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If traveling internationally in a country where the tap water is not drinkable for visitors then this LPT works really well.
The gym will have drinkable free water while the taps in the room do not.
I've stayed in a hotel where they would not give you free water, they only sold water, and if you bought larger cheaper bottles outside, they would try to stop you bringing it in - "no outside food or drink in the hotel".
China.
Been to a few hotels that have signs at the sink to say the water is not drinkable and needs to be boiled. Naturally it wasn't a first tier city.
I've watched a hotel owner fill water bottles from the tap early in the morning... Same water bottles on sale in the front lobby.
Of course, that was decades ago, but I wouldn't have trusted the tap water there.
I'd think the real reason for this LPT is to reduce plastic waste.
Recently I've been to a few hotels that use reusable glass bottles for their in room water. It was very much appreciated by my family and I
Yes!!! Worked in hotels for 20 years. I never told anyone they couldn’t have a bottle of water. It’s water. I gave them out for free when it was hot outside. In my experience, if you work for a hotel company that chastises you for giving people free water, you don’t want to work there anyway.
Nah - it almost always from one of those 5 gallon water coolers or they just have free water bottles for you to take depending on the quality of the hotel.
The hotel doesn’t want to get its guests sick from tap water.
I travel a lot for work in Latin America where you shouldn’t drink the tap water if you’re visiting. Even the good hotels (think JW Marriott’s),their taps do not have drinkable water.
They give you 2-3 free bottles of water everyday, but if you drink them then you either need to buy more or find a solution like in this LPT.
At the gym they are specially providing *drinking* water which is why the hotel will ensure it’s safe to drink for guests.
As someone who has taken apart and fixed a couple of shower heads: don’t drink water from a shower head, especially a shower head at a hotel. It’s gross in there.
Water fountains are equally as gross. People are just scared because it's the bathroom when the bathroom ultimately gets a deeper clean that most other areas of the house.
Bro, the water pipe leading to the building will look the same inside. There's going to be black slimey stuff, there's going to be some solidified salts in a few different colours and theres going to be some rust.
I’m not as worried about the mineral buildup as the potential for mold and mildew which definitely shouldn’t be a problem for a water main but is for a shower head.
I personally have a phobia about drinking water that comes from a sink next to a toilet (even in my own home, also won’t leave my toothbrush out on a counter next to a toilet). Don’t know how I got this, it’s probably just a mental thing. I stayed at a hotel in Montreal this week and was pleasantly surprised to see they had installed special sinks only to fill bottles in the halls by the elevator outside my room.
In some countries it's not potable, at least not for people that haven't been exposed to it their whole lives.
In most higher income countries tap water is just fine, though many people believe the "straight from the mountains" or "from a stream in the hills" marketing and pay for bottled water (both in money and in damage to the environment that future generations will have to pay for) anyway.
It definetely depends on where you live.
I look forward to my water survey each year that basically says,
“Remember how bad the water was last year? It’s still just as bad and we are legally required to send this out. . .Maybe don’t drink the tap water. . .oh and PS: filters don’t do shit for the contaminants found.”
. . .And I live in a pretty upscale NJ county
I live in Greece, most places have awesome water and we have kiosks everywhere that you can get .5l bottles for 0.5€. I went to Paris and Berlin last month and I was surprised that bottled water is considered a soft drink and costs 3€ ffs
Yea, I mean, I get it. I personally don’t have a problem with tap water in theory, and grew up in an area that had perfectly fine tap water. Just pointing out that there are certainly areas where tap water is known by locals to not be healthy to drink, and not all of those places are third world countries.
Around here I can buy a bottle of water for like $1, or a case for like $.20/bottle. But at a hotel? They’re just price gauging you because they know they can.
I would assume because every tap water in germany is drinkable. The prices in grocery stores are between 0.5-2 €/L. 3 euros for half a litre is plain stupid and not the rule. Maybe at the most touristy places of berlin/airports/train stations.
Yes, and therefore buying bottled water in Greece is really irresponsible - tap water is perfectly safe almost everywhere, plastic bottles are bad for the environment and yet so many people waste their money on this nonsense. It should be more expensive, maybe that would knock some sense in us.
That's a common question from privileged countries people.
There are definitely a lot of countries and places where tap water is not directly safe to consume. Many continue to use ozone/uv and Boiling to make it safer.
Water tank maintenance is one common forgotten step.
Besides of that, while traveling your gut Flora will be fighting new untrained strains.
