From: jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu 
  
 On 2025-08-01, The Todal  wrote: 
 > On 01/08/2025 21:06, Jon Ribbens wrote: 
 >> 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. 
 > 
 > I don't think hotel mini-bars are as common as they used to be. Maybe 
 > it's more trouble than it's worth to have someone inspect the mini 
 > fridge and see what drinks are missing and do the calculation and 
 > replace the items for the next guest. 
  
 When they do exist, and I agree they seem to be rare these days, 
 they seem tend to have electronic sensors that automatically detect 
 if you have taken, or merely looked at, any of the drinks. 
  
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