Packing Soda AdvicePlease

[tiki23]

can I ask - Why do you need to bring soda to WDW?

Only Coke products are to be found on Disney property - they might be a Pepsi fan.

 

[DisneyHumbug]

ahoff - how do you pack the wine? We're thinking of packing a suitcase with some snacks, wine and possibly vodka if we can figure out how to do this safely. Any ideas?

 

[NancyIL]

Glad the OP decided NOT to pack pop! It's one thing if you're driving down and have room in the car. But to be lugging an extra suitcase full of heavy cans or bottles to save a few bucks - on a vacation that's probably costing several thousand dollars - is foolish, in my opinion. Either go to the store when you get to Orlando, suck it up and pay WDW prices, or do without. Glad I am not addicted to the stuff!

 

[bavaria]

I have always and will still pack bottle soda with no prob

All right; now I need to say this. Perhaps I am overly cranky as I just opened my permanently stained new suitcase to retrieve a skirt damaged in my example above, and discovered that after three attempts at dry cleaning, my new $150 skirt is only good for the trash.

These threads come along almost every week. Posters like goofy4tink and NancyIL and I along with others try and make suggestions to obtain beverages locally via GardenGrocer, or at a Hess station, or via a car service grocery stop.

Some of us also share specific examples of what happened to us when our items were ruined by someone else's liquids.

You may be most concerned by saving a few pennies, but someone's actions have cost me almost 100 euros in dry cleaning, along with a ruined suitcase and skirt.

Often, the OP decides that it is not a good idea, based on our input. I thank them for taking the time to reconsider.

I also realize that we cannot prevent those of you who will continue to take liquids, but to post that you will continue to do so (especially with an emoticon which appears to be flaunting the fact) seems to me like you are saying that you don't care what we are saying.

If you do choose to continue to take liquids even after all we have shared, maybe it is best just to keep that to yourself. I am saddened that the saving of a few pennies overrides any concern for the welfare of other passengers and their possssions.

Rant over.

 

[goofy4tink]

People.....here is the voice of 'moderation'. Please, if you insist on taking liquids in your checked bags, be sure there is absolutely no way they can open and ruin anyone else's things. I'm all for freedoms and getting to do what I want, when I want. But, I have to tell you....if I got my checked bag at baggage claim and saw that my bag was now soaked, by someone else's 'liquid', well, I'm going to give cranky all new meaning.
There are plenty of ways of getting stuff that you may need but don't want to carry with you. Either buy it at home and then ship it down to your resort, rent a car and buy it on the way to WDW, get a towncar service and make a grocery stop, use a grocery delivery service and have what you want delivered to you.
There is no reason to pack soda in your checked bags. There is just too much leeway for an accident to happen. Carbonated beverages can be a bit 'unstable' in a plane. How would you feel if that Pepsi that you just had to have, spewed forth in the belly of the plane, and ruined a bunce of other passengers things? As well as your own!!! It's just not worth it to save a few dollars. Like I've said before...we spend thousands on a trip to WDW then obsess over saving $100 on groceries. Sometimes I think we all get a bit unhinged when planning...myself included!!

 

[tiki23]

People.....here is the voice of 'moderation'. Please, if you insist on taking liquids in your checked bags, be sure there is absolutely no way they can open and ruin anyone else's things. I'm all for freedoms and getting to do what I want, when I want. But, I have to tell you....if I got my checked bag at baggage claim and saw that my bag was now soaked, by someone else's 'liquid', well, I'm going to give cranky all new meaning.
There are plenty of ways of getting stuff that you may need but don't want to carry with you. Either buy it at home and then ship it down to your resort, rent a car and buy it on the way to WDW, get a towncar service and make a grocery stop, use a grocery delivery service and have what you want delivered to you.
There is no reason to pack soda in your checked bags. There is just too much leeway for an accident to happen. Carbonated beverages can be a bit 'unstable' in a plane. How would you feel if that Pepsi that you just had to have, spewed forth in the belly of the plane, and ruined a bunce of other passengers things? As well as your own!!! It's just not worth it to save a few dollars. Like I've said before...we spend thousands on a trip to WDW then obsess over saving $100 on groceries. Sometimes I think we all get a bit unhinged when planning...myself included!!

I'm a Pepsi drinker, but the thought of lugging a suitcase full just makes no sense! Last trip we had a car and went to Goodings, stocked up on Pepsi, water, fruit and breakfast bars. This year, no car, so I'll be setting up a delivery with wegoshop. I just build the cost of things like this into the budget; no reason to endanger my luggage or anyone else's.

 

[NotUrsula]

and discovered that after three attempts at dry cleaning, my new $150 skirt is only good for the trash.

I sure hope you bought it w/ a CC!

 

[kaytieeldr]

You may be most concerned by saving a few pennies, but someone's actions have cost me almost 100 euros in dry cleaning,

That... does... not... compute... $136.40 (today's exchange rate). That rots!!! People just don't think! A few months ago, I would have sworn I needed a case of Diet Dr Pepper Cherry Vanilla - I'm very high-maintenance, you know. Now, instead, I simply MUST have a gallon of Arizona iced tea. Bring that? In a suitcase? Are you joking??? And, it's light tea, and should wash out of anything easily if it were to spill - very likely, since they fill those jugs FULL - but how fair is that? Heck, water won't stain anything (well, then again, how do I know who has silk or wool, or even electronics in their checked luggage) and even with Magical Express, I'm not hauling that.

 

[bavaria]

I sure hope you bought it w/ a CC!

Lufthansa was actually so disgusted that they are giving me $100, which is certainly not their responsibility.

My $200 suitcase which was new before the trip still smells and I can't get the stains out (it is red)

So someone saved themselves $10 and cost me $150 for the skirt plus about $100 in drycleaning. I'm so glad that their needs were so important to them that they didn't consider anyone else. (Insert the eye rolling smilie here...)

One last plea to please consider others, and listen to the voices of reason here, including Nancy, goofy4tink, Kaytie, and others.

 

[kaytieeldr]

I'm a voice of reason! I'm a voice of reason! I'm somebody!!!!

 

[disneyag]

Ditto what Bavaria says!!! If everyone would just think about how any of their actions could affect others, the world would run more smoothly.

 

[dannyh23]

When I've smuggled booze onto cruises in the past, I place the small plastic (virtually unbreakable) bottles in ziplock bags, surround that with tissue paper, then a tupperwear container, followed by a final gallon size ziplock bag. I'm not about to get my own belongings wet, let alone someone else's stuff.

Then on the way home, we've got plenty of little bags to put wet clothes in...

If EVERYONE put liquids in ziplock bags, it would make everyone a little happier...

 

[goofy4tink]

I'm a voice of reason! I'm a voice of reason! I'm somebody!!!!

Oh, you're somebody all right!!!!

 

[kaytieeldr]

I know! I have an entire meet named for (well, technically against) me!!!!!