Plastic-free drinking water for hotels in Thailand.
Guests notice the bottle on the nightstand. Here is how a hotel or a resort replaces it with water made on the property, served in glass, without adding work for the team.
The short answer.
A hotel stops buying plastic water bottles by making its drinking water on the property and serving it in reusable glass bottles. Drinking water systems in the housekeeping pantries, the restaurants, the lobby and by the pool replace the pallets of bottles: housekeeping fills glass bottles instead of carrying plastic to each room.
Minairal installs two kinds of system for hotels: Pure, connected to the existing water line, and Air, which makes water from the humidity in the air where there is no line, such as a pool deck or a villa far from the main building. Both serve filtered drinking water with added minerals, hot or cold, and Minairal technicians service them across Thailand.
Free one-week trial in Phuket, Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Hua Hin. In Bangkok, Krabi, Pattaya, Chiang Mai and elsewhere, we start with a site assessment.
What a hotel stops buying.
One guest drinking two litres a day from half-litre bottles goes through 1,460 bottles a year. A resort with a hundred guests a day reaches 146,000 bottles a year, before counting the staff.
Each of those bottles was filled elsewhere, trucked, often shipped by boat to an island, chilled, stored, then collected as waste. Water made on the property removes the whole chain. Put your own occupancy into the impact calculator.
Six steps to a plastic-free hotel.
A simple order to follow, from the first count to the daily routine.
Count where the bottles go
Rooms, minibars, lobby, pool, restaurants, meeting rooms and staff areas. The list of points of use is the plan.
Try it, or have the site assessed
In Phuket, Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Hua Hin, a free one-week trial on the property. Elsewhere, a site assessment of the water lines, the layout and the volume.
Match each point with Air or Pure
Pure where a water line runs, such as pantries, kitchens and bars. Air where there is none, such as pool decks, beach bars and villas. See Air or Pure.
Choose the bottles
Optional 500 mL reusable glass bottles, which can carry the hotel logo next to ours. They stay on the property and are used again and again.
Install and train the team
Minairal technicians install the systems and train housekeeping, bar and kitchen staff on the machines actually installed.
Tell guests, keep it running
A line in the room and on the menu explains the water. Filters are changed on schedule by Minairal technicians, with a 4-hour average response.
Point by point.
Where the plastic bottle disappears, and what takes its place.
| Point of use | Instead of plastic bottles | Usually |
|---|---|---|
| Guest rooms | A glass bottle filled by housekeeping | Pure in the housekeeping pantry |
| Lobby and reception | A free-flow station, hot or cold | Pure, or Air if no line runs close by |
| Pool deck and beach bar | Glass and a refill point where guests spend the day | Air, plugged in, no plumbing |
| Restaurants and bars | Still water served at the table in glass | Pure next to the kitchen line |
| Villas and tented rooms | A machine in each unit | Air, one per unit |
| Staff areas | A hot and cold dispenser for the team | Pure |
The exact configuration is set at the site assessment. See the full hotel offer on water systems for hotels and resorts.
What guests see.
A glass bottle on the nightstand, cold water at the pool bar, a refill station in the lobby. No crates of plastic in the corridors, and no empty bottles in the bin at checkout.
It is a visible sign of a hotel that takes the island, the sea and the planet seriously. The water is produced where it is drunk, so there is no truck, no boat and no plastic behind it. That story is easy to tell, and it is true. Read how the figures are counted on the sustainability page.
Questions from hotels.
More answers on the FAQ page and on water systems for hotels and resorts. Equipping a single villa or a home? Find the right machine in one minute.
How can a hotel in Thailand stop using plastic water bottles?
By producing drinking water on the property and serving it in reusable glass bottles. Drinking water systems in the housekeeping pantries, restaurants, lobby and pool replace bottle deliveries, and housekeeping fills glass bottles for the rooms instead of restocking plastic.
What replaces the plastic bottle in the rooms?
A reusable 500 mL glass bottle, filled by housekeeping from a system in the pantry. Minairal supplies these bottles as an option, and they can carry the hotel logo next to the Minairal logo.
Does it work at the pool or in villas with no water line?
Yes. Minairal Air systems make drinking water from the humidity in the air and only need to be plugged in, so they serve pool decks, beach bars and villas far from a water line.
Does it make more work for housekeeping?
The work changes rather than grows: staff fill glass bottles at a pantry system instead of ordering, receiving, storing and carrying cases of plastic bottles, then sorting the empties.
Can a hotel try it before committing?
Yes, in Phuket, Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Hua Hin, with a free one-week trial on the property. Elsewhere in Thailand, including Bangkok, Krabi and Pattaya, we start with a site assessment.
Can a hotel rent the systems instead of buying them?
Yes. Every Air and Pure system can be rented for 6 months or 1 year, with maintenance and filters included. Pure systems can also be taken on lease-to-own over 3, 5 or 7 years. A purchase comes with a one-year warranty.
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Tell us about the hotel. We plan the switch with you.
Number of rooms, points of use, water lines and the islands or cities you operate in. You receive a configuration, the glass bottle option and a maintenance plan, written for your property.