusable by all manner of bodily secretions or one time, in a restroom that had been used for shooting up drugs which was contaminated with blood everywhere.

As much as people complain about the age and condition of the CCR bathrooms, I'd rate them as a solid 7-8/10 of what I have seen elsewhere while traveling.

As to the CCR itself, I find the staff and fellow travelers to be an oasis in the midst of what else I might encounter on my trips. My fellow passengers, at least while I have been there, have generally behaved themselves well, and the place is kept to a very reasonable standard of cleanliness. I have yet to encounter a situation in the CCR that I found offensive.

If your frame of reference is some private club limited to persons who attended private boarding schools, or perhaps the boardroom of a large corporation, then the CCR falls short. I'm happy for what it is, for the fact that I can occasionally enter it, and all the sniveling in this thread is just a bunch of whining in my own, not very humble, opinion.