Refillable Mugs and Coffee To Go

[sunsetbeachgal]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall disposable cups available at the drink stations. Just lids. I thought you had to obtain a cup from the cashier. (I always use my mug, so maybe I just didn't pay attention.) If you have to ask the cashier for a cup -- maybe you can show the receipt and request a cup, but they have no way of knowing that you didn't give the refillable mug to someone else and now you want another (disposable) cup to use for free.

Enjoy your vacation!

On our last trip (staying at value) I went to the food court each morning and bought a cup of coffee, the cashier gives you a disposable cup and you take it over to the coffee station and fill it.

 

[bumbershoot]

Thanks, I guess what'd really would like to know is the official policy. I think I'll just ask when I get there. Definitely don't want to set off any DIS style moralizing on the issue.

They don't have disposable cups for the taking. Each morning you would need to talk with a cashier and see if they see it your way. If they do then they'll give you a disposable cup and you would use it. But that's each day. And who knows if any will agree with you.

Or you could bring your own disposable cup. But that's going to get noticed.

Buy a mug, use the mug. They don't have a token you can use to exchange for a cup. They have the mug.

 

[mikedoyleblogger]

This is correct. I've also wondered if I could get my coffee in a different container even though I bought a mug. Really I think coffee should be complimentary like most other civilized hotels but thats another discussion.

The point is to make it inconvenient for you to carry coffee to go unless you pay additionally for it or carry it from your room at a Moderate or Deluxe. Although I think you're a little over the top with claiming that "civilized" hotels offer coffee in the lobby. Some do. Some don't. And it's usually been sitting around. Some "civilized" banks and doctor's offices offer coffee like that, too, but I wouldn't want to drink that coffee, either. The coffee urns at WDW resorts do high volume. You're pretty much guranteed your coffee isn't half a day old.

 

[mikedoyleblogger]

Thanks, I guess what'd really would like to know is the official policy. I think I'll just ask when I get there. Definitely don't want to set off any DIS style moralizing on the issue.

The official policy is you can pour anything you put first in a refillable mug into a different container for you and you alone to drink. You can't use a disposable drink cup from a food court that you haven't already paid a drink price for (although a CM may very well give one to you on the fly), and you can't game the system by handing your secondary cup to someone else for their use. That's why the RFID soda machines are on a timer.

 

[Beer Me]

The official policy is you can pour anything you put first in a refillable mug into a different container for you and you alone to drink. You can't use a disposable drink cup from a food court that you haven't already paid a drink price for (although a CM may very well give one to you on the fly), and you can't game the system by handing your secondary cup to someone else for their use. That's why the RFID soda machines are on a timer.

I remember reading somewhere that the American tradition of bottomless coffee in most diners and restaurants was a sign that we are civilized. I was just recycling that joke but it does come to mind when I stay at a hotel that offers coffee to their guests. And yeah, also doctors offices, banks, auto shops, etc. I may not actually want to drink it but it's a nice courtesy.

Anyway, this whole thread has reminded me how much I didn't like carrying those mugs around. Our last trip was the first time I had bought them. It probably saved me a few bucks but not enough to be worth the trouble.

 

[mickeyluv'r]

Beer Me, I caught that you were joking, if that helps. It is kind of funny, because I kinda think the same way; not just about coffee , but all kinds of similar things. Like magnifying (shaving) mirrors (the kinds that's affixed to the wall) They cost the hotel almost nothing, generally last until the room is remodeled, and are very handy for guests. Makes little sense to me why any corporate hotel room wouldn't have them. (ahem Disney values) It just seems like a no brainer amenity for the hotel to add to their list of amenities.

Then again, I chuckle when hotels list an item like the tv remote as an amenity.

 

[bookgirl]

Except in-room coffee- last we tried it- doesn't include milk.

Then again, last I tried them - the refillable mugs don't either. the stuff that they offer for the coffee was/is fake creamer.

We always end up with dilemma of how to get actual milk for our coffee.

I'm also with OP, that I hate lugging around a stupid mug. I also think it is kind of funny the lack of proper washing/sanitizing that goes with using them for a week. Yuck!

I do not like creamer (powder or liquid), but they sell milk at the food court and gift shops. I just buy a small milk to keep in the room and use it with my coffee. (I use the in room coffee makers or I bring my travel brewer if I'm at a value)