点评:We did the Disney VIP tour the first weekend in November and it was pretty great. The price is ridiculous, but you get what you pay for in this world. I had so many questions leading up to our tour, and I just wanted to share our experience with everyone so you can have as much information as possible when you decide whether or not to pay for this experience.
I booked our tour a week out over the phone and decided to meet our tour guide at the Port Orleans hotel. This served two purposes. First, there is free parking there (save where you can) and it is very close to Epcot, where we were starting. Second, it enabled us to put a cooler of food in the Suburban to eat in between parks (life-saver). We opted for a later start and met our tour guide, Jaime, a few minutes before 11. Jaime was fantastic and spent the first few minutes getting to know us and asking how we wanted to spend our day. We told Jaime that we wanted the highlight experience for each park with respect to the rides (I handed him a list of rides for each park and he recommended some to cut and some to add). We did not have any interest in shows or restaurants. We wanted to ride all of the main attractions at each park and then we wanted to end our day with the VIP viewing of the Magic Kingdom fireworks display.
After getting to know us, he whisked us to his Suburban, and we departed for Epcot (5-minute drive or so). Jaime took us to the back gate/service entrance to Epcot where we had a cursory bag check, and then Jaime drove to his designated drop off spot. Here, several cast members met us with fanfare and enthusiasm, and offered us snacks to include chips, granola bars, candy bars, Mickey shaped rice Krispie treats etc. You can take as much as you want. Here, they also scanned our tickets for entry into Epcot. Jaime then escorted us through a back entrance (no photography allowed) and the next thing we knew we were in Epcot right next to the Guardians of the Galaxy ride. Our first ride was the Test Track experience where you have Lightning Lane (LL) access (true for all rides). Jaime did not ride with us since it is a 6-person ride and that was how many we had in our party. We then immediately went to the GoG coaster through the LL access and had an amazing time on that ride. Jaime did ride with us on that one. That is arguably the best ride in all of Disney. We then got back in the SUV and drove to the far end of the park (we entered in Japan) to ride Ratatouille. This part took a while to walk to the ride and back to the SUV, so I would probably cut this ride out if we did this again; just not really worth the time for that particular ride. We departed Epcot around 1:00.
We then hoped back into the SUV for the short drive to Disney Hollywood Studios (DHS) and we ate some sandwiches we packed in our cooler. Here, again we were met with snacks and fanfare. We walked into the back of DHS by the Tower of Terror and walked straight to Star Wars Land. Here we did Smuggler’s Run and the Rise of the Resistance (great ride). Next, we did the Slinky coaster and Mickey’s Runaway Railroad ride. Finally, we finished with the Tower of Terror and the Aerosmith Rockin’ Coaster. Jaime supplied everyone a bottle of water after the coaster ride. We then departed DHS around 4:30ish for Animal Kingdom (AK).
At AK, we parked near the Land of Avatar, and did NOT have snacks upon arriving here. We entered in Avatar World (pretty awesome to see) and rode the main Avatar Flight of Passage Ride, the Everest Coaster and the Navii River ride. These were all pretty great rides. If you are on a time crunch, I would skip the Navii River ride. It’s nice, but not super exciting. There is a $1.2 million dollar animatronic at the end which is crazy good. We left AK around 6:30 and headed for Magic Kingdom, again eating more of the packed sandwiches we brought in the SUV on the ride over.
Our last destination was Magic Kingdom (MK) and we arrived a few minutes before 7 to fanfare and more snacks. Here we did Tron (amazing) and Space Mountain. Jaime then led us to a VIP viewing area for the fireworks spectacular around 7:50. The show started promptly at 8 and Jaime surprised us with more water and ice cream for everyone. Very nice touch. The show was awesome, and then we went back to the car around 8:30 or so for the ride back to Port Orleans, where we arrived around 8:45.
Overall, an awesome day and we did everything we wanted to do. We did a TON of walking, so be prepared. The self-packed cooler with snacks, drinks and sandwiches was a lifesaver and money saver. We did not want to stop and eat while paying Jaime $700/hour. We also only did the high value rides and did not do any shows. We spent the next 3 days at a leisurely pace doing shows and taking in the Magic of Disney without a tour guide.
I think that is it. Overall, super expensive, but super awesome. We will never forget it. We ended up tipping Jaime $100/person (total of $600). Total cost was $6475 charged by Disney for almost 10 hours. They prorate the time after the 7-hour minimum, so you can leave whenever you want after that time and they will charge you whatever portion of the hour necessary. Jaime was fair with how he charged us and I was expecting a full 10-hour charge of $7000 from Disney, but it worked out to be a bit less.
You’ll have to decide if it is worth it to you or not, but it really was awesome. Cheers!
