Unfortunately cobbled, narrow streets and hills do make some places not very wheelchair friendly. Plus in many historic buildings putting in elevators etc isn’t possible.
There are some non-accessible London underground stations but there are alternatives. Paris metro though isn’t very accessible at all. I suspect y the same is true for other older networks. Not much they can do about that though.
Not sure if the Tokyo DL video was posted here. I did see it. Guy clearly hadn’t done his research. I’ve seen others say if you plan ahead and have the right documentation it’s fine. Some rides do need you to transfer, but since he seemed to object to actually read the info they gave him he probably didn’t understand that.
This makes much more sense. 18 years ago when we went to Japan, but not TDR, the subway stations almost all had elevators. I have seen the disability booklet TDR has on their website which looked fine from what I can remember. I have not seen the video, and don’t care to. As we liners know, planning is key. I do know they have wheelchairs for rent in TDR and I believe in Paris they actually have ECVs available.
Me too! Was just talking about this with my niece who has 5 kids who all qualified for DAS in the past. We are hoping to plan a 2026 January WDW trip. I still think at least a couple of her kids would qualify. The tough part will be the travel group of 8. But we have time to see how the dust settles. I tend to be a naive optimist when it comes to a lot of things. It makes me a happier person!
Update: today my son was approved for the DAS and the kind, helpful CM added our whole family to the pass as I requested. He definitely had understanding for our situation. He also gave me a lot of helpful tips to help with different challenges my son may experience in the parks, and how/where to get some relief.
I’ll also say, I was surprised to not have to wait all that long in the queue, even though it was late on a Friday, around 7pm eastern time.
This is a good report! Thank you for sharing. Hopefully the trend continues. Maybe they are doing more training? It is nice to hear you got a decent CM. I know 2 people approved (one already got back) and both said the CM was like a robot. Not rude, just short.
We just got back from our trip. I wanted to share a few things:
We were a group of six. I had not asked for our group to be increased from the four to six but at the time of the call the CM had told us to take turns so I don’t think I would have received an exception to that rule. The youngest among us was 15. It may be different with younger people. I did however ask at Guardians if the BG could be converted for my son plus the other four of us that were riding. That request was granted. It was not at Tron but thanks to @joelbruick and BG1 we were there very early and the wait was minimal. I had asked how long the wait was at Tron before telling her we had DAS and four extras so maybe the request would have been granted there as well had it been later in the day?
We did not get Genie + at EP. Even though we had six in the group
rides were skipped completely (Frozen, Mission Space) RD covered Remy and only a subset including my DAS kid would ride Soarin. We ended up missing SE which we could have done later in the day with a more flexible group of people
Living with the Land is something we all ride. For this, we didn’t use DAS because of the 6 person problem and I didn’t expect a line so I hadn’t grabbed one. Instead, my DAS kid waited outside the line and I sent him a text in line at the point they told us to. The problem was we were at the merge before he had arrived coming through the LL line. I was explaining to the CM at merge who basically said to get out of the way because we couldn’t hold up the line. We weren’t suggesting that. I was just explaining. It was a little uncomfortable for me. My kid was oblivious though. I don’t think I even told the CMs at this ride that he had DAS, only that he couldn’t wait in the line.
We got Genie+ at HS and ILLs at HS. The plan for RD had been RnRC which of course was down . MMRR became our RD but it had a slow start too. In the end, we got everything we needed with Genie + through a combo of morning and then stacking for later afternoon and evening. It was stressful for me but everyone else was okay.
We used a combo of DAS and Genie+ at MK which mostly went okay.
We did not use Genie + at AK. Everest was down during early entry which messed us up. I made the mistake of letting my daughter and son in law ride it twice which meant by the time I got to the Safari, the line was an hour. I had grabbed a DAS just in case and we ended up using it. In this case, three of us got in line (basically because I was not thinking and panicking) and he waited for his sister to meet him after Everest. That safari line was growing so quickly I was kind of flustered. Once again, I texted when they should go through the LL line. Here we had the opposite problem. They reached merge much faster than we did. The CM moved them to the side but then my DD was upset because she said the CM seemed annoyed which maybe she wasn’t but my DD is an anxious person herself.
We rarely used the preselected LLs under the old system so the loss of that didn’t make any difference. I was surprised that the 10 minute delay in making the next DAS caused me issues, only in MK where we used more than one DAS. I wish they’d just left you make the next one after tapping in and add 10 minutes to the time because not being able to make a new one right away just gave me something else to keep track of.
The LL lines are definitely shorter. That was a welcomed change.
Thanks so much for sharing this experience. We are going in August with our family of 4, plus my sister and BIL (so party of 6). My DS had DAS in the past, and I was feeling anxious about calling to see if he would still qualify. We just did the video chat today, and he did qualify. I have since been wondering how i am going to try to manage the MPLL with DAS and a party of six. We’ll make it work, but I’m not sure how this will go!
I asked the CM during my chat - they explained when we had others join us previously the blue umbrellas would adjust the times to match up - according to the CM it will work the same way with MPLL the blue umbrellas can adjust it so we all queue together.
Thanks for that additional info! So would you have to go to the blue umbrellas each time? It would be nice if you could somehow just have your other party members who pay for the MP automatically correlate with the DAS, or if I could do that manually. . . Wishful thinking, I guess!
I haven’t done the new system yet but in theory it’s pretty much the flip side of what we used to do…Das originally had advance picks now it’s lightning lane…
So imo it’s now on DAS uses especially because we can’t do anything till we tap into the park…so if my extended family picks space mountain at 8:30 am with advance planning I gotta hope that my DAS lines up before they time expires. Then there is the only 1 DAS to thier 3 LL so it’s a ton more umbrella time.
The big question I could not get answered can the DAS user purchase LL but use the DAS for just the non expiring aspect. Again this is probably just a me issue but prior I was given no adjustment on VQ for Tron boarding group after it was called really early. Lol BG1 worked to well.
I actually meant for people without an AP who might have two trips booked within 240 days. Would they have to reapply for the second trip since their original tickets would have expired or would they still be covered?
He definitely had understanding for our situation. He also gave me a lot of helpful tips to help with different challenges my son may experience in the parks, and how/where to get some relief.
. MMRR became our RD but it had a slow start too. In the end, we got everything we needed with Genie + through a combo of morning and then stacking for later afternoon and evening. It was stressful for me but everyone else was okay.