POLL: What Appliances are Appropriate/Inappropriate?

[lucky_bunni]

Originally posted by FatCow
Actually, if you do the math, it's quite a savings.

Buying 'cheap' food from WDW Resort for 3 peeps will be about US$35 for breakky and din-din. Multiply if by 10 days, that's US$350.

Cooking your own stuff (simple stuff such as cup-a-soup and ramen) will cost you no more than US$ 60 for the entire 10-day period. That's a US$290 difference. Or in many cases, means 10% additional cost of the entire trip!

But I agree, stewing, frying, baking, toasting... that's just plain wrong. Why? Because all things considered, the savings won't make any sense.

goofy - calculations for eating ramen for every meal on a 10 day trip to WDW and the money you'd save.

 

[floridagirrl2]

Originally posted by lucky_bunni
Hey, no more excuses... just don't bring appliances into your room. We all understand (or are trying to understand) your dilema. However, as a courtesy to guests in rooms around yours and guests staying in your room after you, don't cook in it. It is rude, the smells and residues are disgusting, and it there is no excuse.

I couldn't agree more, there is no excuse for rudeness. It nice to hear from a person with a fine grasp of etiquette. However, the opinion of what constitutes rudeness varies greatly from person to person. For instance, I think smoking in a public place is incredibly rude, but I don't think heating up a frozen meal in a hotel room is rude.

Ultimately, it is up to Disney to decide what appliances can be used in their hotel rooms.

 

[FatCow]

Originally posted by lucky_bunni
goofy - calculations for eating ramen for every meal on a 10 day trip to WDW and the money you'd save.

I guess you haven't experienced the hardship I've experienced quite recently.

Due to the riot of '98 in Indonesia, my business was looted and burnt down. I lost everything and I was eating ramen for every meal for almost a full year.

Not too funny if I recall correctly.

ps: that's what I'm going to do for my upcoming trip in two days(just breakfast and dinners)

 

[skiwee1]

Originally posted by floridagirrl2
Who said anything about eating ramen noodles for every meal? Quote please!

Also, many people do not "worry" about cooking. They don't mind making a sandwich now and then or heating up a frozen meal. "Isn't a vacation about not worrying about things like cooking," you say. Well, that might be YOUR idea of a vacation, but it's certainly not everybody's.

I don't think I've ever met someone that considers cooking part of a vacation. Who's idea would that be?

 

[skiwee1]

Originally posted by FatCow
I guess you haven't experienced the hardship I've experienced quite recently.

Due to the riot of '98 in Indonesia, my business was looted and burnt down. I lost everything and I was eating ramen for every meal for almost a full year.

Not too funny if I recall correctly.

ps: that's what I'm going to do for my upcoming trip in two days(just breakfast and dinners)

So what does having a business burn down 6 years ago have to do with recently? You know, if things are that tough then perhaps you should put off the trip until you can afford it. I'm not trying to be nasty, but I just don't understand people sometimes. You are not the only one to say you are having tough times yet you are going to WDW in the near future. Sorry but if times were that tough then you should be rethinking your priorities.

 

[FatCow]

Originally posted by lucky_bunni
Who the hell wants to eat ramen and instant soup ON VACATION? I go to Disney World now days just to eat at their wonderful restaurants! I mean isn't a vacation about not worrying about things like cooking. If you can't afford a vacation at Disney World, the real experience, then go camping or something until you can get enough money not to have to eat ramen noodles for every meal down there.

Uhmmm, since when eating cup-noodles (ramen) is considered as cooking? You boil the water, pour it into the noodle cup, let it sit for 3 minutes while you bursh your teeth in the morning.

$$ aside, I'm unwilling to spend an extra 40 minutes for breakfast when I can have a meal in 10 minutes So it's not only about saving $$, but saving precious time. 1 hours saved each day, after 7 days it's like saving another trip-day.

Calculate the $$ saved from the meals, $$ saved from not needing to stay for another day, (and in my case) $$ saved from not needing to take an extra day off, in my case: I'm saving about US$500.