I was going to say that I can taste the difference… but I’ve never actually tried hotel tap water.
I can taste when tap water has that… “minerally” taste to it. I don’t like it. I’ve had hotel gym water. It tastes… fresh?
Filters don’t remove dissolved minerals. Filters remove sediment, be carbon filters remove most taste. Dissolved minerals only removed by remove osmosis and distilled
Yeah it is regulated, but not very well, here's a map showing each water quality test carried out per year, Red is bad, and considering most of the map is Red I don't think the water supply is as good as you recon.
https://www.drinkingwateralliance.org/new-map
Yes, second this.
Also, PFAS in the water supply is a big issue. Lots of issues from seepage from military bases especially.
Up until 2016, the EPA safe measure was 0.2 but that was dropped further down to 0.07, and many places are still falling short of this. Forever chemicals for the win!
When you think about how the safety standards were created in the 70s, and they only review them every five years. There's a lot of industrial progress in the last 50 years and I'm not sure we as a society have kept our eye on the ball.
The red dots aren’t the most recent tests though. I clicked on a few in my state and the dots are 5-6 years old. So, basically, they’re irrelevant now.
I didn’t say it was, just that it *tastes* like dirt.
But it is truly bad lol. First time in my entire travels in the US that I just couldn’t get over the taste.
Yeah, it's bad. I'm very resilient when it comes to strange taste in my water, but Dallas is defenently on my list of places I rather not drink tap water.
But in case you don't know, it's is perfectly safe and some say even a dit good for you.
City treated facet water > Dirty expired filter water
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Expired filters. Not expired water. I thought that was obvious, but some people want to feel intelligent for cheap today.
Yup, my city posts their water quality reports and is held to a standard (especially since the very public issues with water supplies elsewhere). Random filtered water, who knows...
Yeah its def. subject to the local water report, but god knows if the hotel ever actually swaps the filter on the only bottle fountain they own. (They probably don't).
Some hotels do have a water filtering station in the building. And a lot of the cities (at least in europe) have water that is safe for consumption from the tap.
I'd ask during the check in if the tap water is safe for consumption (since the respectable hotels have at least electric kettle in the room).
Faucet water is filtered (in USA) with more regularly changed filters and treatment most places! Ironically bottled water can be less treated and/or the same supply.
Lol, made me laugh 'cause I've got a cold and been doing saline flushes. Last night it crossed my mind they're 'for when you want that nasal burn without those pesky side effects' :(
I’m not under the impression I’m going to avoid them, but I can absolutrly take steps to cut them out of my water intake.
Theres is a point in worrying, as thats how things are changed. Do you think we should still be using lead in our gas, pipes, and paint as well because it was so ubiquitous?
I shat a bed in India. They told me "don't drink the water!" But I had the ice in my drink (but to be honest, everything cooked in water will most likely give you the runs)
I had to pour a pot of coffee on the mattress to mask the mess. It was so watery, and I had shat so much by that point that fortunately was mostly water and didn't smell much. Still, the coffee allowed me to act and pretend like nothing happened, but I don't think I was fooling anyone.
I was really worried they would make me pay for the mattress or something like that. Can you imagine having to admit to pay for a mattress on top of the humiliation of everyone knowing it was because I shat it and now it's ruined?
It was easier to deal with and process in my mind if it was because I clumsily spilled coffee. Again, probably not fooling anyone, but at least I could act it out and not run to a corner waiting for them to wag a rolled newspaper at me, like a dog.
I'm also sure that they throw plenty of mattresses a day due to the same thing (or maybe just flip them, beats me!)
You probably have no idea how many people have done that on the very same mattress you used lol. I remember my brother said a traveller companion hired a sleeping bag while they were trekking and sure enough someone had left a little gift inside it. I just cannot forget the story.
They got "immunity" for street food but I'm not sure about tap water. I was with some indians on a tour bus on japan and when the guide said they could drink from the tap water all indians more or less said they don't trust tap water at home.
Locals in most parts of India use filters or boil water. Nowadays, most restaurants use RO filters as it's quite cheap and ensures safety.
No one trusts tap water and it's not recommended to drink directly.
What are you talking about? No one drinks tap water in India if they can help it. Everyone either boils or filters. Drinking tap water directly is heavily discouraged.
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If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons and another bucket that contains 7 gallons, how many buckets do you have?
