Accessible taxis

[Tiggerific04]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to find a taxi service that provides wheelchair accessible vans (or some type of accessible transportation). I already called Mears, and they do have them but they cannot guarantee a pickup time since everything is on-demand and they only have a limited number of vans.

The problem is that I am getting married at Disney and need a way to get my MOH from Pop to the Wedding Pavilion, and then from the Contemporary back to Pop that night. Disney has a van, but it's $63/hour with a 3-hour minimum -- that would come out to almost $400 for the two trips

I've also looked into renting a van for the day, but this is also pretty pricey.

Any ideas?

 

[Andrew Bichard]

First up, what's an 'MOH' ? it's an acronym I'm not familliar with.

I use a wheelchair and cannot transfer, so use wheelchair taxis most every time I visit WDW.

Mears runs the yellow cabs in the Disney/Orlando area. The despatcher will promise a wheelchair taxi in 20-30 minutes. Don't believe him/her! I have waited two hours for one to arrive, then paid him to wait with his meter running while I shopped for groceries rather than get stranded. The truth is, Mears only has three wheelchair adapted taxis in the whole Orlando area (as of September last year) and they might not even be on the road if the driver is resting at home in the middle of the day. When I complain, the despatcher tells me 'we are ordering three more'. When I put this to the driver who eventually shows up, he tells me they are replacements for the current three, which are all being retired with high mileage - not additions to the fleet!!

A wedding is a very special event. $400 might be worth it.

If you send me a PM, I will give you a list of phone numbers of wheelchair taxi drivers that I have collected over my last three trips. If you phone them up in advance, you might find one of the drivers willing to make a pick up by special arrangement with you. I believe that the drivers lease their cabs from Mears, but are not obliged to go through the Mears despatcher and can make their own arrangements with customers.

How about checking into a monorail resort the nights before & after the wedding?

Andrew

 

[Adi12982]

First up, what's an 'MOH' ? it's an acronym I'm not familliar with.

I believe that it is maid of honor.


I guess since she will be dressed up you do not want her to take the bus to the MK and monorail over?

We have rented van's for $100 a day. '

This one is $115 a day (for 1-2 days) http://www.wheelchairgetaways.com/franchise/florida_orlando/rates.fra
This one is $100 a day http://www.medicaltravel.org/van/accessible.htm

Hope this helps!!

 

[Tiggerific04]

First up, what's an 'MOH' ? it's an acronym I'm not familliar with.

I use a wheelchair and cannot transfer, so use wheelchair taxis most every time I visit WDW.

Mears runs the yellow cabs in the Disney/Orlando area. The despatcher will promise a wheelchair taxi in 20-30 minutes. Don't believe him/her! I have waited two hours for one to arrive, then paid him to wait with his meter running while I shopped for groceries rather than get stranded. The truth is, Mears only has three wheelchair adapted taxis in the whole Orlando area (as of September last year) and they might not even be on the road if the driver is resting at home in the middle of the day. When I complain, the despatcher tells me 'we are ordering three more'. When I put this to the driver who eventually shows up, he tells me they are replacements for the current three, which are all being retired with high mileage - not additions to the fleet!!

A wedding is a very special event. $400 might be worth it.

If you send me a PM, I will give you a list of phone numbers of wheelchair taxi drivers that I have collected over my last three trips. If you phone them up in advance, you might find one of the drivers willing to make a pick up by special arrangement with you. I believe that the drivers lease their cabs from Mears, but are not obliged to go through the Mears despatcher and can make their own arrangements with customers.

How about checking into a monorail resort the nights before & after the wedding?

Andrew

Sorry, MOH is Maid of Honor.

I spoke to a Mears rep on the phone today and he told me basically what you said about them not being reliable. Unfortunately, she cannot afford to stay at a monorail resort.

PM sent for the taxi info. Thanks!

 

[Tiggerific04]

I believe that it is maid of honor.


I guess since she will be dressed up you do not want her to take the bus to the MK and monorail over?

We have rented van's for $100 a day. '

This one is $115 a day (for 1-2 days) http://www.wheelchairgetaways.com/franchise/florida_orlando/rates.fra
This one is $100 a day http://www.medicaltravel.org/van/accessible.htm

Hope this helps!!

That does help, thanks!

I'm keeping the bus/monorail as a last resort. She's very self-conscious and it's hard enough to get her to go out around here with friends, so I know she would definitely not enjoy having to take the bus. I think we're going to look into renting a van instead.