I totally agree with you!!! My guide made our tour last time! I bet they still charge you if you take lunch even if that guide can't stay with you! If they didn't, I would totally be down with that so I wouldn't feel like I couldn't eat during the tour because I don't want to waste our time.See, this was an issue for one and one reason I did not want to do the tour during the Pandemic. I looked at getting one in October last year, but they told me that the guide doesn't ride with us and leaves us for lunch do to covid. IF I were to do the VIP tour, I am in it for the guide. I know the rides. I am not there to get past a few lines. I want to talk to the guide and get to know the things I do not know. The guide is the reason for paying - not the ability to skip a few lines.
I still plan on doing it, but at the time the restrictions were too much.