My favourite:

My hotel has no water. If restored, the front desk says, "do not use on your face because it contains something very dangerous."

Although to be fair, I experienced equally dirty looking water in a hotel in Canada to due a blackout.

https://twitter.com/KiritRadia/status/431057414427664385/photo/1

This is both very funny and quite un-funny at the same time.  Thanks for sharing.

I agree Hilary.  Some of the things, like the toilets are funny.  There's nothing funny about not being able to shower with clean water!

Glad these reporters/entitled westerners/culturedivers have such a good sense of humour :3

A two-holer? I've seen them, in old outhouses in the country. I thought the purpose of these was to toilet-train little children. But the ones in Sochi wouldn't be for that purpose.

Maybe there is a different notion of privacy in the Russian culture? Ancient Rome, for instance, had public toilets with multi-seaters, arranged in U shape, all in full view of each other.

Presumably they are dedicated to Same Sex couples only 

There was also a picture floating around with some airport-esque chairs facing the toilets.  It's a spectator sport I guess.

Here's s'more Sochi

wolf concierge?

That one was definitely a spoof.

who can forget these classic Sochi moments?

http://rt.com/news/sochi-olympic-games-snow-187/

Community toilets in Italy during WW II were often gender neutral -- apparently a bit discomforting to my dad from his comments about the women there chatting away while men were using the facilities.  Stayed at a campground in Quebec where the washrooms were co-ed -- doors on all the cubicles and for the showers, but the space was shared by men and women.  It was an interesting experience for our family and raised the issue about our gender labelled washrooms.

My memory is wanting to tell me that negative stories about the Olympic building campains have been going on for meny years.  Wasn't there some sort of outcry in Vancouver about people being told to leave their rental places without arrangements being made to provide them with new ones?

The first time I met a communal toilet was in France in the mid 60's.  Basically it was a hole with cement 'footprints' on each side.  It was built in a way that exposed the feet to those outside but shielded the user from full view.  

In this small town I can quickly think of three places that have shared toilet facilties.  Those who object just don't use them.   Likely there are more than three.

A nearby Provincial Park has basic campground toilets that used to have gender signs but don't any more.  They used to be 'pit' toilets but now have holding tanks that get pumped out.  Still a bit smelly if the camground is busy.  I think it is a good idea to have shared facilities and even more so when they have a water supply.  It wouldn't bother me at all to have a man showering in the next cubicle and would make it much easier for families.

I used to take my children into public toilets with me when they were young enough to need help.  My partner was accosted by a Security Guard when he tried to take our little girl with him into the Mens side. Eventually the guard accepted that there wasn't a mother around to deal with this - so he stood at the door and prevented men from going in until my partner and the kid came out!