Amazon Pantry for Amazon Prime members

[mieuxmew]

Heading to WDW this month and staying offsite. Amazon has a new service for Amazon Prime members - Amazon Pantry. Anyone try this? For $5.99 they will ship items that fit into a box (about 45 pounds) for reasonable prices. Our flight gets in late so I figured I would give this a try to save time, as most grocery stores will probably be closed when we arrive.

I ordered 2 boxes of cereal, 24 cans of diet coke, 20 capri sun juice bags, granola bars, Kool Aid single packs (powder mix for water), Powerade fruit punch, solo plastic cups, paper plates, oreo cookies, Starbucks coffee, Cranberry juice and pineapple juice (think Bay Breezes - the coconut rum is in our Owner's Locker). We can make a quick stop at a convince store to buy milk, eggs, butter, bread, and bagels so we can eat breakfast the next morning before hitting rope drop at Hollywood Studios Star Wars weekend! Total price was $45, including $5.99 shipping. Amazon lists the percentage each item will occupy in your box and keep a tally for you.

Anyone try this service?? Prices seem reasonable and some items have instant coupons. Downside is no fresh or perishable items are available. There are 2000+ items available, including snacks, laundry products, soap, shampoo, candy, water, soda, juice, coffee, pancake mix, etc.

Bell services will deliver it to our room with our Owner's Locker.

 

[Anjelica]

Heading to WDW this month and staying offsite. Amazon has a new service for Amazon Prime members - Amazon Pantry. Anyone try this? For $5.99 they will ship items that fit into a box (about 45 pounds) for reasonable prices. Our flight gets in late so I figured I would give this a try to save time, as most grocery stores will probably be closed when we arrive.

I ordered 2 boxes of cereal, 24 cans of diet coke, 20 capri sun juice bags, granola bars, Kool Aid single packs (powder mix for water), Powerade fruit punch, solo plastic cups, paper plates, oreo cookies, Starbucks coffee, Cranberry juice and pineapple juice (think Bay Breezes - the coconut rum is in our Owner's Locker). We can make a quick stop at a convince store to buy milk, eggs, butter, bread, and bagels so we can eat breakfast the next morning before hitting rope drop at Hollywood Studios Star Wars weekend! Total price was $45, including $5.99 shipping. Amazon lists the percentage each item will occupy in your box and keep a tally for you.

Anyone try this service?? Prices seem reasonable and some items have instant coupons. Downside is no fresh or perishable items are available. There are 2000+ items available, including snacks, laundry products, soap, shampoo, candy, water, soda, juice, coffee, pancake mix, etc.

Bell services will deliver it to our room with our Owner's Locker.

I haven't tried this service but I'm intrigued by it - I'm trying to figure out the pros/cons of this over and beyond subscribe and save.

 

[stacy~**]

Thanks, OP! I had no idea about this service but it seems like a great option for getting water, juice, morning snacks to the room without access to a car.

I am looking into it!!

 

[emskyrooney]

Just wanted to give a heads up that the shipping isn't quite as fast as regular prime. I ordered yesterday (Tuesday). We get to Disney on Friday and I figured it would arrive by Friday. According to UPS it won't arrive til Monday. Now I have to pack enough diapers to get through the weekend and we won't have bottled water unless we buy elsewhere... Says it can take up to 4 business days so I'd definitely order farther in advance next time!

 

[ateam79828592]

I'm a bit confused by this service...unless I'm missing something...I'm losing my 20% Subscribe & Save discount and I'm losing free shipping...so I'm not sure what I'm getting??

However, for a Disney delivery it might be a good option if there are enough perishables available in the resort gift shops.

 

[wendow]

I'm a bit confused by this service...unless I'm missing something...I'm losing my 20% Subscribe & Save discount and I'm losing free shipping...so I'm not sure what I'm getting??

However, for a Disney delivery it might be a good option if there are enough perishables available in the resort gift shops.

I haven't explored Amazon Pantry a whole lot but I *think* what you gain is the convenience of not having to wait for your Subscribe and Save time period. Now, I know you can move around your S&S dates and such but if you had regular items on your S&S, you'd need to adjust/maybe cancel items. Also, the S&S items tend to be bulk. I think with Amazon Pantry, you can do smaller quantities which would be a good thing at WDW.

We always just either pack our non-perishables or ship through someone (amazon, Walmart, Staples) and then buy the perishables at the resort store. It comes out less than going through a grocery delivery service for us.

 

[SugarSpice]

Do you have to be amazon prime to use this service?

 

[kerplop]

I saw it a couple of weeks ago and I didn't understand the point of it. If you have Prime and all the things are covered by Prime, why do you have to pay them $5.99 MORE to send you those things? I must be missing something.

