Re-filling Your Water Bottles

[Patty00]

I would love to see the water bottle filling stations like they have in airports. Sort of like a water fountain, except you sit the bottle on a shelf, water comes from above and a spout never touches any bottle.

 

M

I second that....RC are you reading this???

[fairweather]

That's what I do. I go up to the station in the Windjamer where the staff has already filled glasses and pour the flavored water right from the glass into my bottle. The excess just falls into the tray that already has spillover on the bottom. A staff member once watched me kind of puzzled, then smiled and gave me a thumbs up. I placed the empty glass on the dirty dish tray and went on my way.

[sassy0930]

Well, at the very least, to meet USPH requirements, the counter they are stacked on must be self-draining and sanitized every 4 hours, the glasses must be inverted, and they should be under a sneeze guard. Lets face it, nothing is totally sterile, but if the epidemiologists at USPH/CDC feel that reusing glasses is a significant method of transmission, who am I to argue. And the cruise line would be happy to not have to wash more glasses if they were allowed to permit reusing glasses.

 

I've not seen glasses under a sneeze guard, but I'm sure that would be somewhat helpful. I am sure that the policy can be used to reduce transmission, and any step, I suppose, is better than no steps towards preventing a spread of illness. I would imagine more people would do gross things if there weren't signs reminding them not to, in addition to the people who are gross no matter what.

 

But, I think that for the most part, this is more of an issue where people see it and think "eww germs" than it posing as much of a risk as people seem to think it does. The same as was described earlier with a person washing their hands, then handling food and putting it back. Very little risk, but it is icky nonetheless. If I saw someone refilling a straw style bottle, it wouldn't even register to me to think "ew" because there really isn't any way that is grosser than a cup touching the dispenser. CAN illness be spread this way? I'm sure, but so can it be spread by any number of other things, like touching rails, elevator buttons, heck even your own door knob that there aren't any protocols for.

[awhcruiser]

So if DH is in the restroom I can't save him a seat? :rolleyes:

Precisely. Annoying selfish people can be a health hazard. Let me count the ways.... And no saving seats....it's the rule, just like the water bottle rule

 

 

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[tserface]

I know it sounds absurd, but a lot of people on Cruise Critic think if one of you gets up to go to the bathroom you need to give up your seats and hope there are still some there when you come back.

 

I've asked on the ship before and they always say, "Of course you can save your wife's seat... we just don't want you to save a whole section!" That's totally understandable. And, I've never heard anyone complain except on Cruise Critic.

 

I wonder sometimes if people are really serious when they say things like that.... like if the person they were with had to leave for a few minutes they would just give their seat away and tell them "tough luck" when they came back.

 

It pays to be pragmatic and courteous. You certainly don't want to go to the theater and plop your coat on a bunch of seats and then go hang out in the casino and decide later if you really want to use the seats or not, but if a seat has already been claimed and the person leaves and comes back... that's a different story.

 

Tom

 

So if DH is in the restroom I can't save him a seat? :rolleyes:

[chengkp75]

CAN illness be spread this way? I'm sure, but so can it be spread by any number of other things, like touching rails, elevator buttons, heck even your own door knob that there aren't any protocols for.

 

I think its a question of relative risk. If you touch handrails, buttons, or doorknobs, do your hands go directly to your mouth? Glassware and utensils are there for that specific purpose, to go into your mouth. That is one reason that USPH is so strict on warewashing equipment and procedures.

Edited March 6, 2015 by chengkp75

[Briecait]

We traveled on rhapsody last year and saw this on numerous occasions, on 2 occasions bottles we filled in the rest rooms :mad:

[PennStateFan123]

So if DH is in the restroom I can't save him a seat? :rolleyes:

 

 

That's not saving a seat. That's a guy going to the bathroom. Saving a seat, or more likely, 10 seats is when a big haired wide body plants herself in the best row, and keeps looking back toward the entrance waving her hands and screaming "ovah heah, hon!" But hey, rules, we don't need no stinking rules

 

 

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[roquejo]

So, inquiring minds want to know: how do you fill your water bottle? Do you get a glass of water & attempt to pour it into your bottle without making a mess?

 

Yes!!, I cruise often that is what I always do.

[Sotermarler]

Some of this Re-filling could be avoided if water bottles were included in the beverage packages. Or not charge $ 2 a bottle, but we all know that's not going to happen.

[Susie51]

Water bottle refilling stations is a good idea.

 

I fill my water bottle from the tap and with ice from the ice bucket in my room.

[PennStateFan123]

Water bottle refilling stations is a good idea.

 

 

 

I fill my water bottle from the tap and with ice from the ice bucket in my room.

 

 

Don't ever test that ice bucket or the tap for bacteria or you'll get sick. Both are really gross

 

 

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Edited March 6, 2015 by PennStateFan123

[Cruzaholic41]

Surely I'm not the only one who sees that someone is posting under 2 different screen names here, am I?

[spunks]

Since we are on the subject.....I have seen on more than one occasion, a guy at the ice creme machine reach in with his finger to "break" the ice creme when he had enough in his cone. I dont want to talk about what I have seen people do in the buffet lines with the food......and how about the guys in the bars that grab the containers of nuts and such that pour them into their hands,...sort through them with their fingers to get the ones they want and then pour the rest back into the container....

 

I say....let the cruiser beware!

 

Doug

[PennStateFan123]

Surely I'm not the only one who sees that someone is posting under 2 different screen names here, am I?

 

 

Unlikely

 

 

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Edited March 6, 2015 by PennStateFan123

[PennStateFan123]

Since we are on the subject.....I have seen on more than one occasion, a guy at the ice creme machine reach in with his finger to "break" the ice creme when he had enough in his cone. I dont want to talk about what I have seen people do in the buffet lines with the food......and how about the guys in the bars that grab the containers of nuts and such that pour them into their hands,...sort through them with their fingers to get the ones they want and then pour the rest back into the container....

 

 

 

I say....let the cruiser beware!

 

 

 

Doug

 

 

How about the guy who reaches in for a handful (no serving spoon) of raisins

 

 

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