Drinking water. But you can buy 500mg of water for 5 Euros of course, right? Traveling as a family with with children, and when your departure is delayed, you can spend quite a bit just to stay hydrated.
While we're at it, can we be allowed to carry bottles of water through security? At least in Europe, having to pay 3€ for a 50cl bottle of water after passing through the checks is clearly just a money-making scheme and has nothing to do with stopping terrorism.
You can technically bring an empty bottle of water or container and fill it up inside of the airport.
Your options would typically be a water fountain, bathroom sink or asking a bar tender to fill it up. Typically if you go the bar tender route you may end up tipping them so you don't escape some cost there.
I've also heard you can bring a frozen water bottle. The idea there is if it were a dangerous liquid then it wouldn't freeze so you're allowed to bring it. The hard part would be ensuring it stays fully frozen while waiting on line.
this. you can buy 6 * 1.5L bottle pack for under 1.5 EUR from a supermarket. even a small brita jug would run you 25 for a combo with two cartridges. moreoever, brita works like the printer business and has horrible pricing policy.
while it seems trivial in amount, the bottled water is ironically cheaper than many developing countries (unless you go for large 20L bottles that you need to exchange for filled ones).
I don’t know if it’s different in the US, but here in Europe you can bring water bought after going through security. I think it’s more a means to make people buy things at the airport at inflated prices.
Or bottled water. Find a busy place that works for you. E.g., the people who sell bottled water to the tour bus riders in Manhattan for $2/bottle, when a whole case of 24 bottles is something like $5.
That's a fairly common practice throughout Europe and even in some part of the US (e.g. Vegas). You can even request certain brands of water be left in your room from their water menu.
As long as they clearly label them as a cost+ and provide you those dinky plastic cups you can drink tap water with, I am happy.
3 euros, 3 pounds sterling, or 3 dollars is common. I guess the US wins in the "over-priced-water-in-your-room" war. There must be something magical about the $3 price tag.
if you mean in toilet then do it say in delhi and good luck on your flight, hope you have seat next to toilets and no empty plane.
if you mean buy overpriced bottled water then yes, that's an option. but imagine some people want hot herbal tea on that flight, say 1-1.5 litre (ie they are sick). good luck negotiating with some airport 'restaurant' having say 8 tea servings for you (easily costing 20-30 usd/eur together)
Of course you can take your water bottles on the plane, you just can't take them with liquid in them. Just empty them and refill them.
When traveling there are faucets at every restaurant, gas station, campsite, or pretty much any place you can think of. It's even safe to drink from the streams out in the nature.
In speaking with tourists it's clear that the main reason they buy water (and in the quantities they do) is that they just don't know any better.
If I'm driving around your beautiful country, I didn't bring my own containers and I can't bring them back on the plane. Your own containers are much more expensive than the bottled water is. So no wonder tourists buy bottled water.
When I travel, I bring an empty cycling water bottle with me and send it through the x-ray with the top off so it's obviously empty. Once through security, I fill it up in a water fountain and hydrate for free.
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