I agree with Joan Larsen with an exception.  Have stayed in the Chicago Ritz Carlton, the Maui Ritz Carlton, D.C., Dana Point Ritz Carleton,NYC, etc.  It took a little child’s observation to make me a devoted fan of Ritz Carlton’s bathrooms.  My four year old grandaughter and I were entering the bathroom of the Pasadena Ritz Carlton on New Years Day.  She clapped her hands and said "I luuuuuve these bathrooms.  They are all alike———— Cleeeeeen!!" She went on to be a bathroom critic in later years and would always critique them—service stations getting the lowest ratings and Ritz Carltons getting the highest.

The importance of washrooms - clean washrooms- and such interesting comments. Just thought you might be interested in a story from my very early days in advertising. There was a chain of gas stations, “White Rose”, now defunct. They wanted to be number one. Over a period of years we tried everything to give them the advertising support they needed to compete and possibly surpass the established and accepted service station leaders. One campaign we designed put them right up there and ahead of the pack. Instead of telling everybody about great products and service, we simply incorporated, in all our advertising, the words, “Clean Washrooms”.  Magic words made credible by a company who made sure they meant what they said.  From then on, most families insisted that the person driving only stopped at gas stations bearing the “White Rose” symbol.

Would we prefer to PAY for the facility like in Europe?

You can ponder that for awhile but then when you see them clean seat after seat with the same rag, you are not that happy to part with the Euro’s.

My nicest experience was at the Grand something or other in Biloxy. At the time I visited it was newly built and everyone had to go see the ladies room before gambling. The photos had been shown all over the country. It was grandiose with original watercolors of ladies in each stall, attendants who gave you your own small soap etc…. I heard it all vanished with Katrina.

Worst: the holes in France in the late 1940’s ……any field would have been a luxury in comparison.

All right.  I was on page one with my choice … but that was months ago.  Definitely it is the Palm Court of the Drake Hotel in Chicago.  Why?  Well, once in you don’t want to leave as there are - get this - individual bathroom suites as big as some bathrooms as home with in stall makeup tables, elegant sconces, and oh my! the chandeliers.  Pure heaven.

But for most unusual (and pull up photos of this one) it is at the Kohler Art Museum in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and comes up first on the list every time.  Artists have decorated the stalls, the wash basins, and there is a theme for each of the 6 bathrooms in the museum.  It is worth going out of your way from the only 5-star resort around - just minutes away — the American Club (to kill for) in Kohler, WI — which has the latest in exotic bathrooms with showers that most of us have never seen the like of.  You don’t want to leave your room - frankly! (pull the photos of American Club bathrooms up also for a treat)!!!