I am lucky. I live close enough to the Hollywood Bowl in California that I can buy my tickets at the ticket window. Remember the August 30th blog about Spirit airlines and all the extra fees? I feel there needs to be the same set of rules when purchasing any type of tickets. Have you ever tried to purchase $25 tickets from Ticketmaster only to find out by the time all is said and done those $25 tickets with additional fees are now $35?
Last week I went to the Hollywood Bowl with Maria and a friend from Oakland, Christine. We met up with a co-worker, Russ, and his wife, Alma and had a wonderful picnic dinner. Then this week I am reading the Los Angeles Times newspaper and realized the Hollywood Bowl was voted as having one of the top ten places to visit in the country for a particular reason.
People travel all over the United States for different reasons. Some travel to visit National Parks, some travel to places with beautiful views or to visit historical locations and some like to do "food trips" such as the best BBQ sites in the United States. So I wondered what was at the Hollywood Bowl that I had missed? Are you ready? The Hollywood Bowl has one of the ten best public restrooms in the country. I didn't even know there was such a contest. The below information was taken from the September 7, 2012 Los Angeles Times article:
"Restroom cleaning supplier Cintas of Cincinnati has run this contest for more than a decade and inducts worthy loos into its Hall of Fame each year. The company invites anyone to review photographs and profiles of each site and then cast their vote for the top spot online.
In the profiles, the Hollywood Bowl's refurbished restrooms get props for 1920s-style curved lines and large round mirrors that echo the shape of the band shell and, in the largest restroom, a system that uses red and green lights to signal which stalls are free.
The $1.2-million bathrooms at Vanity nightclub on the Las Vegas Strip wins high marks for the lighted individual vanities with red-velvet seats and a $40,000 chandelier made from glass globes in the women's room (the men's room has "faux reptile-skin walls" and flat-screen TVs over the urinals).
Other contenders include Mie N Yu Restaurant in Washington, D.C., which features a unisex washroom with copper basins inside large wooden barrels, and Asian accents, and the loo in the lobby of Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel in Chicago, which dazzles with sparkling glass mosaic tile wallpaper and sleek fixtures.
Top honors in 2011 went to the men's and women's rooms at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Voting for this year's contest will continue until Oct. 26 with a winner and runner-up to be announced later in fall. " Leave a comment in the comment section what location you voted #1 and why. I guess I don't have to spend a lot of money to visit a top 10 location in the United States.
There are apps out there for everything. There is even an app out there entitled Sit or Squat. In its database there is information on over 105,000 toilets in the world. Wednesday we will talk about apps that can help you while traveling.
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