Oshkosh camping list? (Planning for next year)

ET wrote:
Margy Natalie wrote in
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Peter R. wrote:

Paul Tomblin wrote:



The water at the shower station near the camp store in Camp Scholler
was one of the bad ones.


In discussing the showers at OSH, what are those accommodations like
for the campers? What are the busy times and what would a typical
wait for a shower be?


The "Old" or "permanant" showers are block buildings with kitchen
sprayers. I find them a bit lacking. The portable showers (trailers)
have larger sprayers and I like them much more. The women's showers
rarely have a line :-). The airshow is a good time to shower. about
10 am seems to be a good time also.

Margy



The trailer shower in the far end of the north 40 (next to the Hilton)
was flooded with over an inch of water. Not sure if it was the shower
doors leaking or a real live water leak, but that was no fun sloshing
through the "lake". I doubt that particular trailer will last to next
year...

The ones in Vintage have full time attendents with buckets and wet-vacs.
The doors leak and they are used constantly for hours on end. The
person cleaning the women's shower this year was particularly good at
keeping it fairly dry.

Margy

("Margy Natalie" wrote)
The ones in Vintage have full time attendents with buckets and wet-vacs.
The doors leak and they are used constantly for hours on end. The person
cleaning the women's shower this year was particularly good at keeping it
fairly dry.


The one south of the ultralights, where the seaplane bus picks you up, was
nice. I checked it out on day.

The design was odd though.

Two doors were on either end of the trailer, along one wall. Connecting the
doors was a large hallway that ran the length of the trailer, along the
outside wall. In the middle of the space (facing the other outside wall)
were the showers - maybe four stalls on each side of a center entrance, off
the hallway. The other long wall of the trailer had benches to dry off and
get dressed.

Here's my thought: Why not showers on the two "outside" walls? The wide
empty hallway running the length of the trailer, on one outside wall, was
much wasted space, IMHO.

Anyway, that was my first impression of the shower trailer. Clean, and
puzzling. g


Montblack

Montblack wrote:
("Margy Natalie" wrote)

The ones in Vintage have full time attendents with buckets and
wet-vacs. The doors leak and they are used constantly for hours on
end. The person cleaning the women's shower this year was
particularly good at keeping it fairly dry.



The one south of the ultralights, where the seaplane bus picks you up,
was nice. I checked it out on day.

The design was odd though.

Two doors were on either end of the trailer, along one wall. Connecting
the doors was a large hallway that ran the length of the trailer, along
the outside wall. In the middle of the space (facing the other outside
wall) were the showers - maybe four stalls on each side of a center
entrance, off the hallway. The other long wall of the trailer had
benches to dry off and get dressed.

Here's my thought: Why not showers on the two "outside" walls? The wide
empty hallway running the length of the trailer, on one outside wall,
was much wasted space, IMHO.

Anyway, that was my first impression of the shower trailer. Clean, and
puzzling. g


Montblack


If you've ever shared that "long, empty, hallway" with 10 people getting
dressed you will find it's not that big! Showers on both sides would
leave no space to get dressed and/or lead to an oversized trailer.

Margy

("Margy Natalie" wrote)
If you've ever shared that "long, empty, hallway" with 10 people getting
dressed you will find it's not that big! Showers on both sides would
leave no space to get dressed and/or lead to an oversized trailer.


Hmm? I thought that's what the space in front of the showers was used for? I
was thinking in terms of the YMCA - lockers on both sides, benches in the
middle.

O = Open space
S = Shower stalls (facing the open space)
H = Hallway

OSH ...door
OSH
OSH
OSH
O. .H
OSH
OSH
OSH
OSH ...door

When my pics get back from California, I'll have to take a closer look. Yes!
I took pics of the (empty) shower trailer.


Montblack
I showered in the dorms every night.

Montblack wrote:
("Margy Natalie" wrote)

If you've ever shared that "long, empty, hallway" with 10 people
getting dressed you will find it's not that big! Showers on both
sides would leave no space to get dressed and/or lead to an oversized
trailer.



Hmm? I thought that's what the space in front of the showers was used
for? I was thinking in terms of the YMCA - lockers on both sides,
benches in the middle.

O = Open space
S = Shower stalls (facing the open space)
H = Hallway

OSH ...door
OSH
OSH
OSH
O. .H
OSH
OSH
OSH
OSH ...door

When my pics get back from California, I'll have to take a closer look.
Yes! I took pics of the (empty) shower trailer.


Montblack
I showered in the dorms every night.
Oh, the open part in the middle. If you wait until someone is working
you will find out that there is a panel between the showers, it's not
really open. Behind the panel are the mechanical systems.

Margy