All of the Walt Disney World resort food courts offer special refillable insulated mugs. These can be purchased for a one-off fee (currently $14.49 plus tax) and can then be refilled at the resort’s drinks fountain station as often as you like for the duration of your stay. Note: you are not meant to take them back for further free refills during subsequent stays.

The mugs used to be well-themed and would vary from resort to resort, but more recently all of the Walt Disney World resorts have offered just one standardised generic design which is changed roughly once a year. The current refillable mugs are plain white on their tapered lower half, with the top half having a Mickey image on a dark/red background. There are red, yellow or black handle/lid options.

Your payment only allows you to refill your mug at the resort at which it was purchased, and only during your current stay — however quite how that can be enforced prior to the next change of design is unclear. Also, just how strictly this policy is enforced at all seems to be a matter for some debate, but those are the official rules.

Before around 2000 the mugs were sold on a “perpetually refillable” basis, so if you still happen to have an older desgin — even dating back to the old Port Orleans/Dixie Landings days — then Disney should permit you to refill it based on the terms under which it was originally sold. Let’s put it this way, I’ve yet to see anyone tackled by a cast member on the subject, even with a fifteen year old mug... but don’t hold me to that!

Drinks available at the Port Orleans Food Courts

(Last Updated August 2011, but subject to change)

• Tea (Various Tea Bags, plus Hot Water Dispenser)
• Nescafe Coffee (or Decaf)
• Hot Chocolate
• Gold Peak Iced Tea: Sweetened Black Tea, Unsweetend Black Tea, White Tea with Citrus or Sweetened Green Tea
• Cold Drinks Fountain at Riverside Mill (Port Orleans Riverside):
  • Coca Cola
  • Diet Coke
  • Diet Coke, Caffine Free
  • Sprite
  • Fanta Orange
  • Coca Cola Cherry
  • Barq’s Root Beer
  • Hi-C Flashin’ Fruit Punch (still)
  • Minute Maid Light Lemonade (still)
  • Coca Cola Zero
  • Chilled Water
  • Ice
• Cold Drinks Fountain at Sassagoula Floatworks & Food Factory (Port Orleans French Quarter):
  • Coca Cola
  • Diet Coke
  • Coca Cola Zero
  • Coca Cola Cherry
  • Barq’s Root Beer
  • Sprite
  • Sprite Zero
  • Fanta Orange
  • Powerade — Mountain Berry Blast
  • Hi-C Flashin’ Fruit Punch (still)
  • Minute Maid Light Pomegranate Lemonade (still)
  • Chilled Water
  • Ice