Bringing food into the parks---what's over the line?

[DznyDreams]

Originally posted by funhouse8
Look at it this way it might make you feel better - Isn't this the same thing if you all were to split your dinners. Noone has a problem with this.

I totally agree, and I had even thought about this myself, but I wasn't sure if it would be considered the same or not.

And as far as "sticking to the diet" goes....I definitely DO NOT want to fall too far off the wagon, but I do plan to enjoy my dinners! I have a feeling that I will do enough walking to more than compensate for the one really good meal I splurge on each day!

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

Originally posted by DznyDreams
I plan to eat most of my evening meals in Disney restaurants with my family. However, I was wondering what the general consensus is about my lunch plans. Here is goes:

I plan for DH and DD to eat lunch in the parks (one child’s meal and one adult meal), but I will probably do a nice veggie or turkey sandwich on my sugar-free bread, with a bag of multi-grain snack chips and/or fruit/carrots. If I were to be sitting at a counter service restaurant in the MK with my family who is eating counter service food, am I a horrible person for sitting with them and breaking out my healthy sandwich/multi-grain chip/carrots-in-a-ziplock lunch right there in the counter service restaurant?

What do you think?

Heck NO!!!! No more horrible then me who will sit and watch Dee eat his counter food when I am not hungry.

 

[gepetto]

DznyDreams, if you go to the restaurant section of www.wdwig.com you will see that most of the counter service places offer a few healthy options like salads, grilled chicken and carrots or grapes instead of fries. (just in case you don't feel like packing your lunch)

 

[jann1033]

Originally posted by DznyDreams
out my healthy sandwich/multi-grain chip/carrots-in-a-ziplock lunch right there in the counter service restaurant?

What do you think? [/B]

I don't think anyone ever mentioned / had aproblem with specials needs , what ever they might be, itwas originally about just wanting to save a few bucks.( although that could qualify also sometimes!) however..if you are on Weight Watchers diet program there does appear from the menus to be a lot you can eat and stay on program( on WW program myself) if you'd rather.

 

[diane1102]

I keep reading here about the "No Food Allowed" rule. I've looked on the Disney website and other Disney publications and I can't find anything official. Is this truly a rule? If so, is it published or posted somewhere???
Thanks
Diane.

 

[ducklite]

That's a really good question Diane!

I'm pretty sure it's on the park maps. It used to be, but I haven't really read "The Fine Print" in quite some time.

Does anyone know the answer to this for sure?

That said, I'd like to see WDW do what many other theme parks have done--offer a picnic grove outside the gate. People can bring their lunch in a cooler and leave it in their car. Then they can retrieve it at lunch time, eat in teh picnic pavillion, and return to the park. It seems that the TTC is large enough to put a picnic area in one corner of it. Maybe I just figured out a use for the Speedway

Why outside the gate? Because it would alleviate bringing a large cooler into the park, with no place to store it and one more thing to have to be searched.

For those not driving because they are staying on property, they could easily return to their rooms to eat, every resort has either picnic tables or poolside tables to eat at.

Of course for those who want to pack something small not requiring a cooler, paper plates, etc., the carry-in option still exists--at least for now.

Anne

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

Originally posted by diane1102
I keep reading here about the "No Food Allowed" rule. I've looked on the Disney website and other Disney publications and I can't find anything official. Is this truly a rule? If so, is it published or posted somewhere???
Thanks
Diane.

It was in the Official Guide to WDW.

 

[diane1102]

You mean Birnbaum's? If so, I know it's called the "official" guide but it's still published by a 3rd party. So, I'm still wondering if someone has it straight from the Mouse's mouth? Thanks.

 

[cola]

I took food and a Britta water bottle with ice in it into all the DisneyWorld parks and Universal Studios and Universal Islands of Adventure in the last 2weeks (between 9/13 and 9/27). The food was just a couple of sandwiches with side salad, and fruit.

The only comment from one of the bag searching security people was "wow what a great water bottle" (all metalic dark blue, looks very space age).

