Selective enforcement and shifting requirements is one of the major issues with airport security.

Some places force off belts and shoes, and force you to remove laptops and electronics from bags, some force them to be in your bag… it’s very annoying that it’s not consistent across airports. (in europe).

Travel time makes a big difference too, e.g. at peak times please keep your shoes on.

The bigger joke is that the vending machines in an international airport only accept euro and no credit cards.

Maybe this changed since I have moved from hamburg to Stockholm 2 years ago. But the hamburg airport compared to Arlanda is a joke.

You say that like it's bad? Hamburg tap water was perfectly ok a few years ago when I was there. Has it changed?

Are you sure the taps in commercial restrooms would have more bacteria?

Some mouth to tap action at the fountains might even the odds abit too.

I could swear I saw a drinking fountain once, somewhere along that long corridor connecting the gates but I never found it again and, to this date, I've never drank from it. (I mostly fly Eurowings to other Schengen destinations.) If it really exists, I'm sure there is only one such station past security, or maybe one per airport wing.

And look, in a pinch I'm ready to drink tap water from the airport toilet faucets. I'm ready to entrust my life to that dice roll. But, as a matter of human dignity being inviolable and all that, I would much rather shell out money for an expensive bottle of water.

For example, most I've been to do not. That doesn't become a rule now, it just disproves the point that hydration stations are the norm.

So why do you insist to dismiss the existence of other airports you've haven't been to that don't have water stations just because it doesn't match your personal experience? Please keep an open mind and arguments in good faith as per HN rules.

It does. https://www.wateratairports.com/topic/flughafen-hamburg-ham-...

And claiming "every one I've been to" proves what exactly?

>There has been one claim in this thread, that Hamburg does not. It does.

Great, but what does that have to do with my comments? Since I never mentioned Hamburg airport, so why rub that in my face?

I've been to other airports that don't provide water stations which I can talk about, but not Hamburg.

What's your problem?

I don't have a problem, but clearly you do so I'm gonna stop replying to you right here. Cheers!

Have you seen the dark patterns some airports use like very low taps that don't fit a water bottle under them in the sinks, or hooking up the taps to the warm water lines?

Also, tap water in some countries, while safe to drink, tastes awful, like chlorine, so even if you can get it from the bathroom tap, it's not ideal.