Our experience with the private VIP tour at Shanghai Disneyland was largely the same as *WDW*Groupie's*, but with a few differences. We did the tour in mid-July, after the park had been open just about a month, on a Saturday. It was just our family of four. We met our guide at 11:00 a.m. and powered through until just after 5:00 p.m. We did not stop for lunch or any kind of meal or snack. We'd had a big breakfast and brought a few munchies with us that we snacked on while walking between attractions. We did not find quite as long a wait in the FP lines with our guide as did *WDW*Groupie*. I'd say the longest we waited in line with the guide was 20-30 minutes. We were able to get on all of the rides we wanted to do with our guide during the tour time and did a couple of the rides twice (Roaring Rapids and Pirates). One issue we had was that Tron was down most of the day while we were with our guide. Luckily, it did open up towards the end of our tour, and we were able to sneak it in just before our tour ended. We ended up with almost no wait for Tron when we went back with our guide once she received word that it had re-opened. We opted not to do any shows or parades while with our guide and focused exclusively on rides, given the massive wait times, which were 150 minutes for Roaring Rapids and Soarin'. We went back to SHDL the next day, Sunday, on our own. We arrived at the park a little after 9:00 a.m. and went right to the FP distribution point. We were able to secure Tron FPs with almost no wait in the FP distribution line. However, by the time we were eligible to get a second FP, FP distribution had ended for big rides like Soarin' and Roaring Rapids, and those rides were back to their 120-150 minute standby wait times. But we were able to get on Pirates with only a 30 minute standby wait, and similar at the Chrystal Grotto. We also waited about 50 minutes to do the Snow White walk-through attraction in the castle. There is also a ropes course type of attraction that we opted not to wait for given the heat/humidity and hour wait time. If this one is of interest, I'd suggest seeing what kind of access the guide can get you. Doing the VIP tour was definitely worthwhile, and I don't regret spending the money at all. There is no way we would have waited 150 minutes for some of those rides. I do agree with *WDW*Groupie* that it helps to go in to the tour with a pre-planned idea of what you want to cover with the guide, and to cover the park in a way that makes geographical sense given the enormous acreage. I also agree that if you share the tour with others, you will really need to make sure you are of the same mind about what you want to accomplish from the tour. I found it a little odd that the park is so huge, yet there are relatively few rides (I counted 13, I think). One nice thing is that, given the huge acreage of the park, the walkways are quite wide compared to Disneyland, and the park doesn't feel that crowded when walking around. There are also far fewer strollers and mobility scooters than you see at DL, so this helps greatly with traffic flow and ease of getting around. But you will need to be prepared to walk a lot and to move rapidly through the park with the guide if you want to get all of the rides in. Tron is one of the coolest rides I have ever been on, and an absolute must do at SHDL. Same with Pirates of the Caribbean Search for the Sunken Treasure, which is an awesome, amped up version of Pirates. We also really liked Soarin' (largely the same as the new Soarin' Around the World at DL and WDW, but it ends in Shanghai, so worth doing when there) and Roaring Rapids, which is a notch up from Grizzly River Run at DL.