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Keys To The Kingdom Tour

Iris

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
If you've done the Keys To The Kingdom tour, how much time was spent in backstage areas?

It says lunch is included. Where did you eat lunch?
 

monothingie

Plusser of Turbocharged Activations!
Premium Member
If you've done the Keys To The Kingdom tour, how much time was spent in backstage areas?

It says lunch is included. Where did you eat lunch?
Last part of the tour. It was relatively quick in the utilitidoors. Less than an hour.

Lunch was provided at Pecos Bill.
 

nickys

Premium Member
When I did it we did the Utilidors earlier in the tour, maybe 45 minutes there.
We had a little time backstage in Pirates (around 15 minutes) and slightly longer in HM.
Luckily for us we ate upstairs in CHH.

Edited: forgot about the Parade floats area!
 
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James J

Well-Known Member
In the Parks
No
We were the very first tour of the day, and did the Utilidors about half-way through the tour. We got backstage time at Jungle Cruise and HM, as well as walking down to where all the parade floats are kept behind Tiana's.

Lunch was at Columbia Harbour House for us.
 

JIMINYCR

Well-Known Member
It surprises people that the Utilizers isn't as expansive or as interesting as they think it would be. The time spent there and back stage varies depending on the CM guide that you have and the amount of questions and interactions your group will have. Ive been on several tours and each CM guide was different in how they handled the tour. The lunch spot also varies.
 

HauntedPirate

Park nostalgist
Premium Member
Our experience:

A little time in the Utilidors, maybe 5-10 minutes
Backstage behind Splash (the smell from the holding tank is a memory I can’t erase) and a quick view of the parade storage
Walked through the second floor of Main Street (west side)

Don’t remember where lunch was. 😞
 

Chef Mickey

Well-Known Member
Lunch was terrible (cold and Cosmic Ray's quality, but in Liberty Tree for some reason) and the information was really high-level facts and info most Disney fans know.

The guide was really repetitive with her "spiel" and rambled way too much. I'm not even a Disney expert and I felt like I knew a lot more about the rides in particular.

We got to ride Haunted Mansion.

Overall time backstage was almost nil besides some time in the utilidors and parade area. In general, the tour was kind of lame and boring. You stand out in the sun for hours listening to a guide ramble about stuff you've likely heard about or could know in a 5 minute read.
 

Chef Mickey

Well-Known Member
It surprises people that the Utilizers isn't as expansive or as interesting as they think it would be. The time spent there and back stage varies depending on the CM guide that you have and the amount of questions and interactions your group will have. Ive been on several tours and each CM guide was different in how they handled the tour. The lunch spot also varies.
Agreed. I think having a good CM would make it much more interesting. The CM we got didn't even know a lot of stuff people asked and I remember her being wrong about several things.
 

JIMINYCR

Well-Known Member
Agreed. I think having a good CM would make it much more interesting. The CM we got didn't even know a lot of stuff people asked and I remember her being wrong about several things.
That's odd and sad. I thought those doing the tours had to be well versed on all things regarding the parks and Disney history in order to be in that position. They should be prepared for all sorts of questions that might come up. Disneys lore has always been a CM never shows they don't know an answer. I'm sure everyone can be stumped occasionally but multiple times... that's not good show.
 

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