Originally Posted By pbjshakelover I find I am really irritated by this new mug refill program by WDW. Every year I go down for 2 weeks, I buy my mug. Now I feel somehow that WDW is not being fair with this new program. We are staying at 4 different resorts this year. Unless I am not understanding this correctly, I have to buy a mug at each resort? I will be there for 2 weeks. Why can't I just buy 1 mug for length of stay? I'm confused. Can anyonine enlighten me? Also, how do you feel about this mug situation? I don't like it. I understand they are a business, but they really are very greedy lately. What in the "world" is going on?
Originally Posted By pbjshakelover I find I am really irritated by this new mug refill program by WDW. Every year I go down for 2 weeks, I buy my mug. Now I feel somehow that WDW is not being fair with this new program. We are staying at 4 different resorts this year. Unless I am not understanding this correctly, I have to buy a mug at each resort? I will be there for 2 weeks. Why can't I just buy 1 mug for length of stay? I'm confused. Can anyonine enlighten me? Also, how do you feel about this mug situation? I don't like it. I understand they are a business, but they really are very greedy lately. What in the "world" is going on?
Originally Posted By pbjshakelover I find I am really irritated by this new mug refill program by WDW. Every year I go down for 2 weeks, I buy my mug. Now I feel somehow that WDW is not being fair with this new program. We are staying at 4 different resorts this year. Unless I am not understanding this correctly, I have to buy a mug at each resort? I will be there for 2 weeks. Why can't I just buy 1 mug for length of stay? I'm confused. Can anyonine enlighten me? Also, how do you feel about this mug situation? I don't like it. I understand they are a business, but they really are very greedy lately. What in the "world" is going on?
Originally Posted By pbjshakelover Wow! My computer freaked out on me. Didn't mean to post so many times!! Sorry!
Originally Posted By kennect I go back to an old theory. you want a drink you pay for single drink. this unending soda to me is a bunch of crap and people get in such a tizzy about it. how much crappy soda can one drink?
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "Unless I am not understanding this correctly, I have to buy a mug at each resort?" I don't think this is new. But how greedy of Disney to squeeze you 4 resort hoppers.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost You have read it incorrectly, you can indeed carry it from one resort to another during the duration of your stay. No additional charge.
Originally Posted By pbjshakelover Thank you Goofyernmost - I appreciate the info. Now I know....it didn't make sense to me that I would have to buy 4 cups. sjhym333, we are DVC members and like to move around and have different resort experiences. We go down once a year and like to make the most of it that's all. We have only so many points, so we like to maximize them. Thanks to all who posted
Originally Posted By pbjshakelover Thank you Gooferynmost for letting me know. We are DVC members and like to maximize the points we have as we go down once a year. Having 4 resort experiences is fun for us Thanks everyone!
Originally Posted By pbjshakelover Sorry for the double posting. I don't know if it's the website or my computer, but I put my response in first and after 15 min. it did not show. So I sent a second posting. oh well..............
Originally Posted By FerretAfros One of the things that bugs me about the new Rapid Refill program is the name. It implies (or outright states) that there's something faster about it, yet it adds an additional step to the refill process, which will surely slow things down. As with most things that have some sort of 'upgrade' in the name, the upgrade is usually the opposite of what really happens (see also: the 'Nature Fun' class at my old summer camp, it was the exact same as the old 'Nature' class and still not very fun)
Originally Posted By RoadTrip I've never been a fan of the refill mugs and haven't used them. If you used them on your way to/from the parks, it meant having to carry the darned things around all day... it just didn't seem worth it for the small amount of money you saved. With all the money you spend at WDW, buying individual sodas just never seemed like that big a deal. Of course on the other hand, I've never been a big soda drinker. I rarely have more than one or two a day, and I can't drink more than 12 ounces at a time. I'll never figure out how people manage to drink down those massive cups they have everywhere today.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Seeing as how you always had to put your mug under the spout since day one, I fail to see what the extra step is. It might over all make the process faster because people are not filling up gallon jugs out of their mugs thus holding up the line. That would be my guess anyway other then it is just a fancy new name. One of many marketing ploys employed by companies.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost To be honest, RT, I have only used the refillable mug once during the only time I stayed onsite. Never got my money back and in spite of the fact that I brought it home I found that can't remember using it once since then. Oh, well..live and learn.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I agree with RT that, even if I could come out ahead on the cost, I've never wanted to deal with the hassle of the mugs. We tend to eat breakfast and then head straight to the buses, and I have no interest in carrying a mug around the parks all day. We then eat lunch and dinner out in the parks, and typically head straight back to the room, so we wouldn't get more soda on the return trip. Perhaps if the mugs would also be valid in the parks they would be more practical, but they just don't seem to fit the way I visit WDW >>Seeing as how you always had to put your mug under the spout since day one, I fail to see what the extra step is<< I assume it will take the system a moment to recognize your mug/cup (paper cups will be scanned now too) and decide whether or not you're authorized for more soda. I've seen people at the self-scan lanes in the grocery store; despite how straightforward this may seem, I doubt it will be as easy as it is now
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost The grocery self scan lines are a bit more complex then this is. Here you have a paid for and initialized mug or paper cup. You go up and place either/or in the area to fill it. The machine reads the cup and you get your drink. If you try to slip in a mug from 1980, it won't read it, you don't get any drink, you use a sippy cup, it won't work, you use a coffee cup you brought with you it won't work. Use a paid for mug or cup and you walk away with a drink exactly the same way as before. There is nothing complex about it. The only ones that will be having a problem are those that try and get something for nothing. I fail to see a downside here.