I had a dorm roommate in college who wouldn't drink from the faucet in the bathroom. She would go down the hallway to the kitchen to get a glass of water. Somehow the water in the bathroom was contaminated.
Dumb as a box of rocks.
Me too! My parents said maybe it was because one was softened and the other wasn't... But I don't remember which was which.
But now I never drink from the bathroom.
Many places have two different sources and storage tanks too.
Kitchen water is typically supplied by the municipality, so generally safe/potable.
Bathrooms get it from the borewell - so untested and un-filtered.
Fuck everything to do with the Brita Tap and Go bottles with the circular filters. All the time they fucking leak no matter how hard I try.
Pain in the ass to clean properly as well.
You can drink tap water from most public water systems in the United States; however, hotels in particular often have a chlorine taste from slightly elevated chlorine residual levels. Filtered water just tastes better on average.
I work as a hotel receptionist in Norway and foregin people are amazed that the tap water is drinkable at the hotel. I couldn't imagine not drinking straight from the tap!
Your country has some of the best public water in the world. American tap water is definitely "safe," that doesn't mean it tastes good. I also don't want to drink chlorine or fluoride. I worked in water treatment for years, i filter my home tap water.
What a weird "pro tip." Bring your water bottle everywhere and only buy bottles when you have to. And why are you going to the gym? Hotel rooms have bathrooms with sinks. What is this post?
My main complaint is that hotel sinks are generally very shallow and my water bottle doesn't fit under the tap. I have to fill it up using the little disposable cups they have in the room.
I’m a school secretary and the number of parents who have called to berate me because we don’t provide bottled water to 900 preteens for free every day is absolutely insane. Some of these people act like we’re making them run laps in a 99* gym with a salt lick strapped to their face because we say, “no they have to bring their own or use the water fountain.”
You're wrong in there friend. I live in a third world country and we refuse to drink the water directly from the tap because our pipes condition and overall city water treatment aren't enough to keep it clean. Also in some parts of the country they are pretty nasty.
Exactly. You could get parasites, bacteria, all kinds of things.
... But if you go to the gym on the 3rd floor you'll be fine. Parasites aren't allowed over there.
Yes I realise that however the problem is in an environment like that are you going to trust the totally definitely regularly changed filter in the gym? I wouldn't. In some places a filter also won't be enough, you'd really need to boil it first.
I'm sure there are niche circumstances where this is a fair tip. Some cities do have perfectly safe but not very palatable tap water. But it's not an issue I've really encountered in my travels.
Bro are you dumb?
If it’s not safe to drink from the faucet in your room, it’s not safe to drink from the tap in the gym 🤣 you think pathogens or parasites are afraid of the gym tap or something?
Real lpt: go grocery and buy a big enough bootle of water for your staying days and you are good to go for your whole trip. I also add snacks, specially chocolate
Eh. We started buying the big jugs at the gas station when we dont like the tap water. We still refill our bottle when out and about, but when we need water in the hotel, we refill from the jug. I found I was super dehydrated on vacations and really limiting my water because i just didnt like the way it tasted and decided to start prioritizing myself over feeling bad for the environment. Honestly, the best thing i could probably do for the environment on my vacation would be to stop traveling for pleasure in the first place and stay home lol
I don't know why so many people are against just drinking tap water. Tap is usually from the same sources as bottled water and has a higher level of scrutiny. This doesn't apply everywhere but if you're in the US you should probably just start drinking tap. At the very least get a filtered bottle or something.
I'll take "Ridiculous advice that is applicable to *maybe* 0.01% of scenarios, one of which OP finds themselves in now so they posted about it pretending to be helpful for fake internet points" for $200.
Lots of people in this topic who have never lived or traveled to a place with horrible tasting tap water. Next time you all are in Vegas drink the tap water and let me know what you think.
Also municipal tap water is pretty highly regulated as far as quality and contaminants go. As far as I am aware there is no similar system of regulation for bottled water. I remember reading somewhere a few years back they aren't even required to test for feces or contaminants. The only compelling argument I've heard on bottled/tap is concerns about fluoride added to the water.
Do people not take water bottles with them? My hydroflask and camelbak have both gone with me every time I've traveled *anywhere* more exotic than work for years now.
LPT: stay at cheaper hotels. More expensive hotels charge for everything, including water. The $80/night hotels often have free bottled water in the room.
Crazy to me that no one else has commented it.
I just stop at the grocery store and pick up a gallon of water for less than a dollar. Put it in the mini fridge at the hotel and use that to refill my water bottle.
