When you’re thinking about reserving a a site at a campground or RV park, and you look at the map to choose your site, what’s the first thing you check?
For some RVers, it’s the view. For others, it’s shade. But for plenty of campers, there’s one very practical question: How close is this site to the bathhouse? And that’s where opinions start to split.
Some of you want to be as close as possible to the bathhouse (bathroom, showers, etc.). No long walks in the dark. No late-night flashlight searches. No trekking through rain or mud just to brush your teeth. Maybe you’re the ones who don’t have a bathroom in your RVs…
Others want to be as far away as humanly possible. Too much foot traffic. Too many doors slamming. Too many early risers and late-night talkers. The lights are too bright. Peace and quiet matter more than proximity. We’re guessing you probably have a bathroom in your RV, right?
Then there’s the middle-ground crowd—close enough to be practical, far enough to avoid the parade of flip-flops and flashlight beams.
So now we’re curious…
Do you like being near the bathhouse—or far from it?
Vote below, and if you have a strong opinion (or a funny story), we’d love to hear it in the comments below.
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You’re missing one. It doesn’t matter.
I would prefer to be away. One camp ground in St Augustine, FL we were between the camping area and the bathhouse. The entire time we were there campers walk right through our site to and from the facilities.
Police tape strung around your site.
I prefer not to have all the foot traffic near my rig, but there was a trip when our water fill inlet broke off. There was no way to hook up to any water source. Being close to the bathhouse on that trip was so nice every time we needed water.
During tornado season I like to have one in eye sight in case the middle of the night we need to get to shelter in a hurry.
Baths meaning bathing, not toilet. Desired distance depends on whether we want to use the campground showers. We typically store the laundry hamper in the tub in our smaller TT when driving. When going cross country – traveling each day, it is easier to use campground showers than shuffling the hamper back & forth.
Totally agree. We also use our shower as storage area.
During the day we also use the campground toilets.
Being physically disabled, we try and get the ADA sites and they are normally near the restrooms/Showers. If not, we do have the Cricket SX-3 to use unless it is raining and then we just use our own bathroom.
Don’t care one way or the other
We rarely, very rarely, used the bathhouse for anything preferring the shower and john in our rig where we knew it was clean.
I agree! Having my own shower and potty -clean and Private is one big reason I bought a TT. So I try to stay away from campground bathhouses.
When in a campground with full hook ups, why use the campground facilities? Isn’t having your own toilet and shower in the RV, one reason you bought it?
We look first for the “quality” of the site, then if possible prefer to not be too close to the restroom. Part of owning a motorhome is not needing to trek to an unfamiliar bathroom. And I only shower in our rig – open spaces always feel too drafty & cold for me.
When we started camping, we only had a toilet in our camper so we wanted to be close to lbs bathrooms, but we ended up having people cutting through our campsite all the time. Then we tried being a little further away which worked well enough. Then we got our first trailer with a shower and it didn’t matter. Now we have a DP, I prefer to be as far away as possible simply because it’s quieter. So at various times in my life I would have picked each of these choices.
Since we have a bath and a half in our motorhome, I don’t really care how far it is to the bathroom, and that wasn’t a choice. Prior to getting this motorhome, I had a mild preference for being close to the bathroom in case ours was occupied.
Having our own I take the distance from and give those the closeness they might need for what ever their needs are.
When we were camping with a popup camper, it was good to be close to the bath house. But getting up in the middle of the night to answer a nature call was a nuisance, especially if it was raining. We bought a brand-new camper with its own bathroom in 2024, so now it isn’t such a big deal – I’d rather be close to a water spigot for easier refills, now.