Toilet Review

Clean, free toilets in Kuala Lumpur are such priceless places, almost non-existent. Most toilets, even those that you have to pay to get in, are not very well maintained - mostly wet all the time, the water pipes are something that you would not dare to touch unless you are in dire need. There certainly are free toilets - mainly in bigger shopping malls and the trend is certainly moving towards this. Somehow, these free toilets aren't very well maintained.

Recently however, I stumbled on this free toilet. It was a suprising find as the toilets here previously charged 50 cents per entry. The only free toilets you could find in the Bukit Bintang area previously were in Berjaya Plaza or more famously known as KL Plaza.

Now these free toilets were found in the newly revamped Starhill. The ambience before you step in to the extremely clean toilets feels like you're stepping into an art gallery instead. I was expecting to pay the usual 50 cents but surprisingly, there wasn't anyone stationed anywhere to collect the money.

The look and feel inside can certainly beat those in 5 star hotels. None of those toilet stinking smell exist here. The designer sinks are lined on glazed yellow tiles, the taps are shiny, not even a thumb print to be seen. The only drawback was the hand soap, there are no soap dispensers but one has to dip their hands into this small round bowl containing liquid soap.

Behind the sinks are two rows of nicely lined mirrors, one decked on a beautiful panel with a pot of plant and candle holder as deco and behind are what I would call vanity mirrors - those full length mirrors where you could see yourself from top to bottom. Indeed useful for those emergency moments when you suddenly have an important meeting and you need to do a quick makeover and check how you look like overall.

The toilets are indeed the cleanest I've ever seen, possibly because not many people visit them or they've got really efficient cleaners. There's the auto flush function, you needn't worry about pressing any flush button that people have used their shoes to step on. You needn't worry about stepping into a toilet and finding remnants of its previous occupant. Even the knobs for holding your bags are still intact and proper. I had no qualms about sitting on the toilet seats, there weren't any footprints or shoe prints on those gleaming toilet seats. Toilet paper is abundant, the type that you needn't have to tear.

The toilet visit was indeed a very pleasant one. I wonder if the men's toilets are just as good. I also wonder how long these toilets would remain as it is till people come to know about it and start leaving shoe prints on the seats, stealing the potted plants and candleholders and leaving graffiti on the toilet doors.