article_snippet: Open-air urinals may have given some people a laugh but some people proved unpopular in Surfers Paradise .
article_snippet: Public urination ouside Surfers Paradise's nightspots has caused problems for Gold Coast council .
article_snippet: Open-air ­urinals had been used on a trial basis in Surfers Paradise
article_snippet: Nightclub and bar owners in Surfer's Paradise said Gold Coast council would be better off just providing public toilets.
article_snippet: It’s not dealing with the underlying problem at all which is that there are no toilets.'
highlights_snippet: However, pub owners said it would be better just providing public toilets .
  
highlights_snippet: Surfers Paradise would be copying the model used at St Pauli in Hamburg .
  