Aquafina 16.9 oz bottle water price on board ship

[Swrcracer]

What's the going price for a bottle of water at the bars or where car you purchase it?

[Sauer-kraut]

Much cheaper to bring your own on! Otherwise even cheaper to drink the tap water, which is very potable.

 

I think a case of water was about $42.00

[ontheH2O]

Aquafina is public water that has been purified.

 

I can buy a case of Deer Park or Poland Springs (both certified natural spring water) for $2.99 when on sale. A regular price is $3.99.

 

NCL charges $42.00 for a case of treated tap water???

 

Thanks, NCL.

[rochelle_s]

Just off the Epic. A large bottle of water was $5.50

 

 

Rochelle

 

 

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[mking8288]

+ 18% for convenience ;)

[Two Wheels Only]

Starting next year...

 

[wdsted]

Give your pocketbook and the planet a break. Drink tap water. I marvel both at people lugging on cases of water and complaining about the price of it on board. Bottled water, except for use during natural disasters, is dumb.

 

 

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[BirdTravels]

Put a case in a small roller and let the porters carry it on for you. Water on board (unless you have a casino drink card) is very expensive

 

This is what is in the water onboard your ship (diluted to be less visible). Pictures from a NCL ship this week in the Caribbean. Since the ship bunkers water, you get what the local port water provides.

Edited April 23, 2016 by BirdTravels

[4774Papa]

The ship's tap water is very safe. We bring an empty water bottle and fill it up every day before we leave the ship for tours.

[titangas]

Give your pocketbook and the planet a break. Drink tap water. I marvel both at people lugging on cases of water and complaining about the price of it on board. Bottled water, except for use during natural disasters, is dumb.

 

 

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This post is ignorant and dumb.

The ability of drinking tap water is directly correlated to where you live.

 

I lived on Long Island and had wonderful tap water that came from natural aquifers.

I moved to NC and the goldfish my daughter brought with her floated up dead in less than 5 seconds when placed in it from all the chlorine.

When I filled my pool from the hose and put the test strip in it the Chlorine level was perfect with adding a thing.

 

Sorry, but I drink bottled water at home and use it tea, coffee, recipes and for other instances because I am not putting that in my body.

[psk2347]

I drink tab water here at home, but I would never drink tap water on a ship. I will be more than happy to lug a case of water onboard!

[ColinIllinois]

Give your pocketbook and the planet a break. Drink tap water. I marvel both at people lugging on cases of water and complaining about the price of it on board. Bottled water, except for use during natural disasters, is dumb.

 

 

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If you tasted the water from the tap in my area you would change your mind.

[wdsted]

I drink tab water here at home, but I would never drink tap water on a ship. I will be more than happy to lug a case of water onboard!

 

Do you forego ice while cruising? Comes from the same place.

[4774Papa]

The water from the ship comes from a reverse osmosis plant that produces very safe water. There is a little more salt in the water than you will find in most cities tap water, but nothing dangerous to your health.

 

We are very health conscious and would never drink unsafe water. The water on board does have a little chlorine added, but most municipalities do that as well.

 

The goldfish example is certainly not good cause to not drink the ship's water, since that was water from another source and the goldfish may not have died because of the water.

 

I do think it is obsessive to ALWAYS pay more for bottled water than you pay per ounce for gas for your car. Yes, we drink bottled water in third world countries, or countries like Russia, Ukraine, China, etc. However, Canada, USA and Western Europe generally have safe water.

 

Still, that discussion is academic, since the ship's water is better than most city water.

[fshagan]

My understanding is that the ship's water is safe and I know it tastes fine when it has been filtered. We drink water in the MDR often.

 

The water out of your tap is the same water, but is not filtered and has varying amounts of chlorine in it. The water treatment plant is on board the ship, and at least one poster here had a "green hair" experience when they were "flushing the lines" with a high concentration of chlorine. So you might get varying quality.

 

It is also coming out of a tap that should be cleaned before you drink out of it, but an alcohol wipe will clean it well enough (remember, people were pooping in that space just a few hours before you entered it then used their poopy hands to turn on and wash all the poopy off ... under that tap).

 

You can refill water bottles by using a transfer glass at the buffet (do NOT put your drink bottle under the tap). But you can also do what we do and bring on a case of water. If you like the taste of bottled water better then it is not "dumb" any more than someone preferring Coke over Pepsi is dumb.

