We’re always down for trying new “essentials” in the Disney World parks and hotels, because let’s be honest — some of them truly do make your trip better, but others? Yeah, others you want to stay far away from.
Disposable Bed Sheets
We consider it a big part of our job to try out these essentials to weed out the bad ones so you don’t spend money on things you’ll regret. Recently, we tried out four different essentials on our Disney World hotel stay, and we’ve gotta tell you that while we loved two of them, there’s one we recommend staying FAR away from.
Get Some Peaceful Sleep
Dreamegg Portable Travel White Noise Machine
It may not seem like such a small device would make a big difference, but we’ve noticed that using the Dreamegg Portable Travel White Noise Machine to block out other sounds in Disney World hotels while we’re sleeping, or even while we’re at home, helps improve our sleep dramatically. It’s small, but mighty, that’s for sure!
Super small
This has three different intervals you can set, if you’d like to only have the sound going for 30 minutes, 60 minutes, or 90 minutes, but you can also have it on continuously, if you’d like. There are 16 different sounds to choose from and 35 (!!) volume levels, which is incredibly impressive to us. Choose between different kinds of fans and fan speeds, standard white noise, soundscapes, waterfalls, rain, birds, lullabies, and so much more to find the one that helps you sleep the best. You won’t regret grabbing it, especially if you’re staying in a Disney World Value Hotel and those thin walls get the best of you!
Make Charging Your Devices Easy!
Charging Station
When you’re packing, you need to ensure you’ve got all your chargers, but also don’t want them taking up a ton of space in your luggage. That’s where the 3 in 1 Charging Station comes in handy! It folds out super easily to allow you to charge your iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch all at the same time, all by using only one charging port.
Charging Station
What we also love is that you’ll see the light shine blue when something is charging on one of the stations, so you never have to question if something is charging properly or not. The biggest perk of this (other than its price and the fact that it’s well-made) is that all of the pucks are interchangeable, so if you don’t have a smart watch but need to charge multiple iPhones, iPads, or AirPods. The only necessity is that your devices are MagSafe capable and can lie flat. We can’t recommend it enough!
Hate Unpacking? This is PERFECT
Portable Shelves
What we REALLY can’t stop shouting to the rooftops about is the TABITORA Portable Hanging Travel Shelves! Not only are these fantastic for holding multiple different outfits easily, including shoes, but they can FOLD UP to act as a packing cube as well. So you can basically pack up your outfits before your trip, hang this up in your hotel room so you can see everything you have, then fold it all back up quickly at the end of your trip.
Hanging shelves all packed up.
We seriously now bring this on nearly every single trip we go on, because we can’t imagine our trip without it. If you’re someone who enjoys unpacking (but not the actual hassle of it), this is 100% an essential you need — you won’t be disappointed!
We’re Begging You NOT To Get These
Disposable Bed Sheets
Alright, here we go, the one product we CANNOT recommend at all, even though we like the idea behind them and can appreciate what the creator was trying to do, this Disposable Bed Sheet Set was a BIG NO. The hardest pass we’ve ever had in our lives, and that’s not an exaggeration. Again, we understand wanting to avoid sleeping on sheets or using towels that other people have used, but these? Yeah, we don’t want to see these ever again.
Disposable Bed Sheets
The execution here is just very poor. The set comes with a four-piece set of disposable bedding, two disposable bath towels, and two disposable face cloths, and the only thing we could stand to use were the face cloths, but even those were exceptionally long and didn’t have any scrubbing ability. The bath towels get water off of you, sure, but they smelled like you were wringing out a wet paper towel, and it was gross. The texture is similar to the paper smocks you wear at a doctor’s office, and we could easily see where that could be triggering/bring up bad memories for people. The sheets reminded us of the paper that covers the doctor’s office bed, which they change each time before a new patient comes in. Overall, using them felt very reminiscent of preparing a hospital bed or setting the scene for minimal clean-up before committing a crime, and we hope to never interact with them again.
We’ll continue to try out all the latest essentials that hit the market to help you decide if they’re really necessary for your trip, so stay tuned to DFB!
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We stay at WDW all the time and have a travel pack that goes with us each time, and anywhere else we travel. The pack contains a disposable waterproof queen fitted sheet that we throw out at the resort when leaving. We have a regular cotton blend top and bottom sheet and 2 roll up pillows in cases that are all washed in hot water after travel and repacked for the next trip with another disposable fitted sheet. Also in the pack is disposable gloves and sterilizing wipes to go over all counters, toilet, and light switches. It may be a little work, but by stuffing the resort pillows in the closet, covering the bed with a plastic barrier, and doing a little sterilizing we have never caught any illness to spoil our trip, nor brought home any unwanted bugs. It makes it worth the effort.