DO YOU COOK IN YOUR ROOM??

[Mickeypooh99]

I don't blame you for not wanting to waste money on high priced Disney food. Food is a huge expense of vacation! I'd much rather make some of our own food and save the money. We always packed sandwiches and snacks to take to the parks for lunch. Breakfast was in the room. There are plenty of options that don't require any cooking. Although I bring a small electric kettle for warming water. I don't like using coffee pot water as it has a coffee taste to it.

Dinner is a little harder if you are in a regular room. We never stay without a kitchen at Disney or really anywhere If we can help it. I don't mind cooking on vacation. We also always have a car. So we get takeout offsite and bring it to the room. I could feed the 4 of us (including my 2 hungry teenagers) with 2 orders of spaghetti and meatballs with salad and breadsticks from Olive Garden. They give you so much!

 

[kymom99]

Not the same as the iron exactly, but my dad used to warm up sandwiches out at the farm by placing the foil wrapped food on the tractor and letting the warm engine heat it up. true story! Loved my dad!

 

[kymom99]

I am all about bringing some foods to eat for convenience and to save some money on any vacation. What I bring depends on amenities. I will say last trip we had a car. I went off site a couple times, and it was actually liberating. There is always something we forget and being able to get it for a reasonable price takes the pain out of it. I felt less like a hostage. We didn't go off property to eat meals that trip but I could easily see it being something we may do in the future.

 

[danygirl]

When staying in downtown Disney we had a microwave and made oatmeal and popcorn.
We bring fruit, bread, peanut butter, candy bars and have breakfast in the room and pack our lunch

 

[aprilgail]

If the room has a regular coffee pot, you could make hot water and have the instant oatmeal. I have never cooked in a room. I would get some snacks after arriving to have in the room.

I would make sure I washed that coffee maker good before using it- ever since someone I know told me about how she would put her stocking in the filter basket and run it through a cycle to wash them I can't touch those coffee makers!

 

[Marlyn]

I'm going alone with the kids this time so wish me luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You will have a great time! I became a single mom when my twin boys were 6 and I decided to travel to WDW alone with them. We had so much fun on that first trip and have continued to enjoy many trips together.... Just the 3 of us!! They turn 21 in June...and we are going to WDW to celebrate! Just the 3 of us....like we've been doing for 15 years now!!!

 

[dsdeleon]

I do this a lot!! We had an owner's locker with a crockpot and a sandwich maker but I only used them in a villa, a rented RV or a cabin. We have never done "cooking" while in a single hotel room. Thinking about it, it's using a bathroom sink for a kitchen sink that grosses me out. I don't even like washing the mugs in it! So I only cook when we have an actual kitchen sink, and we prefer our own food so this is usually the tipping point and why we rent points or an RV.

 

[aquabone1109]

Mentioned this in another thread about slow cookers which many families still use in regular rooms......

Back in November we were checking into GF. We went to our room and smelled something strange. Thought it was coming from outside. It was getting stronger and stronger so we called the front desk and had someone come up and check. Someone said it smells like currey and suspected it was coming from the room next to ours. They called security and went into each room next to ours. They found one of the rooms with 2 slow cookers making something that looked like dog food and stunk like currey. They removed the cookers food and threw them away (they were really nice slow cookers). Our room smelled so bad that we had to leave and go to one of the parks. When we came back to the hotel to change for dinner, the smell was even worse. We called the front desk and had someone come up. They agreed that it was very bad and the smell was even in our clothes. They moved us to a 2 bedroom suite and dry cleaned our clothes while we went to dinner (gave us a gift card of $200 for our inconveniences).

When we were checking out, I spoke to the person at the front desk about what happened.
She informed me a lot of families staying on disney property will bring hot plates, slow cookers, toaster ovens to cook food in their rooms.

 

[monorailsilver]

I cooked in the microwave in the Poly room a few years ago. I just heated up oatmeal and made my sins dairy free Rice Krispie treAt melting the marshmallows in there. I would of heated up the single serve Mac and cheese bowls in there too but we were at the pool and it was easier to use the microwave in captain cooks.

I would cook eggs in there although not my favorite way but it would be so,etching different other then cereal.

 

[capegirl]

Mentioned this in another thread about slow cookers which many families still use in regular rooms......