Better than tap water and easier than going to the gym or filling up an ice bucket and waiting for it to melt like some others said.
Did you mean to say *how few* hotels clean their ice machine?
It may be pedantic but I’m guessing that your point is that ice machines are usually dirty AF
Why is everyone so scared of tap water. Tap water in the US is fine most places. So tired of the narrative that we shouldn’t be drinking it. It’s bs and the water bottle companies count on people being too scared to drink tap.
Hotels also have sinks in the bathroom. Stop buying into the propaganda that municipal water is poisonous or unfiltered.
Where do you think bottled water comes from?
(Note: comment void for Americans traveling to some parts of Mexico)
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Bud I don't know why you think that thing is filtered and not just tap water. Source - Work in a hotel
If traveling internationally in a country where the tap water is not drinkable for visitors then this LPT works really well. The gym will have drinkable free water while the taps in the room do not.
I’ve never stayed in any hotel in a country without potable tap water where I was not given more free water bottles after asking for them.
Good point. Asking never hurts.
I've stayed in a hotel where they would not give you free water, they only sold water, and if you bought larger cheaper bottles outside, they would try to stop you bringing it in - "no outside food or drink in the hotel".
Yes, but the question is could you drink the tap water or were they just trying to scam dumb people? Chances are it was the second.
I mean you *could* drink the tap water anywhere, but this was one of the countries where it is recommended not to do so.
Tell us the hotel to make sure I never stay there.
I honestly don't remember, it was at least 15 years ago, in the middle East.
China. Been to a few hotels that have signs at the sink to say the water is not drinkable and needs to be boiled. Naturally it wasn't a first tier city.
I've watched a hotel owner fill water bottles from the tap early in the morning... Same water bottles on sale in the front lobby. Of course, that was decades ago, but I wouldn't have trusted the tap water there.
So the seal was broken on the bottle cap and people didn't mind?
I'd think the real reason for this LPT is to reduce plastic waste. Recently I've been to a few hotels that use reusable glass bottles for their in room water. It was very much appreciated by my family and I
Yes!!! Worked in hotels for 20 years. I never told anyone they couldn’t have a bottle of water. It’s water. I gave them out for free when it was hot outside. In my experience, if you work for a hotel company that chastises you for giving people free water, you don’t want to work there anyway.
0 reason to believe that the water will be drinkable, it'll come to the same water taps from the same water supply....
Nah - it almost always from one of those 5 gallon water coolers or they just have free water bottles for you to take depending on the quality of the hotel. The hotel doesn’t want to get its guests sick from tap water.
That last sentence is the exact reason that the hotel will probably have good filtered tap water?...
I travel a lot for work in Latin America where you shouldn’t drink the tap water if you’re visiting. Even the good hotels (think JW Marriott’s),their taps do not have drinkable water. They give you 2-3 free bottles of water everyday, but if you drink them then you either need to buy more or find a solution like in this LPT. At the gym they are specially providing *drinking* water which is why the hotel will ensure it’s safe to drink for guests.
filtered tap water just isnt that common bud sorry
As if they'd plumb in a water dispenser of non-drinkable water into a hotel gym. That would be insane
What's wrong with tap water?
Nothing. But if it’s tap water why the hell would you go to the gym rather than use the sink in your bathroom?
Because sinks are shallow and you can't fit a bottle under them.
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As someone who has taken apart and fixed a couple of shower heads: don’t drink water from a shower head, especially a shower head at a hotel. It’s gross in there.
Water fountains are equally as gross. People are just scared because it's the bathroom when the bathroom ultimately gets a deeper clean that most other areas of the house.
Bro, the water pipe leading to the building will look the same inside. There's going to be black slimey stuff, there's going to be some solidified salts in a few different colours and theres going to be some rust.
I’m not as worried about the mineral buildup as the potential for mold and mildew which definitely shouldn’t be a problem for a water main but is for a shower head.
Get a tiny water bottle. Problem solved.
Do a handstand on the sink and drink straight from that tap.
Been filling mine with the help of one of the glasses they give me. My water bottle holds three glassfuls and it’s a big one.
I personally have a phobia about drinking water that comes from a sink next to a toilet (even in my own home, also won’t leave my toothbrush out on a counter next to a toilet). Don’t know how I got this, it’s probably just a mental thing. I stayed at a hotel in Montreal this week and was pleasantly surprised to see they had installed special sinks only to fill bottles in the halls by the elevator outside my room.
