The Romans idea of toilets was rather communal, as you can see if you visit Vindolanda at Hadrian's Wall.
If you are a tourist visiting the UK, where should you not relieve yourself? Not on the side of the airport terminal building. Not on a war memorial.
Where can you go? The usual system is to stop for a coffee or snack and use the toilet. Or go into a shopping mall and use the public toilet.
On a motorway, large numbers of cubicles.
In France you can use a toilet in any bar as well as asking for a glass of water to drink.
Most large hotels won't mind if you are well dressed and ask the way politely and look at their cafe menu and browse in their shop.
LONDON LOO TOUR
A tour guide called Rachel Erickson runs Loo Tours of London. Here's the link to the BBC video about her.
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lootours.com
LOO BOOKS
When browsing in a big bookshop, you might buy a souvenir book about toilets.
Some books on loos?
Toilets of the World
How to Shit In The Woods
A book on mishaps:
Up Shit Creek: Collection of Horrifyingly True Toilet Misadventures by Joe Lindsay
And my favourite loos, London and worldwide?
London's Best Loos?
The ladies at Hedonism wine shop in Mayfair. A TV screen giving you the latest news.
The door is not marked. It's next to the downstairs tasting room and there for people who've sat drinking at their tastings.
UK Toilets
At Hadrian's wall a Roman tourist attraction shows the Roman toilet, a row of seats, holes, in a long platform. You can buy pictures of it.
Garages and service station malls on UK motorways have free toilets.
In London the one on Euston station charges money.
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The Harrow at Little Bedwyn restaurant, Ladies. Individual cloth to dry your hands.
You could copy this idea for meetings inexpensively with a set of three facecloths for £1 from the Poundshop or similar in most UK high streets, plus any round or square box, with a basket on the floor for the used towels.
Singapore Toilets
Grandest toilets and bathrooms are in the five star hotels.
The grandest toilets are in top hotels and restaurants.
Slimline cistern on modern toilet at Restaurant Tristan in Horsham.
Temporary toilets can be hired for events. This grand version for a wine tasting at Nyetimber vineyards has a painting about the toilet in a cubicle in the ladies.
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Grandest toilet in the central top hotel with a flushing device inside the toilet so you can wash yourself before (physically) and aft (physically), and after (timewise).
These toilets sold by the Japanese can also be bought in the UK. Saves space if you don't have room for a bidet and only one device to clean, not two.
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