The Irish TP Report

Since we've arrived, I've been receiving from Lisa a running report of the TP situation throughout Ireland.  We took a break from site-seeing today, and I don't have much to post here. Perhaps it's time for a mid-trip TP report.  Good news...  This post will be sans photos.

Here is Lisa's ranking in order from worst to best.  Along with a rating on a scale of 0 to 10.

Dublin Airport

• Scratchy
• Single-ply
• Unattractive, plain, tan in color
• Felt like a brown paper bag
• Rating: 1.5

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Park House Hotel

• Strong and sturdy
• Single-ply
• Not soft
• White with no patterns
• Thickness of a Brawny paper towel
• Texture of a fast food napkin
• Rating: 3.0

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Hotel Doolin

• Supposedly made of recycled cardboard drink cartons
• Tan in color
• Single-ply
• Not too rough
• Had brown flower patterns printed on it.
• Thickness of fast food napkin
• Texture of an average paper towel
• Rating: 3.7

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Fairview Guesthouse

• Average strength
• White
• 3-ply (each ply the thickness of cheap TP you'd find in a typical bar)
• Embossed with leaves and dots
• Perforations break apart far too easily, almost impossible to pull off more than a single sheet at a time
• Texture and softness of a party napkin.
• Rating: 4.1

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Petrol Station on N67 East of Kilkee

• Surprisingly good given it was at a gas station
• White
• 2-ply
• Unpatterned
• Twice as thick as the Fairview Guesthouse
• Texture slightly "papery"
• Not bad for TP, but wouldn't want to use it to blow your nose
• Rating: 4.6

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Flaherty's on Inis Oirr

• Typical TP you might find in a bar in USA
• A bit thin, but not too flimsy
• White
• Un-patterned on a huge roll
• Softer than anything else so far, but still has a bit of that "papery feel" to it
• Rating: 5.0