Rapid Fill Mug – To Buy or Not to Buy

We used to get those, but not so much anymore. Still I see the value in it for some folks. Some years ago we got the dining plan and these came standard with that. I would get some tea or soda and pop into the arcade a while in the evenings then get another refill and go back to the room. The mugs were great for that! I can see them being a similar advantage for you if you plan on spending time in any common area of your resort during your stay.

Side note: This question makes me chuckle a little bit because this topic was one of hot and heavy contention on another website, so much that moderators had to at least temporarily ban it as a topic. The silly things people will argue over!

kcboston wrote:

RocketEAR99 wrote:

We used to get those, but not so much anymore. Still I see the value in it for some folks. Some years ago we got the dining plan and these came standard with that. I would get some tea or soda and pop into the arcade a while in the evenings then get another refill and go back to the room. The mugs were great for that! I can see them being a similar advantage for you if you plan on spending time in any common area of your resort during your stay.

Side note: This question makes me chuckle a little bit because this topic was one of hot and heavy contention on another website, so much that moderators had to at least temporarily ban it as a topic. The silly things people will argue over!

And that’s why a lot of us are here

Amen sister!

okay not to be devil’s advocate, but we were JUST there and i noticed two things:

Arguing against: You can get ice and the sweetened ice tea without having the refillable mug (technically only the pop checks). So technically you could bring an old mug or any kind of random mug and get ice or tea.

Arguing for: I’m not one for taking my mug to the parks but there are a few restaurants that have self-serve pop in them and you could fill your mug (although THESE machines do not check so once again you could use any old mug – it just looks better to have the most recent version).

next time we plan on bringing an old one for me since all i get is tea and letting hubby buy a new one for pop.

I think it is a good value if you use it, we get it with the dining plan but my husband is the only one who uses it for his coffee

Really stupid question here since I’ve never bought a resort mug at WDW, can you only refill them at your resort? Or do they have somewhere you can use them at the parks? I know Universal Orlando have two separate mugs: one for the parks, and one for the resorts. You would have to buy both to use across the resort. I don’t know how it works at Disney

Although I’m not a big fan of the dining plan, the mug is worth it’s value if you are going to be using it at the resort, or like other said, in the parks at a buffet or as your “to go” cup. AND if you are a soda drinker. I’m not a big fan of soda, juice, coffee, etc. We usually stick to water and Disney water is yucky LOL. So, we bring bottled water and milk for the kids. I’ll have the occasional Pepsi when I have a headache, but Disney doesn’t carry Pepsi, so I bring that too

i saw tons of people filling up their mugs at restaurants like Restaurantasaurus and Backlot Express. No one checks and people bring their mugs and fill them there.