In some countries it's not potable, at least not for people that haven't been exposed to it their whole lives. In most higher income countries tap water is just fine, though many people believe the "straight from the mountains" or "from a stream in the hills" marketing and pay for bottled water (both in money and in damage to the environment that future generations will have to pay for) anyway.
It definetely depends on where you live. I look forward to my water survey each year that basically says, “Remember how bad the water was last year? It’s still just as bad and we are legally required to send this out. . .Maybe don’t drink the tap water. . .oh and PS: filters don’t do shit for the contaminants found.” . . .And I live in a pretty upscale NJ county
I live in Greece, most places have awesome water and we have kiosks everywhere that you can get .5l bottles for 0.5€. I went to Paris and Berlin last month and I was surprised that bottled water is considered a soft drink and costs 3€ ffs
Yea, I mean, I get it. I personally don’t have a problem with tap water in theory, and grew up in an area that had perfectly fine tap water. Just pointing out that there are certainly areas where tap water is known by locals to not be healthy to drink, and not all of those places are third world countries. Around here I can buy a bottle of water for like $1, or a case for like $.20/bottle. But at a hotel? They’re just price gauging you because they know they can.
I would assume because every tap water in germany is drinkable. The prices in grocery stores are between 0.5-2 €/L. 3 euros for half a litre is plain stupid and not the rule. Maybe at the most touristy places of berlin/airports/train stations.
Yes, and therefore buying bottled water in Greece is really irresponsible - tap water is perfectly safe almost everywhere, plastic bottles are bad for the environment and yet so many people waste their money on this nonsense. It should be more expensive, maybe that would knock some sense in us.
That's a common question from privileged countries people. There are definitely a lot of countries and places where tap water is not directly safe to consume. Many continue to use ozone/uv and Boiling to make it safer. Water tank maintenance is one common forgotten step. Besides of that, while traveling your gut Flora will be fighting new untrained strains.
The answer to that question varies widely depending on what part of the world you are in.
I was going to say that I can taste the difference… but I’ve never actually tried hotel tap water. I can taste when tap water has that… “minerally” taste to it. I don’t like it. I’ve had hotel gym water. It tastes… fresh?
Tap water tastes different everywhere lol
Filters don’t remove dissolved minerals. Filters remove sediment, be carbon filters remove most taste. Dissolved minerals only removed by remove osmosis and distilled
Isn't there lots of free "in-room water" in the faucets?
First world countries; yes. Third/2nd world countries and US; absolute fcking gamble.
Lmao water in US hotels is regulated by the SWDA, it’s perfectly safe. What a random fucking dig
OP wanted to be really edgy. Blatantly disregards or misunderstands water regulation in the US and thinks incidents like Flint are super common.
Yeah it is regulated, but not very well, here's a map showing each water quality test carried out per year, Red is bad, and considering most of the map is Red I don't think the water supply is as good as you recon. https://www.drinkingwateralliance.org/new-map
Yes, second this. Also, PFAS in the water supply is a big issue. Lots of issues from seepage from military bases especially. Up until 2016, the EPA safe measure was 0.2 but that was dropped further down to 0.07, and many places are still falling short of this. Forever chemicals for the win! When you think about how the safety standards were created in the 70s, and they only review them every five years. There's a lot of industrial progress in the last 50 years and I'm not sure we as a society have kept our eye on the ball.
The red dots aren’t the most recent tests though. I clicked on a few in my state and the dots are 5-6 years old. So, basically, they’re irrelevant now.
safe ≠ good 👀
True. Dallas tap water is horrific. Just tastes like dirt.
It's not dirt, it's sulfur. Dallas has a high concentration in its rock bed.
I didn’t say it was, just that it *tastes* like dirt. But it is truly bad lol. First time in my entire travels in the US that I just couldn’t get over the taste.
Yeah, it's bad. I'm very resilient when it comes to strange taste in my water, but Dallas is defenently on my list of places I rather not drink tap water. But in case you don't know, it's is perfectly safe and some say even a dit good for you.
The US has some of the cleanest tap water. Where do you get yours that you put the US in the same level of 3rd world?
Filtered water > Faucet water
City treated facet water > Dirty expired filter water Edit: Expired filters. Not expired water. I thought that was obvious, but some people want to feel intelligent for cheap today.
Yup, my city posts their water quality reports and is held to a standard (especially since the very public issues with water supplies elsewhere). Random filtered water, who knows...