I'd rather spend US$500 in real restaurants in Toronto than at Disney.

 

[floridagirrl2]

Originally posted by skiwee1
I don't think I've ever met someone that considers cooking part of a vacation. Who's idea would that be?

Well, just a for-instance: happy-bunni (who was so adamant that cooking should not be part of a vacation) stated that his mother cooked to her heart's content on vacation at Disney.

Isn't there a Sesame Street song about how we are all different? How funny that some people assume EVERYONE should share their own personal preferences!

 

[FatCow]

Originally posted by skiwee1
So what does having a business burn down 6 years ago have to do with recently? You know, if things are that tough then perhaps you should put off the trip until you can afford it. I'm not trying to be nasty, but I just don't understand people sometimes. You are not the only one to say you are having tough times yet you are going to WDW in the near future. Sorry but if times were that tough then you should be rethinking your priorities.

Wow! the nerve of some people in telling me to not take a trip.

This is my ONLY and VERY FIRST VACATION in 6 years. 6 years of hardship.

Priority? My priority is to have PS for every single day's lunch at WDW and eat ramen in the mornings and at nights rather than eating mediocre food 3 times a day for my entire trip.

ps: have you lost everything you've built all your life in literally a day? or, let me rephrase the sentence: have you ever been transformed from filthy rich to dirt poor in less than an hour just because you were born as the wrong race? I suggest you think about what you're writing.

Oh and you asked what does having a business burned down have anything to do with this? Well, if you read my post correctly, I'm responding that I've lived on ramen for a full year so a week worth of ramen is nothing compared to what I've experienced.

I'm amazed how sensitive some of you guys are.

 

[DMRick]

I don't think I've ever met someone that considers cooking part of a vacation. Who's idea would that be?

I cook often when on vacation. Of course I do my cooking in an RV, or a home away from home type of hotel. I get sick of vacation food, since we go on vacation so often LOL. I happen to like to eat in sometimes.

I don't think anyone has to get nasty here, and I think most people are objecting to food being cooked in a room. I hate the smells and prefer everyone use the foodcourts. That said, even I have to admit that using a coffee pot or water thingy to boil water, to make ramen noodles, isn't going to permeate the curtains, rugs etc. I don't understand why someone wouldn't prefer the food court for a cooked meal, but for some it may be that they are dishing out cereal for a child to eat, while Mom and Dad get dressed. That really wouldn't bother me. It's the grease down the sink, or the grease on the walkway in front of my room from a George Foreman grill that I have a problem with...or the garbage from a chili dinner, or the smell from a hamburg while I try to sleep that would bother me.

I remember bringing three young children to Disney because of the Disney experience, and not the food ambiance. Money was short, but we still wanted to come to see Mickey. They were thrilled to be there, and just as happy eating P & B at the table in the room, just before nap time (and now my grands do the same thing). I'm certainly not against saving money, or eating in the room, non messy food, after all, many people eat delivered pizza in their room. I am against stinking it up while food "cooks".

 

[arminnie]

Originally posted by lucky_bunni
Who the hell wants to eat ramen and instant soup ON VACATION?

I do. Sometimes when I get back from a hard day at the park I am just too exhausted to go out for another meal. Or for example one night when I was staying at AKL it would have been impossible to get into Boma or Jiko and I'd already eaten at Mara enough times to be tired of it. I did not feel like trying to go somewhere else to eat or waiting for room service so I had a cup of noodles before I went to bed. This has nothing to do with saving money - I just didn't feel like wasting any energy to leave my room. I put on my jammies and had a cup of ramen noodles. That was bliss to me.

After I've eaten a big breakfast and lunch at the parks I usually just want a just little something before I go to bed. Sometimes when I read trip reports about the meals that people eat, I think I would gain 2 pounds a day if I ate like that.

The meals at WDW are not a particularly big draw for me. I go to San Francisco and New Orleans on a regular basis so I get to have great meals there. I've had some very nice meals at WDW too but that's not my main reason for going there.

