Would it be bad manners to bring your own water to a TS?

[jarrdisney]

I honestly think people post just to get a rise out of you. If you need a specific bottle of water and Disney does NOT offer any at all, I guess I see no problem with it. I'd be hard pressed to find out disney does not offer bottled water to it's guests, especially at the signature restaurants. In that case it is ridiculous. Your bottle of water is NO better than the mineral water or sparkling options they have. It's unfair to circumvent disney in that respect.

 

[septbaby]

BYOB - the restaurant it inviting you to bring you own bottle

My comments assumed the poster meant a TS restaurant, not an in the park counter service location. If that was the scenario I can certainly see drinking whatever beverage she was carrying on her person.

Personally I prefer to drink Mt. Dew, a Pepsi product (Disney sell Coke products), but I wouldn't whip one out in a Disney TS restaurant.

Sorry if I offended anyone along the way. It was never my intent, but I take responsibility for that impact.

 

[my3disneygirls]

As a Jersey girl I do not drink the tap water. The smell of the water varies from clorox to rotton egg.

Actually, we do it at my mom's all the time. She lives in NJ (and I'm sure the NJ-ians out there will back me up) and their tap water is horrible. We always bring bottled water (if she doesn't already have it).

Like one poster said, as long as they don't offer bottled water on the menu (and I don't remember seeing that on any of the menus) then I don't think it's a big deal.

 

[my3disneygirls]

I honestly think people post just to get a rise out of you. If you need a specific bottle of water and Disney does NOT offer any at all, I guess I see no problem with it. I'd be hard pressed to find out disney does not offer bottled water to it's guests, especially at the signature restaurants. In that case it is ridiculous. Your bottle of water is NO better than the mineral water or sparkling options they have. It's unfair to circumvent disney in that respect.

Yup, people get a little over the top with their analogies. Would you bring in your own steak, dessert...etc. If the restaurant doesn't have bottled then what is the harm in drinking your own water? I wouldn't drink my own if it was an option on the menu.

 

[emmsmama]

Wow, I can't believe how riled up people get over water I wouldn't have thought it rude to bring my own water bottle into a restaurant. Why should I pay $3 or whatever for a bottle of water when I can bring my $0.50 bottle in? I don't see it as being the same as bringing in your own salad or steak or dessert. I've brought chocolate milk into a restaurant before when dining with my children. They like chocolate milk and many restaurants either don't have chocolate milk or the stuff they have is made with really gross-tasting mix. I've only done it once, but I'm not ashamed of it. I also often bring a bottle of water with me to the movie theatre even though you aren't supposed to. It's nuts to me to pay $3.50 for their bottled water or $5+ for their pop when I can bring a single bottle of water from home. Especially considering the movie is often expensive enough.

So personally I don't see a problem with bringing a bottle of water in but to each their own.

 

[sjaakie]

I don't see it as being the same as bringing in your own salad or steak or dessert.


I also often bring a bottle of water with me to the movie theatre even though you aren't supposed to. It's nuts to me to pay $3.50 for their bottled water or $5+ for their pop when I can bring a single bottle of water from home. Especially considering the movie is often expensive enough.

Isn’t that a contradiction?

 

[Boardwalk Tigger]

Sorry it is Not OK to do this. It is tacky.

 

[TisBit]

My question is do you take your own food or water into restaurants at home? Do you carry you own into Red Lobster? Your local Steakhouse? The 4 star hotel restaurant for a special occassion meal? Why on earth would you do that at Disney. Drink "your water" before you head into the restaurant and all you want when you leave. Its inappropiate and all of the Disney places can get you bottled water, tap water or other beverage with your meal. By the way, the tap water is probably filtered water and so not truly tap. These places have fountian drink machines the water that comes out of those is filtered; similar to Aquafina or Dasani.

You are absolutely correct that disney uses the filtered water out of the soda machines, same water and quality that coke requires for their lemonade (comes from same spicket, just one button adds the syrup, one doesn't). Any taste would be from ice or because you "expect" the taste.....or if you are just particular about what brand of water you drink (ie dasani, deer park, evian etc).

But if you really want to drink the water from your bottle, I don't think you are doing the waitress or the restaurant a disservice. Most major restaurants won't even complain if you bring in a cake for a birthday, etc. But as for restaurants that post a long list of do's and don'ts....I don't particularly like going to them. If I am at a meal paying for the bulk portion of the bill, but desire to have a birthday cake for a family member and they don't want to allow it, well I kind find another place to eat. Same thing, if an owner is going to pitch a fit because of a bottled water, oh well, I will eat somewhere else.

 

[patsal]

Well, I do this at MK for my DD. Not becasue I am trying to be cheap, but because she has a sulfur allergy that gradually builds up at MK and when we stay at WLV it is the worse. By the second day she is covered in hives and though benadryl helps with the itching and discomfort that makes her drowsy. The solution, only bottled water and bottled soda at MK. When we dine out I explain that to the server--if they can find small bottled water they do and bring her dansani, if they can't there is nothing for her to drink other than ridiculously over priced bottled water. I carry an extra water and if she prefers I purchase her a bottled drink before we enter the restaurant. I explain the situation and if she can be accomadated we purchase there if not we are prepared.
Honestly, when I go out I order water a lot, not because I don't want to pay for soda, but because I prefer water. I still tip on the amount a drink would have cost me if the server refills it with the attention that a purchased drink would receive.