Meaning of WC
 

I noticed that on the description of rooms it often states WC, what does WC mean?

Also, how is Hotel Darse for a stay on the Riviera, the price sure is right.

Water Closet = toilette

Typically a WC (water closet) is a closet-sized room with a toilet and that's it. The basin will be outside - in older buildings you may find the basin and tub in a room next door to the WC. Sometimes, though, people will refer to WC and it is a toilet and lavatory basin. It won't have a bath, ordinarily. That's a bathroom, and though we in the US use the word even if there is no shower or tub, generally in europe bathroom means you can bathe.!

>what does WC mean?
That's supposed to be a joke, right? :-)

rThere's an old joke about Wesleyan Church ... a tourist trying to find it, thinks it's abbreviated WC and gets the most unhelpful directions.

suze1: You have your answer re WC

But you also ask about the Hotel Darse - and there is no way on earth (except pure dumb luck) someone will conecct a title about toilets w/ a question about a specific hotel. I would re-post w/ a title that mentions the hotel.

Given the OP are you sure it's not the hotel D'arse?

Hotel Darse got good review in TA. Londonbob, an expert in VSM, used to stay there until he has his own flat. I stayed at hotel Patricia last year and moved to hotel La Flore after 2 nights. I did not like it as much as some reviewers did.

Signs in Spain often point to the "WC" ("dooble-vay-say"). But the English phrase itelf "Water Closet" is not used in Spanish (though I think perhaps it is also referred to as the "Varter" (or is that just in French).

This must be fairly unusual, having a commonly-used abbreviation in one language, for a foreign phrase?

I can think of RSVP in English.

The Water Closet was at the time it was invented, an alternative to the Earth Closet, which is much more environmentally friendly. Some people are still trumpeting (sorry) the advantages of the EC over the WC.

etc. - short for "et cetera", in Latin "and the rest"

OK - the most universal abbreviation in the world. But it's origin is still debated (probably from the US, though)

Do others besides French and English-speakers use RSVP?

For that matter, is WC universal, or mostly in the UK with some appearances elsewhere? In the US you generally only see it in restaurants looking for something to put on the restroom door besides Toilet or Toilette, Men or Women.

>>>Do others besides French and English-speakers use RSVP? <<<

Yes, it is "etiquette".

And I think it is WC all over Europe, despite the language. Also hotels in Asia use it.

In French it is pronounced veh-seh.