CLUB 33

Johnhost · Post by **Johnhost** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 2:59 pm

Hey so what kind of sneak peak could a CM do for a guest into Club 33?

Is there anyway someone could help me with a quick showing.. not stay for lunch or anything. But I have always wanted to see it... I don't got the thousands to pony up for a membership though.

Thanks.

CujoSR · Post by **CujoSR** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:24 pm

Ha! That's funny! Try looking in through the windows above New Orleans Square otherwise like all of us your boned!

hobie16 · Post by **hobie16** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:43 pm

Unless you've got the bucks this is as close as you're gonna get.

http://www.disneylandclub33.com/

http://hometown.aol.com/opus1guy/

http://www.snopes.com/disney/parks/club33.htm

http://www.cruelty.com/disneyland96/club33.html

Stduck · Post by **Stduck** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:20 am

Doesn't one of the tours give a look into the lobby of club 33?

CBeilby · Post by **CBeilby** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 5:12 am

You could always put in for a transfer to Custodial, and get Restroom training...

Thatguy · Post by **Thatguy** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 4:28 am

The walk in walt's footsteps tour has a lunch from club 33, that's about as close as most of us can get as far as I know (unless you're 33 waitstaffor happen to win one of those very rare cast member raffles)

lady ulrike · Post by **lady ulrike** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 12:02 pm

They didn't used to have a lunch there. I took that tour a year, year and a half ago. That's not fair, now I'll have to take the tour again.

Christopher · Post by **Christopher** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 7:14 pm

I never did understand exactly what Club 33 is supposed to be apart from some exclusive restaurant area or something. Exactly how is it one is supposed to get membership to it?

DisneyPrincess · Post by **DisneyPrincess** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:26 pm

I did that tour in Sept and we got to go in the Club 33 lobby and take pictures and then did lunch on balcony of the Disney Gallery.

CBeilby · Post by **CBeilby** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:58 am

Christopher wrote:I never did understand exactly what Club 33 is supposed to be apart from some exclusive restaurant area or something. Exactly how is it one is supposed to get membership to it?

It is a very exclusive private club. According to a report on Mouseplanet.com, the initiation fees and annual membership fees are as follows:

MousePlanet.com wrote:Corporate Memberships
Initial fee: $20,000 nonrefundable

Annual dues: $5525 for primary charter member, $4175 per additional associate member (up to nine permitted)

This plan permits a corporation to grant one charter member and up to nine associate members. Corporations hold title to this corporate account, and are allowed to transfer membership within their organizations.

Limited Corporate Memberships

Initial fee: $10,000 nonrefundable

Annual dues: $4175

This plan permits a corporation to grant a single membership to one of its employees. Corporations hold title to this corporate account, and are allowed to transfer membership within their organizations.

Gold Individual Memberships

Initial fee: $7500 nonrefundable

Annual dues: $2825

This plan permits an individual to hold a single membership. Membership is not transferable. Gold members may make reservations for themselves at Club 33 up to three months in advance, and up to two months in advance for their guests.

Reservations for the holiday season open in August for members and in October for guests of members.

A fourth class, Silver Individual Memberships, was discontinued in 2000, and has not been listed in this message.

In addition to the membership fees, there is also a waiting list to get a membership. According to MousePlanet contributor Stewart Jones...

Stewart Jones, in an interview by MousePlanet.com wrote:We decided to add our name to the Club 33 waiting list in 1997. I had heard that the wait could be quite extensive—some had said as many as 10 years—so we decided to add our name to the list without financial consideration. Notification came via a package in the mail June of this year (good thing I included a return address in my letter). I was given a little less than a month to decide—and we took the whole month to come to this decision. We dined there for the first time on June 27, 2001, our 14th wedding anniversary.

I guess that the best way to describe it is that it's Disneyland's equivalent to a Country Club.

(Edit: Corrected source attribution from MiceAge to Mouse Planet.)