STN - Hmmmmm.
#46
Join Date: Dec 2009
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So, accessible to the (overcrowded, hot) departures area where you will spend your time waiting for the gate announcement before you go to your gate and join a queue to board, there is no water fountain. You have to go and require it from one of the restaurants, which is hardly approachable or advertised in the airport.
Stansted could install water fountains at either of the areas with toilets in the departures lounge, but they haven't bothered.
Compare with Heathrow, which has several visible water fountains in Terminal 5. Stansted airport are being duplicitous.
#47
Join Date: Sep 2015
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So, accessible to the (overcrowded, hot) departures area where you will spend your time waiting for the gate announcement before you go to your gate and join a queue to board, there is no water fountain. You have to go and require it from one of the restaurants, which is hardly approachable or advertised in the airport.
#48
Join Date: Jul 2014
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According to their own Twitter account in January 2018:
There are also apparently "honesty box" water vending stations with the suggested amount for a bottle being £1.
Stansted unveils 'honesty box' water stations - PASSENGER SELF SERVICE
There are also apparently "honesty box" water vending stations with the suggested amount for a bottle being £1.
Stansted unveils 'honesty box' water stations - PASSENGER SELF SERVICE
#49
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#50
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The shops at STN charge more than a quid BTW I'm not aware of any shop that expects you to pay on an honour based system. IMO a good compromise between the liquids prohibition and giving passenger cheap access to drinking water.
#51
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The generic Itsu water is still GBP1 as far as I remember (and it's also the easiest place to get one as you proceed, hopefully nonstop, to the gate).