Canned Water

[SherriZ366]

5 hours ago, island lady said:

 

Sherri...you can still bring on your allowed 12 bottles of water.  Then keep those to refill.  Worked for me.  😉 

That would be difficult for me to manage as I'm probably sail without Chuck on January 16 as he needs to concentrate on his PT for his shoulder.  He also will be sleeping in the recliner and would be uncomfortable in a bed (very common for shoulder surgery).  I'll just take a few empty bottles and keep using them.  I already ordered the 24 can water package.  

[SherriZ366]

3 hours ago, bajathree said:

The canned water while taste is fine to me is terrible since once you open the can you are done.....cant reseal. Was wasting half filled cans like crazy. Who wants to walk around with an opened can of water...cant put it back in your bag or backpack.

That's why I'm brining some empty plastic bottles  

[CPT Trips]

On 12/22/2021 at 6:21 PM, Ashland said:

All of the above..I'm not going to boil that water hoping it will sanitize it then drink that water 

Do you have a secret way to make a good cup of tea without boiling the water?

 

On 12/22/2021 at 7:39 PM, SherriZ366 said:

That's why I'm brining some empty plastic bottles  

If you add salt to your empty plastic bottles, you’re sure to swell up.

[Coralc]

47 minutes ago, CPT Trips said:

Do you have a secret way to make a good cup of tea without boiling the water?

 

I make sun tea (for iced tea) all summer, but I'm certainly not bringing the jug along for the balcony.  We've never used the in-cabin coffee maker either. 

Edited December 25, 2021 by Coralc

[Hogbay]

There is a media release about royals Save the Waves program stating that they will be single use plastic free ,this included water bottles. For us ship water tastes like water .🙂

[Coralc]

If you look at @cruisebot21 post on his Symphony quarantine, his bottled water (aluminum) has lids. That would work! And it is not as wasteful as having regular cans. Hopefully they will switch the ships to this type of water container. 

 

 

[SherriZ366]

19 hours ago, CPT Trips said:

 

 

If you add salt to your empty plastic bottles, you’re sure to swell up.

Why would I do that?  I'm just going to pour left over water from a can into an empty plastic water bottle so that I can put it back into the refrigerator without the danger of it spilling.  

[SherriZ366]

18 hours ago, Coralc said:

If you look at @cruisebot21 post on his Symphony quarantine, his bottled water (aluminum) has lids. That would work! And it is not as wasteful as having regular cans. Hopefully they will switch the ships to this type of water container. 

 

 

These bottled water cans with lids would be ideal.  Hope other people will post that they received this type of can during their cruises.

[Turtles06]

19 hours ago, Coralc said:

If you look at @cruisebot21 post on his Symphony quarantine, his bottled water (aluminum) has lids. That would work! And it is not as wasteful as having regular cans. Hopefully they will switch the ships to this type of water container. 

 

 

Those screw tops are what Celebrity is using. The water tastes fine (though I have no problem with the ship’s tap water).  The screw tops are often so difficult to remove that someone on the Celebrity board started a thread about it, with a tip from a bartender about how to open the “bottle” if the top won’t easily unscrew: turn it upside down and bang it straight down on a hard surface. 
 

Another tip (the most useful imho) is to bring one of those rubber thingies used to help open jars. (I already have one in my camera bag in case a lens filter is hard to remove.)
 

We found these screw tops to have sharp metal edges, so do be careful opening and closing them. 

[dswallow]

I consider the 12-ounce pop-top cans of water to be an insulting and inconsiderate change and expect to see Royal Caribbean stop using them soon.

They should be the same size as the bottles they are replacing (500ml or 16.9 ounces), and even a 16-ounce size would at least be an acceptable alternative, reasonably being what the previous bottles contain. And they need to be resealable. I think almost everybody watching the announcements from Royal Caribbean about resuming the progression of replacing things with more sustainable product to mean they'd go to the style of water can used on Celebrity, not these smaller pop-top cans.

Now, if they want to offer both, allowing those whose needs are served by the smaller pop-top can, fine. But they need to offer the resealable version to those that need it for their use case. And few people want to be carrying around yet another sort of separate reusable container. That is not a solution. Even the "souvenir" soda cup required to have access to the flavors available from the Coke Freestyle machines is something of an abomination, forcing people to carry that horrible thing around on the ship just to have access to a cup of soda which they've paid for.

While many people get access to the bottles or cans of water for free due to use of the Deluxe Beverage or Refreshment packages or are at an eligible level in the Casino for free drinks that include them, many people pay for these, and the amount charged isn't apparently changing even though 25% of the previous amount of the product is now missing. That alone should prompt some level of demand for change, at least in the pricing.

 

[RoyalC]

3 minutes ago, dswallow said:

I consider the 12-ounce pop-top cans of water to be an insulting and inconsiderate change and expect to see Royal Caribbean stop using them soon.

They should be the same size as the bottles they are replacing (500ml or 16.9 ounces), and even a 16-ounce size would at least be an acceptable alternative, reasonably being what the previous bottles contain. And they need to be resealable. I think almost everybody watching the announcements from Royal Caribbean about resuming the progression of replacing things with more sustainable product to mean they'd go to the style of water can used on Celebrity, not these smaller pop-top cans.

Now, if they want to offer both, allowing those whose needs are served by the smaller pop-top can, fine. But they need to offer the resealable version to those that need it for their use case. And few people want to be carrying around yet another sort of separate reusable container. That is not a solution. Even the "souvenir" soda cup required to have access to the flavors available from the Coke Freestyle machines is something of an abomination, forcing people to carry that horrible thing around on the ship just to have access to a cup of soda which they've paid for.

While many people get access to the bottles or cans of water for free due to use of the Deluxe Beverage or Refreshment packages or are at an eligible level in the Casino for free drinks that include them, many people pay for these, and the amount charged isn't apparently changing even though 25% of the previous amount of the product is now missing. That alone should prompt some level of demand for change, at least in the pricing.

 

Well said. I left my four comped waters in the fridge. The paper straws are terrible too- they breakdown half the time and are not usable then. Or they forget to give you one. I remember when people wanted to save the trees and we switched to plastic. Now we go back...

[DallasGuy75219]

4 hours ago, SherriZ366 said:

These bottled water cans with lids would be ideal.  Hope other people will post that they received this type of can during their cruises.

On Allure 12/19-12/23 some of the bars seemed to be running out of the pop-top cans midway through the cruise and giving the aluminum bottles instead.