A Tip about water bottles and the Dining Plan

[loralie]

We just came back from a wonderful vacation at CBR. We LOVED the dining plan and wanted to share this tip with everyone.

The first day we purchased the refillable mugs. With the dining plan you get drinks so whenever we had a counter service meal at our resort. We used our refillable mugs to drink with our meal but also got water bottles as the drink with the counter service meal. Our room had a fridge so we would store the water bottles in the fridge to keep them cold and then take a couple of bottles with us to the parks. It worked out great.

Another good tip is to buy crystal light "on the go". Little water bottle size packets to put in the water bottles. If your water runs out fill up at a water fountain, add the crystal light and it makes FL water drinkable. We also filled up the empty bottles with the crystal light at night, put it in the fridge so when you woke up you had something to drink other than water before you left the room to go to breakfast.

Sorry if this tip has already been posted. I am new here...it worked out great for us and just thought I would share.

Take Care,

Loralie

 

[jenbren]

Great idea - thanks for the tip! I love those little crytal light on-the-go things but I have had a hard time finding them - I'll have to stock up before our trip in August!

 

[scoutsmom99]

Great idea - thanks for the tip! I love those little crytal light on-the-go things but I have had a hard time finding them - I'll have to stock up before our trip in August!

Check your local Walmart store. Our wal-marts here carry a few asiles of food items and I found the crystal light ones and the wal-mart brand ones there.

 

[daisylove]

Target also has their brand of the crystal light on the gos. Tea and rasberry lemonaid was what we chose for our upcoming trip.

 

[cmm]

How did you take the water bottles to the park? Did you use a backpack, fanny pack, some sort of pack with a water bottle holder/net? I have only bought a fanny pack so far, and it is kind of small, but the store where I got it had a pack with two pouches for water - thought that was kind of too big, though.

 

[SJSKJ]

Sort of off topic but...

Maybe it's just me, but for some reason I found that the tap water in WDW actually tasted ALOT better this year than it did last year. Maybe it was just me...who knows?!

 

[loralie]

How did you take the water bottles to the park? Did you use a backpack, fanny pack, some sort of pack with a water bottle holder/net? I have only bought a fanny pack so far, and it is kind of small, but the store where I got it had a pack with two pouches for water - thought that was kind of too big, though.

I personally had a small fanny pack and it did have a net for 1 bottle of water. We also had with us a backpack so the other bottle of water and the crystal light was kept in there along with some snacks for the kids. I also kept in the backpack their autograph books and pen. The fanny pack was small but I held in there the room keys that had the tickets and dining plan, a little cash, a small hairbrush some gum. I think that was it.

Have fun,

Loralie

 

[sandibeck]

Thank you for this tip!! We leave tonight for FL (arrive in Disney Sat morning after doing some other touring on the way) and I planned on buying the refillable mugs even though we have the dining plan. NEVER would've thought about getting the bottled water though!
Last trip, we carried bottled water in our backpack and it worked out great. That's what we'll do again - thanks to your tip!
Sandi

 

[smfritz03]

Are the refillable mugs you buy at the resort good for the park too? I thought I read it was only good for free refills at the resort itself? If its good for in the park--how much are refills?

 

[sandibeck]

The mugs are only refillable at the resorts, but the refills are free!

 

[MrsDude]

Is there a crystal light on the go type thing that does NOT have aspartame(Nutrasweet) in it? There are those of us who get TERRIBLE migraines from that particular chemical.

Is there anything like that which is sweetened with Splenda?

 

[bballdiva]

The crystal light packets are great for myself, but i also heard that snapple is coming out with these "to go packets" so keep and eye out for these. i also believe koola-aid has them to...not positive though.

 

[PrincessCyann]

Is there a crystal light on the go type thing that does NOT have aspartame(Nutrasweet) in it? There are those of us who get TERRIBLE migraines from that particular chemical.

Is there anything like that which is sweetened with Splenda?

This may make me seem uber-cheap { } but in the past I have taken one or two of those little single serve Splenda packets and one of those small packets of lemon juice (those single serve condiment sized packets) and used that to add to a bottle of water, and it tasted fine (to me anyway)

 

[dbogen]

This may make me seem uber-cheap { } but in the past I have taken one or two of those little single serve Splenda packets and one of those small packets of lemon juice (those single serve condiment sized packets) and used that to add to a bottle of water, and it tasted fine (to me anyway)

OMG I love that tip. I am leary of spenda though because I get such a headache from artificial sweetners. I bet I would walk off all the calories from a real sugar packet.

Deanna

 

[Macsmomma]

For those of us who love tea... Lipton has a tea with lemon individual pack like the crystal light. I saw them at Target this week!

 

[tnhillbilly]

we took one of the Britta bottles with us. We had a backpack that had the normal stuff in it and did not want the bottle condensate in the pack. Take a swift tie put only tight enough for it not to slip off. get one of those hook things that look like rope climbers use (wal-mart 2 for .98). hook it to the tie and then clip it to your backpack, belt, beltloop anything. If you take your own bottle make sure the opening is large( to put ice in) any counter service person will give you Free ice or ice water, we usually got ice so it could melt and ti mould last about a hour to hour and a half before getting hot! just my .02$

 

[bear74]

The crystal light packets are great for myself, but i also heard that snapple is coming out with these "to go packets" so keep and eye out for these. i also believe koola-aid has them to...not positive though.

Have you seen the individual packets of kool-aid. We drink alot of this. I can't use the crystal light because of the aspartane it gives me migraines. I hope they do come out with koolaid individual packets.

 

[PrincessCandaceMarie]

OMG I love that tip. I am leary of spenda though because I get such a headache from artificial sweetners. I bet I would walk off all the calories from a real sugar packet.

Deanna

I suffer from migraines too, and my specialist said for me to use splenda and not nutra sweet or sweet n low....see if you can try splenda....! Good luck!

 

[BostonTink85]

just a side question....can you get coffee in the refillable mugs??

 

[Shagley]

I get migraines from artificial sweeteners also, so I found a small package of Gatorade mix and took that. It isn't pre-measured for a bottle of water, but it is small and you can add what you want to the bottle, and then just clip the rest shut. It was by the Kool-Aid packets at Walmart.

Also, I had never been to WDW before I went in May, and I didn't find the water to be as bad as I was expecting it to be.