From: jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu 
  
 On 2025-08-01, The Todal  wrote: 
 > On 01/08/2025 10:51, Martin Harran wrote: 
 >> We take regular senior breaks in hotels around the country. I always 
 >> pick one with a leisure centre as swimming combined with a steam room 
 >> or sauna is my main form of exercise and relaxation. I have noticed an 
 >> increasing trend for such leisure centres to have no drinking water 
 >> available to iuers, either by fountain or bottled. Hydration is of 
 >> major importance after a steam room or sauna and I wonder if these 
 >> hotels are infringing Health and Safety rules and risking a negligence 
 >> charge if an inexperienced user ended up being dehydrated? 
 > 
 > In hotels, don't they still provide a kettle, a teapot and some teabags? 
 > And a tap from which you can fill the kettle?  Or is that only for the 
 > cheap old fashioned hotels? 
  
 Al Murray has a long-running "Sink vs Kettle" competition on his xitter 
 account to determine, in the many hotel rooms in which he has stayed, 
 whether the size and shape of the sink actually makes it possible to 
 fit the kettle under the tap to fill it. Pretty often, the sink wins. 
  
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