Refillable Mugs

[disney1077]

I will be going to Disney World in July and will be staying at the Beach Club Resort. I have stayed there twice before and both times had gotten the refillable mugs. My question is can I bring the same mugs from my past trips instead of buying new ones? Thanks!
PS-Do they still cost $11.99?

 

[kev1000]

these mugs cost $12 it not going to break the bank to get new ones so why bother with old ones.
we will be at the resort for 14 days so the $12 for the mug is good value for 14 days of drinks.

 

[Senderella]

You are probably right, not a big deal to by a new mug. I have never bought the mugs since I dont think it would pay off for me since I am hardly ever at my resort. Also the price sort of is a big deal unless you are traveling alone and only need to caugh up $12? once. However if it is a family of 4 lets just say, I think it is a huge amount of money to caugh up $50 to have soad while only at your resort. If I could take and refil this mug at the parks too, I would buy it in a heart beat and would even be willing to pay twice as much. Just my 2 cents.

It would be nice if you could use them in the parks. I've often thought that myself.


IMO, the mugs are a nice money saver even if you get a couple of drinks at your resort per day. DH & I use ours about 3-4 times a day every day we're there (and we're not in the room for very long either). The prices I'm posting are from Allears's Roaring Forks menu. We'd be spending about 16 dollars a day each. That's just 2 adults.

Coffee, Hot Tea - $1.99
Hot Chocolate - $1.99
Fountain Soft Drinks - $2.09

 

[CleveRocks]

Ok, WDW Fan, I think I have it figured out now, so at least I MIGHT be able to help you understand where my use of analogies is coming from, and why it can be so useful in discourse and honest, civil debate.

All grown-ups run their lives by some sort of priniples or "code of conduct" or morals or "way of life" or whatever you want to call it. Whether we realize it or not, we all have principles. Two fairly opposite principles are "Do what is right and only what is right" and "Do whatever I can get away with as long as no one gets hurt in the process."

I use analogies because when grown-ups make a decision about what to do in any given situation, they usually base their decision on their principals. Whether they realize it or not, they boil the situation down to the main idea and then run that main idea through their principles or morals or whatever.
For example (ANALOGY ALERT!!!), let's look at the situation of religious Jews and religious Muslims, both of whom won't eat pork or shellfish because it is against their religions. If they see pork or shellfish at a store or on a menu, they make a decision based on their principals. If their prinicipals say "Do what is right," they will totally avoid buying/ordering those foods because it is against their religion. If their principals say "Do whatever I can get away with," they may look around to see if the see anyone they know (to see if they have a chance of getting caught), or they might rationalize eating a sauce that contains bits of minced prok because it's not the main ingredient. In each case, that person knows their course of action before even walking into the store/restaurant; one set will resist temptation, the other will give in to temptation if the situation is just right.

So let's look at the mug situation, the penny candy situation, and back door of the theater situation. They are all the same situation. It's like a fill-in-the-blank problem. In each case, if your principals say "Do what is right" then you pay when the rules say pay, regardless of what you could get away with 99.999% of the time. In each case, if your prinicpals say "Do whatever I can get away with," you determine the likelihood of getting away with doing what you want, and if it's an acceptable risk you take it.

This is why analogies are helpful in civil debates, to help us understand one another.

For instance, if you truly run your life by "Do whatever I can get away with," then I'll never convince you otherwise, and it would be fruitless to try. But you might not run your life that way. If you can get away with both the soda AND the penny candy but you would choose NOT to steal the penny candy even if you could get away with it, then it's possible you could be convinced not to steal the soda, too.

I hope this makes sense.

 

[RedBaron]

It would be nice if you could use them in the parks. I've often thought that myself.


IMO, the mugs are a nice money saver even if you get a couple of drinks at your resort per day. DH & I use ours about 3-4 times a day every day we're there (and we're not in the room for very long either). The prices I'm posting are from Allears's Roaring Forks menu. We'd be spending about 16 dollars a day each. That's just 2 adults.

Coffee, Hot Tea - $1.99
Hot Chocolate - $1.99
Fountain Soft Drinks - $2.09

I suppose you are right, maybe it would pay off. It probably just sounds like a big deal to have to come up with all the money up front rather than drink per drink. :wave:

 

[Senderella]

I suppose you are right, maybe it would pay off. It probably just sounds like a big deal to have to come up with all the money up front rather than drink per drink. :wave:

It does seem like a big amount of money to plop down as soon as you get to you resort. Esp. once you move into larger families with kids... not just adult couples. I can see that point of view.

The way I see it though, just like with the DDP, Disney is making things so much easier. With the DDP, your food's already paid for. With the mugs, your drinks at the resort are already paid for. I feel like with those 2 things out of the way, you're not nickle and diming yourself to death through out your trip. A couple dollars for a Mickey bar here.. a couple dollars for a coke in the morning before you head out there. I know personally, once I start nickle & diming that's when the money really starts going buh bye rather rapidly as opposed to a few large purchases say at World of Disney or Mouse Works for stuff you REALLY want to spend your money on.. like the nice hoodies that cost an arm & a leg or your first born. To me, nickle & diming adds up REALLY fast and it's usually money you scratch your head about and wonder where it went.

