Possible Debate... Cooking in Disney Resort Rooms is it wrong or right

[minniepumpernickel]

Lol, this is a funny thread! I only bring cooking appliances on camping trips.

I do bring low fat granola bars, cereal, or pb&J because I don't always want to eat out, or eat unhealthy.

 

[theSurlyMermaid]

Originally posted by Kimberle
It is amazing *who* does this!

When I was in college, I sat for a family w/ 3 young kids. I went with them to FL for the LONGEST week of my life. Mom is a lawyer, Dad is a College Professor/Author (techie stuff, yawn!). We drove over 1000 miles cramed into a little car. Slept at every DIVE hotel you could name, in 1 room. (Gramps was also along for the "ride".) I think we ate at McDonalds once and then had to split combo meals. That was the ONLY meal out.

Every hotel, they pulled out this ancient 2 burner thing to cook eggs, pasta, whatever. I was so skevied and embarressed to be sceen with them. I was REALLY suprised that thing didn't short out. (I kept checking to make sure it was unplugged.)

When we pulled up to their $1 million dollar house, the adults were commenting on what a "wonderful" trip it was. Please, if they spend $700 total, I'd be amazed......

It's perfectly fine to be frugal, but don't endanger others while you do so....

Reading this gave me that "Please-can-I-be-anywhere-else" feeling you get on a bad vacation. I thought my parents were bad, but they never brought any cooking appliances, just this giant cooler stuffed with as much stuff as you can imagine. I guess with three kids though, I can understand. But you needed two people to drag that monster cooler anywhere...it was embarrassing.

 

[DisneyDmbNut]

Let me say...as a firefighter's wife. and a manager of a restaurant construction company..cooking where there is not a proper place is insane!!! Toasters, crockpots, microwave...all produce heat and where there is heat, there can be a fire.

Now..if I was staying at a DVC with the kitchens, then that is another issue. The hotel has proper wiring, code compliance as to surface area's in those rooms...not to mention outlets that can handle the power of microwaves...

I have rented the fridge in the room to keep my Smuckers PBJ sandwiches cold and juice boxes frozen, but on vacation, I am just that...ON VACATION!! KITCHEN CLOSED!

 

[Kewz1]

My DH's mom always cooked in the hotel room when they vacationed. She told me before we were married that he would expect me to be the same way. I nearly fell over. My mom did NOT cook on vacation and I thought that was one of the craziest things I had ever heard. I informed him of this and he assured me he did not expect that I do that. In fact, he remembered as a child watching other families going to McD's and wishing they were doing the same thing.

If I HAVE to cook, it's not a vaction!

Kristen

 

[rdrjj5]

I could never imagine cooking in a hotel room! We stay at FW in our RV and the most I will use is the coffee maker and microwave! For some reason my IL think we are going to cook every trip and pack for full meals. Who do they think is going to cook it? not me. We get home and still have everything except the snacks and food for the kids. (I don't mind making them food since all 3 are under 4 and don't eat much.) If I have to start making myself meals then I am not on vacation!

 

[Pongo69]

Originally posted by I_Know_You2!
You know them, they will do anything to save a buck.

This is so true!!
I think the dollar menu at Mcdonalds or BK would be so much better than stankin up a room

 

[CourtasanSatine]

I can understand using the microwave to nuke doggie bags and things like snacks plus coffeepots and minifridges,anything elese is just insane

 

[EsmeraldaX]

I think the debate here is not whether cooking or eating in the rooms is okay, but whether or not cooking in rooms where there are no appliances and the rooms are not wired properly for heat producing appliances is okay. There is a big difference.

If the hotel gives you applainaces, they are fine with you using them and it's okay.
If they don't, and you ask if you can bring your own and they say yes, then it's okay.
If you call them to ask and they say it's against regulations, THEN DON'T BRING THEM.

This doesn't mean you can't eat snacks in your room though.

I don't want to be in a hotel that could potetially have a fire hazard because someone needed to bring a crock pot along.


*The budget board people are the same people who post here. Not everyone makes a decent living and if we want to take vacations to WDW we have to skimp where we can. I refuse to skimp on food, and we don't eat much anyway, and honestly, I'd never cook in my hotel room. But I pick up a lot of other tips on the BB that have saved me a lot of $$.

*I hate wasting food. Hate it. If I have something at the end of the night, and I'm just going back to the room anyway, and the room HAS a fridge and microwave, I'll probably take the food back and consider eating it the next day in lieu of buying a new meal. But that is just because I can't help but think it is wrong to waste food. But I wouldn't go out of my way to eat it the next day and I'd NEVER bring my own appliances.

 

[ducklite]

I agree with the person who posted that if the appliances are in the room provided by the hotel, then of course use them. I also want to point out that the DVC resorts with kitchens have a FIRE EXTINGUISHER in the villa. Never saw one of those in the room at any other WDW resort.

I think it's dangerous and for that reason morally reprehensible to bring cooking devices into a hotel room. I have no problem with people eating snacks in their room, or even using a blender. But something that produces heat and often grease which could start a fire (not to mention creating odors which increase housekeeping costs) is just wrong, wrong, wrong!

I was once woken in the middle of the night and had to evacuate a hotel because someone was cooking with a hotplate and started a fire. Not an experience I want to ever repeat.

Anne