Hey Rhonda,
Welcome back to planDisney! Thanks for stopping by with this great question about your upcoming Walt Disney World vacation. It sounds like you’re considering adding a
Disney Dining Plan to your vacation plans. The Dining Plans are a delicious way to add convenience to your visit by allowing you to prepay for your meals. Depending on the plan chosen, guests receive dining and snack credits for meals for each night of their stay. In addition to the credits, guests also receive a Resort-Refillable Mug that can be used at any
Disney Resort Hotel.
You’ll be happy to hear that these mugs can be used for unlimited hot chocolate, Powerade, iced tea, hot tea, and coffee in addition to sodas at all resorts. If lemonade is available, they can also be used for that. The kinds of beverages you’ll have at your disposal depends on the resort hotel you’ll be staying at. Resorts that have Coke Freestyle beverage machines have many additional options for beverages (including several flavored Minute Maid beverages) than resorts that have standard beverage dispensing machines. Disney resorts that currently have Coke Freestyle machines are
Disney’s Beach Club Resort,
Disney’s Yacht Club Resort,
Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort,
Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa,
Disney’s Polynesian Resort Island Tower,
Disney’s Port Orleans Resort – French Quarter, and
Disney’s Riviera Resort.
Bonus tip: since the mugs can be used at any Disney resort, you can stop by the quick-service at one of the locations mentioned above and grab a refill during their operating hours. So, on your
EPCOT day you could use your mug at water fountains inside the park, then head over to
Beach Club Marketplace (about a 5-7 minute walk from the International Gateway entrance), for example to have a quick lunch and use your mug for any of the 100+ drink combinations offered in the Freestyle machine there. Now, this might sound like a bit of a journey for a nonalcoholic drink, but it’s just one way to plan to get increased value out of your mug.
I hope this information is helpful, Rhonda. If you have any additional questions about your Disney vacation, come on back and see us here at planDisney again real soon. TTFN… ta-ta for now!
Sakinah