Disney’s VIP Tours

Happy TRAVEL Tuesday, friends!

Today’s post is extra MAGICAL because I’m sharing a little bit more about DISNEY’S VIP TOURS!

Over the last two months, I have received so many emails and DMs about these tours, so I wanted to share.  I personally love little looks and peeks inside random things like this, so I love that you do too.

Whether you were one of the ones who asked the question or maybe you just want a little random nugget for your Tuesday, we love these tours so much that I wanted to share.

Mix and Match Travel Agency has been helping clients book VIP tours for years, but in November, as a team we took one together 🙂 .

Some of my team members had experienced this amazingness before, but this was a first for me, and it was ABSOLUTELY MAGICAL!

I knew the nuts and bolts of these tours (your group gets a private guide, private transportation, unlimited access to all of the parks, no waiting in lines, etc), but I didn’t FULLY UNDERSTAND all of the tiny little details that really made this experience feel extra, extra VIP.

Here are a few pics and details…

These tours are booked in advance and up to seven hours long.  You are assigned a tour guide (all of whom are extremely vetted and knowledgeable members of the Disney family) and this person(s) (depending on how big your group is) creates the day around YOU.

We asked our guide to pick us up on this day after brunch at the Grand Floridian Resort.  He was there ready and waiting in a big sprinter van to take us off on our magical day.  Our travel agency helps our clients in advance organize a really great itinerary for the day based on your group’s needs to maximize who is in your group, the time you have, what you want to do and see, etc before you meet with your guide.  We had our very organized list in hand, passed it off to our guide and away we went.

We planned our day around visiting all four parks at Walt Disney World.  Thanks to our guide’s private transportation AND all of the secret ways we were able to enter and exit each park, this was absolutely doable for the ten of us.  Our first stop was Animal Kingdom…

…where our VIP tour guide Matt took us in a back entrance right to all of the rides we wanted to go on that morning.  Disney asks that you don’t take photos “behind the scenes”, so I do not have any to share, but we never went in the main entrance to any park.  We pulled right up though to all of these super cool, back entrances and walked right on in.  Matt took us straight to the front of all of the rides we wanted to ride.

When we were finished at Animal Kingdom, we hopped back in our van (which had been cooled down already for us…talk about an amazing perk ESPECIALLY in Florida!) and drove us to our next stop, Hollywood Studios.

When we pulled up, there was a whole VIP crew there with complementary drinks and snacks for us…

…I’ll take a VIP snack, please!

Once again, inside the park, we went straight to…

…the front of the line and checked off all of our favorite rides inside this park too.  Along the way, Matt also told us so many cool stories, pointed out so many things we never would have known/seen, answered a million questions…it was such a fun, intimate peek behind the scenes at Disney.

As he was taking us to the front of the line of another ride, he asked us what our Starbucks orders were and by the time we got off that ride…

…he was magically waiting there with 10 custom Starbucks drinks.  I mean, is that VIP or what?!

We hopped back in our magical van and Matt drove us next over to…

…Magic Kingdom!

Not only did he take us everywhere we wanted to go, but he also took us places inside the park we didn’t even know we wanted to visit (like right smack in the middle of the Christmas parade!).  It was so much fun!

When our 7 hours were up, Matt asked us where we wanted to finish the day, and we told him Epcot.  He drove us right to the back of the park and walked us in this secret back way to deliver us directly to the restaurant we had lined up for dinner.

I wasn’t sure if having an extra person with us all day would be super fun or super awkward, but he COULD NOT have made it more special.  In fact, the next day, we happened to see him out with another tour and we all FAN GIRLED over him because we had had such an awesome day the day before.

The following week, look what was in my mailbox…

…icing on the cake 🙂 .

So, here’s the deal, these tours are amazing, but they’re certainly not feasible for everyone.  I’ve been to Walt Disney World approximately 4 billion times, and this was the first time I’d ever booked one.  If you are looking to visit and want more information about pricing (it’s based on seasonal pricing), availability, specifics about how it could work for your group (maybe you have a bunch of small kiddos or some senior travelers with you who need a slower pace or you have other specific needs that need to be met), we would love to walk you through all of the options and help you and the VIP team create the most magical day too.

Disney is NOT one size fits all…especially right now.  There are so many ways you can mix and match a Disney vacation to make it custom, unique, and magical specifically to YOU, and we would love to help.  Remember, you get all of our concierge services included for free.  That’s all a part of our Disney vacation planning.  We don’t want you to just go on a Disney vacation, we want you to have THE MOST MAGICAL TIME.  You can reach out to us and find more information ON OUR WEBSITE.

If you have questions, I can answer them in the comment section today too.

Make sure you catch MY SECOND BLOG POST TODAY too…

…FIVE EASY THINGS I’VE CLEANED RECENTLY!

Alrighty, I’ll see you all back here tomorrow! xx