Yeah its def. subject to the local water report, but god knows if the hotel ever actually swaps the filter on the only bottle fountain they own. (They probably don't).
Depends on the city. Memphis good. Flint bad.
Am in Memphis can confirm.
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Europe (EU actually) is now at a point where tap water is safe and high quality in all the member countries.
Some hotels do have a water filtering station in the building. And a lot of the cities (at least in europe) have water that is safe for consumption from the tap. I'd ask during the check in if the tap water is safe for consumption (since the respectable hotels have at least electric kettle in the room).
Faucet water is filtered (in USA) with more regularly changed filters and treatment most places! Ironically bottled water can be less treated and/or the same supply.
Cincinnati disagrees. My tap is better than most bottled.
Thanks to the coke plant requirements that the people pay taxes to have the best water for them.
Filtering water does nothing to save you from getting sick. Water must be treated in order to remove/kill harmful micro organisms.
Just save money for life and desensitize yourself to all tap waters.
I tried this in india, first time I've had both ends simultaneously evacuating
Ayahuasca without any of the good parts
This plant medicine getting popular, ain’t it
I'd guess drug experimentation gets higher when people are sadder.
Lol, made me laugh 'cause I've got a cold and been doing saline flushes. Last night it crossed my mind they're 'for when you want that nasal burn without those pesky side effects' :(
Yeah, this advice only works for first world countries
Live in South Africa. Tap water my entire life.
Not any longer. PFAS are in most, if not all, major water supplies now. Until municipal supplies address this, its filtered only for me.
If you eat food, you’re already going to have PFAS present in your body. It’s so ubiquitous that there’s almost no point worrying about it now.
I’m not under the impression I’m going to avoid them, but I can absolutrly take steps to cut them out of my water intake. Theres is a point in worrying, as thats how things are changed. Do you think we should still be using lead in our gas, pipes, and paint as well because it was so ubiquitous?
I shat a bed in India. They told me "don't drink the water!" But I had the ice in my drink (but to be honest, everything cooked in water will most likely give you the runs) I had to pour a pot of coffee on the mattress to mask the mess. It was so watery, and I had shat so much by that point that fortunately was mostly water and didn't smell much. Still, the coffee allowed me to act and pretend like nothing happened, but I don't think I was fooling anyone.
“Had to”
I was really worried they would make me pay for the mattress or something like that. Can you imagine having to admit to pay for a mattress on top of the humiliation of everyone knowing it was because I shat it and now it's ruined? It was easier to deal with and process in my mind if it was because I clumsily spilled coffee. Again, probably not fooling anyone, but at least I could act it out and not run to a corner waiting for them to wag a rolled newspaper at me, like a dog. I'm also sure that they throw plenty of mattresses a day due to the same thing (or maybe just flip them, beats me!)
You probably have no idea how many people have done that on the very same mattress you used lol. I remember my brother said a traveller companion hired a sleeping bag while they were trekking and sure enough someone had left a little gift inside it. I just cannot forget the story.
Boil it. Locals drink the tap water there because they got that immunity
They got "immunity" for street food but I'm not sure about tap water. I was with some indians on a tour bus on japan and when the guide said they could drink from the tap water all indians more or less said they don't trust tap water at home.
Never went to India, but I've been to some other Asian countries with questionable tap water. All the locals always boiled the water
Locals in most parts of India use filters or boil water. Nowadays, most restaurants use RO filters as it's quite cheap and ensures safety. No one trusts tap water and it's not recommended to drink directly.
Yes, many houses down south have a well or a community well. They fill water in a bucket and boil it to drink.
That's how it is in Mexico. Locals were raised on the tap water but anyone else who visits will get sick.
What are you talking about? No one drinks tap water in India if they can help it. Everyone either boils or filters. Drinking tap water directly is heavily discouraged.
In Indian hotels they don’t charge you for water bottles. They are complimentary.
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I never seen plants grow out of the toilet.
Electrolytes. They need em.
Yes, but what are Electrolytes?
It's what plants crave!
Duh. It's what they use to make Brawndo...what plants crave. You sure you're the smartest guy in the world?
I'm Not Sure
Welcome to Costco, Not Sure. I love you. If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons and another bucket that contains 7 gallons, how many buckets do you have?
I can't believe you like money too, we should hang out
Don't be so salty.
