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HELP MY FELLOW PASSPORTERS!!!!
We will be going to WDW June 14-21st, question is when, how soon, or can I book the Backstage Magic tour. And also if anyone has been on this tour could you please let this big kid know if I will be dissappointed in perhaps knowing to many of the secrets and or that I might loose the magic in my heart????
If I were you, I would call early in the new year and book your tour as soon as possible. It should be available for booking any time now as tours can be booked up to a year in advance once the schedule is announced each January. Although I haven't taken the Backstage Magic tour, I have taken many other Disney behind the scenes tours and have loved most of them. As for the tours spoiling the magic for you, I worried about that too before taking my first one which was the Keys to the Kingdom tour. To my surprise and great pleasure, it was exactly the opposite. All the tour did was enhance my appreciation of all the wonderful facets of the Magic Kingdom without spoiling any of the magic for me. I'm sure you will find this to be the case too with the Backstage Magic tour.
I'm with Joy on this one - do try as early as you possibly can. I think I booked our Yuletide Fantasy tour, which we did on Christmas Eve, back in the summer. I then wanted to book the Segway tour for DH for his Christmas present in October and had a complete nightmare getting on it, so I've learnt my lesson - book backstage tours as far in advance as possible.
I just asked Maureen to book the HIdden Treasures tour for DH, and tours are now being booked at 90 days, just like PS's. I assume that's the case for all tours, but I'm not sure!
Paula
There seems to be confusion at the tours office- for a bit of time, some tours were coming up as not being able to be booked until 90 days. This has happened repeatedly to me with Hidden Treasures and Keys- it's really quite odd and struck me that way. I emailed the Sales areas and asked them to find out why there seems to be some problems in booking one tour over another and they have assured me that all schedules will be correct and complete - available for booking- when the downloads for MYW being done- which of course- is tommorow!
The new Mickey tour sounds like an excellent one as well and a nicely paced one at 2 1/2 hours. $25 pp on Mondays, Weds, and Fridays- I might just have to do that one in May!
We booked a couple of months in advance, though I don't think the backstage magic tour fills up too quickly due to its price.
We had a good time on that tour, but, I have to say, there were a few things I'd change about it. Apparently they were making changes because the Wonders of Life pavilion was closed (used to be a stop on the tour), and at least two of the new stops seemed like "fillers." We spent AGES in the costuming room looking at parking-lot-staff costumes (?!?), and the "florist" was really quite useless as far as being informative. Personally, I don't think the tour I was on was worth the money; we should have spent more time looking at the attractions and less time talking about mickey-fied floral tape and size 52 yellow shorts. Hopefully they've straightened out the glitches and made it more interesting.
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