 

[DrHeinzDoofenshmirtz]

Amazon made a lot of the stuff I used to get in subscribe and save via Prime into Prime Pantry items. So, Amazon makes you pay the additional shipping on things that used to be Prime (household goods). Yeah, I haven't taken the bait. I'm pretty irritated by Amazon's move on this one. Of course, or your DVC needs, the big box could be very excellent. I just don't love it for my recurring needs which were well-suited to the old Prime system.

 

[Alesia]

I still think wegoshop.com or gardengrocer.com would be a better option. At least then you could get fresh fruit.

 

[EMode]

Amazon made a lot of the stuff I used to get in subscribe and save via Prime into Prime Pantry items. So, Amazon makes you pay the additional shipping on things that used to be Prime (household goods). Yeah, I haven't taken the bait. I'm pretty irritated by Amazon's move on this one. Of course, or your DVC needs, the big box could be very excellent. I just don't love it for my recurring needs which were well-suited to the old Prime system.

MTE, between the add on program, this, and now some Prime stuff takes just as long as standard to be delivered, and raising the cost of a Prime membership I won't be renewing. I get that they added some "digital" perks but I'm not a Prime member for those, I'm a Prime member because it helped me save money on shipping costs, now it doesn't even do that.

 

[nunzia]

Amazon made a lot of the stuff I used to get in subscribe and save via Prime into Prime Pantry items. So, Amazon makes you pay the additional shipping on things that used to be Prime (household goods). Yeah, I haven't taken the bait. I'm pretty irritated by Amazon's move on this one. Of course, or your DVC needs, the big box could be very excellent. I just don't love it for my recurring needs which were well-suited to the old Prime system.

Ahh.. I see..another erosion of the Prime service. Like items I used to order for free Prime shipping are now 'add on' items..sneaky. To me it loks like they are trying to move Prime away from the shipping focus and more toward the entertainment streaming type of thing. Plus raising the price, which makes Prime not as appealing to me.

 

[MAJPLO]

MTE, between the add on program, this, and now some Prime stuff takes just as long as standard to be delivered, and raising the cost of a Prime membership I won't be renewing. I get that they added some "digital" perks but I'm not a Prime member for those, I'm a Prime member because it helped me save money on shipping costs, now it doesn't even do that.

^^^^ this!!!!!

 

[kerplop]

Ahh.. I see..another erosion of the Prime service. Like items I used to order for free Prime shipping are now 'add on' items..sneaky. To me it loks like they are trying to move Prime away from the shipping focus and more toward the entertainment streaming type of thing. Plus raising the price, which makes Prime not as appealing to me.

We use the digital stuff enough that it's still a good deal for us, but I can quickly see this changing as they keep taking away perks and changing it to sneakily charge you more while making you think they're doing you a favor. Bunch of BS really and we probably won't be back next year, unless something major changes.

 

[bettymae1121]

I'm a bit confused by this service...unless I'm missing something...I'm losing my 20% Subscribe & Save discount and I'm losing free shipping...so I'm not sure what I'm getting??

However, for a Disney delivery it might be a good option if there are enough perishables available in the resort gift shops.

This was MTE, I actually stopped buying some items from Amazon and started buying from Costco again because the loss of discount + shipping made Costco cheaper, just not as convenient. Amazon didn't offer some of my usual items as S&S or even just free Prime shipping, I HAD to use the Pantry thing to order the item at all!

Having stuff shipped to WDW is a great idea though, and one I wouldn't have thought of!

 

[abmitch01]

can someone tell me if you have stuff shipped to your room say a few days before you arrive, do you have to call the hotel and tell them? or do they see you have a reservation and hold it for you? TIA

 

[wendow]

can someone tell me if you have stuff shipped to your room say a few days before you arrive, do you have to call the hotel and tell them? or do they see you have a reservation and hold it for you? TIA

You do not have to call and tell them but the way you address the package has your confirmation number and date of arrival in it. I'll try to find that example and post it. I do call the day before we arrive just to verify they have our items.

Found it: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2437212

 

[abmitch01]

thanks, that would be helpful. I wasn't gonna ship anything but I might try with Amazon. Cheaper to get the case of diet coke than to buy two mugs that can only be used at the resort

 

[barkley]

I would consider price comparing between walmart's online site and this service b/c walmart offers free shipping, regardless of the weight on most orders over $50. sodas, water and such rack up poundage pretty quickly, and I've seen identical food/personal need items for much less on walmart vs. amazon.

 

[abmitch01]

oe good thing about Prime is you can share it with other people in your family. My brother has it, he shares it with his GF, my parents and me.