Inspection within a unique campaign of 200 public facilities has given the thumbs-up to three-quarters of public toilets in Polish cities which will host Euro2012 football matches.

The “Toilet 2012” campaign concluded that a majority of public WCs which may be used by visiting football fans are nothing to be ashamed of and that the best ones can be found at airports, hotels and restaurants.

“Everything was missing including the seat and flushing mechanism but less radically: no toilet paper, no liquid soap and a pervading stink,” said Jan Orgelbrandt from the Main Sanitary Inspectorate, maintaining, however, that there are still many problems with Poland's public toilets.

Judging by opinion polls run by TNS OBOP, foreign visitors are actually happy with the state of loos in Poland: only 3 percent of those polled are unhappy with toilets at hotels and restaurants and seven percent are dissatisfied with airport toilets.

It seems that foreigners find the worst toilets in Poland's train bus stations, with 30 percent finding the toilets at train stations unacceptable and 58 percent of tourists finding the loos at bus stations in unacceptable state.

The 'Toilet 2012' campaign, which launched in September 2008, runs parallel to preparations for the Euro2012 football matches, to be co-hosted by Poland and the Ukraine, and seeks to bring to authorities attention that the situation of public facilities in this country needs to be improved. (ek/mmj)