Walt Disney World Resort hotels to offer new tiered refillable mug program called 'Rapid Fill'

[ftwildernessguy 778]

The real killer for the ride was when they stopped serving meals and made you buy a bag lunch before you got into the queue.

[BradyBzLyn...Mo 2,023]

SO how are the paper single use cups going to work.

 

I just saw a picture of the new paper cups - they have an RFID chip on the bottom and reports are that they will allow you to refill your cup 3 times in a 1 hour period.

[DaveInTN 3,247]

I just saw a picture of the new paper cups - they have an RFID chip on the bottom and reports are that they will allow you to refill your cup 3 times in a 1 hour period.

 

For $2.99!  That's an outrageous price for a cup of soda. 

[LONE-STAR 370]

For $2.99!  That's an outrageous price for a cup of soda.

Well the price just went up I heard to $3.19

[ftwildernessguy 778]

For $2.99!  That's an outrageous price for a cup of soda.

  

Well the price just went up I heard to $3.19

Ummm, that's 3 cups of sodas, guys.

[ftwildernessguy 778]

I'm thinking you could surf the trash for cups that were only used once or twice. Not everybody is going to use it 3 times in an hour.

[DaveInTN 3,247]

I'm thinking you could surf the trash for cups that were only used once or twice. Not everybody is going to use it 3 times in an hour.

 

Brilliant!  You could probably sit in a food court drinking pop all day for free. 

[Beckers 1,136]

For $2.99! That's an outrageous price for a cup of soda.

That is on par for restaurants up here, some are $3.25. Granted I'm talking sit downs and not like mcDonalds.

[DaveInTN 3,247]

That is on par for restaurants up here, some are $3.25. Granted I'm talking sit downs and not like mcDonalds.

 

Maybe I'm out of touch.  I rarely order anything but water, or coffee at breakfast.  But I don't recall the prices here being over $2. 

[Beckers 1,136]

Maybe I'm out of touch. I rarely order anything but water, or coffee at breakfast. But I don't recall the prices here being over $2.

I don't think they are under $2 anywhere up here. Now I'm going to have to look.

[BradyBzLyn...Mo 2,023]

I'm thinking you could surf the trash for cups that were only used once or twice. Not everybody is going to use it 3 times in an hour.

 

I'm picturing people stalking food courts now with a little pad of paper and pen, keeping track of how many times people have refilled their cups.

 

If you use all 3 refills it's not so bad, but still fairly high for the size of the cup - especially for a "one and done". 

 

A large soda at the fast food chains around here runs you around $2.50.  If you're a soda junky your go-to has to be 7-11 where a Super Big Gulp (44oz ) is somewhere around $1.50

 

Sounds to me like they're hiking the price of the paper cups to make the refillable mugs look more appealing.  

[Tri-Circle-D 2,059]

 

Sounds to me like they're hiking the price of the paper cups to make the refillable mugs look more appealing.  

 

No doubt.

 

Since they have a lower price for a one day refillable mug, I can see a lot of guests going for that after they see the price of the paper cup.

 

Say what you want about Disney, but they know how to extract the dollars from their guests.

 

TCD

[DaveInTN 3,247]

Reach for the sky and gimme all the cash! 

 

[Beckers 1,136]

I went out to lunch at a sit down place today and my soda was $2.95

[DaveInTN 3,247]

I went out to lunch at a sit down place today and my soda was $2.95

 

That's insane.  I guess they are able to keep ahead of food price inflation without raising the meal costs quite as much.  The soda is nearly all profit. 

[CCIntrigue...aka Gwen 547]

I went out to lunch at a sit down place today and my soda was $2.95

 

That's one reason why I always order water!  You'd have to drink two 64-ounce drinks to justify that.

[Beckers 1,136]

Yeah I can get a 2 liter of soda from bottom dollar (store brand) for $.86!

[Grumpy and Grandma 740]

I went out to lunch at a sit down place today and my soda was $2.95

Most of the time my draft beer is cheaper than Grandma's diet coke. But the beer doesn't come with "free" refills.

[Thrill Shakespeare (Andy) 58]

If only the Disney mugs would be like the ones Circle K put out a few years ago:

 

 

100 oz. of pure refreshment.  The cup was around $10.00, less than $1 to refill.  My bladder will never be the same.

[BradyBzLyn...Mo 2,023]

I just saw someone's account of their recent experience with the new RFID mugs out on the interwebz.  I don't know the person, and it's not a fan site article, so without their permission I won't copy/paste. 

 

The gist is that they were at the Yacht/Beach club when the new beverage machines were installed.  They reported that they saw CMs telling people with the old, non-RFID mugs that they could not use them.

 

This person bought length of stay mugs, which are supposed to default to 14 days.  They reported that each time you filled the mug it shows you the expiration date.  For some reason one of their mugs came up good for 28 days. 

[DaveInTN 3,247]

 They reported that they saw CMs telling people with the old, non-RFID mugs that they could not use them.

 

 

Why do I imagine those conversations did not always go well?

[LONE-STAR 370]

Any word when this will hit the Fort.

[Tri-Circle-D 2,059]

Any word when this will hit the Fort.

 

It can't be long.  The new drink machines are installed at the Lodge and Contemporary. The RFID readers were not activated yet on these new machines.  I imagine that they are going to wait until they have sold out all of the old style mugs.  There are resorts using the new style mugs, and my guess is that as soon as the old mug inventory is gone, all of the other resorts will activate the RFID readers and use the new mugs. The Fort's old soft drink machine was still there on August 14, but the Nescafe machine is gone.  The Fort now has a new Joffrey's coffee machine.

 

TCD

[Katman1356...Jason 1,140]

It can't be long.  The new drink machines are installed at the Lodge and Contemporary. The RFID readers were not activated yet on these new machines.  I imagine that they are going to wait until they have sold out all of the old style mugs.  There are resorts using the new style mugs, and my guess is that as soon as the old mug inventory is gone, all of the other resorts will activate the RFID readers and use the new mugs. The Fort's old soft drink machine was still there on August 14, but the Nescafe machine is gone.  The Fort now has a new Joffrey's coffee machine.

 

TCD

 

I would imagine they could just slap and RFID tag on the bottom of the mug and use the old inventory with the new system. 

[Tri-Circle-D 2,059]

I would imagine they could just slap and RFID tag on the bottom of the mug and use the old inventory with the new system. 

 

Yes, they could.  But, so far I haven't seen that.  The resorts I mentioned with the new machines are still selling the old mug colors.  If they were going to slap on RFID tags, they probably already would have done it.

 

TCD