Convenience Redefined: The Toilet Tent

Rustic camping is wonderful. You can spend days just communing with nature. Unfortunately, rustic camping means you have to deal with an outhouse or a port-a-toilet. These facilities are often dirty and smelly, and can really detract from your enjoyment of the camping trip.

The solution? A toilet tent.

What is a toilet tent?

When we started tent camping, we bought a portable camping toilet. This toilet uses special chemicals and special toilet paper to eliminate germs and odors. We simply empty the toilet once a day and we have a convenient place to do our business. Unfortunately, the only place to put the portable toilet was in our tent. This became rather inconvenient as our family grew.

At the same time, we purchased a shower tent. We like to camp in very rustic settings without shower facilities. The shower tent is the perfect solution to keeping clean and maintaining privacy while camping in a rustic environment. A shower tent stands around 8 feet tall at the top, and has a base of around 5’ by 5’.

The toilet tent was born by combining these two ideas. We simply purchased an extra shower tent and placed the camping toilet inside to make a toilet tent. Alternatively, you could use your regular shower tent as the toilet tent, simply removing the toilet when you need to shower.

Portable camping toilet choices

Here are the specific products we use:

For the toilet, we chose the Bio Toi. The Bio Toi is the latest innovation in portable toilets. It’s both lightweight and strong. It’s unmatched in excellence, utility, hygiene, and eco-compatibility. This toilet uses special toilet waste bags. These licensed Bio-bags are 100 percent ecological and decay into soil within a period of 5-6 weeks.

For this, you’ll have to leave them in waste treatment plants or simply in compost pits. Alternatively, add special organic waste neutralizer to convert the waste into a gel. This procedure takes only seven seconds.

For the tent, we like the one offered by Tote. This toilet tent has two sections, and you can keep supplies such as toilet waste bags, toilet paper, etc. in the upper section. You can also attach a separate privacy tent to the main toilet tent.