I have lived in hamburg too and went from there often and I have never found besides going to the toilet a way of getting water.

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.

> never found besides going to the toilet a way of getting water

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

The water is fine, but the sink usually isn‘t. The sinks are just as contaminated with bacteria as the toilets themselves —- sinks in really busy restrooms are constantly damp and allow bacteria to grow more than one would expect.

You're not drinking from the sink though, but the tap. The tap is also constantly wet in every house and we're never cleaning inside it. On the other hand, my kitchen is not getting cleaned with heavy antibacterial chemicals multiple times every day.

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

> 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.

Head to the right after passing through security and after duty-free. It is at the first toilets on the right

Hamburg is the airport I've used most (I live in Hamburg) and that has bottle refill after security

From one Hamburger to another...just where, please?

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.

From the airport map on its website: the drinking water dispenser is opposite gate C07. https://www.hamburg-airport.de/en/guide-explore/airport-map

Head to the right after passing through security and after duty-free. It is at the first toilets on the right