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resort mugs
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HoneyMnShawnee
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As far as I know they are $12.99 and can only be filled at the resort you are staying at during your current stay.
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Zummi Gummi
Pioneering the Universe Within!
It ends up being like $13.81 when they throw on the tax.
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WishIwasThere
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Have they returned to the resort specific mugs or are they still all the same as they were last year? The resort specific mugs are one of our favorite souveniers from the trips. They hold up to repeat dishwashing phenomenally and is a daily reminder of trips we have made.
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Pioneer Hall
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They are all generic for whatever celebration is going on now it seems. So, while you are technically only supposed to fill at your resort, it would be impossible for Disney to determine where you bought your mug.
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ToTBellHop
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hey, if Disney wants to be cheap and not make resort-specific mugs, then they get what's coming to them when people fill them up at different resorts.
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WDWRLD
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Ive said this before...I wish they would do away with the refillable mugs and go with a Card or put it on your room key. Face it the paper cups arent costing them nothing anyway. Pay once for the card then when you checkout at the food court, then when you come back later scan your card and they just give you a cup. I hate hauling that thing around and many times I would love to stop at the food court and get a cold drink when returning from the park but just dont want to have to walk all the way to the room and back to get a cup. I would even be willing to pay more to have it work property wide, parks, water parks, DTD, and other resorts. This would even solve the problem or using cups from previous trips, and Disney says they are about the enviromennt...how many refillable mugs do you think go in the trash every day. Its plastic...it dosent break down.
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HiddenMinnie
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I like your idea! We get the refillable mugs when we visit. We fill our mugs on the way to the buses and then use them at the water fountains at the parks all day. We always have 6-7 people in our group and it gets quite annoying carrying that many mugs around all day. I would pay to have an unlimited drink card to use in the parks and at the resorts. That would be nice.
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Pioneer Hall
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I don't really disagree with you. I think that Disney probably factors this in at this point because of their cost cutting.
I'm not a huge fan of carrying my mug either, but it isn't the end of the world. From an environmental standpoint, I am glad they have refillable mugs and not paper cups. I would go though close to 20 of them in my average trip as opposed to just reusing my mug.
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WDWRLD
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Yes but how many of those plastic mugs do you think go into landfills across the country everyday that people have taken home and decided that they no longer want them. Those paper cups are made of a percentage of post consumer fiber and when they are thrown away they are either recycled or if they do go to a landfill will breakdown in a realitive short time. Those plastic mugs will be there for years and years.
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AGentlRose
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When we purchased our Year of a Million Dreams refillable mugs at the Poly last year, the cashier told us that they were refillable at ANY resort, but not at the parks.
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Zummi Gummi
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Do many people really "resort hop" though? I see the average guest, who is staying at, say, Coronado Springs, not ever venturing over to say, the Polynesian. And if they are, chances are it's for a reason other than filling up the mug.
My only issue with the mugs, aside from being generic, is that they're bulky. I hate carrying a bag in the parks, so I'm not one of the people who fills up the mug on their way to the bus stop. In fact, I always run back to the room before leaving for the park to drop off the mug, simply because i don't want to carry it around all day.
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Pioneer Hall
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I would say probably not nearly as many as you think. People save them and use them at home. All of our friends who go to Disney still have their mugs and use them to carry their coffee around when they are back in our part of the world.
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The "Pro"
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They're not resort specific
They are not bad, but not as good as resort specific ones. Though I hate seeing people pulling out resort specific ones from when POP first opened or "All-Star Sports 1998" when its 2009. Even worse seeing plastic bottles being filled up. Just one of my pet peeves.
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Actually, those cups AREN'T cheap. Back when I worked at Six Flags, a ream of 50 generic cups were $50, which was $1.00 per cup. Disney's are custom, and with inflation, they probably cost a little more. The mugs are more environmentally friendly. While I'm sure people probably throw them away, it's probably not nearly as much as the paper cups.
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Heatherbell
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I have mugs dating back from when they first started using the mugs, I have never thrown them out. I also use them for coffee, tea, juice to go back and forth to work, gym etc. My kids love them and often use them at dinner...
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Pioneer Hall
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Which is exactly my point. They are much easier on the environment and I don't know anyone that throws them out.
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ToTBellHop
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yeah I also don't know anyone who throws out $13 mugs. That was always the point of them for me--free drinks all vacation AND it's a souvenir. And there is no question to me that a plastic cup that you keep is more environmentally-friendly than throwing out 20 paper cups in a week. Of course, if Disney would find a way to make the mugs out of used baby diapers, so much the better.
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WDWRLD
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Ok....they pay say 1.00 a cup...which I doubt they pay that much...how much do you think they pay for the soda that goes into those cups....were talking big profit for Disney. I agree that most people dont throw them away, I sure dont and still have everyone I have ever bought. But hundreds of paper cups can go in a landfill and not have the effect that just one plastic one will. The paper breaks down because after all, paper is made from trees. Those plastic cups made by Whirley will stay there forever.
We once were checking out of POR and had packed everything in the truck except for a mugs as we were going to have lunch just before hitting the road. We took our last load out and when we returned the maid had came, dumped the trash adn took the linnens and yes threw out the mugs. We were well before our checkout time but she thought we were gone. I was hot because for one we werent done in the room and two she threw out my mugs. She said that people leave them all the time and she thought we were gone. I went to the front desk and explained to them what happened and they said again people leave the mugs all the time. So more go to the trash than you might think. Same as those popcorn buckets. Again I never throw then away but how many do you see laying around after spectromagic.
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