A Christmas Themed Bathroom...

It’s that time of year again, Christmas is right around the corner and the bathroom certainly is not safe from a bit of festive cheer. We’ve noticed some incredibly funny and interesting toilet decor available in shops and on the internet to get you into the festive spirit. We’ve rounded up a few of our favourites below.

Toilet Roll

The Designer Toilet Roll Company shop on Amazon stocks various themed toilet rolls and Christmas is definitely a theme that they capitalise on. A few of our favourites are:

• Festive Friends
• Cheeky Santa
• and even a Christmas scented toilet roll!

While certainly not the cheapest toilet roll you’ll buy it adds a little festive fun to Christmas Day.

Novelty Toilet Seat Covers

Again, there are various options out there but one of our favourites is this 3 pc set from iado on Amazon. Definitely just what you need to brighten up your bathroom this December - while also keeping your feet cosy!

A festive shower curtain

For those of you who really like to go all out why not get yourselves one of these Christmas themed shower curtains to really get that festive cheer going.

Dresslily has an entire change of Christmas themed shower curtains, in a range of sizes. Click the image below to shop the entire range.

Santa Bath Mat

This is our personal favourite... We recently spotted this adorable Santa bath mat in our local Aldi store and fell in love. It’s certainly a good way to spruce up your bathroom and add a bit of festive flare.

https://www.aldi.co.uk/santa-bath-mat/p/079755187732602

Have you found any fun Christmas themed bathroom accessories? Or perhaps you already have some? Let us know!

(None of the items listed in this post are sponsored or for advertising purposes).

What is the LOORank ranking system?

LOORank incorporates an in-app ranking system for its users. The more toilets a user rates, the higher they rank.

We’ve devised various ranks that our users can achieve while rating toilets. What are those ranks you ask?

The system is simple, we’ve incorporated a number of “levels” for our users to achieve.

Users who rate at least one toilet achieve their REVIEWER status. After 5 reviews, users move on to the SILVER status, before moving on to GOLD after 10 and STAR after 20.

We wanted to make things fun, we introduced a few more interested review statuses including:

• COMMANDER at 50 reviews and above
• KING for 100+
• And for our supreme raters, after 500 reviews you’ll achieve our EMPEROR status.

It’s not all fun and games though, we truly believe that our app has the potential to raise hygiene standards across the world... but we wanted to add something entertaining for our users as well.

Start rating today, head over to www.loorank.com or download our brand new app to create your account and on your journey toward becoming an Emperor.

The app is available in App Store for iOS users and Google Play for Android users now.

How does LOOrank work for businesses?

LOOrank is the only mobile app that allows users to search for public facilities, rate them and include images. Our goal with LOOrank is to raise hygiene standards, across the world, in bars, restaurants, hotels, shopping centres, airports etc.

There is the obvious advantage for users; they are able to provide honest feedback and find highly rated restrooms where ever they are but there is an even bigger advantage to the businesses or owners of those facilities.

We use Google Places as a database, meaning that we have millions of facilities available to be rated. Businesses can use LOOrank to search for their own, or their competitors, establishments and see what people have to say about your toilet facilities.

Here at LOOrank we truly believe that the toilet/bathroom is a reflection of your entire establishment. If the time hasn’t been taken to properly clean the bathrooms and provide a hygienic experience for customers then what does that say about the cleanliness or care and attention for the rest of your business?

Speaking from experience, we know that these things can have a lasting impression. You want your customers leaving having had a great experience overall - including using your restroom. So it’s important to ensure that you do everything you can.

You’ll notice that I mentioned your competitors. LOOrank could potentially be used as a research tool. Find out how your competitors fare against you. If there’s something that you can do to give yourself the competitive edge then you should do it and LOOrank will be able to assist you in ensuring that you can guarantee that your toilet facilities are always one step ahead.

Perhaps you could use LOOrank as an additional resource? LOORank is a free website and application. Promote LOOrank within your business. Customers may feel more comfortable doing this as it’s a way of keeping some anonymity, than if they were to speak with your staff.

Sign up today on www.loorank.com, or speak to us via info@loorank.com, and how it might work for you.

Download our mobile app on App Store today!

What and where can you rate on LOOrank?

