Create your own concierge lounge

[kirkharrod]

Sounds like a lot of people consider doing concierge just for the food in the lounge. I think you could create your own personal concierge lounge in your room by picking up some snacks in the parks and stores and stocking your room! You have a small refrigerator in the room, bring a cooler and the resorts usually have a microwave.

For me:
fresh orange juice and fruit
caramel apples from main street confectioners
fruit tulips from fountainview bakery (my FAVORITE)
kringlas from bakery in Norway pavillion

Concierge services are great for making priority seatings if you can't sit on the phone all morning or you want CRT. But for $100 per night, if you only want the food lounge, you could get a lot of nice snacks!

What would you have? Give me some more ideas for my table!

 

[TwingleMum]

Whats a fruit tulip???

 

[kirkharrod]

Fruit tulips are at almost every Disney bakery, however, for some reason the ones at the Fountainview Bakery in Epcot are the best. They are a tart with a cookie like shell/crust, edge dipped in chocolate, filled with custard and topped with fresh berries and kiwi. they are the bomb.

 

[glencoe]

Sounds like a lot of people consider doing concierge just for the food in the lounge. I think you could create your own personal concierge lounge in your room by picking up some snacks in the parks and stores and stocking your room! You have a small refrigerator in the room, bring a cooler and the resorts usually have a microwave.

For me:
fresh orange juice and fruit
caramel apples from main street confectioners
fruit tulips from fountainview bakery (my FAVORITE)
kringlas from bakery in Norway pavillion

Concierge services are great for making priority seatings if you can't sit on the phone all morning or you want CRT. But for $100 per night, if you only want the food lounge, you could get a lot of nice snacks!

What would you have? Give me some more ideas for my table!

I am doing the same!! I am planning on bringing (we are driving but there is a supermarket that delivers to the hotels!) assorted water/juice/soda for the kids and some wine and beer for us. I am also bringing cereal, bowls, spoons and parmalat milk for quick morning cereal when we want to hit the parks early. For snacks I am bringing single serve snack bags so we don't have half open chip bags in the room. For my dh and I, crackers, cheese, pepperoni and wine. We are also having a gift basket delivered the first day w/some fruit, snacks and little gifts for the kids.
I figured for $100 per day, which we wont be at the hotel enough to justify that, I would supply my own instead of doing conceirge. All deluxe resorts supply the fridge, just keep single serve juices/soda,ect in fridge so you don't pack it up w/ gallon jugs etc.
Maybe when the kids are older and we can "come and go" easier, concierge will be worth it. But w/ the kids ages and the fact we will be doing multiple parks from am to pm we just would not use it enough.

 

[micmacmissy]

Bring a cooler....on the airplane? Along with the two kids, their strollers, car seats, and other necessities? I don't think so!

And stop at a grocery store to stock up on snacks? Grocery shop while on vacation???? NEVER!!!

When I'm on vacation, grocery store and food prep are not part of my vocabulary. Vacation is all about splurging and enjoying...you can't put a price on convenience and luxury!

I think someone else on the boards said it well...if you're trying to justify dollar for dollar the cost of concierge, then it probably isn't for you.

 

[DisneyMomx7]

Most of the town car and limo services include a grocery stop. You can pick up a disposable cooler so you don't have to bring one on the plane. Of course I understand that all of the deluxes and moderates now have a ref. so you might not even need the cooler. We always pick up water and juice for the kids and snacks. Small containers so we don't have half open bags also. I also read on the boards about a store that delivers so you don't even have to stop if you don't want to. And I LIKE making my own PS's. Its more of the "planning". I wait for my 90 days window just like I wait for codes to come out. It's part of the hunt!

 

[TDC Nala]

Pop Century Concierge, with your choice of condiment packets.

 

[jsmla]

For us going to Disneyworld at all is a big splurge. (Is concierge available at the All Stars?) Yeah, I'll admit it. I've lugged a collapsible ice chest onto the plane AND hit the Winn Dixie all in one trip. It's not like going to the store at home, honest. I'm buying super special VACATION groceries, very exotic pixie dust sprinkled Pop Tarts not available here in boring old Louisiana.

I actually just returned from a hubby and me trip where we ate out a lot. It was fun but not crucial to my happiness. With two teens to feed I have to choose between eating out at home or PB&J in the room at Disneyworld. Guess which one wins?

Jennifer

 

[kirkharrod]

I did not say grocery shop! I am talking about buying great things around Walt Disney World, not stuff you can get anywhere! However, I will go offsite to get oranges from Orange World on Hwy 192. The cost of concierge is not really a factor to me. I just think it could be fun to use that money to get buy things that I would like to eat.

