Festivals are great events that unite music with great times, however, if you’re planning a festival in the coming months, there are plenty of things you must consider.
Toilets are an absolute necessity, regardless of whether your festival is overnight or a whole week. So, with that in mind, let’s take a look at how you can offer the best toilet experience at your festival.
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Evaluate your venue
The venue where your festival is held can be a crucial factor towards providing the best toilet experience for your guests. The last thing you want to do is have to position your festival portable toilets at the top of hills, making them a nightmare to reach for your guests.
When evaluating your venue, ensure that there is plenty of flat ground with access points for your rental company, making it as easy as possible for the placement and removal of your portable toilets, and also easily accessible for your guests.
If you’re struggling to find a suitable venue for your festival, checkout our blog on great event venues in South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire to find the perfect venue for your festival!
Plan your expected attendance
Festivals have the tendency to attract extremely large crowds, with attendances at certain festivals reaching numbers of up to 200,000 guests. With this in mind, the larger your attendance, the more portable toilets you should look to acquire so that queues are shorter, and toilets are less overused, offering a variety of different locations for attendees to visit the toilet.
By understanding how many people will be attending, you already have a head start to offer the best toilet experience so you can ensure you have the correct number of portable toilets for your festival.
Urinals
Along with portable toilets, you can also consider portable urinals. These can be positioned alongside the toilets and can also help streamline queues as they can accommodate multiple guests at once. Overall, urinals help improve the efficiency of toilet facilities.
Accessibility
Festivals are designed to be suitable for everyone to enjoy, and your portable toilets should be too. Installing disabled portable toilets ensures that your festival is accessible for all and can help all guests have an enjoyable time throughout the duration of your festival. Typically, disabled portable toilets include wider entrances, grab bars and are larger in size which must be considered when deciding where to place these.
Gender-specific toilets
Providing gender-specific toilets may be worth considering for your festival. Designating separate facilities for men and women and help create a more comfortable environment. If your event is family friendly, you could also create family specific areas which are suited towards younger children.
Location
To create a stress-free environment at your festival, you must consider the location of your portable toilets. It is advised to place your toilets nearer crowded areas such as stages, food courts, car parks and entrances to help reduce the wait time and offer people the option of different places to go to the toilet. Positioning your portable toilets in just one location will cause lengthy queues and lead to unhappy guests.
Regular cleaning
Portable toilets at festivals should be regularly cleaned to prevent the potential spread of disease, illnesses, and to improve the overall hygiene of your festival.
Ultimately, it is the festival’s responsibility to ensure the toilets are cleaned and not the responsibility of your guests. Furthermore, the cleanliness reflects on your festival’s reputation and if this is unsatisfactory, this may lead to visitors not returning and poor reviews being left which can have a detrimental impact.
Along with regular cleaning, you should ensure that you have effective waste management in place. Waste bins should be clearly marked and emptied frequently to prevent any overflows.
Toilets should also be inspected during the festival’s duration to ensure they are in full working order and any issues should be rectified as any toilets that are out of order can lead to extended queues.
Here at Get Loos, we can offer a high-quality portable toilet concierge service, so you can have someone on hand to keep your toilets clean and maintained throughout the event, offering a much better festival toilet experience for your guests.
Stock up on supplies
The last thing you want to happen is to run out of toilet supplies for your festival portable toilets. Having supplies on hand prior to your festival shows good organisational skills and also relieves you of the stress of having to constantly purchase new toilet supplies, such as toilet roll and sanitiser for example. Our concierge service for festival toilets can also cover this, as we can ensure that you always have access to toilet paper and hand cleansers for the duration of your festival.
Advise your attendees
Even with routine cleaning, festival toilets can become very wet, dirty and muddy due to the high amount of footfall. It may be advisable to communicate with your visitors and tell them to wear appropriate footwear such as wellies or boots as they can prevent visitors from slipping inside the portable toilet.
Furthermore, promoting the use of or supplying hand sanitiser will help with cleanliness and hygiene levels as access to hot running water may be limited.
VIP toilets
Finally, for your VIP guests you should consider offering them access to their own toilets rather than the communal portable toilets. These toilets can be positioned close to the VIP accommodation areas and only these guests will have access to them. This can be an incentive for guests to upgrade their ticket options.
Hire festival toilets today!
Here at Get Loos, we offer a hassle-free experience and work with you to deliver the best toilet experience for you guests at festivals. If you’re interested in our festival portable toilet hire services, or any of our other portable toilet services, please contact our team today on 0345 565 2680 or drop us an email at info@getloos.co.uk for a quote.
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