 

[floridagirrl2]

FatCow, don't take it personally--if you read a lot of threads on the Dis boards, you will see that there are certain posters who habitually post criticisms of other posters in virtually every thread they post to. It seems to be a sport for some posters!

I've worked with people who are at the end of their life for many years, and I promise you, not a single one has ever turned to me and said, "I wish I hadn't gone on vacation until I saved up LOTS OF MONEY so I could do it in style!"

 

[arminnie]

Originally posted by lucky_bunni
If you can't afford a vacation at Disney World, the real experience, then go camping or something until you can get enough money not to have to eat ramen noodles for every meal down there.

I am happy to let each person decide for themselves what "Disney World, the REAL experience is". Obviously for lucky_bunni a large portion of that "real" experience is about the food. Food isn't that important to me except to keep from going hungry. If someone is up in arms by my boiling water in the room to eat ramen noodles and not eating a million calories a day at WDW restaurants - well that's their problem not mine.

Fatcow - I've been there with going through a terrible financial time. I lost my job in Houston when the oil industry went bust in the early 80s. It was truly a depression at that time. I won't say I was filthy rich before but I went from being very comfortable to being "very UNcomfortable". I think it made a better person of me long-term. And you do learn to spend what resources you do have on what is important to you. And if going to WDW is important to you it is no one's business but your own what you budget for meals while you are there.

 

[lucky_bunni]

Originally posted by skiwee1
So what does having a business burn down 6 years ago have to do with recently? You know, if things are that tough then perhaps you should put off the trip until you can afford it. I'm not trying to be nasty, but I just don't understand people sometimes. You are not the only one to say you are having tough times yet you are going to WDW in the near future. Sorry but if times were that tough then you should be rethinking your priorities.

Exactly skiwee1, I understand hard times.. I just was just layed off about 2 weeks ago from a job I was at for 5 years. And the job market isn't great right now. Unlike some people, I'm not on here saying I'm out of work and going to WDW next week, eating ramen and making other food items in my guestroom. That just doesn't make sense. If times are tough, I don't understand how going to WDW is your priority???

 

[lucky_bunni]

Originally posted by floridagirrl2
Well, just a for-instance: happy-bunni (who was so adamant that cooking should not be part of a vacation) stated that his mother cooked to her heart's content on vacation at Disney.

Isn't there a Sesame Street song about how we are all different? How funny that some people assume EVERYONE should share their own personal preferences!

I said my mother cooked while staying in a camper at DISNEY'S FORT WILDERNESS CAMPGROUND!! She would never cook in a guestroom. Please read my post fully before paraphrasing what I said.

 

[dandave]

Originally posted by lucky_bunni
Exactly skiwee1, I understand hard times.. I just was just layed off about 2 weeks ago from a job I was at for 5 years. And the job market isn't great right now. Unlike some people, I'm not on here saying I'm out of work and going to WDW next week, eating ramen and making other food items in my guestroom. That just doesn't make sense. If times are tough, I don't understand how going to WDW is your priority???

Well, lucky_bunni, WDW is a priority for some folks. Especially in "hard times", a trip to WDW can help to make some of us happier and better able to deal with the crap in our everyday lives.
For me, WDW is a top priority, because it makes me happy. What does it matter what you eat or how many things you have, if you're not happy?
It doesn't make much sense to me that an unemployed person would waste his/her free time on a WDW related BB, instead of spending that time filling out resumes, searching the web or newspapers for jobs, perhaps getting the internet service cut out completely to save money, etc., but to each his own.
I guess we all have our own set of priorities.

 

[FatCow]

Originally posted by lucky_bunni
I said my mother cooked while staying in a camper at DISNEY'S FORT WILDERNESS CAMPGROUND!! She would never cook in a guestroom. Please read my post fully before paraphrasing what I said.

pardon me for being the devil's advocate here, but doesn't that mean that she's cooking while she's on vacation ???

oh well, can't we just have threads with OPINIONS but without JUDGING OTHER PEOPLE?

or do I have to start a "Things You Cook While You're IN THE ROOM at WDW Resort" thread

 

[lucky_bunni]

Originally posted by dandave
Well, lucky_bunni, WDW is a priority for some folks. Especially in "hard times", a trip to WDW can help to make some of us happier and better able to deal with the crap in our everyday lives.
For me, WDW is a top priority, because it makes me happy. What does it matter what you eat or how many things you have, if you're not happy?
It doesn't make much sense to me that an unemployed person would waste his/her free time on a WDW related BB, instead of spending that time filling out resumes, searching the web or newspapers for jobs, perhaps getting the internet service cut out completely to save money, etc., but to each his own.
I guess we all have our own set of priorities.

