Never looked better~wish I lived there!
Invest in a refillable mug. Our resort mug collection spans across the tops of our kitchen cabinets pretty much all around the kitchen. We saw on ebay recently that 2 Wilderness Lodge mugs from about 5 years ago went for $49+, not a bad investment. We don’t think the new mugs will ever fetch that much, but Disney used to make a different mug for each resort and those old ones are definitely collector’s items now. The new mugs you can take to any Disney resort and get refills. For resort hoppers, it’s a great deal. The Beach Club has apple juice, Port Orleans Riverside has Hi-C, Pop Century has slurpees, the Crew’s Cup at the Yacht Club has ginger ale and then there is Powerade nearly everywhere. Really, there are so many reasons to go to DW besides the theme parks.
Buy your disposable cameras at home or better yet bring your compact digital with a 2GB memory card. Cameras and film processing are not inexpensive at DW. Photo Pass is a great way to get some really good DW park shots. You can customize your pictures online, but you get the most choices from editing in the park and taking the pictures with you. If you are concerned about finances or about damage, just wait till you get home and enter your photo pass card number online. Pictures arrive quickly and are packaged well. Plus, you have 30 days or more to choose which photos you want and play with borders and other editing options. Another perk is that Photo Pass will email your vacation photos to friends and family. Just watch out because the images cannot be held past the expiration date and cannot be saved without purchasing. Sometimes if you have a lot of photo opps and pix with characters, a CD of your vacation is the way to go. Try and not get more than one or two Photo Pass cards if you can help it. Just use the same one for your entire visit. Photo Pass is really terrific during the holiday times like during Halloween and Christmas parties. There are special photo opps that are only available during those party times. We have one in front of Cinderella’s castle last year with the family and another with the hitch-hiking ghosts that are priceless.
