Anyone up for a "Disney Institute" tour?

[Flitter]

A group of us “old Disneyana”/DVC’ers will be at WDW on November 7th and have set up a tour with the Disney Institute. The tour is called “Innovations in Action” . We must have 20 people signed up to take this tour as this is not your “regular” back stage tour but, instead a rather detailed tour that is not generally offered to the public. The cost for this 3 hour tour is $99 and it will take you to the “Utilidors” beneath the Magic Kingdom, to the Tree Farm to see how they do those wonderful topiaries are created and to the second largest laundry facility in the world (laundry? – can you only imagine how much laundry they create at Disney World) along with some other fascinating facts.
For those interested or who would like more information please click on the link provided here and register directly with the Disney Institute. I am looking forward to meeting a lot of new people.

http://www.disneyurl.com/UnConvention2008

If you should have any other questions please PM me or send me an email at FRZN4@sbcglobal.net

 

[BirdsOfPreyDave]

I wish our travel dates were the same, because I would have been interested. We've already seen the laundry and utilidors on other tours, but the tree farm sounds very interesting.

We won't be there until December, though. :-(

 

[toocherie]

Hi--were you ever able to confirm whether the tour was "ECV" friendly?

 

[BirdsOfPreyDave]

Hi--were you ever able to confirm whether the tour was "ECV" friendly?

I don't know about this particular tour, but when we did the Backstage Magic Tour this summer, also a Disney Institute tour, the bus was one of the DME buses instead of a WDW bus. There wasn't a back door w/ ECV lift.

It may be, though, that if you were to make a note of the need, that they'd specifically arrange a different bus.

The utilidor and laundry facility portions of our tour both involved stairs, but again, there may have been an elevator alternative they just didn't use because it wasn't needed for us.