Back in November we were checking into GF. We went to our room and smelled something strange. Thought it was coming from outside. It was getting stronger and stronger so we called the front desk and had someone come up and check. Someone said it smells like currey and suspected it was coming from the room next to ours. They called security and went into each room next to ours. They found one of the rooms with 2 slow cookers making something that looked like dog food and stunk like currey. They removed the cookers food and threw them away (they were really nice slow cookers). Our room smelled so bad that we had to leave and go to one of the parks. When we came back to the hotel to change for dinner, the smell was even worse. We called the front desk and had someone come up. They agreed that it was very bad and the smell was even in our clothes. They moved us to a 2 bedroom suite and dry cleaned our clothes while we went to dinner (gave us a gift card of $200 for our inconveniences).

When we were checking out, I spoke to the person at the front desk about what happened.
She informed me a lot of families staying on disney property will bring hot plates, slow cookers, toaster ovens to cook food in their rooms.

IDK. If had to drag all of those small appliances with me on vacation, it wouldn't be a vacation. Seriously, 2 crock pots.
Happy to hear you were compensated.

 

[scrapquitler]

The only time I've ever cooked in the room on vacation is when the hotel has provided a kitchenette or at least a microwave. I would NOT bring my own appliances and try to circumvent the rules and possibly cause a fire.

 

[SandyinMonterey]

We are DVC Members and have usually gotten a one bedroom that has a full kitchen. When traveling to WDW or Disneyland, I don't cook but have the kitchen for easy stuff. But when we've gone to Hawaii, I cooked, mostly lunch, everyday. Also a dinner here and there.

 

[5kidsmommy]

Mentioned this in another thread about slow cookers which many families still use in regular rooms......

Back in November we were checking into GF. We went to our room and smelled something strange. Thought it was coming from outside. It was getting stronger and stronger so we called the front desk and had someone come up and check. Someone said it smells like currey and suspected it was coming from the room next to ours. They called security and went into each room next to ours. They found one of the rooms with 2 slow cookers making something that looked like dog food and stunk like currey. They removed the cookers food and threw them away (they were really nice slow cookers). Our room smelled so bad that we had to leave and go to one of the parks. When we came back to the hotel to change for dinner, the smell was even worse. We called the front desk and had someone come up. They agreed that it was very bad and the smell was even in our clothes. They moved us to a 2 bedroom suite and dry cleaned our clothes while we went to dinner (gave us a gift card of $200 for our inconveniences).

When we were checking out, I spoke to the person at the front desk about what happened.
She informed me a lot of families staying on disney property will bring hot plates, slow cookers, toaster ovens to cook food in their rooms.

That's insane!!! But glad you were compensated. I just don't get it, I mean I bring food for the fridge but I certainly don't bring anything that needs to be cooked. I think I would rather stay in a value and splurge on food rather than splurge on a deluxe and eat in my room. That's craziness.

 

[aquabone1109]

That's insane!!! But glad you were compensated. I just don't get it, I mean I bring food for the fridge but I certainly don't bring anything that needs to be cooked. I think I would rather stay in a value and splurge on food rather than splurge on a deluxe and eat in my room. That's craziness.

I totally agree. Never understand someone doing all that cooking in a resort like the GF. I am curious if they were charged a cleaning/funigation fee. Wish I got a look at the guests who were staying in that room when they got back.

 

[ashleyasiegel]

I never cooked in my room at Disney but I did on our Pennsylvania trip last summer. Just a regular room but it had a mini fridge and a microwave. I did bring my sandwich maker to make grilled cheese and pizza sandwiches. Other than that I couldn't imagine hauling a crock pot or electric skillet to cook on vacation

 

[Nayan]

If the room has a microwave, then I will use that but I do not bring appliances to cook with. I do not want to be the one who causes a fire and those fire codes are there for a reason.

 

[totallytigger]

no. it's a vacation for me. we bring bagels, a jar of peanut butter, and some pop tarts. that's it. we don't even toast any of it. husband and kiddo are welcome to schlep to the food court if they want it hot but i'm not doing it.

I bring those parchment baking sheets and put the bagel in folded sheet and use the provided iron--on high, no steam--to toast bagels in room. Works great!! We also have juice, fruit, cream cheese etc. delivered. That way we eat while taking turns with the bathroom.

 

[nelson84]

Cooking with an iron I mean heating with an iron is classic. I love it.

 

[nelson84]

If there is an outlet on the wall guess it's fare game.

 

[nelson84]

if it has a microwave you could cook one of those roasts from Costco. The microwaveable kind.