Bartenders at all-inclusive resorts often water down drinks to keep costs low and ensure guests behave appropriately. Even if you're friendly with the bartender, they're unlikely to make your drink stronger upon request.
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Adding water to wine / spirits will not reduce the alcohol content. It will decrease the Alcohol By Volume (ABV%), because the volume increases and the actual alcohol content remains the same.
Diluting the spirits is one of the oldest con games that bars use to increase their profit and deceive customers. Todays mixed drinks with sweet mixers, spicy mixers, and mixed liquors are ripe targets for diluted liquor.
Bartenders at all-inclusive resorts often water down drinks to keep costs low and ensure guests behave appropriately. Even if you're friendly with the bartender, they're unlikely to make your drink stronger upon request.
Adding water frees up more of the aroma molecules to evaporate into the taster's nose. Since appreciation of flavors happens at least as much in the nose as on the tongue, “watered-down” spirits actually seem more flavorful.
Of course. It all depends how much alcohol you're taking in. The absorption rate will vary depending on concentration, but you'll get drunk on it if you have enough. (If you're mixing like 1 part vodka to 20 parts water or some other heavy dilution, you may not be able to drink enough to feel much effect.)
As a precaution you should not drink tap water in Mexico even if it's purified at the source. Most resorts and hotels provide bottled water or large jugs of purified water for you to refill your bottle. Velas Resorts stocks its suites with bottled water daily as included in it's all inclusive plan.
While there are certainly upscale all-inclusive resorts whose rates are much higher than you might pay elsewhere, most all-inclusive resorts can be a great value. When everything is included in the price, you can save money on your vacation, making all-inclusives worth it for budget travelers.