 

There are a lot of things that are dumb in the world. Choosing what to drink is not one of them.

[Love my butler]

Do you forego ice while cruising? Comes from the same place.

 

Incorrect.

[titangas]

The water from the ship comes from a reverse osmosis plant that produces very safe water. There is a little more salt in the water than you will find in most cities tap water, but nothing dangerous to your health.

 

We are very health conscious and would never drink unsafe water. The water on board does have a little chlorine added, but most municipalities do that as well.

 

The goldfish example is certainly not good cause to not drink the ship's water, since that was water from another source and the goldfish may not have died because of the water.

 

I do think it is obsessive to ALWAYS pay more for bottled water than you pay per ounce for gas for your car. Yes, we drink bottled water in third world countries, or countries like Russia, Ukraine, China, etc. However, Canada, USA and Western Europe generally have safe water.

 

Still, that discussion is academic, since the ship's water is better than most city water.

 

I used the example in a response that said drinking bottled water anytime other than a natural disaster is just plain DUMB, to prove a point that not all tap water is equal (not specifically about the ship water)

 

But I can tell you with 100% certainty the fish died because of the chlorine, as I also have fish tanks, that now we aquasafe dechlorinator after we clean the tank, before adding the fish back, which we did not need to do with Long Island tap water.

Edited April 23, 2016 by titangas

[wdsted]

I beg to differ but bottled water IS dumb. Over half of it comes directly from a tap with no additional filtering. The cost to purchase it is staggering considering it's a simple H2O molecule. The environmental cost in terms of the energy required to haul it around (from Bali, really?) is staggering, not to mention how lazy people don't consider recycling the empties or worry about throwing them wherever they happen to be using it. Granted, it's not as dumb as soda which actually rots your body and makes you fat.

 

Also, the observation that NCL is overcharging for bottled water is similar to the frequent outrage over upgraded dining charges, neither of which are required. You don't have to buy it and you can haul it onboard if you like.

 

I can't even believe that fellow passengers actually pack alcohol wipes in their luggage to wipe up residual poop-air from the tap.

Edited April 23, 2016 by wdsted

[asubaru]

I disagree; I don't consider myself dumb for taking a case of water on board.

 

-Any cabin I have stayed in, the water has a chemical smell. I don't like the taste. I use it for my coffee and tea, also.

 

-I have watched people put their bottles/containers against the dispenser spouts in the buffet. In addition, dispensers often harbor crud and I don't want to use them. I don't use soda dispensers either.

 

-I'm not a germaphobe, but try to be cautious especially on cruises. I want to make an effort to eliminate as many possibilities of getting sick. Noro is uncommon, but flu and colds aren't.

 

 

Give your pocketbook and the planet a break. Drink tap water. I marvel both at people lugging on cases of water and complaining about the price of it on board. Bottled water, except for use during natural disasters, is dumb.

 

 

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[ontheH2O]

Give your pocketbook and the planet a break. Drink tap water. I marvel both at people lugging on cases of water and complaining about the price of it on board. Bottled water, except for use during natural disasters, is dumb.

 

 

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You say to give the planet a break and drink tap water. Tell that to the 10's of thousands of people in Michigan who now have lead, (leached into the tap water from old pipes), in their bodies.

 

Tell NY Long Islanders, (where chemicals and other contaminants had been dumped into the ground and waterways for decades), who now have much higher cancer rates than ever before.

 

A very recent government report says that 42 states in the USA have public tap water that is contaminated.

 

Bottled water isn't dumb. It's a smart choice at home as well as on a cruise ship.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Public tap water in 42 states in the USA are contaminated

[Fred_cjt]

We just took a carnival cruise, and only on the first day of the cruise, they sold a case of 12 bottles of water for $12 or $15 across from the pursers office. Great deal. We jumped right on that. Thanks carnival! But then we found so many other drinks we only used a couple of bottles. Sure appreciate Carnivals generosity however.

 

 

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[Sauer-kraut]

We just took a carnival cruise, and only on the first day of the cruise, they sold a case of 12 bottles of water for $12 or $15 across from the pursers office. Great deal. We jumped right on that. Thanks carnival! But then we found so many other drinks we only used a couple of bottles. Sure appreciate Carnivals generosity however.

 

 

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However, Carni doesn't allow you to carry on your own water. NCL does.

