Can't stress this enough - ICE WATER IS FREE AT WDW!!!

[Kies99]

Go up to any shop/cart/whatever that looks like they can serve drinks and a cup of ice water is always FREE!!

Can't stress this enough. We just came back from our trip (4/25-5/2) and never paid for nice, cold ice water anywhere. Just asked for 4 cups of ice water and they gave them to us no questions asked.

I know this has been posted before, but usually it's buried in threads on other topics. Can't tell you how many people I saw buying bottled water ($2) when all you had to do was ask for a cup of ice water.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

But is it filtered water? Some tap water in Disney is nasty and I don't blame folks for forking over the money for a bottled water.

 

[zoemurr]

or we would just get ice and fill up from the fountain. A few days we did this 8-10x. We told an older couple about it and they said they spent $30 on water their first day.

This was my favorite tip too... It all tasted fine to us. You could always do the "add lemonade" thing. Even buying water it doesn't stay cold as long as a cup of ice does.

 

[ZoZo]

It's "good" water, not the "icky" Florida water from the drinking fountains and taps. (I used to live in Florida, and always drank bottled water because I didn't like the taste of tap water.)

This is one of my favorite tips. All of my friends that I travel with lug around heavy bottles of water, but I just stop and get (ice cold) water for free!

 

[SGMCO]

I've heard the Disney tap water has a high content of Sulfur
in it water that's why it tastes so bad.
I've also asked about the soda fountains were filtered,
and most replies that I've received was that the fountains were
not filtered. I don't know what to believe. But when we went
to WDW in Oct 2006 we got a Refillable cup and I could not taste
anything different or bad tasting in my soda, but did not try the water from it.

 

[stemikger]

Thanks for the great tip. I never knew this. I'm one of the people who spend a small fortune on water.

 

[RalphMouth]

this might be the best tip I've read so far on these boards

 

[WillCAD]

Since I carry a Brita Fill and Go filtered sports bottle with me, I often get cups of ice water and pour them into my Brita. Best of both worlds - cold water, no yucky taste.

 

[jlovesee]

Just a friendly FYI, this is true at almost every amusement park across the country! I say almost as in the hundred's of park visits I've had Frontier City in Oklahoma City tried to charge me 25 cents once.

Jennifer

 

[txvjc]

I read all the comments about bad water at Disney, but I thought it tasted fine...they actuallly gave you a decent size cup too unlike some parks I've been to and they gave you little more than a Dixie cup...we saved a fortune in water, but we did buy a few bottles here and there

 

[ZoZo]

It's the water from the drinking fountains and water taps that tastes bad to me. The water they serve in the restaurants (both CS and TS) is fine.

 

[WillCAD]

I read all the comments about bad water at Disney, but I thought it tasted fine...they actuallly gave you a decent size cup too unlike some parks I've been to and they gave you little more than a Dixie cup...we saved a fortune in water, but we did buy a few bottles here and there

Opinions on the water taste at Disney vary wildly from person to person.

A large part of the differences in opinion depend on the water you have at home; if your home water is a lot like Disney's water, then you're less likely to hate the Disney water. Of course, this is not an absolute, since some people hate their home water, too.

My water here in Baltimore is very different from Disney water. Disney water has a very metalic taste compared to Baltimore water, which has a slightly bitter tang.

Water outside WDW property in Kissimmee, however, is a yuck-fest; to me it reeks of sulphur, although it doesn't taste like sulphur. But the smell is enough to turn me off it completely, which is why I wound up buying my Brita bottles many years ago, and stocking up on filters when they were discontinued.

 

[mwehttam]

Since I carry a Brita Fill and Go filtered sports bottle with me, I often get cups of ice water and pour them into my Brita. Best of both worlds - cold water, no yucky taste.

I will second this one. My DW and I used them on our Honeymoon back in Oct 04 and they were great. When we first got to the WDW, we had lunch at Concourse Steakhouse and they gladly filled up our two Brita filter water bottles with ice and water. We then went to MK and bought two bottle lanyards and had the bottles with us the rest of our trip. WWater tasted fine. We just asked any cart if you would have a cup of ice water and never had an issue. We will be using them again this July.

-Matthew

 

[gk90]

Thanks for the tip! Great to have one less thing to worry about and plan, I'm the one who always ends up having to freeze & carry the water bottles.

 

[Shazzie B]

What a fantastic tip. We've been 4 times before and didn't know this. Hubby will be so glad he doesn't have to carry water about. We normally do the 'freeze bottles of water overnight' thing.

 

[nbodyhome]

I live here, and am used to all forms of water. The ice water to me tastes better than the fountain water (by far). I do ask for it everytime I get something eat (otherwise, I bring my water bottle and use the fountains).

 

[WendyBirdGirl]

1) The ice water tastes a million times better than the water fountains.
2) When you're dehydrated in a Florida theme park, even a puddle will taste good.
3) Tastes fine to me!
4) Haven't you read in the news about how kids are getting more tooth decay because they drink too much bottled water instead of tap with flouride and other minerals?... Sorry, my dad is a dentist.

Anyway, yes, I agree, the ice water definitely is the "best kept secret" at WDW... (they SAY it's the Disney Vacation Club, but I think the free water definitely takes the cake!)

 

[WillCAD]

4) Haven't you read in the news about how kids are getting more tooth decay because they drink too much bottled water instead of tap with flouride and other minerals?... Sorry, my dad is a dentist.

I've heard that as well, but I've also heard that the lack of flouride in water can be easily offset by using a good flouride toothpaste.

 

[cepmom]

I always knew I could ask for water, but I thought only at a CS restaurant...so I can ask at any of the carts that sell bottled drinks too? Where do they get it from?

 

[Kies99]

I always knew I could ask for water, but I thought only at a CS restaurant...so I can ask at any of the carts that sell bottled drinks too? Where do they get it from?

Any type of counter service or cart that serves drinks (not a cart that just sells them by the bottle) can serve up the ice water. If they serve drinks in cups, they serve ice water. That's what I meant in my original post.