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What could they do in Discoery Island's place?
a tour of River Country?
Well it also gives you a look at horses, which you can noramly see anyway, and an archery lesson, which you can book separately anyway. So there had better be some interesting information to cover 4 hoursI don't see anything appealing about this tour. "Come look at the swampland that inspired Walt to build here!" I have read Married to the Mouse, and am currently reading Realityland and both have given me a pretty good idea about the early history of Disneyworld. It sounds like DI will be a part of the tour and the rest will be sailing around the lake on a pontoon boat while they repeat a bunch of the history that was told in these books.
So for more than a hundred dollars - per person - you get a chance to see what abandonment looks like up close?
What's next? For an extra hundred you'll get a tour of River Country?
If you'll be ther Oct 27 and the tour is available I'll see you there! I called the normal line today but they knew nothing about the tour. If I get a chance when the kids are in bed I will call DVC member services and ask for more info (hoping for a DVC discount)I am October as well. Tuesday I did not get a park ticket because I'm doing MNSSHP. A non park tour would use up that morning well.
You might have missed my post. It's not about the island today. It's more than likely about what Walt Disney saw waaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy back when he first decided to build in Florida. Discovery Island is what he saw and he decided to build. It's called history.
If you'll be ther Oct 27 and the tour is available I'll see you there! I called the normal line today but they knew nothing about the tour. If I get a chance when the kids are in bed I will call DVC member services and ask for more info (hoping for a DVC discount)
Pretty much. This idea that the lake and Island were the big draws is revisionist history at its best. The siting of WDW was based on an economic and demographic study. There are thousands of islands in hundreds of lakes in Florida that would have proved just as enticing. The idea that Walt laid eyes on Riles Island and was sold on all 43 square miles is romantic fiction.He saw the intersection of two major roads and decided to build.
You might have missed my post. It's not about the island today. It's more than likely about what Walt Disney saw waaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy back when he first decided to build in Florida. Discovery Island is what he saw and he decided to build. It's called history.
I saw that blip as well. In fact it doesn't even really mention the island at all. Looks like someone in marketing wanted hype. In all it looks like a tour you pay for that shows you what types of things there are to do at the campground. Good for casula visitors who visit every few years, but not frequent visitors.It definitely "looks" like the only exploring of DI will be with binoculars.
http://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions...offered-at-disneys-fort-wilderness-resort.htm
They are also offering achery lessons at Fort Wilderness from the info that I hve read recently.Breakfast and a ride in a wagon seems to be the only things, but $109 it's a bit pricey (especially since I can't eat the breakfast). Think I'm going to pass for now.
We just signed up to do the tour in August.
The price includes a pontoon boat around Bay Lake, a bonfire picnic breakfast, an archery lesson, a horse-drawn carriage ride, a chance to meet the horses and a chance to see the abandoned railroad tracks near Fort Wilderness. Sounds totally worth the price to me.