Hey, I agree. It is a prioty for me to go there also. However, my whole point is that I'm not going to go there if it means invading on the experience of other guests by cooking meals in my room. Ramen, fine... I eat Ramen at home too, there was just a poster that suggested eating it during an entire 10 day trip and it baffles me how that can be any fun.

I'm happy, I don't live high on the horse. I cut corners when visiting WDW, like splitting meals and buying discount tickets, getting the best price on my room, etc.

As for your comments about what I should be doing during my unemployment, it isn't your business. I have been sending my resume out all over and have had several interviews. However, I can't do that 24 hours a day... now can I. I didn't attack any of these people for being in hard times, I just said WDW probably isn't the best place to go if you are in hard times because I know that it is an expensive trip no matter how many corner you cut. I'm sorry if you felt to need to trash me, but I don't think that my statement was unreasonable. I think that vacations in general when you are in hard times are out of the question. There isn't a need to get nasty, I am being reasonable. You are off the subject anyway.

 

[dandave]

Originally posted by lucky_bunni
As for your comments about what I should be doing during my unemployment, it isn't your business.

Bingo!! Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner, folks!
Just as it is none of your business how people choose to vacation or what they choose to eat. Get it?

 

[C.Ann]

How does anyone here know exactly what goofybabe's circumstances are?

Maybe in order to make this short trip they have cut out absolutely EVERY other luxury you could think of.. NO entertainment whatsoever.. NO eating out or buying McDonald's.. NO purchasing new clothes.. Cutting out all the extras in their home: cable t.v.; extra phone services, etc.. Maybe they have walked the streets collecting soda cans so they can add the change to their Disney fund.. Maybe they didn't have a traditional Christmas so they could put some money towards this trip.. No Chuck-E-Cheese birthday party for 30 kids.. Maybe they're brown bagging their lunches for work.. Maybe they've skipped the appointments at the hairdresser..

ALL so they could keep this promise to their daughter - even if it IS a "budget" trip.. And then they come here and they're told they should "stay home until they can afford to eat in the food court"????? (And please - no "back pedaling here".. It started off with no cooking in the room and then proceeded directly to "if you can't afford to eat in the food court maybe you should stay home until you can"..)

The poster clearly stated that they had been laid off from their jobs and at least one of them was now working again.. He did not say he was drowning in debt.. He did not say he was going to let his bills go in arrears in order to make this trip.. He did not say he was going to slap the trip on a credit card.. He merely said they were going to try to save some money wherever they could - which is the RESPONSIBLE thing to do..

He already knows that cooking in the room is a no-no.. Any further comments in regards to whether he should go or not are totally uncalled for..

As for looking for a job? Re-read his post - he already has one - and if his wife is looking, guess what? A week or less of being away from home is not going to make ONE bit of difference at all.. Whenever I have filled out applications or sent in resumes it was at LEAST two weeks before I was contacted or called in for an interview..

 

[DMRick]

It started off with no cooking in the room and then proceeded directly to "if you can't afford to eat in the food court maybe you should stay home until you can"..)

Only one person (well maybe two) felt that way, so I don't think it proceeded to that. Most of us understand. You do what you have to do, and if eating Ramen noodles gets you to Disney..good for you. And by now, you know you can save money by eating in the foodcourt..but you don't have to buy there. Hope you have a great trip.

Ummm..I know where there is a thread where you can trade stuff for refillable mugs!

Geesh, can't the people here cut the guy some slack? I thought everyone went on vacation to Disney without money at one time or another.