My thinking (and DH's) is we do without a lot in the months leading up to the trip FOR the pleasure of having mad money as I'm sure everyone else here does too. I go a lot longer between getting my nails done than I should. We don't get take out as often. We sit at home on the weekends drinking pots of coffee, playing board games while listening to one of the many Disney Live365 stations rather than going to a movie/dinner or out for some live music/beer. So, when we get there, we're not fussed about spending 20 bucks on 2 mugs because that'll be the end of it for drinks at the hotel. Even if we had kids, (teens that is.. I can't see the limitless mugs being done for kids.. now if they had kid sized mugs where you could get juice or milk.. that'd be awesome) a couple more mugs wouldn't be a big deal to us because of the fact that would be the end of it as far as money on drinks at the hotel went.

 

[WDW FAN 4 LIFE]

Ok, WDW Fan, I think I have it figured out now, so at least I MIGHT be able to help you understand where my use of analogies is coming from, and why it can be so useful in discourse and honest, civil debate.

All grown-ups run their lives by some sort of priniples or "code of conduct" or morals or "way of life" or whatever you want to call it. Whether we realize it or not, we all have principles. Two fairly opposite principles are "Do what is right and only what is right" and "Do whatever I can get away with as long as no one gets hurt in the process."

I use analogies because when grown-ups make a decision about what to do in any given situation, they usually base their decision on their principals. Whether they realize it or not, they boil the situation down to the main idea and then run that main idea through their principles or morals or whatever.
For example (ANALOGY ALERT!!!), let's look at the situation of religious Jews and religious Muslims, both of whom won't eat pork or shellfish because it is against their religions. If they see pork or shellfish at a store or on a menu, they make a decision based on their principals. If their prinicipals say "Do what is right," they will totally avoid buying/ordering those foods because it is against their religion. If their principals say "Do whatever I can get away with," they may look around to see if the see anyone they know (to see if they have a chance of getting caught), or they might rationalize eating a sauce that contains bits of minced prok because it's not the main ingredient. In each case, that person knows their course of action before even walking into the store/restaurant; one set will resist temptation, the other will give in to temptation if the situation is just right.

So let's look at the mug situation, the penny candy situation, and back door of the theater situation. They are all the same situation. It's like a fill-in-the-blank problem. In each case, if your principals say "Do what is right" then you pay when the rules say pay, regardless of what you could get away with 99.999% of the time. In each case, if your prinicpals say "Do whatever I can get away with," you determine the likelihood of getting away with doing what you want, and if it's an acceptable risk you take it.

This is why analogies are helpful in civil debates, to help us understand one another.

For instance, if you truly run your life by "Do whatever I can get away with," then I'll never convince you otherwise, and it would be fruitless to try. But you might not run your life that way. If you can get away with both the soda AND the penny candy but you would choose NOT to steal the penny candy even if you could get away with it, then it's possible you could be convinced not to steal the soda, too.

I hope this makes sense.

CleveRocks,
I understand where you are comming from, I really do. So I am going to explain my side from a civil & non confrontational manner. Before I was only mentioning what other Cast Members have told me about how they don't pay Coca Cola for the syrup, so they don't lose any $$$$ when guests use old mugs. I was only going on what they told me, so don't I was just the messanger explaining the situation from another prospective. I also said I did not expect anyone to believe me, but I still felt I had to get that point across.

I actually do live an honest life style, so please don't judge me or anyone else who says they like to re-use old mugs, because that is not fair when you don't even know people & only know them by what they post. I only re-use them because when we 1st purchased them, the Cast Members said they were good for life & future visits to WDW. So once again why would we think otherwise & these mugs do not say "good for length of stay", so you can put your own conculsions to that. Plus others have said in the past that they were told the samething by the CM that the mugs were good for life, so they continued to use them.

I am not sure if your Jewish or not, but I am so that comment about Religious Jews not eating Pork & Shelfish is true so I won't deny it , however once in a while I sometimes eat Pork which is mostly when we are on vacation. With that being said I am not religious, however neither are my parents & they don't have a problem with that. So we live our lives normally like everyone else & don't feel guilty about it.

Finally to everyone here who tells people to always purchase new mugs, that's fine do what you want. Just try not to make people feel guilty & say they are stealing because you will not get arrested or thrown out of WDW, so to say it's stealing is like saying they will be charged with a crime which is not true.

 

[brisem]

Another way of looking at it is do I pay now or later. The longer you stay the better deal it is. we usually go down for 7-8 days. Which means it cost $1.50-$1.60 a day to drink at the hotel. For us, I happily pay $48 as soon as I get there and don't have to worry about it again.

 

[The Mom]

It hasn't QUITE reach the "unless you're perfect all the time, don't judge me" stage, but it's gotten pretty close. :lol:

I think the OP has gotten enough arguments pro and con so it's locking time. :lol: