"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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Rome, Sorrento, Lucca, Assisi, Sienna, and Cinque Terre. Pretty much
most
of the mid western italy.



Italian toilet seat discussion continued:

I think one would expect to find toilet seats in the Americanized hotels
like
Holiday Inn, etc.

We try to stay at 2-3 star places to save some money, and get a more local
experience. Our local experience in Rome included a prowler in the hotel
room
in the middle of the night, probably trying to steal
American passports, so it wasn't exactly a
premiere address. (Wife woke up, screamed, and by the time I got out of
bed a
split second later the person was out the door and running down the hall
like a
rabbit, empty handed).

The reason I can be completely sure we had a toilet seat is that we stayed
in
that room, even after the break in, for over a week. My wife is a real
trooper,
but our tenure in a room with no seat on the toilet would have been about
15
minutes, max.
Midnight prowlers she'll put up with, but no toilet seat? Out of the
question.



Even the 1 star hotels have toilet seats. It is all the bars, restaurants,
stores and tourist traps that do not have them, as well as train stations.