Yes
During non-COVID times anyway, I’ve always just stopped to get free cups of water whenever I’m thirsty.
I guess I’m not certain whether those locations are currently open, but generally speaking I don’t carry a water bottle at Universal. We try to avoid single use plastic bottles. Like pp, during normal times we got free cups of ice water. Now? I’d probably take something like a Hydroflask bottle that’ll keep water cool all day.
I haven’t seen a fanny pack that will accommodate a Hydroflask, but if you could find a three-prong fanny pack that is large enough, then in theory you could certainly put the bottle in the pack when you go on rides. Otherwise, yes, the Hydroflask would need to go in a locker.
I’d say that a major difference would be that the TM has to actually touch each guest’s water bottle - and then once they’ve touched your water bottle, and another guest’s, and another guest’s, now they’ve got who knows what on their hands. Just generally speaking that’s kind of yucky (don’t get me started on how often I see people at the parks leaving the bathroom without washing their hands), and especially now it seems like a possibly bad idea.
I’m no expert, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt, but this is where my mind goes.
But the best solution is to just let anyone get water out of the freestyle machines, cup or no cup. What’s the harm? Hardly anyone was using the machines anyways.
nyard? Looking for something that will hold my phone and also be waterproof. TIA.
Someone else may have a different opinion, but I believe this would still be required to be placed in a locker on the "metal detector" rides. On those rides, you can keep a lanyard with your tickets/room key on you and nothing else. They would not permit a cell phone at all, even if its in something like this. For the non-metal detector rides, I think this would be ok. I would suggest putting it inside your shirt before entering the queue and also make sure it doesn't interfere with any ride restraints.
