Advice please - emptying the toilet holding tank

Just two points. I find the nearer you put the cassette spout to the toilet central hole the less the mess to clear up and no splash back. And we always use the public toilet on the last day to avoid new solids in the cassette that have not had time for the chemicals to work.

Crossway in Dorset, just remembered it. Shame we won't  be going back.

We walked around the CC site whilst we were staying on the C&CC site the other side of the railway line.  We love the area but didn't fancy the CC site, toilets not being with the showers as well and the amount of shade, but I can recommend the C&CC site

Seems I'm in a minority. I thought it was quite a pleasant site. Bit of a labyrinth when looking for a pitch though.

I'll join you in the minority CY , we are going in August  ,and have been a few times , but we never you the site loos , got one in the van

I didn't care much for Crossways either.......too shady, noisy train line next to our pitching area, no mobile signal at all.

The composting toilets didn't help either, or the fact that there was very low voltage at times, causing our fridge to turn off.

Good to hear that the C&CC site is better as we have just joined them too.

C&CC also adjoins the railway lines, we we always opt for the far side, if it's open, and don't find them too bad.  Nice and handy for the station so you win some you loose some

Seems I'm in a minority. I thought it was quite a pleasant site. Bit of a labyrinth when looking for a pitch though.

It sounds like a nice site, its just so far away for me :-(

You also need to make sure you're using 'appropriate' toilet paper.  Some papers for household use are difficult to break down in a cassette.  

I'm interested in this point. I know it is the accepted philosophy and I remember years ago being told by a dealer not to use "household" loo paper but I've always ignored this and I can honestly say I have never had any kind of a problem whatsoever with emptying my cassette or in any other way. You leave a piece of, say, Andrex (other toilet rolls are available) in water and see how quickly it breaks up. In the "blue" it goes even more quickly. I am just interested to know what kind of a problem people find normal loo roll gives them.

I agree about what people say about the cap. I am always paranoid about losing that down the hole. Some holes are big enough to swallow it up. So I ordered a spare just to be on the safe side. 

You also need to make sure you're using 'appropriate' toilet paper.  Some papers for household use are difficult to break down in a cassette.  

I'm interested in this point. I know it is the accepted philosophy and I remember years ago being told by a dealer not to use "household" loo paper but I've always ignored this and I can honestly say I have never had any kind of a problem whatsoever with emptying my cassette or in any other way. You leave a piece of, say, Andrex (other toilet rolls are available) in water and see how quickly it breaks up. In the "blue" it goes even more quickly. I am just interested to know what kind of a problem people find normal loo roll gives them.

I agree about what people say about the cap. I am always paranoid about losing that down the hole. Some holes are big enough to swallow it up. So I ordered a spare just to be on the safe side. 

I think it tends to be when people (particularly children) use rather too much loo paper.  My nephew and niece, when they came with us, had to be educated in just how much you could use at one 'sitting'!  My OH has a saying about it, but I won't repeat it here!

You also need to make sure you're using 'appropriate' toilet paper.  Some papers for household use are difficult to break down in a cassette.  

I'm interested in this point. I know it is the accepted philosophy and I remember years ago being told by a dealer not to use "household" loo paper but I've always ignored this and I can honestly say I have never had any kind of a problem whatsoever with emptying my cassette or in any other way. You leave a piece of, say, Andrex (other toilet rolls are available) in water and see how quickly it breaks up. In the "blue" it goes even more quickly. I am just interested to know what kind of a problem people find normal loo roll gives them.

I agree about what people say about the cap. I am always paranoid about losing that down the hole. Some holes are big enough to swallow it up. So I ordered a spare just to be on the safe side. 

I read somewhere some advice to use non-quilted loo paper as it breaks down more quickly.

Regarding losing the cap down the drain, I have witnessed several instances when a toilet cassette cap has blocked the drains causing expensive repairs to be needed. If you do lose your cap down the drain, please let the warden/owner know so that they can take steps to remove it before it causes a problem.