Toilet survey #30: Barcelona
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sarahxBarcelona 2 Espanyol 0
6 May 2006
I got lucky with the footy fixtures on my Barcelona trip: not only did I get to go to the Olympic Stadium for the Espanyol home game, three days later Barcelona were at home at the Nou Camp, ironically to Espanyol. They'd also won the championship midweek, so there was a rather fine party after the match. Fireworks, the lot. Top stuff.
The Nou Camp is the biggest footy stadium in Europe, holding nigh on 90,000 fans. Unsurprisingly, it's a touch vertiginous near the top where the cheap seats are (though at €58 for a second-lowest price ticket, 'cheap' is relative!).
Being at the top of a big stadium means having to climb lots of steps to get up there, and there were toilets on several stair landings. However, none of them were particularly big, this one near the top with a mere two cubicles being typical.
The cubicle I used was fairly large, though this was more a result of strange room layout than actual design. An abundance of loo rolls!
Half-an-hour before kick-off, there weren't any queues. At half time, they were prohibitively long. They weren't much better after the match as we waited for the championship-winning party.
Rating: 5/10. Clean enough but definitely inadequate in number.
6 May 2006
I got lucky with the footy fixtures on my Barcelona trip: not only did I get to go to the Olympic Stadium for the Espanyol home game, three days later Barcelona were at home at the Nou Camp, ironically to Espanyol. They'd also won the championship midweek, so there was a rather fine party after the match. Fireworks, the lot. Top stuff.
The Nou Camp is the biggest footy stadium in Europe, holding nigh on 90,000 fans. Unsurprisingly, it's a touch vertiginous near the top where the cheap seats are (though at €58 for a second-lowest price ticket, 'cheap' is relative!).
Being at the top of a big stadium means having to climb lots of steps to get up there, and there were toilets on several stair landings. However, none of them were particularly big, this one near the top with a mere two cubicles being typical.
The cubicle I used was fairly large, though this was more a result of strange room layout than actual design. An abundance of loo rolls!
Half-an-hour before kick-off, there weren't any queues. At half time, they were prohibitively long. They weren't much better after the match as we waited for the championship-winning party.
Rating: 5/10. Clean enough but definitely inadequate in number.
