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We are counting down to our very first "Welcome Home" which will be a split stay of one week at Bay Lake Towers followed by two weeks at our home resort of Animal Kingdom Villas.
My question relates to which electrical appliance can we expect to find in a studio at both resorts.
Specifically:
1) Will we have a toaster? - I love my toast in the morning!
2) Will we have a kettle? - My health will be in serious peril if my DW can't make a cup of tea!!
3) Will we have a DVD or Blue Ray player? My DD will be a grouch without one!!
If we won't have them as standard we will probably buy them and keep them in our "Owner's Locker" box thingy for future use.
I can tell you that you definitely won't have a kettle. They are very much British things. What you will have is a coffee maker, which really doesn't work for tea.
I haven't looked at the discount stores for electric kettles for some time, not since our last one died over a year ago, but I sure wouldn't buy one of those $12 ones at Walmart. They often "enhance" the tea's flavor with the delightful aroma of plastic.
We have a stainless steel Breville brand available on Amazon. It's built like a tank and is holding up much better in daily use than any of the less-expensive ones I've had. Were I as serious about my cuppa as most of our British friends, I'd definitely not count on finding a decent kettle in any U.S. store other than perhaps a restaurant supply or similar specialty store which would take effort to locate and far more driving than you'd care to do. That's why we got ours via online ordering.
Inconvenient though it would be, I'd simply buy and bring a satisfactory one from home with, of course, the necessary converter. I suspect that's the only way you'll get a satisfactory one.
Oh, and as your DW is probably aware, bring an adequate supply of your preferred brand. Twining's is about the only really good brand easily acquired, although the larger supermarkets frequently carry PG Tips or Yorkshire Gold anymore. Sadly, so few Americans know those brands that what you'll find of them may not be very fresh.
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personally, we don't like the taste of florida water as it tastes of sulphur, and we use bottled water for everything, but for a kettle, consider using a pot on the stove. That's what we do, as i am a tea drinker and DH makes coffee in a bodum; we bring our own tea, coffee and grinder.
Just to update you - we were very pleasantly surprised to find a kettle waiting in our one bedroom villa in the Beach Club Villas. There wasn't one at the Grand Floridian, and this is the first time we've ever had a kettle at a DVC resort before, but just so you know...
personally, we don't like the taste of florida water as it tastes of sulphur, and we use bottled water for everything, but for a kettle, consider using a pot on the stove. That's what we do, as i am a tea drinker and DH makes coffee in a bodum; we bring our own tea, coffee and grinder.
The OP said he's staying in a studio, so no stove! I agree, if you have a stove, boiling water is no problem without a kettle. I believe what they're talking about is an electric kettle.
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We always just called Housekeeping and they brought us a tea kettle but in a studio you'd need an electric kettle. We are getting an owners locker and will be buying another keurig to keep in it. At home I use the keurig for hot water. I just wipe it out and run clear water through it first before my tea.
DH is from the British West Indies and tea has become a staple for our family. Unfortunately, as Dot stated our teas in the US are lacking. Our solution is to purchase loose tea from a specialty local tea house and we have a smaller ceramic teapot (makes 2 cups at a time). Then using a glass 2C measuring cup we boil the water in the microwave and then pour that over our tea in our teapot. The glass and ceramic keeps bad taste out of it as long as you use bottled or filtered water.
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They are very much British things. What you will have is a coffee maker, which really doesn't work for tea. 
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