 

[jann1033]

cola: off topic but where did you get the Brita bottle, all I can find at Target is one in a set with the whole big faucet filter (don't need that!) although the bottle is"free"

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

Originally posted by diane1102
You mean Birnbaum's? If so, I know it's called the "official" guide but it's still published by a 3rd party. So, I'm still wondering if someone has it straight from the Mouse's mouth? Thanks.

They also get their info straight from the Mouse's mouth, that is why it is called official.
I also wrote a few years back to Disney. I received the same answer.
BUT....why is everyone getting so hepped up about this, they don't enforce it.

 

[sln88]

I don't think anyone is getting 'hepped up'

They are just asking if it is really an official policy and where it is stated.

 

[CookieGVB]

Believe it or not, there are people who go to WDW who do not HAVE Birnbaum's guide, so how would they know about the policy?

Not getting hepped up, just making sense.

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

Originally posted by CookieGVB
Believe it or not, there are people who go to WDW who do not HAVE Birnbaum's guide, so how would they know about the policy?

Not getting hepped up, just making sense.

Trust me, I believe it. They used to have it on the park guides.
I don't see it on one of my recent ones.
As I said, I wrote Disney on this a long time ago and did post the response here.

 

[Houston]

From Disney web page:

Q. May I bring my own food and beverages in to the Water Parks?

A. Coolers of a size that may be safely carried are permitted. No glass containers or alcoholic beverages allowed. There are no storage areas for coolers.

http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/waltdisneyworld/home/faqindex?id=WDWParksAndMoreFAQGrping#top

 

[wuv tigger]

My DH will be in the COMPTEL Conference & I will be on my own with 2 dd's, 1 1/2 yr old & 3 1/2 yrs old.

I plan on purchasing "stuff" on the way to the Dolphin from MCO.

I will be taking a collapsable cooler with snacks & sippy cups for the girls.

I've been reading all the tips I can! We will eat 1 meal a day in the "world" and the rest will be @ the Dolphin.

 

[Deb & Bill]

Q. May I bring my own food and beverages in to the Water Parks?

Note: That question is for WATER PARKS, not THEME PARKS.

 

[jann1033]

" ahh Houston we have aproblem!"" ( how many times have you heard that lame joke? it does say water parks specifically and of course notheing any place I could find about the other parks.

 

[TheRatPack]

I think this kind of goes on the lines of to each their own.....I don't feel comfortable taking in more than snacks, some candy...etc but when I had little bitty ones that were still in strollers we took in bottled water and stuff for their bottles, as you can't stop and buy a 2.00 bottle of water each and everytime they get grumpy. Now that ours are a bit older (8 and 9 on this trip) we don't take in a lot, but just because we don't like to carry anything around with us. We don't eat a whole lot while in the parks either though, we would probably get sick if we did.....so maybe that is why we only take stuff to keep up our strength and then we feast at dinner

This subject kind of applies to a lot of things though, sort of like the people that bring in McDonalds and canned cokes to the movies!!!! I can see taking in a candy bar or something but not a whole meal....LOL But then again, sometimes you just don't know the situation. We have a little friend, she's 12 and a diabetic and sometimes the movie times cut too close to her shot/meal times so she does have to carry in something a little "over the top". Maybe that is why some people carry in more to a Disney Park? Because they may be standing in an hour long line when that shaky feeling hits and they need something to eat.

 

[Mickey527]

I have never brought anything other than water into the parks for myself but when I went with my niece and nephew last year their mom did bring in some small bags of fruit snacks. I learned to love those fruit snacks, when the lines were long it gave the kids something to munch on and keep their minds off the fact that we were not moving.
We usually stay at one of the DVC resorts and buy bottled water at Walmart. We freeze them and they stay cold all day in just a plastic bag. And we make a few trips back to the resort during the day for lunch and a swim so it's not worth the trouble for me to bring snacks.
I do have to tell about my trip last July though.
My son loves Casey's hot dogs on Main Street and I love Pecos Bill's chicken Wrap. He grabbed a hot dog and brought it with him so I could go to Pecos Bill's. He put their ketchup and some kraut on his dog and we found a place to sit. Someone actually had the nerve to say something to him about taking a restaraunt seat when he didn't even buy the food there. Don't get me started on what I said back to that man. Peggie