I've been to disney twice and I have gotten the mugs both times. Upon coming back from the second trim my mom and I decided to conduct a little expierament and found that the skinny mugs hold more than the fat ones. Strage, but true.
You buy a mug at your resort and can refill it from the self-serve (in most cases) machines as much as you want for the duration of your stay (check-in until midnight day of checkout) So the earlier you buy them the better. They are refillable only at the resort you buy them at and expire after your stay (buy new ones the next visit)
A great/bad idea is to fill up before hitting the parks. been there & tried that These things are bulky and are not water tight. They do make great souvieneers though. I love drinking my morning coffee from my POR mugs and pretending I'm sitting at the mill
BB & TL have something similar but the mug is for that day only. These are barcoded to activate the machines.
From what I have read, they have not put bar codes on the resort mugs and I don't believe they plan to (at least not any time soon). The threads I have read that talked about the bar codes for resort were quoting an article written in, I believe, 2002.
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