McDonalds: Port Clinton, Ohio

Port Clinton, Ohio is my home away from home. My husband and I spend our summers there and occasionally make trips there during the winter. On a recent trip to check on my in-law's boat, we stopped at the McDonald's near the Catawba Island entrance. The restaurant is one of the McDonald's that have been recently renovated to be more modern and 'hip'. The bathroom has also been renovated and is quite nice. A few complaints though......one would be the lack of soap. There was only one sink and one soap dispenser and of course, it was out of soap. That means that the employees probably rarely check on the bathroom (they seemed a little busy, and it took almost 10 minutes to get our food!). There were two bathroom stalls, one is a handicapped stall and the other is a very very very small narrow stall. I chose the very small and narrow stall. The door almost hits the toilet when it swings inward (it should probably swing out) and to close the door, you either have to step between the toilet and the wall, or step on the toilet (seriously!). I decided to not step on the toilet that I was about to use and just squeeze between the toilet and the wall to close the door. It was a little claustrophobic and I don't get claustrophobic! There was some stuff on the floor that I'm praying was dirt (you can see it in the first picture) but other than that, it was fairly clean. Also found a piece of toilet paper in the sink....kind of odd.

I like the updated tile and I of course I loved the tile that looks like wood (I would marry that tile.....I would do my whole house in that tile if I could afford it....its a love affair and its a little sad). I took the two pictures below. You can see the awesome wood tile in the second picture. With all of the updates they did, they could have at least installed hand dryers that start automatically when you put your hands underneath them. Instead, they have the ones that you have to press the button to start. For anyone that is concerned with germs, this just isn't a good thing to have. McDonald's could have skips on the expensive wood tile and installed the motion sensor hand dryers.

Overall, the bathroom was nice, however the lack of soap and the tight squeeze to get into the stall really did this one in. I give the McDonald's bathroom a 3 out of 5 toilets. Not sure how often I will be going back to this particular McDonald's, but I would probably avoid going to this bathroom unless I had some hand sanitizer with me!