"Extra Curricular" Activities

[Iris]

Not including park rides, what activities or tours have you done?

Here's mine:

• Segway tour in Epcot World Showcase
• Rode in a race car at WDW Speedway
• Parasailed on Bay Lake
• Aerophile Balloon at Disney Springs
• Boat rentals on Seven Seas Lagoon and Port Orleans
• Both Cirque du Soleil shows

 

[JIMINYCR]

Parasail over Contemp
Sammy Duval boat rental
Fireworks Cruise
Wild African Trek
Savor the Savannah
Behind the Steam Train Tour
Aerophile Balloon
Cirque du Soleil - Original
Cirque du Soleil Drawn to Life
Behind the Seeds
Keys to the Kingdom
Dinner w/ Imagineer
MK Fireworks dessert party
SW build Lightsaber
EP Segway tour
Rode in front of Monorail
DL - Walts Main Street Story Tour

 

[Goofyernmost]

Keys to the kingdom
Backstage tour
Rode the trams from the parking lot to and from TTS
Rode The Monorail both to and from TTS and MK (multiple times) To me just as much an attraction as any.
Rode the Monorail to and from TTS and EPCOT (multiple times) Same as above.
Rode the Ferry to and from TTS and MK Same as above
Forty Eight trips to WDW doing all the parks Some included Universal, Sea World and Cypress Gardens when it was.
One trip to Disneyland/California Adventure plus Hollywood and Universal
One visit to Disneyland Paris (only had one day) Took the train to the front gate from Paris. Very Fun!
Oh, yea... I also take days off from the parks and drive east to Cocoa Beach, west to Tampa, north to Silver Springs and south exploring the Key's thru to Key West once.
There are many other things I did (i.e. Helicopter over WDW & Uni) but to many to list.

I seem to find something special about all of them and to me they are not all in WDW.

 

[Heppenheimer]

I have a vague memory of doing a canoe trip at Fort Wilderness a long time ago. Did I invent this memory or was/are these tours offered?

For years, I also though I had invented a memory of swimming on a beach at Bay Lake, but both the internet and and old family photo have verified that this did in fact happen.

 

[Iris]

I have a vague memory of doing a canoe trip at Fort Wilderness a long time ago. Did I invent this memory or was/are these tours offered?

Canoes | Walt Disney World Resort

Rent a canoe and explore the lakes and bays of Walt Disney World Resort.

disneyworld.disney.go.com

 

[JIMINYCR]

Keys to the kingdom
Backstage tour
Rode the trams from the parking lot to and from TTS
Rode The Monorail both to and from TTS and MK (multiple times) To me just as much an attraction as any.
Rode the Monorail to and from TTS and EPCOT (multiple times) Same as above.
Rode the Ferry to and from TTS and MK Same as above
Forty Eight trips to WDW doing all the parks Some included Universal, Sea World and Cypress Gardens when it was.
One trip to Disneyland/California Adventure plus Hollywood and Universal
One visit to Disneyland Paris (only had one day) Took the train to the front gate from Paris. Very Fun!
Oh, yea... I also take days off from the parks and drive east to Cocoa Beach, west to Tampa, north to Silver Springs and south exploring the Key's thru to Key West once.
There are many other things I did (i.e. Helicopter over WDW & Uni) but to many to list.

I seem to find something special about all of them and to me they are not all in WDW.

The majority of those listed are not extra curricular activities or tours.

 

[Goofyernmost]

The majority of those listed are not extra curricular activities or tours.

The title of the thread didn't mention anything about tours, it said extra activities. I ignored the part that said curricular because in this sense I don't know what that means. This was all curricular and part of my agenda from inside to outside WDW. Of course, the other option would be to just ignore my post and go onto the next one.

 

[JIMINYCR]

The title of the thread didn't mention anything about tours, it said extra activities. I ignored the part that said curricular because in this sense I don't know what that means. This was all curricular and part of my agenda from inside to outside WDW. Of course, the other option would be to just ignore my post and go onto the next one.

