Tour of the Cinderella Dream Suite at the Magic Kingdom
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:41Kristine and I were lucky enough to be able to tour the Cinderella Dream Suite yesterday at the Magic Kingdom. Disney was giving Annual Passholders special tours of the suite for that day only. You had to register online and I was one of the lucky few who was able to before their website crashed badly. I couldn’t get Kristine registered because as soon as I was done I kept getting errors. When we went to the registration booth yesterday there was a long line of ’stand-by’ people who didn’t register online but wanted to go. Thankfully after sweet talking the lady at the desk, she let Kristine go up with me.
They were only letting 9 people up per 15 minutes because that was the max the elevator could carry. It was a pretty small elevator too.
The door to the suite is tucked away inside the entrance through the castle to the right if you are looking at Fantasyland. Once inside, you are greeted to a desk and an ornate room which is the greeting room and concierge desk. To the right of the desk is a grandfather clock always stuck at a minute before midnight. To the right of the clock is the elevator door that leads up to the suite 3 floors up. The elevator is decorated to look like a coach taking you to the ball with an ornate mosaic on the floor and wood all around.
Once at the suite level, you are greeted by a tour guide and an entrance room to the suite. On display are Cinderella’s glass slipper, her crown and septer and some pumpkins. All around the room is artwork depicting parts of the story. There are two doors in this area, the one on the left I can only guess is a fire escape stairwell (they didn’t say what it was) and on the right is the door to the suite.
Once you enter the door, directly to the left is the bathroom and infront of you is the bedroom suite. There are two queen beds with a fake fireplace and a LCD tv above it framed to look like a photo. On the other side of the room to the left is a sitting room with a fold out couch and a drawer full of games and movies that were specifically picked for this family.
In the bathroom was a huge spa tub with a starry ceiling and dimmable lights along with mosaic walls. The shower was fully stocked with the best shampoo and soaps. The ‘throne’ was decorated like a throne with a decorative headboard.
We were only up there for 15 minutes but it was totally amazing and well worth the hour wait to get up there. It just made Kristine want to stay there even more.
 Grandfather clock always stuck a minute from midnight |
 Floor of the landing for the room with 24k gold |
 Cindy's glass slipper |
 Crown and septer |
 Guest room and beds |
 Sitting room |
 Bathtub |
 Joel and Kristine in the suite |
You can see more photos at here.
Friday, the day after my birthday, Kristine, James (my bro), Erin (his girl) and I went to see Walking With Dinosaurs. It is a really interesting show where they take puppet and audio-anamatronic dinosaurs and have them walk and give historical information about them. It was more than just a kids show, it tried to give a realistic representation of what dinosaurs looked like and sounded like to paleontologists best guess. It was an awesome show and well worth the money.
