Sorry - meant to get back and provide some feedback after our trip, but life just got in the way! lol
Anyway, yes - we actually did do this tour with our 8-yr old grandson and he had a blast! It was fun watching him - and the tour is definitely for kids...
However, I certainly would not do this unless you have a youngster with you. (Some pre-teens might be even be almost too old and most teenagers would likely just find it a bit corny...) Just depends on your group's makeup and how "into the act" you want to play it!
It starts out with the opening of a treasure chest and finding a clue... or a map fragment... or something like that. There were so many kids in our group - none of the adults actually got close enough to actually SEE the contents, let alone hear the spiel being said/read, but the kids were excited and having a blast with it!
The two tour guides were absolutely wonderful and handled the children really well... while the parents/grandparents just basically tagged along for the entire time. I REALLY think it could have been done as a drop-off/pick-up thing instead, but we did get a kick out of watching our grandson help solve the clues, etc.
SPOILER ALERT:
Basically, you are moving around the park the entire time going to various areas to solve the clues on map pieces you are collecting.
There are a few rides included which you get to - Pirates of the Caribbean, the Railroad Train, Buzz Lightyear, and something else but I just cannot recall right now... You get clues from something you look for while on the rides and put the info together to figure out where to head next... etc.
This was all centered on the children - and the adults had a hard time even getting close enough to figure out what was being said/read, but it was fun watching the kids.
There is a LOT of walking from point to point - it covers practically the entire park (including going up through Tarzan's Treehouse!) so if you aren't pretty mobile at a fairly upbeat pace this is definitely not the tour for you.
It eventually ends up in ToonTown (at least our tour did) with a special meet and greet with the group... (we got to be with the Mouse himself!) :-D
This was a really wonderful surprise and *would* have been a huge highlight of our entire trip... yet the room was so tightly packed since we had gotten such a large tour group - and with the weather being sweltering (mid-July) - we were almost more anxious to just have it be over with! Agh!
Afterwards, we were treated to some frozen flavored icee/smoothie of sorts which really was awful (and even many of the kids didn't like - most went in the garbage).
I would rather have had a coupon or a selection of choices... sigh...
Now... would we do it again? Probably, but only because the grandson did love it VERY much. (But never again in the summertime heat!) LOL!
I would also just hope that we would get lucky and perhaps have a smaller group... Maybe if we had had more children in our family, it might have been more fun too since some of the families with us had multiple kids...
A wonderful side note which we will never forget... Our grandson had never found an interest in reading before taking this tour. On the plane ride down, it was a struggle just to get him to keep interested in line by line of a book.
The tour includes having the children take turns reading the map segments that are found. When it came time for our grandson's turn - he truly struggled with each word... but then he got to see the other children (some girls... some younger...) also read when it was their turn.
... On the plane ride home... He was a totally different child!!! The very same book that was so "disinteresting" on the ride down took on a whole new appeal to him and he literally has been improving on his reading every day since!! (Just last week, he has checked out the first Harry Potter book and is determined to read it himself... only 6 months later!!)
So for us... this tour meant way more than just meeting the Mouse... it was the beginning of a love for reading for our grandson!! What a wonderful bonus treasure we got to discover!!
because we did not have any other time to compare it to. 
since we are visiting my husband who is working in California at the moment. He gets off of work at 7pm... so we would need to get back to see dad! I am just hoping and wishing that this tour lives up to out expectations!
So far reservations says we are the only 2 on the tour, so we will see how it goes when we get there! I just hope it is worth the money!