Yes the title says only Extra curricular, but her post describing what she wanted us to list said extra curricular activities or Tours. I took extra curricular and tours to mean as Disney relates it to being the extras that are outside the things any park guest would normally do on their trip that have to be scheduled and booked. All the many Dis planning sites list Extra curricular items, tours and events that way.
I could have added all the bus rides to and from the parks, the ME rides from the airport, the trolly ride on Main Street, and many other things that fall into your definition. LOL.
I'll go on ignoring your post. I mentioned it only so you could relist your items properly.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Yes the title says only Extra curricular, but her post describing what she wanted us to list said extra curricular activities or Tours. I took extra curricular and tours to mean as Disney relates it to being the extras that are outside the things any park guest would normally do on their trip that have to be scheduled and booked. All the many Dis planning sites list Extra curricular items, tours and events that way.
I could have added all the bus rides to and from the parks, the ME rides from the airport, the trolly ride on Main Street, and many other things that fall into your definition. LOL.
I'll go on ignoring your post. I mentioned it only so you could relist your items properly.

If you think it is relevant I don't know why. But only one line in my list doesn't refer to WDW or not in some way extra curricular. When I leave home, I am heading for WDW and I always go there as some point in my trip. Everything else is extra. The monorail and ferry is not required to be ridden. Proved by all the negative feelings of how they want to avoid those two "extra" things and want to ride a bus to the entrance. They are both utility and attractions. If I included riding in a bus to MK, that to me is "extra". I did it once and will never do again. It really isn't important enough to take up all this cyberspace any way, so let's move on please.

 

[zurgandfriend]

Fireworks Cruise
Fireworks Desert Party
Behind the Seeds Tour
Cirque du Soleil – Original
Rode in the front of the monorail

My DS built a lightsaber while I watched

My DW rode in a NASCAR at the WDW speedway, screaming for a good part of the ride

Two unique things were

I was the special guest at the Magic Kingdom Flag Retreat- I was wearing my Veteran’s hat and walking into the Magic Kingdom when a cast member came up and asked if I would be their special guest that evening.

I received behind the scenes first aid – I was walking in Frontierland when a person riding an ECV rammed into me and left me with a good-sized cut above my ankle. My sock looked like Curt Schilling’s in the World Series. I received first aid but not an apology.

 

[Centauri Space Station]

Do DVC experiences count? If not:

Surrey Bike at the Boardwalk
Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party
UnDISCOVERed Future World Tour
Keys to the Kingdom Tour
Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party
Food and Wine Seminar
Food and Wine Burger Bash event
Hoop Dee Doo Revue

 

[vikescaper]

I have done:

Boat rentals on Seven Seas Lagoon and Bay Lake
Bike rentals at Riverside
Backstage Magic tour
Segway tour at Epcot (only partially completed…long story)
Behind the Seeds
Magic Kingdom Dessert party
Expedition Everest 5k twice

 

[Sans Souci]

OK, I thought the quotation marks around extra curricular this was going to be a spicy thread.

But I've gone on the Behind the Seeds tour and when my son was younger, I took him on this Disney YES "class" at the Living Seas that was about ocean/sea life conservation with little projects and my husband took him on another one at the Haunted Mansion that was about physics. He said they went behind the scenes of the ride and into the ballroom scene where they dimmed the lights to demonstrate how Pepper's ghost worked.

I've done dessert parties, mini golf and an Illuminations cruise, too.

 

[mergatroid]

OK, I thought the quotation marks around extra curricular this was going to be a spicy thread.

But I've gone on the Behind the Seeds tour and when my son was younger, I took him on this Disney YES "class" at the Living Seas that was about ocean/sea life conservation with little projects and my husband took him on another one at the Haunted Mansion that was about physics. He said they went behind the scenes of the ride and into the ballroom scene where they dimmed the lights to demonstrate how Pepper's ghost worked.

I've done dessert parties, mini golf and an Illuminations cruise, too.

Me too, a major disappointment

Was going to do my version of Band Camp from American Pie with my "One time, on the Wedway people mover" story