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We have booked the 8:00 Keys to the Kingdom tour in late January (low crowd day) and have an ADR at 1:05 for BOG. The tour is 5 hours and ends near the front of the park, so it is doubtful we will be able to arrive at BOG by 1:05. I will tell the tour guide about the ADR, but since the tour ends with the utilidors we won't be able to simply walk away early. This is a short celebration trip to WDW and our only day at MK -- rescheduling is not an option. What happens if you arrive late for your ADR? Is there anything I can do? (Of course, I will keep checking for a later ADR.)
Were you aware that you will be stopping at Tomorrowland Terrace for lunch during the tour and the meal is included in the cost of the tour? During the break perhaps you can run over and tell them at BOG that you will be late. Or perhaps you can keep trying for a later reservation time since you will have already eaten lunch during the tour.
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I've taken this tour several times (none recently, however) and it always included lunch in the tour and the cost of the tour. Of course, you may be planning to just do dessert at BOG for the experience, in which case it wouldn't matter. I think you can make it with your 15 min. grace period, but you might want to have the faster person in your party move ahead as fast as possible to the check in line.
When I took it a few years back they included Lunch at the columbia harbour house and gave us a menu at the beginning of the tour to order in advance what we wanted and when we got to it it was in a section off area of the restaurant.
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Thanks to all. I should have mentioned that I know lunch is included with the tour, but we prefer to dine at BOG. We do not plan to eat the meal included with the tour.
When we took the tour in November our tour ran over by about 30-40 minutes.
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We took the tour many, many years ago, but that was our experience back then as well.
Our tour went over as well, but I'm beginning to think that the time spent for lunch isn't included in the "tour time" so when they say "a five hour tour" they mean 5 hours actually touring and they don't include the time spent eating lunch in that.
If that is the case, then you probably won't be done with an 8:00 tour until 1:30 at the earliest.
Keep trying for a later BOG time, but if you don't get one, you'll probably miss your 15 minute window. I think I would eat the tour lunch as you'll probably have to rely on walk up seating and I'm not even sure if they do that anymore.
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Personally, I would eat the tour lunch that I had paid for and save the money (unless they only have seafood options, bleah). But since that's not your plan, I have a couple of suggestions:
I would call the dining reservation line and talk to a CM. This has surely come up before, plus this may give them an incentive to help find you another time slot.
Alternatively, let your tour guide know that you're jumping ship at 12:55 (or whatever time you feel you need to skedaddle). You can't just do a fade, since you need to return your tour headsets, but the tour guide will surely be helpful. I took two tours at DLR and the guides were uniformly helpful and friendly.
Alternatively, let your tour guide know that you're jumping ship at 12:55 (or whatever time you feel you need to skedaddle). You can't just do a fade, since you need to return your tour headsets, but the tour guide will surely be helpful. I took two tours at DLR and the guides were uniformly helpful and friendly.
The only problem with this is that the tour ends in the utilidors. The OP's group would have to be escorted out and that could disrupt the tour for the others. Additionally, if mine and others' experiences hold true, the timing could be such that there could be another 30-40 minutes left of the tour at 12:55. Even if the guide was willing to arrange for the OP to be escorted out at 12:55, they would miss a large portion of the utilidors. BOG lunch is good, but not worth that IMO.
When we did the tour in November they said they no longer did the lunch at Columbia Harbour House and now did it at Tomorrowland Terrace instead. A few days later we did lunch at BOG and truthfully I was not impressed with the food. While we were checking in someone came up and asked how long the wait was without a reservation and they were told at least 2 1/2 hours and probably longer. She told them she doubted they would even be able to get in at all. So they are discouraging walk-ups. Yes the tour does end with the utilitidors and our guide actually told us before going in that we would not be able to leave the group once we went through the doors to enter the utilidors.
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Diff'rent strokes since we like the BOG lunch. It's not the best sandwiches anywhere at Disney (what we have had although we could've ordered otherwise). However, they're sandwiches that suit us better than any elsewhere in the MK.
Truthfully, if we didn't need to be carb-conscious, we'd go there and order coffees with a couple of desserts each.
Yeah, doesn't sound like trying to do the tour and BOG lunch both is workable.
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Thanks, all. I will call and speak to a cast member about modifying the ADR and if that doesn't work keep trying online. We enjoy the braised pork at BOG. During vacation I want to thoroughly enjoy my calories and I'm really not interested in the food at CHH or TT. Unfortunately this is a short three day visit after our cruise and at this point it would be impossible to retool the schedule. If it doesn't work out for BOG we'll graze at CHH or TT and plan on a nice dinner elsewhere. (Besides, we've done BOG twice and my new thing is to try new things when we're at the World.)
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