OP here, thanks again!

My husband goes to Walmart the 1st night while I stay at the hotel every time.
He gets Capri Suns, wine, donuts, pretzels...Also extra stuff we forget, like socks.
Bring a ton of socks! Feet get tired.

My kids are 10 & 12. They love the hotel pools and arcade, so I try to see hotel time as a big part of the vacation, not something pulling us away from the parks.

The P.O. hotels have a free boat to downtown disney, cheap fishing off a pier, and carriage rides. Lots of free activities around the pool and I think a movie every night.

I like to buy the refillable mugs. My kids are old enough to down to the pool or cafe to get sodas and coffee for us. They like to do it.
My kids don't have phones but we got one at Target with 100 minutes for the trip in case they need to call us from another spot. I don't let them go alone to the pool or parks, of course, but I do let them take a walk to the gift shop or go back to the room from the pool.


Have fun!

If Garden Grocer can't help you, you can also find Disney Personal Shopper on facebook. She will delivery stuff to your room for you.

It is not worth it to go to a grocery store. Just buy snacks as needed. You will likely wind up eating a lot at meals and not need that many (if any) snacks. Water is free in the parks at any quick service.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know about Port Orleans but there is a small grocery in most of the other hotels and there is no way it would be cheaper to take an Uber to Walmart -- just buy what you need at the hotel. We stayed at the villas at Wilderness Lodge and bought bread, milk, hot dogs, yogurt, cereal, frozen pizzas, American cheese (for grilled cheese), etc. right there. The prices were not insane, more like convenience store prices. Just pack anything special you want, like a particular kind of energy bar or coffee pod that they wouldn't have at a convenience store.

The Wilderness Lodge will have a better selection of groceries than the Port Orleans hotels because Wilderness has the Disney Vacation Club Villas, which have kitchens. None of the rooms at Port Orleans have a full kitchen.

At any rate, you can wait until you get there and see what they have, then decide whether its worth getting an Uber (can you get an Uber at Disney, or do they have to pay the "toll"?) or just paying the hotel store prices.

Anonymous wrote:Do the Disney hotels have Keurig's or are they standard coffee makers?

They are pod style coffee makers, but not Keurig brand and they do not fit Keurig pods.