Ketchikan Great Alaskan Lumberjack Show

[peachygreen]

I have a couple questions about the Lumberjack show.

1st - If you book with Disney do they give you a ticket to the show or do you have to meet onboard and walk to the show with the excursion and sit with the excursion etc?

2nd - How long is the actual show? The Disney site implies the excursion is 1-1/2 - 2 hours long but it looks like the show is 1 hour?

3rd - How long is Will Call to pick up your tickets if you book on the website? How long before the show do you need to arrive to get decent seats? Do they save the best seats for booked excursions?


Finally - Random observation but the Lumberjack website posts this

"THIS IS A DISNEY EXCLUSIVE SHOW! This show is produced for Disney guests only. TICKETS ARE NOT MAILED! Tickets can be picked up at our Company retail store which serves as the entrance to the show venue. Thank you and see you soon!"

But yet you can book the excursion on their website - that doesn't seem to make it very "Exclusive".
It only saves about $10 total for our family of 6 so it really isn't worth booking except potentially time savings of not having to wait to exit the ship with the excursion.

 

[lorimay]

We did this show last September.
We didn't have anything planned this day so we walked past it and decided to see when the next show was.
It was starting in like 5-10 minutes so we bought tickets and went in. The seats are pretty good anywhere you sit.
Its kind of and oval theater around the water and show area.
The show was about an hour.
I think we paid about $70 for the both of us at the door.
We enjoyed it, it was a beautiful sunny day probably 80 degrees.
Its a very short walk from where The Wonder is docked.

ETA: They didn't ask which ship we were on either, so I don't think its exclusive to Disney.
NCL's Sun was also in port that day.

 

[IBelieveInTheMagic]

I have a couple questions about the Lumberjack show.

1st - If you book with Disney do they give you a ticket to the show or do you have to meet onboard and walk to the show with the excursion and sit with the excursion etc?

2nd - How long is the actual show? The Disney site implies the excursion is 1-1/2 - 2 hours long but it looks like the show is 1 hour?

3rd - How long is Will Call to pick up your tickets if you book on the website? How long before the show do you need to arrive to get decent seats? Do they save the best seats for booked excursions?


Finally - Random observation but the Lumberjack website posts this

"THIS IS A DISNEY EXCLUSIVE SHOW! This show is produced for Disney guests only. TICKETS ARE NOT MAILED! Tickets can be picked up at our Company retail store which serves as the entrance to the show venue. Thank you and see you soon!"

But yet you can book the excursion on their website - that doesn't seem to make it very "Exclusive".
It only saves about $10 total for our family of 6 so it really isn't worth booking except potentially time savings of not having to wait to exit the ship with the excursion.

This is terrible I don't remember this 100% however I'll do my best and hopefully others will chime in as well.

I don't think we met on board and then went there. I remember us having some type of ticket already and we just arrived there on our own. They must have known our time was the exclusive show (for Disney) and if you had an option and especially if you have kids, I'd do the Disney exclusive one. They pull a lot of kids from the audience to participate, give them wood chips, sticks, stools, etc and they have Mickey shapes on them.

Perhaps they don't sell the Disney exclusive one online and only make it available to book via DCL? I'm not sure but there was a difference in the shows and I had read this before we booked as well.

If I remember the show was around an hour long and we had time to do some shopping afterwards on our way back to the ship - it's VERY close.

Hope this helps,
Heather

 

[EeyoreIsMyName]

I have a couple questions about the Lumberjack show.

1st - If you book with Disney do they give you a ticket to the show or do you have to meet onboard and walk to the show with the excursion and sit with the excursion etc?

2nd - How long is the actual show? The Disney site implies the excursion is 1-1/2 - 2 hours long but it looks like the show is 1 hour?

3rd - How long is Will Call to pick up your tickets if you book on the website? How long before the show do you need to arrive to get decent seats? Do they save the best seats for booked excursions?


Finally - Random observation but the Lumberjack website posts this

"THIS IS A DISNEY EXCLUSIVE SHOW! This show is produced for Disney guests only. TICKETS ARE NOT MAILED! Tickets can be picked up at our Company retail store which serves as the entrance to the show venue. Thank you and see you soon!"

But yet you can book the excursion on their website - that doesn't seem to make it very "Exclusive".
It only saves about $10 total for our family of 6 so it really isn't worth booking except potentially time savings of not having to wait to exit the ship with the excursion.

We walked around town and did some shopping prior to the show. We had our tickets and entered the queue area when they opened the doors and made our way to the inside seating area. There are no reserved seats. We asked about where to sit for the best seats and were told they were all good, but we ended up on the right side mid section area (as you are facing the seating which would be the left side as you are looking out at the action).

We did not meet as an excursion group onboard or have to sit together at the show. There was a Disney van to shuttle people back to the port area after the show, but we opted to walk back because I wanted to take a picture of the Ketchikan sign and had missed it on the walk into town.

The show was about an hour long. I think Disney includes the walking time to and from the excursion in the 1 1/2 hour time frame, but it didn't take that long to walk to the Lumberjack Show.

There is a Disney exclusive Lumberjack Show which runs a couple of dollars more per adult and Disney lists as 1 1/2-2 hours in duration. They say it features additional elements and segments developed exclusively for Disney Cruise Lines. There is no character interaction in this show, but we heard that they did some kind of Disney character in the wood cutting section (like Mickey's head).

For more Alaska information and reports on excursion from our two trips, please go to my trip report:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3150787