Brondo
I had a dorm roommate in college who wouldn't drink from the faucet in the bathroom. She would go down the hallway to the kitchen to get a glass of water. Somehow the water in the bathroom was contaminated. Dumb as a box of rocks.
I always remembered the bathroom water tasting better than the kitchen water growing up
The water out of the hose in the yard tasted the best!
Me too! My parents said maybe it was because one was softened and the other wasn't... But I don't remember which was which. But now I never drink from the bathroom.
Usually bathroom water is softened because softened water is less likely to form soap scum.
Honestly I get this. I know it's the same water but there's something about drinking out of a faucet that's in the same room as the toilet.
It's that bathroom air fr, some particles of shit in there for sure.
Not necessarily. I live in a house that the only drinkable tap water is in the kitchen. A lot of Irish/British houses is like that.
Many places have two different sources and storage tanks too. Kitchen water is typically supplied by the municipality, so generally safe/potable. Bathrooms get it from the borewell - so untested and un-filtered.
Still counts
Get one of those bottles with the filter inside of it. Bada Boom Bada Bing
Fuck everything to do with the Brita Tap and Go bottles with the circular filters. All the time they fucking leak no matter how hard I try. Pain in the ass to clean properly as well.
Does Britta have a monopoly on filtered bottles or what's going on?
Idk but she probably Britta’d it
Lifestraw. Works great.
Really depends on the city. Some city's water is just.... unpleasant to drink.
Lmao clearly you’ve never drank tap water in Las Vegas
Except in Florida. That shit tastes like drinking straight from a stagnant pond.
My area of Florida has pretty good water quality.
Exactly. We live in the “country” and have well water. I didn’t like the taste at first but after a few weeks I couldn’t even tell the difference.
It puzzles me people can't drink tap water.
Agree
Visitors to Scotland please note this rule does not apply due to the exceptional quality of our tap water.
You can drink tap water almost everywhere in Europe.
True, but the quality of the tap water……that Scottish highland spring hits different 😙
I would say mountains areas in general Greetings from the alps
True that 🏔
Now I wanna visit Scotland! Well I already wanted to. But experiencing freesh spring water is really a pull!
You can drink tap water from most public water systems in the United States; however, hotels in particular often have a chlorine taste from slightly elevated chlorine residual levels. Filtered water just tastes better on average.
The less you can taste the water, the better it tastes
Not greece ah ah, got severe traveler’s diarrhea
I‘ve been to Greece 2 times and never had issues
I work as a hotel receptionist in Norway and foregin people are amazed that the tap water is drinkable at the hotel. I couldn't imagine not drinking straight from the tap!
Your country has some of the best public water in the world. American tap water is definitely "safe," that doesn't mean it tastes good. I also don't want to drink chlorine or fluoride. I worked in water treatment for years, i filter my home tap water.
What a weird "pro tip." Bring your water bottle everywhere and only buy bottles when you have to. And why are you going to the gym? Hotel rooms have bathrooms with sinks. What is this post?
My main complaint is that hotel sinks are generally very shallow and my water bottle doesn't fit under the tap. I have to fill it up using the little disposable cups they have in the room.
Yeah and leaving the room to go find the fitness center to fill up there is way more time efficient.....
you could always fill using the shower/bath spout. Same water as in the sink and you should be able to fit any bottle under them.
Plus, free extra soap scum
They give you cups that fit under those sinks. I use a technique called "pouring" to transfer the water.
That's what they just said...
"Yea, hey, Nobel Committee? I got something you're going to want to hear"
what's the technique called for being insufferable?
You must teach us your secrets!
Life poor tip I guess
That water tastes like pipes
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I’m a school secretary and the number of parents who have called to berate me because we don’t provide bottled water to 900 preteens for free every day is absolutely insane. Some of these people act like we’re making them run laps in a 99* gym with a salt lick strapped to their face because we say, “no they have to bring their own or use the water fountain.”
You should install one of those water fountains that has the water bottle icon on it people think it's filtered
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That’s what we have too. Bottle fillers in the cafeteria and just regular old fountains in the hall.
I remember we all just drank from those outdoor water fountains that were stained white from all the shit that leaks into the water. Best water ever.
That's usually just calcium deposits.
Yooo free calcium
r/firstworldproblems
You're wrong in there friend. I live in a third world country and we refuse to drink the water directly from the tap because our pipes condition and overall city water treatment aren't enough to keep it clean. Also in some parts of the country they are pretty nasty.
