Grand Pavilion has ONE (small) bathroom?

Was at Cedar Point yesterday and went into the GP to use the restroom. Was a little surprised that a building that size, with a bar in it, only has one restroom with about five stalls in it (for the ladies at least.) Am I alone in thinking that maybe they would have had restrooms on each floor? Just a random observation...

P.S. We got onto the causeway at 4 p.m., crawled to the front after half an hour only to find a big "MAIN LOT IS FULL" sign and just about all the traffic shunting to two lanes on the far left. There was one booth open on the far right beneath a sign saying "BEACH PARKING" that nobody was going to. I went over there and the kid who scanned me in said, "Thank you for coming over here!" I think he was a little baffled as to why more people weren't coming over to his booth. Once I went through I was in the main lot, drove to the front and found a space about 3 rows from the gate. So, if you're going to the park, aim for the entrance gate that says beach parking!!

Chuck Wagon's avatar

I think I was more surprised that the one bathroom in Grand Pavilion was on the 2nd floor instead of the first floor.


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Uncle Steve's avatar

The mens room has 3 urinals and a crapper or 2.
My guess would be they kept the restrooms small and put them upstairs so as not to attract the passerby.
Gatekeeper & Arcade restrooms are close enough.

djDaemon's avatar

I guess, but when building a ~25,000 square foot facility, adding on another ~1250 square feet for a ground level "public" bathroom would have made a lot of sense.


Brandon

Until this thread, I actually never realized they don't have restrooms on both floors. Of course, I typically get my food and then bring it upstairs and spend most of my time up there. I knew there were restrooms up there and always just assumed they were downstairs as well. Agreed it's very odd they are not.

Morté615's avatar

I mean the park can always use more restrooms. Kinda surprised they didn't just add another large set on the ground floor. Accessible from in the park, that would have offered another restroom halfway between Gatekeeper and the Lakeside Pavilion (and those are only available sometimes as if there is a group there you can't use them). If you make it where it shares a wall with the beach boardwalk (thinking like Soak City and Challenge Park used to do) even better as there isn't a restroom there till Lakeside/Breakers.

I know that another large restroom increases the staffing, utilities, ect but considering how often during the year the restrooms are full it's needed.


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djDaemon's avatar

Of all the things to be dictated by staffing issues, adding bathrooms of all thing should not be one of them.


Brandon

Probably designed with the minimum facility requirement for a building of this type and size. I can't fathom them building anything that would fail an occupancy inspection before it was finished.

I mean if it had failed inspection it wouldn't have opened on opening day but it does seem odd that if you were only going to put one set of restrooms in you'd think they'd have put them on ground floor.

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