[BirdTravels]

The water from the ship comes from a reverse osmosis plant that produces very safe water. There is a little more salt in the water than you will find in most cities tap water, but nothing dangerous to your health.

 

Only a small amount of water comes from reverse osmosis plants.

 

The ships use the water from local water sources a ports and bunker it. The point is that you get whatever the local water sources produce and whatever the local ports resell using whatever water infrastructure they have at the ports. For example, if you bunker water in the port of Honolulu, the water comes untreated from wells and artisan springs (i.e., Honolulu does not, for the most part, treat or filter their water to kill any microorganisms - just ground water - sounds o.k. until you consider that goldfish swimming in the water before it is transferred to your dinner table).

 

When local water sources are not available, the ships take sea water from whereever you are sailing and use evaporators to desalinate the water. And when they need additional water production, they use the reverse osmosis plants.

[4774Papa]

Only a small amount of water comes from reverse osmosis plants.

 

The ships use the water from local water sources a ports and bunker it. The point is that you get whatever the local water sources produce and whatever the local ports resell using whatever water infrastructure they have at the ports. For example, if you bunker water in the port of Honolulu, the water comes untreated from wells and artisan springs (i.e., Honolulu does not, for the most part, treat or filter their water to kill any microorganisms - just ground water - sounds o.k. until you consider that goldfish swimming in the water before it is transferred to your dinner table).

 

When local water sources are not available, the ships take sea water from whereever you are sailing and use evaporators to desalinate the water. And when they need additional water production, they use the reverse osmosis plants.

 

On other cc discussions, I was led to believe that most of the water on cruise ships comes from the desalt plant, not from ports. I once worked for the Navy and of course many Navy ships have their own desalt plant for water. I once spend some time on the George Washington air craft carrier and drank the tap water there.

[4774Papa]

Here is a post regarding the ship's water

 

Don't know what the negative comment about the water was, but going to go over ship's water in general.

 

The ships source water in three ways:

 

Some is taken from shore. This must be from sources that are tested monthly and meet USPH requirements for water quality. This water is chlorinated onboard the ship before it goes into the storage tanks.

 

Some is made from flash evaporators, and this produces distilled water. This water is chlorinated before it goes into the storage tanks.

 

Some is made from reverse osmosis watermakers. While these units have pre-filters, they are not really filtration units, but the sea water is pressed through a membrane at about 6000psi, and the membrane has pores that only allow molecules the size of water molecules to go through. This water is chlorinated before it goes into the storage tanks.

 

At your municipal water supply, which may chlorinate or brominate the water before sending it down the water mains, where it sits in the pipe until someone opens a valve, and where the chlorine dissipates naturally over time, so there is no guarantee of the chlorine content in the water at time of use. However, on ship, the water is constantly recirculated from the tanks throughout the ship and returns to the tanks. While recirculating, the residual chlorine content is measured at the farthest point from the engine room, and USPH requires that there be a measurable residual chlorine content at that point of 0.5ppm. This ensures that the water is being sanitized at all times. This requires a continual dosing of chlorine, and the levels are recorded continually for future documentation for the USPH.

 

Now we come to the problems that passengers have with ships water.

 

Water taste is a very subjective matter. Many people are turned off by the taste of the chlorine in the water. Since the control point for the chlorination is at the furthest point, if your cabin is closer to the engine room, it may have a higher chlorine content, and more taste of chlorine. This can be resolved for your sink taps by simply leaving a pitcher, water bottle, or glass of water open on the counter or in the fridge for a couple hours, and the chlorine will dissipate naturally. The water from dining venues, bar guns, water dispensers, and ice machines all have charcoal filters to remove the chlorine, but this is for maintenance reasons, and the taste improvement is a side effect. All the water from any source on the ship is the same water, the restaurants and bars get the same water as your sink and shower.

 

Sometimes there is a whitish to brownish discoloration to the water, usually most evident when collected in a sink. This is caused when the water system, or a part of it, has been shut down for repair, and when the chlorine scale on the inside of the pipes dries out, it falls off and then is circulated around the ship. Usually, if the water is let run for a minute or so, it will clear up, as it is just in the non-flowing branch pipe right at your cabin.

 

The USPH requires that 6 samples, from random spots around the ship be taken monthly, and tested for water quality, including bacteria count.

 

Ship's water is as good a quality, or better, than most municipal water supplies.