LOOrank uses Google Places as its central database.

Firstly, what is Google Places?

In a post written in 2012, www.advisorsocial.com perfectly summaries what Google Places is and how, as a business, you can ensure that you’re on there:

“Google Places is the local listing results of Google. Google Places appears high up in the search results of Google when users look for local information. Here, a small map shows the locations of those companies which are both relevant to the keywords entered and registered on Google Places. Links to the websites of these companies can be found right beside the map.”

Apps and websites, like www.loorank.com, can use the Google Places API to gain direct access to a database of around 100 million places around the world including businesses, restaurants, shops, airports etc.  

How does this help LOOrank?

And ultimately, how does this help you - the user. Google Places allows you to access to millions of public facilities in every country and continent in the world. This means that our database will always be up-to-date and relevant for users.

So, what can you rate?

Thanks to Google Places we’ve estimated that around 90% of businesses or locations with public restroom facilities are available on our app and website. There are no restrictions to the facilities you can rate. We suggest:

• Restaurants
• Bars and Clubs
• Airports
• Train stations
• Hotels
• Shopping centres
• Offices

To name but a few but the answer to where you can rate is even simpler… anywhere!

Our app will be available in November, making it even easier as you’ll have the entire world (and the bathrooms within it) at your fingertips. Don’t worry though, you can still sign up and start using LOOrank. Head over to our website - www.loorank.com - to sign up today.

What is LOOrank?

The word LOO, in the U.K., is slang for TOILET

Welcome to our first LOOrank blog post!

To kick things off we thought it would be a good idea to tell you what LOOrank is and why we feel that it’s an essential app/resource.

So, what is it?

LOOrank is an app and a website that you can use to rate public bathrooms (restaurants, bars, airports, train stations, hotels, institutions, companies, etc.).

We use Google Places, so we have more than a hundred million toilets within our database for you to search for and rate: most likely any public toilet you are using will be listed on our website (our estimate is above 90%).

There may be other resources which allow you to find public restrooms, but LOOrank is the only app that allows you to rate bathrooms for cleanliness, hygiene and commodities available - and post images.

Why is there a need?

Do you find it frustrating when you go out for a nice meal, at a restaurant with raving reviews but then you head to use their bathroom to find them unhygienic or smelly? Lacking toilet roll or soap? In other words, not properly attended, as it should be?

We know that it’s definitely frustrating for us. We think that a restroom is a reflection of the hygiene of the restaurant, bar, hotel… whatever it may be, as a whole.

On the other hand, isn’t it lovely when you use a public facility that is of exceptional cleanliness and quality? We think that these toilets deserve to be shouted about and celebrated.

Which is why we created LOOrank. We want to provide a friendly platform for people to give their honest opinion about the quality of the facilities at hand. Don’t get us wrong, we’re not here to bash establishments or tarnish reputations; ultimately we want to do our part to help raise standards.

How does it work?

Simple, we currently have a live and mobile responsive website - www.loorank.com - where you can create an account and start rating!

Just enter the name of the city followed by the name of the public place you are in (restaurant, airport, …) in the search box, and click ‘Rate Toilet’.

We encourage including photos so either (1) rate the toilet right there and then or (2) take some pictures and rate it later.

Your review is then held until one of our administrators checks it over to make sure there’s nothing explicit or defamatory. If everything is okay and honest, we’ll approve it for everyone to see.

We’re currently working on an extra special app for iPhone and Android users that will make creating and publishing reviews even easier!

What to include in the review?

We’ve kept this nice and simple. You rate the toilet using a 5-star system, then you add some comments.

Include everything and anything that you think is relevant. How clean were the toilets? Did they smell fresh? Was there plenty loo roll and hand soap? Were they dated or quite modern?

We encourage including photos, as long as they are not explicit or defamatory and reflect your experience as a user of the public facility. The more photos the better.

When is the app available?

We’re working on that now and we’ll have a release date for you VERY soon: we are currently looking at November 2017. Sign up to LOOrank now - www.loorank.com - to start rating and be kept up to date and we’ll let you know when to expect the app AND we’ll even remind you on the day.

We’re really excited and truly believe in raising public facilities’ standards across the world. We hope you’ll get involved and help us achieve this goal.