Marceline to Magic Kingdom tour question

[kermit116]

I just listened to Kathy's review of the Marceline to Magic Kingdom tour on the podcast. Thanks, Kathy, for the great review. I have a question about the tour for Kathy or anyone else who has been on the tour. I see it starts at 8:15am, so I'm wondering what is the process for getting on the rides you do during the tour. Do you have to wait the line as you normally would, or do they sort of "cut" the line as a group? I'm assuming there would be other people in the park at least by the time you get to the Winnie the Pooh ride, but perhaps I'm wrong. Kathy did mention them walking through the Pooh cue, so I'm just curious if they did that before the park had opened to the rest of the guests, or if they were basically waiting in line as you normally would, only with a group. For me part of the appeal of doing this, aside from the relatively inexpensive price & the great Disney education, would be getting into the park and on some of the rides before anyone else that day. If anyone can help explain this for me, I'd appreciate it!

 

[planaholic]

Kathy or someone else that has been on the Marceline tour specifically will have to follow up to answer your whole question, but as someone who as gone on several tours at both WDW & DLR, typically we entered rides through the back entrance and/or the handicapped accessible entrance. They just sort of walk up & you load (or in the case of Haunted Mansion on Keys to the Kingdom, we merged with the crowds loading in to the stretching rooms).

As for as getting a look at the queue on the tour - I am very interested to hear how that works out too. Based on Kathy's review, it sounded like they would not have gotten to Pooh until after the park opened, so there would have been some sort of line already in place. Even if MK doesn't open until 9am on the day of your tour, I doubt you'd get to any rides before opening. Just getting the group together, handing out the listening devices, walking up main street & listening to the tour spiel is going to take a minimum of 45 minutes. The Marceline tour is one of the shorter offerings, so you will finish up late morning - crowds might not be too bad depending on the day, but none of the tours are what I'd recommend for someone trying to get the most done in one day. If you are willing to get up and out that early, the tours are during the least crowded part of the day when you could finish all the headline attractions at any given park.

With that said, each and every tour I've taken at WDW has met or exceeded my expectations. And $32 for a 2.5 hour tour is definitely the most bang for the buck out there (really, I've done comparisons, even Behind the Seeds is $18 for a hour tour). I am signing up to go on this new tour in May.

Wear good shoes, wear sunscreen (I've done a lot of standing in the sun on tours) & get ready to feel awesome when you walk in the back door of a ride when everyone else is waiting in line

 

[safetymom]

We waited in the regular line at Snow White and Winnie the Pooh, TTA. We waited at Carousel of Progress for our own room.

I don't know what they would do if the lines are long.

 

[kermit116]

Thanks!