Wheelchairs in the lines?

[bayareadisneyland]

Hello! We are taking my 94 year old grandmother to DLR in May. She can stand/ transfer onto the rides but standing in long lines is an issue. Can you wheel a wheelchair through all the lines? Seem to remember stairs for the Jungle Cruise and narrow lines for Storybook/ Alice/ Toad. What can we do? Do we go through the exit and they just wait the appropriate amount of time and then they let us on?

I called DLR and they said the DAS passes are mostly for people w/ impairement issues. Any help would be awesome.

 

[SMD]

Hello! We are taking my 94 year old grandmother to DLR in May. She can stand/ transfer onto the rides but standing in long lines is an issue. Can you wheel a wheelchair through all the lines? Seem to remember stairs for the Jungle Cruise and narrow lines for Storybook/ Alice/ Toad. What can we do? Do we go through the exit and they just wait the appropriate amount of time and then they let us on?

I called DLR and they said the DAS passes are mostly for people w/ impairement issues. Any help would be awesome.

Here are some threads about wheelchairs at DLR:
http://www.disboards.com/threads/disneyland-with-grandma-in-a-wheelchair.3198413/
http://www.disboards.com/threads/ecv-and-fastpass-at-disneyland.3383563/
http://www.disboards.com/threads/das-at-disneyland.3378698/


Basically, DCA is mostly accessible, DL is mostly not. If there are stairs you will either stay in the queue until they redirect you or there will be an accessible entrance, it varies for each attraction. There may or may not be wheelchair return times in use at any attraction at any given time. At busier times, you are more likely to encounter them. Also, they've recently started scanning tickets for wheelchair return times, so you will need the tickets of everyone in your party with you in the event that they issue a return.

 

[TeresaR]

Most of the lines are wheel chair accessible but for those that aren't the CMs will tell you how to get into the ride. The jungle Cruise doesn't have stairs in the line but there is climbing in and out of the boat to contend with. For the Storybook Canal Boats and Alice they had us enter through the exit line.

 

[DG24]

There will be two answers to your question. Our group is ECV and DAS pass. If her only issue is standing than you will need a w/c or ecv. At DL most lines are set up to go right thru the regular line with the w/c until a specific point, like stairs, then you will be directed to an elevator or some other way. This is true in most lines like splash and indy and roger rabbit. But then there are some where you will be directed to the exit to enter, and or giving a time to come back ( I think) these would be like space, and story brook, and I think Peter pan gives you a pass to come back like a fast pass.

Now if she has other issues that can be explained than the cast member will give a DAS card or pass. Then you basically go to the ride or to guest relations around the park and they will give you a time for the ride you want.

I don't want to say what qualifies for a DAS pass, you need to explain things to cast members. But at 94 your mother may have some. Think of meds, can she stand or be sitting in hot sun for an hour at every ride. Does she need frequent restroom stops, so that if she gets into an hour line will she need to leave it before the hour is up.

If her only issue is just standing, than use a w/c and almost always at the Begining of a ride there will be a cm who will direct you. If a cast member is not there and you are not sure, wait a few minutes because many rides in fantasy land start out like a w/c will have no problem, but then narrows down so you can't get in. Like all the dark rides. Also many look like you have no steps and you do, like jungle cruise, so you go to where the gate is and wait till they tell you to go thru it. I think they can give you a book that tells you. Since we have both w/c and DAS I am not sure how just w/c work.

 

[Geemo]

There may or may not be wheelchair return times in use at any attraction at any given time. At busier times, you are more likely to encounter them. Also, they've recently started scanning tickets for wheelchair return times, so you will need the tickets of everyone in your party with you in the event that they issue a return.

What rides do you feel she will want to ride?

We were there Wednesday thru Saturday the first week of March. One person in our group was using a scooter.

DCA isn't an issue for WC, you just go the regular line.

Disneyland is a different story. Thorough the week, waits weren't too bad. On Friday and Saturday each time we went to an attraction, the CM scanned all of our tickets and told us what time we needed to return.

 

[SMD]

Most of the lines are wheel chair accessible but for those that aren't the CMs will tell you how to get into the ride. The jungle Cruise doesn't have stairs in the line but there is climbing in and out of the boat to contend with. For the Storybook Canal Boats and Alice they had us enter through the exit line.

Yes, it does. They don't always use the upstairs portion of the queue, but there is also a turnstile just before you board the boat that a wheelchair can't pass through. Even if not waiting for the wheelchair accessible boat, you still need to go to the exit for Jungle Cruise. There's a single return line for wheelchairs and DAS, so this is one where a return time is likely.

 

[TeresaR]

Thanks for the correction SMD. I had forgotten that the Jungle Cruise does have stairs. *SMH*