From: patchmoney@gmx.com 
  
 On 1 Aug 2025 at 10:51:58 BST, 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? 
  
 I recently had this expereince at a national museum - no potable water. I 
 had 
 a good moan but no management on site that day. 
  
 Apparently they only (sort of) have to if they sell alcohol. 
  
 That they should provide free drinking water doesn't seem to have occurred 
 to 
 them. 
  
 -- 
 Cheers, Rob, Sheffield UK 
  
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