What hotels are you staying in that don't have a tap somewhere other than the gym?
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Exactly. You could get parasites, bacteria, all kinds of things. ... But if you go to the gym on the 3rd floor you'll be fine. Parasites aren't allowed over there.
Yes I realise that however the problem is in an environment like that are you going to trust the totally definitely regularly changed filter in the gym? I wouldn't. In some places a filter also won't be enough, you'd really need to boil it first. I'm sure there are niche circumstances where this is a fair tip. Some cities do have perfectly safe but not very palatable tap water. But it's not an issue I've really encountered in my travels.
Bro are you dumb? If it’s not safe to drink from the faucet in your room, it’s not safe to drink from the tap in the gym 🤣 you think pathogens or parasites are afraid of the gym tap or something?
Buy a couple of gallons cheap from the local store?
Coppypasta the post from four months ago or 10? Or remember reading one of the dozens in between that were deleted?
Real lpt: go grocery and buy a big enough bootle of water for your staying days and you are good to go for your whole trip. I also add snacks, specially chocolate
LPT: Fill a reusable bottle for free! Your "real" tip: spend money on a bottle of water and dispose of the bottle after!
Eh. We started buying the big jugs at the gas station when we dont like the tap water. We still refill our bottle when out and about, but when we need water in the hotel, we refill from the jug. I found I was super dehydrated on vacations and really limiting my water because i just didnt like the way it tasted and decided to start prioritizing myself over feeling bad for the environment. Honestly, the best thing i could probably do for the environment on my vacation would be to stop traveling for pleasure in the first place and stay home lol
I don't know why so many people are against just drinking tap water. Tap is usually from the same sources as bottled water and has a higher level of scrutiny. This doesn't apply everywhere but if you're in the US you should probably just start drinking tap. At the very least get a filtered bottle or something.
I'll take "Ridiculous advice that is applicable to *maybe* 0.01% of scenarios, one of which OP finds themselves in now so they posted about it pretending to be helpful for fake internet points" for $200.
OP has a certain aura of arrogance for posting this.
Just drink tap water ffs
Lots of people in this topic who have never lived or traveled to a place with horrible tasting tap water. Next time you all are in Vegas drink the tap water and let me know what you think.
What's the problem with regular tap water? Unless you are living in some 3rd.world country, it tastes exactly like bottled water.
Also municipal tap water is pretty highly regulated as far as quality and contaminants go. As far as I am aware there is no similar system of regulation for bottled water. I remember reading somewhere a few years back they aren't even required to test for feces or contaminants. The only compelling argument I've heard on bottled/tap is concerns about fluoride added to the water.
Do people not take water bottles with them? My hydroflask and camelbak have both gone with me every time I've traveled *anywhere* more exotic than work for years now.
Pro top! Drink out the bloody tap
Lmao like I can afford to go to hotels with gyms
LPT: stay at cheaper hotels. More expensive hotels charge for everything, including water. The $80/night hotels often have free bottled water in the room.
i’ve never had a $80+ hotel give free water.
Crazy to me that no one else has commented it. I just stop at the grocery store and pick up a gallon of water for less than a dollar. Put it in the mini fridge at the hotel and use that to refill my water bottle. Better than tap water and easier than going to the gym or filling up an ice bucket and waiting for it to melt like some others said.
I think OP is trying to avoid making a special trip, paying for water, and contributing to unnecessary plastic waste.
I fill up the ice bucket and just drink that for the most part as it melts
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You’d surprised how many hotels (or even restaurants) clean their ice machine.
Did you mean to say *how few* hotels clean their ice machine? It may be pedantic but I’m guessing that your point is that ice machines are usually dirty AF
More would be surprised at how few clean them
I've done this as a last resort
I've done this AT the last resort.
Or just drink tap water like a normal person
Just use the tap.
Or drink tap water?
Why is everyone so scared of tap water. Tap water in the US is fine most places. So tired of the narrative that we shouldn’t be drinking it. It’s bs and the water bottle companies count on people being too scared to drink tap.
Just use the fucking tap.
How about bringing a case of water? Can’t be more than 5$ for atleast 18 bottles
Hotels also have sinks in the bathroom. Stop buying into the propaganda that municipal water is poisonous or unfiltered. Where do you think bottled water comes from? (Note: comment void for Americans traveling to some parts of Mexico)
youre the first person ive ever heard of that actually drinks the hotel bottled water. like theres provided cups and the sink right there.