Favorite FREE souvenier

boilerbabe · Post by **boilerbabe** » Jan Sun 18, 2009 5:08 pm

I don't know about this "Monorail Co-Pilot" license! How in the world to obtain one of those?!

I think my fav. freebies are the coasters and the shampoo/lotions etc...from the deluxe resorts. I love H2O products.

I have a confession to make...I like to take home napkins! We collect the ones we don't use from our meals and bring them home to use! Hey, we're saving the environment and we really enjoy them!!! Makes us feel happy even though we're not eating in the World!

Post by **js3901** » Jan Sun 18, 2009 7:30 pm

boilerbabe wrote:I don't know about this "Monorail Co-Pilot" license! How in the world to obtain one of those?!

you have to ride in the front of the monorail. to do that, you need ask a CM at the monorail station and they'll see if there's anyone already in front or if there is room.

boilerbabe wrote:I have a confession to make...I like to take home napkins! We collect the ones we don't use from our meals and bring them home to use! Hey, we're saving the environment and we really enjoy them!!! Makes us feel happy even though we're not eating in the World!

if you look back a few posts/pages, you'll see that I said (almost) the same thing. I take home the napkins as well, but I don't use them. I just save them along with all my planning materials, park maps, etc that I bring home) in a shoe-sized box so they don't get all damaged and I can keep for the memories.

figmentaholic · Post by **figmentaholic** » Jan Sun 18, 2009 7:37 pm

I try to keep the guidemaps, though they usually get crushed by the time I get home. Also, and I know this is silly but the little white round stickers with Mickey's head on them. I got a few when I was there last September with my family- including my then 8 month old nephew. He got the stickers but he tried to eat them so I got to keep them. I still have them.
I am not 100% sure I still have them but I used to have 2 stickers from the last day of the Electric Light Parade. It has a picture of one of the floats on it and it just says "goodbye" at the bottom.

boilerbabe · Post by **boilerbabe** » Jan Sun 18, 2009 8:37 pm

Sorry js3901, I didn't see your post about the napkins. We like to use ours but keep one for a keepsake.

We have ridden in the front of the monorail before but I didn't know about the Co-Pilot license. We've never been given one! I'll be sure to ask next time!!!

Post by **js3901** » Jan Sun 18, 2009 8:52 pm

boilerbabe wrote:Sorry js3901, I didn't see your post about the napkins. We like to use ours but keep one for a keepsake.

We have ridden in the front of the monorail before but I didn't know about the Co-Pilot license. We've never been given one! I'll be sure to ask next time!!!

I just meant it as you're not the only one who keeps napkins. I just didn't say that originally (temporary brain fart)...

boilerbabe · Post by **boilerbabe** » Jan Sun 18, 2009 9:48 pm

I'm glad I'm not the only napkin taker!!!

We have quite the assortment! I have some from Sci-Fi that I just can't bring myself to use, those are just for show!

Future Guy · Post by **Future Guy** » Jan Sun 18, 2009 10:26 pm

I've got an Honorary Bus Driver license that I got in 2004 when the bus driver was asking trivia questions on the way to EPCOT from the All Star resorts in the morning, and I answered one correctly.

I've also got an "Honorary World Showcase Player" button that I got in 2007 when I was one of the people plucked from the audience to be in a humorous retelling of King Arthur and the Holy Grail that was being put on by the street performers in the UK. It was great fun.

spodie · Post by **spodie** » Jan Sun 18, 2009 10:44 pm

I'm definately a napkin-taker! I love to use them when I'm not at WDW - makes me feel like I have a little piece of the magic with me!

As for my favorite free souvenier, it has to be my YOAMD Mickey Ears that I won when we were there last!

Admiral01 · Post by **Admiral01** » Jan Mon 19, 2009 1:03 am

I do the napkins too...and on my last trip I ate at the California Grill at the Contemporary...the plastic coffee stirer that simply says "Contemporary Resort" is now part of the travel wall display. I liked it enough to clean it and keep it. It is between my WDW napkin and the Monorail Co-Pilot card...

Post by **Len90** » Jan Mon 19, 2009 1:04 am

Mine came from one of those free gift voucher from years ago. It had to be when Philharmagic opened since it is a framed picture of Donald wearing Mickey's hat in a mess of music notes and has a pin inside it from Mickey's Philharmagic (Probably got it in the summer of 2003 right before the attraction opened).

It now hangs on a wall in the kitchen in what I call the Disney Corner.

MW1218 · Post by **MW1218** » Jan Mon 19, 2009 3:27 pm

Definitely the best kept Disney secret stickers!

LivinTheDream · Post by **LivinTheDream** » Jan Wed 21, 2009 3:12 pm

I must say that my favorite free souvenir is the lanyard and pins that I received during the Year of A Million Dreams in summer 2007. We weren't expecting to get anything our entire trip and then on our second to last day we were at Innoventions at the fire safety house game and got lanyards with the collectible pins!

Also Park Maps are really cool - I've been known to take them 4 at a time and put one in each pocket of my jeans (just in case)...

Post by **Len90** » Jan Wed 21, 2009 4:21 pm

LivinTheDream wrote:I must say that my favorite free souvenir is the lanyard and pins that I received during the Year of A Million Dreams in summer 2007. We weren't expecting to get anything our entire trip and then on our second to last day we were at Innoventions at the fire safety house game and got lanyards with the collectible pins!

Also Park Maps are really cool - I've been known to take them 4 at a time and put one in each pocket of my jeans (just in case)...

Very cool!

I defintely like to keep a collection of the park maps from every trip we take to WDW. I always take my whole set at the hotel upon check in. For when we are in the parks, I always will grab one at the entrance just in case we ever get or need to plan ahead.

kcarts · Post by **kcarts** » Jan Wed 21, 2009 7:59 pm

Love the park maps. Those would have to be favorites with the soaps a close second.

jenjolt · Post by **jenjolt** » Feb Mon 16, 2009 4:40 pm

I enjoy collecting my fastpasses...one day I hope to have all of them from WDW!! I also enjoy the napkins and the pins they gave out. I have one for our anniversary and I have one for first trip and hopefully soon I'll have one for my birthday LOL!