Ship water in bathroom save to brush your teeth?

[Love2Cruise2015]

Hey Fellow cruisers! Can you let if know if the stateroom bathroom water on the cruise ship is safe for brushing your teeth or do I need to bring a case of water to use for brushing teeth and of course drinking if needed ?

 

[cvjw]

Safe for brushing your teeth.

 

[Calantha]

Hey Fellow cruisers! Can you let if know if the stateroom bathroom water on the cruise ship is safe for brushing your teeth or do I need to bring a case of water to use for brushing teeth and of course drinking if needed ?

safe for brushing and drinking. I don't drink a lot of it, but a mouthful or two.

 

[cedricandsophie]

It’s fine.

 

[Dug720]

Absolutely safe. You can drink it too. The ice and the water in the dining rooms is the same tap water.

 

[DonMacGregor]

Cruise ship drinking water is extremely clean. It is typically desalinated sea water that has been purified to high standards. It's usually steam distilled, then run through a reverse-osmosis system (plus a charcoal filter sometimes), then it has minerals and chlorine added similar to your municipal water supply (minerals for flavor, and chlorine to kill any lingering bacteria). Pretty much the same as the highest-end home purification process, plus the initial desalinization.

 

[Cheburashka]

It's safe. They also cook with their water, of course, so if you don't trust their water there isn't much point in cruising because you couldn't eat the food, either.

 

[lilmc]

100% it’s safe. Norovirus outbreaks have been a fear of the cruise industry years before the most recent pandemic issues. They would never give any passenger access to any water that isn’t potable.

 

[Love2Cruise2015]

Thank you everyone

 

[tvguy]

Cruise ship drinking water is extremely clean. It is typically desalinated sea water that has been purified to high standards. It's usually steam distilled, then run through a reverse-osmosis system (plus a charcoal filter sometimes), then it has minerals and chlorine added similar to your municipal water supply (minerals for flavor, and chlorine to kill any lingering bacteria). Pretty much the same as the highest-end home purification process, plus the initial desalinization.

Probably better than the water any of us drink at home.

 

[CaseyCruiser]

It never bothered us

 

[DonMacGregor]

Probably better than the water any of us drink at home.

Probably better than most. Once it's sucked out of the ocean, it spends its entire time in kitchen/medical grade stainless steel tanks and tubing. No old galvanized steel or copper pipes, or PEX tubing to be found. It tastes "funny" to some people, depending on what their local water company does in processing their tap water.

 

[pachy25]

The toilet water is most likely cleaner than the faucet water in our homes.

 

[DonMacGregor]

100% it’s safe. Norovirus outbreaks have been a fear of the cruise industry years before the most recent pandemic issues. They would never give any passenger access to any water that isn’t potable.

Norovirus isn't transmitted through cruise ship drinking water anyway. It's transmitted through either direct contact with an infected person, or through fecal matter that is either on someone's hands or on something they have touched. It can get into a water supply on land through below-ground contamination (like a septic tank leaking into a well), but onboard there's no way for the cross-contamination to occur. Cruise ships are absolutely the worst place for norovirus outbreaks, and there have been some bad ones, but it's not from the water coming out of anyone's tap.

On board a ship it can (and certainly does) get into prepared food, or into a water glass that has been handled by an infected person, but there is zero human contact in the on-board water. It gets sucked right out of the ocean, is distilled, treated further for taste, and then chlorinated without even being anywhere a human could touch it.

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

The toilet water is most likely cleaner than the faucet water in our homes.

I think toilet water is usual grey water on cruise ships meaning it's water that has ben used in sinks and drinking fountains before it is used in the toilets

 

[asgur5]

I drank a couple of litres of it. Didnt taste great but was perfectly fine.

 

[tvguy]

I drank a couple of litres of it. Didnt taste great but was perfectly fine.

It all depends on what you are used to. It is probably the purist water you have ever had. But most of us are used to the taste of our home water which likely has an off taste that we are used to. That is why Dasani flavors their water with minerals so that it has a distinctive taste.

 

[Bonnie1222]

I have my stateroom host bring ice daily and I use that plus the sink water to drink every day. Perfectly fine and it taste much better than water here in Florida

 

[BlovesC]

I drink 120 ounces of FL tap water daily, no water anywhere could touch me now

 

[Bonnie1222]

I drink 120 ounces of FL tap water daily, no water anywhere could touch me now

I do even more than that - and even with filters I am in the same boat as you.