Like:
Desserts from Kona Cafe
Extra decorated candy apples from the candy shop in Downtown Disney
Mickey rice krispie treats
chocolate covered strawberries
mickey almond turtles from main st confectioners

 

[glencoe]

Shop????? I did not say food shop and vacation in one word! Delivery!! They will deliver right to your hotel. I don't have the number here but it is on the Disney tip forum or even this one. I agree about vacation being easy, but as I said before w/ the ages of the kids now it is easier to eat in our room. To me chips, cereal, crackers and cheese have not prep. At least while my little one naps, we can sit on our patio/balcony and relax. We can't go to a seperate place and leave her sleeping to take advantage of a concierge lounge. Maybe when they (the 3 kids) are older and will eat actual food the concierge choice will be for us, but for now, since we are driving and bringing food, we will "concierge it" in our own room and take the $100 per day and spend it in the parks, souvenier stand, or on a sit down meal at one of the great restaurants! Enjoy all!!
WERE READY< WERE READY>WERE READY< less than two weeks Yah!!!!!!

 

[jacksmom]

What a great idea! Our last trip (Oct) we stayed at Poly Conc. I am worried we will miss it! This is our "budget" trip! We will be at the WL, so hopefully we will have a fridge! I would love to hear some more ideas on things to pick up to take back to our room! Maybe we won't miss Poly so much with some great snacks of our own! Please, keep the ideas coming!

 

[Valentine]

How funny you started this thread just as I was eating my Pineapple cup and thinking.. wow.. I need to get some of these for my room at POP so I feel likeI am at the PoLY with my fresh pineapple all day! (Yes... the Dole Pineapple cups own juice.. no syrup) are that good!! LOL!!! I was thinking the same thing.. I want to make my own concierge... Make a few stops in my favorite spots.. Hmmm... Now if I could only figure out how To make the Milkshakes from Beaches and Cream stay frozen!!


Kathy

 

[Goofy's Muse]

OK, I'll bite... I'd bring a bottle of Bailey's Irish Cream since it's that nightcap I'd be missing...

 

[glencoe]

OK, I'll bite... I'd bring a bottle of Bailey's Irish Cream since it's that nightcap I'd be missing...

You must be traveling w/o kids!

I feel I have to take half my house w/ me when we travel, maybe that is why I am not complaining about driving.
I am on a binge to scale down on the stuff we are bringing, but our car is still going to be packed!!

We're getting close........

 

[LSUDis]

Mickey Mouse-shaped chocolate-covered pretzels. I've only gotten them at the Contemporary Concourse (Bayview Gifts candy counter is fabulous) and at the Wilderness Lodge store. Yum! I can't find any that good anywhere else!

 

[JoyMouse]

We always bring our own snacks and drinks. Favorites are homemade cookies and trailmix (our own recipe). We like the Pop, it has a bar for nightcaps, that way we can eliminate packing that stuff!
We pick up goodies from around WDW to add to the stash in the room, we are never without goodies!
I hate to pay for someone to do what we've always done and enjoyed as part of the tradition!

 

[goofyandmore]

Ok, but what about Chef Dick from the polynesian? Who will pretend to be him?

 

[#1hockeymom]

Can I ship in the cap machine from the AKL concierge lounge? That is a must, along with their dessert offerings! I would also like to add the chocolate croissants from the Swan/Dolphin

 

[LindaBabe]

I take a small hard side cooler as one of my pieces of luggage. For the marathon trip, just me alone, I packed it full of stuff from my fridge that I knew would not get eaten if I left them home - stuffed celery, cut up vegetables, hardboiled eggs, dip, fruit. one of those bagged tuna snack kits I wanted to try. Cheese. blue ice pack.

One night I was so tired I thought I had to rest before going out for dinner. Even a nap did not restore me, but the brainstorm to eat from my cooler, while lying in bed watching tv was brilliant! Decadent. and CERTainly something I wouldn't do at home.

Sunday, when I moved into a studio, I did a grocery stop - again, things I wouldn't buy at home - a preprepared veggie with dip tray, a fruit tray, an 8 pack of fried chicken, and two packages of uncrustables (no they are not on the southbeach diet.) The dips went into the now empty containers I had brought from home.

It was so great to not HAVE to go out to eat. I averaged one meal a day out, and two meals / snacks at home. Saved money, I'm sure, AND went home a few pounds lighter in spite of having not totally stuck to my meal plan.

What little luxuries do you not usually allow yourself that would seem extra special treats at the world?

 

[njown]

Sounds like a lot of people consider doing concierge just for the food in the lounge. I think you could create your own personal concierge lounge in your room by picking up some snacks in the parks and stores and stocking your room! You have a small refrigerator in the room, bring a cooler and the resorts usually have a microwave.

For me:
fresh orange juice and fruit
caramel apples from main street confectioners
fruit tulips from fountainview bakery (my FAVORITE)
kringlas from bakery in Norway pavillion

Concierge services are great for making priority seatings if you can't sit on the phone all morning or you want CRT. But for $100 per night, if you only want the food lounge, you could get a lot of nice snacks!

What would you have? Give me some more ideas for my table!

I think this is a great thread... I love all the ideas to get for snacks...thanks soooo much for starting it Kirkharrod We will be at POFQ in a few more days. No concierge there, and even if there was, I wouldnt pay concierge prices. A grocery stop only takes a few minutes and saves oodles of money that you could instead spend on your kids.