Originally Posted by
doc4science
It should be free with the requirement that you return it. A water bottle is not fundamentally different than a glass you'd get at any restaurant or hotel room for that matter--no reason why they can't be washed and reused. If it is taken after the stay I could see them applying a charge.
Making every guest get a brand new water bottle that did not bring their own seems exceedingly counter productive to their claimed environmental goals.
Honestly. the lids / spouts on plastic water bottles never get fully clean / sterilized well in automatic dishwashing, or hand washing. I really wouldn't want to re-use anything other than a open plastic or glass cup.