One example:
http://www.rei.com/product/849835/pl...ottle-17-fl-oz

I didn't say take without asking. Of course she would ask.
I just didn't want a lounge dragon looking down their nose at her in case it wasn't the done thing.

Glass bottles have never stopped me particular when I have a roll-on.

Its not for the flight but for the first night in a hotel room where one is unsure where the nearest supermarket might be or is likely to be closed after a late arrival.

I am not paying those outrages prices for a bottle of water left in the hotel room for guests.

Interesting - I'll have to look for those next time

^I have those too, a couple in my carry on and in my gym bag. And unlike the Tesco bottle suggestion upthread, they are intended for repeat use. "Normal" plastic bottles can degrade and shouldn't be used over an extended period of time.

Interesting! is it the bottle or the emptiness I wonder.

If you filled the bottle with , say, m&ms would that be ok?

FCO is, in my view, a mediocre to poor BA lounge. From memory they don't have small bottles of water, just the large ones like at LHR T5.

However, I don't feel too bad taking a small can of soft drink on board after seeing the staff swigging the Campari

To counter that, they were very good in letting me in with 2 guests (but that's a story for another thread )

It's not unusual for me to take one or two of the small cans of Diet Coke with me from the lounge, in particular if I am nursing a hangover.

(Hmm, I am not sure if that is saying that I usually have a hangover).

About three years ago on a VS flight in Upper, about 90 minutes from landing I asked for another bottle of water as I'd finished the one I'd been given, and was rather flatly refused: I was told that they only load one per pax. I have to say I was really rather stunned by the response. I mean, I wasn't even offered a glass of water instead. So after attempting to replenish at least some dignity, I went to the bar and pinched one of the big bottles there instead.

I should add that on subsequent flights on VS I haven't had the same problem.

Back to BA, onboard on CE, it's certainly not uncommon to be offered "a little something" for my arrival, usually one of those little Pommerys. Nothing to what used to happen on Ansett in domestic F, though. It wasn't unusual to walk off with two full 75cl bottles of fizz on SYD-MEL "back in the day".

Cheers, Howard

Small water bottles are not loaded in CE for pax - they are in CW and F though.

No problem taking them from the lounge.

Thanks for all the replies.
I'll pass them all on to her so she can decide what to do.

Chances are they won't actually give a toss what she takes but it's always nice to ask out of courtesy

To go back to your original question beyond the more general, I would think that taking 3 or 4 would indeed be sort of logically frowned upon, but taking one almost certainly would not. If your wife takes one, when she finishes it, the cabin crew will undoubtedly gladly refill it from their big bottles. I don't take food and drink from lounges with that one exception: one small bottle of water, which makes a hell of a difference during the flight.

There was this one time at some airport in China (can't remember which one, somewhere in the south probably and flying Air China) where they wouldn't let me in the lounge because the flight was already boarding. So I was straightforward with them and made it clear that the only reason I wanted to go in was to get a can of Coke and some snacks. So they've let me in without even scanning my boarding pass and I was back out in less than one minute with a can of coke and 2 packets of crisps .

Just tell your wife to take the bottles from the lounge, no one will care.

Curious on the BA Blurb on "Well Being" that they seem to ignore dehydration.

Is that something that only young people suffer from these days, or are BA seriously missing an on-board wellbeing issue? I mean the exercises are 'cute' in a hahahaha sort of way, but everything else there seems to ignore the topic. Why do they hand out water? Presumably because people want it? Or need it? Or is it a placebo? And then they refuse top-ups?

Does not compute, Captain. Where or what am I missing here?

That carrying water consumes more fuel than carrying "well-intended advice" on cute gymnastics...

I always travel with 2x 1.5 - 2litre bottles of water in my checked luggage for precisely this reason. Sealed into a double layer of waterproof plastic bags "just in case", too of course.