翻译:我们十一月的第一个周末参加了迪士尼 VIP 之旅,非常棒。价格是荒谬的,但在这个世界上一分钱一分货。在我们的旅行之前,我有很多问题,我只是想与大家分享我们的体验,以便您在决定是否为这次体验付费时可以获得尽可能多的信息。
我通过电话预订了一周的旅行,并决定在奥尔良港酒店与我们的导游会面。这有两个目的。首先,那里有免费停车场(尽可能节省),而且距离我们出发的艾波卡特(Epcot)非常近。其次,它使我们能够在郊区放置一个冷藏箱,以便在公园之间食用(救生员)。我们选择晚一点出发,并在 11 点前几分钟见到了我们的导游 Jaime。Jaime 非常棒,在最初的几分钟里了解了我们并询问我们想如何度过这一天。我们告诉 Jaime,我们希望每个公园的游乐设施都有亮点体验(我给了他每个公园的游乐设施清单,他建议删除一些游乐设施,添加一些游乐设施)。我们对表演或餐馆没有任何兴趣。我们想玩遍每个公园的所有主要景点,然后我们想以 VIP 观看神奇王国烟花表演来结束我们的一天。
在了解了我们之后,他带我们去了他的郊区,然后我们出发前往未来世界(大约 5 分钟车程)。 Jaime 带我们到 Epcot 的后门/服务入口,在那里我们进行了粗略的行李检查,然后 Jaime 开车前往他指定的下车地点。在这里,几位演员热情地迎接了我们,并为我们提供了零食,包括薯条、格兰诺拉麦片、糖果棒、米奇形状的米花糖等。你想吃多少就吃多少。在这里,他们还扫描了我们进入未来世界的门票。然后 Jaime 护送我们穿过后门(不允许拍照),接下来我们就知道我们已经到了未来世界,就在银河护卫队游乐设施旁边。我们的第一次骑行是测试赛道体验,您可以使用闪电车道 (LL)(适用于所有骑行)。 Jaime 没有和我们一起乘车,因为这是一个 6 人的旅程,而这就是我们一行人的人数。然后我们立即通过 LL 通道前往 GoG 过山车,并在乘坐过程中度过了一段美好的时光。海梅确实和我们一起骑过那辆车。这可以说是整个迪士尼最好的游乐设施。然后我们回到SUV,开到公园的尽头(我们进入日本)去骑料理鼠王。这部分需要一段时间才能步行到游乐设施并返回 SUV,所以如果我们再次这样做,我可能会取消这次游乐设施;只是真的不值得花时间去那次特定的骑行。我们在 1:00 左右离开 Epcot。
然后我们希望回到SUV,开车去迪士尼好莱坞影城(DHS),我们吃了一些装在冰箱里的三明治。在这里,我们再次遇到了小吃和大张旗鼓。我们从恐怖之塔走进国土安全部的后面,直奔星球大战乐园。在这里,我们进行了“走私者的奔跑”和“抵抗运动的崛起”(很棒的骑行)。接下来,我们乘坐了弹簧过山车和米奇逃亡铁路。最后,我们完成了恐怖之塔和史密斯飞船摇滚过山车。乘坐过山车后,海梅为每个人提供了一瓶水。然后我们于 4:30 左右离开国土安全部前往动物王国 (AK)。
在AK,我们把车停在阿凡达之地附近,到达这里后没有吃零食。我们进入了阿凡达世界(真是太棒了),并乘坐了主要的阿凡达飞行通道、珠穆朗玛峰过山车和纳维河游乐设施。这些都是很棒的游乐设施。如果你时间紧迫,我会跳过纳维河之旅。这很好,但不是超级令人兴奋。最后还有一部价值 120 万美元的电子动画,非常棒。我们于 6:30 左右离开阿肯色州,前往神奇王国,再次吃了更多我们在 SUV 上带的三明治。
我们的最后一个目的地是神奇王国 (MK),我们在 7 点前几分钟到达,享受热闹和更多小吃。在这里我们做了《电子世界争霸战》(太棒了)和《太空山》。 Jaime 随后带领我们前往 VIP 观赏区,观看 7:50 左右的壮观烟花表演。演出在八点准时开始,Jaime 为每个人提供了更多的水和冰淇淋,这让我们感到惊讶。非常好的触感。演出非常棒,然后我们在 8:30 左右回到车上,乘车返回奥尔良港,并于 8:45 左右到达。
总的来说,这是很棒的一天,我们做了我们想做的一切。我们走了很多路,所以要做好准备。配有零食、饮料和三明治的自装冷藏箱既救命又省钱。我们不想停下来吃饭,同时支付 Jaime 700 美元/小时的费用。我们也只做了高价值的游乐设施,没有做任何表演。接下来的三天,我们在没有导游的情况下悠闲地观看表演并欣赏迪士尼的魔力。
我想就是这样。总体来说超级贵, 但超级棒。我们永远不会忘记它。我们最终给了 Jaime 100 美元/人的小费(总共 600 美元)。迪士尼向近 10 个小时收取的总费用为 6475 美元。他们会在 7 小时最短时间之后按比例分配时间,因此您可以在该时间之后随时离开,并且他们会根据需要的时间部分向您收取费用。 Jaime 对我们的收费方式很公平,我原以为迪士尼会收取 7000 美元的 10 小时完整费用,但结果要少一些。
你必须决定这对你来说是否值得,但它确实很棒。干杯!