Gotta Go? A Guide to Boston's Best Bathrooms

Those shiny bathrooms above live here, at the Convention Center, which straddles Boston and Southie.

Penang’s funky wood decor goes all the way back into the bathroom, where high arched ceilings and solid cedar doors invite you. For a bathroom – especially one in this neighborhood – Penang’s is top notch.

The “Natick Collection,” as this upscale mall was recently renamed, is full of fancy stores, lovely carpeting and…the best bathrooms in Natick, no doubt. Check out the chandelier!

It’s unsurprising that fancy pants Omni Parker House has sparkling clean bathrooms; what’s more surprising is that they let me in to use them!

LOVE the Cyclorama’s bare-bones bare-ceiling’d bathrooms. Black toilets, odd shapes. The men’s is even better than the women’s (don’t ask me how I know that!)

There are a million reasons to visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, but the million and first is its lovely bathrooms with lovelier French phrases on the walls.

The restrooms at the Charles Hotel are fit for a queen! Open to the public (technically speaking) and the diners at all of the Hotel’s restaurants (including the outdoor bar), these fancy bathrooms have floor-to-ceiling doors and warm terrycloth hand towels. Cozy.

Cask’n Flagon, a popular bar with Sox fans, doesn’t disappoint its baseball-loving clientele…it offers them flatscreen TVs on the bathroom walls to ensure they don’t miss a second of the game.

What I like about Thornton’s is this…totally unassuming little bar and grill, great food, but get this – the little one-stall ladies’ room has free feminine products for its patrons. Just too sweet!

Boston’s Christian Science Center has some of the fanciest, most stylish bathrooms in town. Godspeed!