Adult Only vs General tours

[spbink]

I mentioned in another thread that my party is split between registration dates since only 2 of the 6 of us are Silver and we have 3 rooms.

My sister is starting to stress herself out about not getting onto the Adult Only tours. (I told her one of the tours we booked isn't adult-only anyway.) Maybe because it's a Disney cruise, not that there aren't families on any cruise. Can anyone give feedback on the difference between the adult-only and the general tours?

 

[DynamicDisneyDuo]

The only real difference is that the adult only ones have only adults. That means it's little more subdued and quiet. No kids running around, at least until you get where ever you are going as tour groups can cross paths.

 

[kiford]

We prefer the adult-only excursions but many of our preferred excursions do not have an adult-only version. I haven't found excursions with children to be particularly crazy. Mostly it's just that they tend to be a little slower and bathroom breaks and meals take longer. What you see and do in the excursion is not geared for children unless they specifically mention that (some specifically have children-oriented or family-oriented activities). It's more likely in the adult-only ones that you might get more of a chance to chat to other adults who aren't concerned with monitoring their kids. Also, depending on what excursion you're doing, some of them don't tend to appeal to children so they have more adults without being specifically adult-only. If it's not available or full, I wouldn't worry. We've done plenty non-adult-only tours and have been happy with all of them.

 

[gotomu212]

A lot depends on where the excursion is going. If it's private events/spaces then it will be adult only. On the other hand we've heard a lot of complaints from people on adult-only tours that go to public beaches/museums/etc because obviously there will be kids there.

We had an infamous excursion in Capri where hundreds of people are loaded onto a jetfoil boat--several adult only tours wanted to exclude any children and complained loudly (this is public transportation for locals and tourists). They apparently thought the island of Capri would be childfree.

 

[jrabbit]

...We had an infamous excursion in Capri where hundreds of people are loaded onto a jetfoil boat--several adult only tours wanted to exclude any children and complained loudly (this is public transportation for locals and tourists). They apparently thought the island of Capri would be childfree.

We had a walking tour of a walled city. People were complaining that the bus didn't drop us off and pick us up from the cathedral and museum when there were perfectly good streets for the buses to drive on. They didn't notice that there were NOT any Vehicles inside the walls!

"Adults Only" tours on Disney only means that your transportation to / from the attraction / activity will not have any children. Once at the venue, all bets are off!! Duh!

 

[saxmangeoff]

In Alaska, we did the adults-only tour in Juneau, and it was great! Mostly because we had just 14 people in a whale-watching boat. I honestly think the small group was the win.

So I would agree with gotomu212, if you're going to a general place, adults-only won't be a big deal. But adults-only on DCL is likely to be a smaller group, so if there's something where a smaller group would be great, then it's well worth it!

 

[clten]

A lot of (all?) DCL's Adult Only excursions are versions of tours where they also offer an "available to anyone: excursion. The only difference is the bus you will be traveling on. You will most likely go to the same gathering place onboard to meet for your tour. The Everyone tour will be given one number and the adult only tour will be given a different number. Since they take you down to the bus transportation by group #, you may walk out with just the adults and board the bus with just adults. But the tour is basically the same and if you have points where you stop and get off the bus, chances are good that the other DCL bus with "everyone" will be at the exact same spot within a few minutes of you. Generally, we book the adults only because our party is just adults and can do either version; where if the Everyone tour fills up a family wouldn't be able to jump on the Adults only version so we do it just to save the space on the Everyone tour.

I really wouldn't stress that an Adult only version of the tour would be filled before I was able to book. I would only stress if it were a popular tour that I might not be able to book either version of the tour.