AK questions

[Beccabunny]

We're going back to WDW in May, but this will be our first visit to AK. DD has a special needs stroller and we get the stroller as wheelchair tag, but she also gets a GAC. For some attractions we are directed to the alternate entrance when available. How will this work with Kilimanjaro Safari? I know there are accessible jeeps, but she can easily transfer. Would she be allowed to transfer and just get back in the stroller at the exit? I ask because I thought I read somewhere awhile back that there is no place to leave chairs/strollers and you still have to wait for the accessible jeep. Is that correct?

 

[Michigan]

Alternate entrance is the fast pass line and you go all the way to the end and then they will pull you off to the right and when they fill an accessible truck those that can walk on will be loaded with along with one person who will remain in a wheelchair. The stroller will be parked with the other wheelchairs and scooters.

 

[SueM in MN]

All strollers are allowed in line up until about the last 1/3 of the line, where there is a stroller drop off point. Guests who drop off strollers continue to the regular boarding area. When they finish riding, their tram will unload at a different place than where they got on.
The exit path goes back past the both side of the stroller drop off so that guests can pick their strollers up again when they are leaving.

A little bit beyond the stroller drop off and Fastpass collection point, there is a pull off pathway on the right side that leads to the accessible boarding area. guests with any type of mobility device (ECVs, wheelchairs, walkers, rollators, strollers as wheelchairs, etc.) board in that spot and after they have gotten onto the tram, their mobility device will be parked in the boarding area. There is a LARGE parking area; the Safari tram will unload at the same spot, where the mobility device will be waiting.

Each Safari tram that stops at the accessible area has space for one wheelchair to be loaded into the front seat for a guest who is not able to transfer.

Because all guests with mobility devices need to board at that area, there is sometimes a very long line. We have waited at times for 40 minutes more than we would have waited if we could have used the regular boarding area, so it is not a faster way on.

 

[Beccabunny]

Thanks! I thought it might be something like this. Unfortunately she would need the stroller in line because she can't stand for very long, even if she doesn't need an accessible vehicle. This is a perfect illustration of how the GAC, despite popular opinion, is NOT a FOTL pass and does not make the wait any shorter.

 

[jmartinez1895]

Thanks! I thought it might be something like this. Unfortunately she would need the stroller in line because she can't stand for very long, even if she doesn't need an accessible vehicle. This is a perfect illustration of how the GAC, despite popular opinion, is NOT a FOTL pass and does not make the wait any shorter.

Exactly. When we rode it we got to the boarding area just as the truck pulled up. We had to wait a while for the passengers to unload
( which should go with out saying took a while because many of them could not just hop off and be gone). We then loaded and sat and waited for more people who might come. THey try to get it as full as possible before leaving so if there is room you will sit and wait. Then there was an animal in the road and all the trucks got backed up.
Of topic a little, but be sure to make a potty stop before you get in line.