Where to shower in. A historical toilet in Gum, or where else you can take a shower in the city during the heat
Those who are lucky here all year round goes to the fitness club. A monthly subscription just for the sake of washing is not a cheap pleasure, its cost can be close to the price of an annual one.
What are the options:
- Splurge on a monthly subscription. It's expensive, but convenient. If you want to save money, choose a non-elite club without a pool - there will also be showers there, but you won’t have to overpay for bonuses that you won’t use.
- Buy an annual subscription and start practicing. But take your choice of club seriously, as you are with it for a long time.
- Buy a subscription directly. Suddenly someone has lost the desire to study, and he will give you a card at a low price.
- Pay for one-time visits. They don't cost a fortune everywhere. But here you need to calculate the options, without this there is no way to evaluate the benefits. It will be the most budget-friendly if you go to the shower only for “general bathing”, and on the rest of the days you make do with basins.
- Come to a guest training session for free. Some fitness clubs allow you to attend introductory classes free of charge. If there are many gyms in your area, you can go to a new one every day to wash.
Other sports facilities
In some places you can do without training by sneaking straight into the shower. This includes swimming pools and water parks. Sports locker rooms with showers are available in some parks in major cities. But in some place with a dozen visitors, you will have to go to class so as not to arouse suspicion. Well, or negotiate with the administrator.
Bath
Don't bet on fancy saunas with gambling and corrupt love. Your choice is municipal baths. You can even take a shower in them very cheaply - for a couple of hundred. It will most likely be dull there. But it’s not as dull as watering yourself from a ladle. However, you can boo: there are usually steam rooms there too.
Hostel
Even very suitable cheap option with a bed in a common room for 100,500 people: you only need a shower. Option for the sociable: try to negotiate with the administrator for a hundred rubles only for water treatments, without check-in.
Railway station
There is often a shower in the toilet at the station. It's quite dreary there, but there is hot water. If you're really desperate or live close to a train station, consider this option.
Neighbours
Not an obvious option for the violent. Yes, the neighbors' hot water was also turned off. But if they have a water heater or geyser, they also have life-giving moisture. And go with a washcloth staircase much more convenient than traveling halfway across town.
Walk around apartments looking for hot water Probably not worth it. But if you communicate with one of your neighbors, you may well take a risk. If it is very pitiful to tell you how you suffer without necessary conditions, you may be invited themselves.
Don’t forget to thank them with money or gifts, because next year the hot water will be turned off again, and no one likes a greedy person.
Relatives
This option, on the contrary, is obvious. If you don't have hot water, it's time to remember that you really miss your loved ones living in another area.
Do you know any creative ways to wash yourself during the hot water outage season?
Where to take a shower in Moscow? Hotel "PARKOFF" offers to use a hotel room for 2 hours to freshen up and look better.
Many people who come on a business trip to Moscow ask the question, “Where can I take a shower in Moscow?” Business travelers often use the service before an important business meeting. Although situations are different, because in Moscow common occurrence- shutdown of hot water and inability to receive food at home hot shower, and at the PARKOFF hotel there is always a hot shower, regardless of the water shutdown schedule in the Vostochnoye Izmailovo area. Therefore, our hotel is an excellent alternative to take a shower and relax.
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Advantageous location
10 minutes from the metro station (blue metro line).
The hotel is located on 11 Parkovaya Street in a residential area of Moscow, close to the city center, allowing guests easy access to major tourist attractions such as the Kremlin, Izmailovo Kremlin, Red Square, Manezhnaya Square, Bolshoi Theater, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Alexander Garden, etc. Opened at the beginning of 2015. The completely new hotel combines modern services and amenities that are sure to guarantee a pleasant stay in any room category.
Services
Room service
24/7 reception desk
Daily cleaning
Safe (check availability)
Refrigerator (check availability)
Laundry and dry cleaning services
Online booking
Cable TV
Free high-speed Internet access (Wireless Fidelity or WI-Fi) in all hotel rooms
Exclusive small closed parking
Breakfast in the room to choose from (Wide selection of food and drinks)
Separate bathroom with shower, sink and toilet
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Booking hotels in other cities
Tourist information
Tickets for concerts and sports and cultural events
Confirmation and booking of air tickets and buses
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A review of all sorts of refreshing life hacks becomes simply necessary when the heat degree whispers: “Go to the shower.” Moreover, the situation with the lack of showers is aggravated when it is impossible to take one at home - in the summer the water is turned off, and the “lucky ones” are forced to go in search of alternatives to their bathrooms.
HISTORICAL TOILET
Issue price: 500 rubles
As it turned out, you can wash yourself in... GUM, or rather in its Historical Toilet. 2.5 years ago, the historic toilet was restored, and now this restroom, located between the beginnings of the first and second lines of the Department Store, immerses its guest in an atmosphere of comfort and luxury service.
Our correspondent learned more about this place from employee of the GUM press service Olesya Gerasimova.
- Do visitors often take a shower in a historical toilet, and how many people come just for this service?
Often. Especially in the summer, especially in this heat. There is even a queue (registration) for the shower. Quite rare in winter.
- How often is it cleaned? And in your opinion, is it hygienic to shower in a public place?
Yes, it is quite hygienic, since cleaning is done after each client, or daily if there were no clients.
- Have you yourself used a shower in a historical toilet?
- How much is the minimum you need to pay to use the shower service, and what is included with it?
500 rub. Bathrobe, slippers, towels, shampoo, body gel, use of a hairdryer, "light steam" from the maid.
