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Can you charge World purchases to your Sog room key?
What about showing your tickets? Are they on a KTTW card?
Or should I just carry cash and a dedicated debit card for purchases? And worry about EMH when I get there?
I'm sure I'll think of more questions as I go along but those were bothering me today.
Thanks in Advance
Since SOG is not owned nor operated by Disney, they do not participate in any of the perks except for Extra Magic Hours. No Magical Express and no room charging in the parks or Disney owned resorts. :
Same with room keys . . . SOG has a generic room key and you get a separate paper resort ID.
While you can't charge purchases to your room key, you CAN have purchases shipped back to the resort.
It typically (in my experience anyways, and from what I have been told during each stay) takes a day longer than if you were staying at a Disney owned resort. So, if you purchase something the night or two before you check out, you would probably be better off purchasing at the end of the night and taking it back to the resort with you.
I also forgot to mention that you can charge purchases at Shades of Green ONLY to your room. There were a couple of nights on our last trip that we charged dinner at Mangino's to the room.
Thinking of charging breakfasts to the room at the very least. Four adults and a 4 year old having buffet shouldn't be too much. Eating other meals in the World...
Might try for a character breakfast, too, suggestions?
Also, someone suggested getting the resort refillable mug at Poly since we'd probably walk / ride (scooter) to TTC. Would that be "legal" and make sense for drinks on the way to / from the parks?
Thinking of charging breakfasts to the room at the very least. Four adults and a 4 year old having buffet shouldn't be too much. Eating other meals in the World...
Might try for a character breakfast, too, suggestions?
Also, someone suggested getting the resort refillable mug at Poly since we'd probably walk / ride (scooter) to TTC. Would that be "legal" and make sense for drinks on the way to / from the parks?
I thought the breakfast buffet at SOG was great -- I ate there after the WDW Marathon, and it was the best oatmeal I've ever tasted . They also did some fancier stuff, like made-to-order omelettes, an extensive fruit bar and stuff like that.
For Character b'fasts, we have found that Crystal Palace is lots of fun for the kids, the Polynesian is also very good and this year we are planning on trying the Princess one at Akershaus.
We do the towncar stop at the grocery store. This works out well for us on non-Character b'fast days, and non-race days (where you have to line up by 0400). It's nice to grab a bagel and go. And it makes you appreciate lunch more!
Good luck!
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We just got back from 9 nights at SOG. We bought a few items at Hollywood studios @ around noon and they were at the front desk by 3pm the next day.
Your room key is just a generic one like you get at staying at any 'normal' hotel. We had no problems getting in for EMH at the parks using our resort ID card.
We were not impressed with the breakfast buffet. For a few reasons. We also had something that grossed us out (which reminds me i need to call them later to complain, lol). We ate it once and after that we just purchased cereal & milk in the store. We ate the dinner buffet 4 or 5 times, ate at Manginos 3 times. The dunner buffet was okay. We also looked at the choices before deciding to eat there or not. The buffet is not very big but the price cant be beat. I will say their 4th of july rib night was GOOD!!!! lol. They also had a prime rib night which was very good.
Our room was great the only problem we had was the water stinks but that is florida. lol. And our water stopped working mid shower on our checkout date. Not sure why but we had no water going into the room at all for about 5 minutes.
We will be staying there on future visits!
Water/Soda at the store is much cheaper than at other resorts/the parks. One morning we had a breakfast of cereal and juice at the express cafe only to realize that the same cereal/juice/milk is cheaper at the store at the resort. lol
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It typically (in my experience anyways, and from what I have been told during each stay) takes a day longer than if you were staying at a Disney owned resort. So, if you purchase something the night or two before you check out, you would probably be better off purchasing at the end of the night and taking it back to the resort with you. 
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