tunnels

[spartacus]

DW and I just returned from our trip to OKW. We meet some CM who were explaining to us about the tunnels below Magic Kingdom.
What info does anyone have on these tunnels under magic Kingdom or elswhere.
Thanks

 

[mayanlily]

Here is one link. If you do a google search for tunnels under Magic Kingdom, you will find lots more. Good Luck!!http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/WDW/MagicKingdom/Secrets/General/Underground.html

 

[Cruelladeville]

Called Utilidors, that's where they store stuff, have the employee lunch room, etc. It's very large, very industrial, and they actually have tours of it, for a fee, of course. I think it's the 4 hour Keys of the Kingdom tour at the Magic Kingdom. You also get to see the upstairs areas above the shops--there are actual offices up there, very PC. You can tell from the decorating that these were not meant to be seen by the guests, so it's quite interesting, a different view of WDW than guests normally get.

 

[Dznefreek]

Only Disney could make hallways a tourist attraction.

 

[buzzz1]

Oh I would just LOVE to see the tunnels and all the "insider" stuff that goes on at Disney !

Does anyone know HOW MUCH the tour is ?? And is it called the Keys of the Kingdom ??

 

[Daname]

My husband and I did the tour in 2000. At the time it was around $250 for both of us. It was an all day thing, you arrived around 7:30am and got back around 3-4pm. They did the tunnels under magic kingdom, mostly offices, cafeteria for cm, and storage. We also saw a lot of backstage attractions. This was a fabulous tour. Lunch was included. You toured all over WDW, not just MK. It was amazing how big WDW really is.

 

[Ade666]

There are 2 backstage tours that take you down into the utilidors at MK and both are highly recommended.

The Backstage Magic tour is a full day tour of the backstage areas of Epcot, MK, and MGM. You get to see all those back stage areas that you know exist but never see. I did the tour last October and one of the highlights was the Christmas Decoration store - a huge warehouse containing all of the trees and decorations for the parks and hotels - until you see it you don't realise the scale of it all. Another highlight was walking down mainstreet down the roped off area before the parade to the special section allocated to the tour - great view.

The Keys to the Kingdon tour is a half day walking tour of MK and you spend most of the time onstage - the two areas of backstage were the parade assembly area behind splash mountain and the utilidors. I did the tour in June and the guide was brilliant. He pointed out all of the things you miss regardless of how many times you visit.

As far as cost I think that Backstage Magic was $199, and Keys to the Kingdom was about $80. Both include lunch.

 

[goofyernmost]

Originally posted by Daname
My husband and I did the tour in 2000. At the time it was around $250 for both of us. It was an all day thing, you arrived around 7:30am and got back around 3-4pm. They did the tunnels under magic kingdom, mostly offices, cafeteria for cm, and storage. We also saw a lot of backstage attractions. This was a fabulous tour. Lunch was included. You toured all over WDW, not just MK. It was amazing how big WDW really is.

Agreed, except your cost was a little high. I beleive it is around $55.00 per person plus park admission for the day (which you probably would have paid anyway) If you are a person that is easily swayed by what you see and think that seeing the reality of WDW will "break your illusion", then don't do it. But if that type of thing doesn't bother you it is well worth the money. You find out a lot about how the "show" works. Very interesting!

Also it runs from Park opening 9 AM to around 2 PM depending on your guide and how many questions your group asks. It could last longer.

I just read the post just before mine. I wasn't aware of the other tour. That might have been the one you were talking about. I took the Keys to the Kingdom tour in 2002 and that was the cost and the detail for that one.

 

[4thof52003]

They are a network of passages that allow cast members and goods to be transported through the park without the quests seeing them. They allow cast members to walk throughout the park without being outside and it's basically like an employees only section, but underground mostly. Hopefully this is what you were talking about. I've only been in the tunnels once and would get lost in them if I tried to get through by myself. I know a cast member from MGM who doesn't use them because she doesn't know her way around them.