- Do you know any other places in Moscow where you can take a shower?
There are no places in such comfort, only in hotels, if you rent a room.
- At what hours is there a line in the toilet (if there is one)? When is the best time to come to you?
There is a queue on weekends, holidays, and during mass celebrations. It’s more convenient to come to us when you “need”, we will always find a way to make the client feel comfortable.
- Please tell us about the history of this toilet museum.
It's more of a toilet than a museum. Opened in a new form for the new year 2012. Historically, there has always been a toilet at this location.
- Why did it become possible to open, having repaired, a historical toilet only 2.5 years ago?
Our visitors needed this.
- How many employees work at the historical toilet?
About 10 people.
- Do people come here more because of the surroundings?
This is not a museum, but many people come because they are interested. There are regular customers who come for comfort.
- Tell us in more detail about special options for disabled people.
The wheelchair room is designed to the proper standard and is comfortable. All conditions have been created for this category of citizens - the room is equipped with a system of levers and handles, which allows you to use it without difficulty. Also, if necessary, you can call a maid to provide possible assistance.
- Have any celebrities visited your historical toilet?
Often, there is a "book of honor"
- And before, before the revolution? Is there any information about your previous guests?
Both before the revolution and after it, no special “registration” was kept. But, obviously, everyone uses such establishments.
- Do the toilet and shower work as usual on holidays? Maybe there are some promotions going on?
The schedule on holidays is normal. We try not to hold any promotions; this is still an intimate zone.
- Many artists from Russia and the West held exhibitions, events, and performances in toilets. Is it possible to do this at your place, and how do you feel about it?
No, it is impossible for us to do this. There are better places for this.
Photo: Evgeniy Dobrov
Historical toilet in GUM
STATIONS
Issue price: from 200 to 270
It is also possible to take a shower at many train stations in Moscow, and in other cities. He told a Moskvichka correspondent about this press secretary of JSC Russian Railways Dmitry Pisarenko.
- Do visitors often take a shower, and are there those who come to the station only for this service?
In principle, such statistics are not kept, and it would be pointless to keep them. But, if people come on a business trip, they often use this service before the meeting. At non-classroom stations, that is, translating this into common language, luxury stations, everywhere there are showers in rest rooms, which are equivalent to three-star hotels.
In other words, the practice of taking a shower at train stations for guests of the capital is quite common.
Previously, at train stations, in particular at Paveletsky, shower rooms caused a lot of complaints. Now, as part of the reconstruction, the entire hotel infrastructure of the stations is being carried out in a separate style. Cleaning companies specialized in cleaning keep order in the new premises.
Showers at train stations can also be used by representatives of low-mobility groups, that is, not only disabled people, but also people who temporarily fall into this category (a person’s leg is in a cast, or a pregnant woman).
- What is the minimum cost to pay to visit the shower at the station?
Well, I don’t have such specific information, but the prices there are quite small. They only put it there Communal expenses. The service must be profitable, otherwise it will not function. By the way, the shower service is not new. She was also in Soviet time, it’s just that it wasn’t covered that way back then—the communication wasn’t the same. Everything was at the level of “I was at the station, took a shower and moved on.”
- Is it hygienic to take a shower in a public place, is it often cleaned?
Cleaning is carried out at a high quality level. After all, if everything happens Low quality– then we will be fined immediately. So cleanliness is ensured by high cleaning frequency.
-Have you seen the state of these souls yourself? Did you go there?
Not at all stations, of course, but I went into such a shower. They are not yet operational at all large train stations - they are being reconstructed. It is necessary to judge the condition of the rest rooms as a whole after its completion. Now the reconstruction has already been completed at the Leningradsky station.
- When will the reconstruction be completely completed?
By the end of 2015, that part of the station premises that is visible to visitors should be completely renovated.
- Do all train stations in Moscow have a shower service?
No, not at all. Savelovsky and Rizhsky are of a lower class, there are only toilets, and there are no long rest rooms, and therefore there are no showers. In general, the service is not so well known yet - many do not know about showers at train stations. So I received a second higher education, my classmate says: “When I come somewhere, I always take a hotel for 2-3 hours to take a shower there.” To this I asked her a logical question: “Why, if there is such a service at the station?” She doesn't know about it, like many others. But on the other hand, you can’t put up billboards saying “Take showers at train stations.” This service operates in line with others household services, whether it's buying coffee or lemonade. But he who seeks will always find.
BEAUTY SALOON
Price: from 300 rubles
Many beauty salons now have showers installed. She told me about this opportunity to freshen up and look prettier Alexandra Tikhomirova, an employee of one of the capital's beauty salons.
- Do your visitors often shower? And do visitors come who only need this service?
They don’t come just for the sake of a shower. We don't have such a service. Showers are used only after certain procedures, that is, body treatments and after solarium. But in general the shower is not used very often.
- Is it hygienic, in your opinion, to take a shower in a public place, and how often is your place cleaned?
Cleaning is carried out every day, that is, relatively often. As for the hygiene of the shower, it seems to me that this is a philosophical question - it depends on how you approach it. Personally, I calmly take a shower in in public places- in swimming pools, in salons.
- What is the minimum price you need to pay to get into your shower?
We just don’t take showers. This is only possible after procedures or a solarium. The minimum price for these services will be 300 rubles.
WASHING
Price: from 200 rubles
You can shower in the baths, which have a washroom.
FITNESS CENTERS
Price: Free
Many fitness centers offer free introductory classes. You can get acquainted with the gym, and then physical activity go to the free shower.