Are all Disney restaurants (parks or resorts) wheelchair accessible?

[Bete]

If I'm remembering correctly Whispering Canyon Cafe (Wilderness Lodge) has a few steps to go up before you can be seated into the restaurant. I don't remember seeing a ramp to allow a wheelchair in. Am I wrong?

Also, Chefs de France, would seem like an awful tight fit to get an adult wheelchair in their restaurant, even though it's ground level. It seems the aisles are so small. I'd be afraid I'd kill someone pushing a wheelchair in that restaurant to get to a table. Do you feel the same way?

Is their a list of what restaurants to avoid; because, it's just too hard to manuever a wheelchair? Do you have any true stories to share about your experiences in this department? TIA

 

[bumpysheep]

WCC at WL is accessible you have to sort of go around the left and there is a hall with a ramp that brings you up, towards the side and then you wheel past a few tables to the hostess.

 

[joanchris]

If I'm remembering correctly Whispering Canyon Cafe (Wilderness Lodge) has a few steps to go up before you can be seated into the restaurant. I don't remember seeing a ramp to allow a wheelchair in. Am I wrong?

Also, Chefs de France, would seem like an awful tight fit to get an adult wheelchair in their restaurant, even though it's ground level. It seems the aisles are so small. I'd be afraid I'd kill someone pushing a wheelchair in that restaurant to get to a table. Do you feel the same way?

Is their a list of what restaurants to avoid; because, it's just too hard to manuever a wheelchair? Do you have any true stories to share about your experiences in this department? TIA

From experience Kringla bakery in Norway was the only eatery where DD10 and her chair would not have made it, it was very small and crowded inside, so she and DH waited outside while DD6 and I procured food.
Looking at the Passporter for your special needs, it does make note of that, but said nothing of Chefs de France being crowded.....it does make note of some other places being either crowded/tight fit/difficult to navigate (without saying they are inaccessable):

MK
Aunt Pollys
Casey's Corney (thinking now that DD10 did wait outside with someone there too)
Columbia Harbor House
Plaza Rest.

Epcot
Askerhus
Alfredos
Biergarten
Boulangerie Patisserie
Kringla
Matsu No Ma Lounge
Rose and Crown
Sommerfest
Tangering Cafe
Tempura Kiku
Tepanyaki

MGM
Writer's stop coffee bar

AK
Rainforest Cafe (DTD location too)

DTD
Wolfgang puck express
Portobello Yacht club
Bongos
Foodquest

 

[pugdog]

From experience Kringla bakery in Norway was the only eatery where DD10 and her chair would not have made it, it was very small and crowded inside, so she and DH waited outside while DD6 and I procured food.
Looking at the Passporter for your special needs, it does make note of that, but said nothing of Chefs de France being crowded.....it does make note of some other places being either crowded/tight fit/difficult to navigate (without saying they are inaccessable):

MK
Aunt Pollys
Casey's Corney (thinking now that DD10 did wait outside with someone there too)
Columbia Harbor House
Plaza Rest.

Epcot
Askerhus
Alfredos
Biergarten
Boulangerie Patisserie
Kringla
Matsu No Ma Lounge
Rose and Crown
Sommerfest
Tangering Cafe
Tempura Kiku
Tepanyaki
B]MGM[/B]
Writer's stop coffee bar

AK
Rainforest Cafe (DTD location too)

DTD
Wolfgang puck express
Portobello Yacht club
Bongos
Foodquest

CHH if fully accessable. Even the second floor has an elevator. The front can be a little tight though during peak times.
Alfredos can be tight but doable. Biergarten is no problem. Rose and crown is no problem and Tempura is tight but doable.
Rainforest and foodquest are also not hard to do.
Of course it can vary by person and type of chair but DW has never had any problems with her powerchair at those places. ECV's will always have a harder time since they are longer and manuals the easiest time .
Haven't been to a restaurant yet that they don't move things and make it easier at WDW.

 

[Talking Hands]

I was able to get my Jazzy into Kringla Bakery in Norway. It was a tight fit but the castmembers were very accommodating. They had me come through the exit and order from there. All the restaurant aisles seem very tight especially in the CS restaurants. If a person is sitting down in the aisle it can be very difficult to get through. Most people are very nice about it but you do get some nasty looks and comments from some.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

I would say that every restaurant (including Counter Service) at WDW is accessible. The problem at some locations might be waiting for a table as there is not much maneuvering room once you get away from the door area. The elevator to get to Bistro de Paris at Epcot is interesting.

 

[SueM in MN]

We have been with DD's wheelchair in almost those that the Passporter book lists as tight without much problem. We did go thru the Kringla bakery and DD was able to get thru from the regular entrance to the exit and to the seating area at the exit.
DD does have a narrow adult wheelchair, which does help. I would say most of them would be a bit more difficult and take more planning to get around with a larger wheelchair, but we have not found the WDW restaurants to be any more difficult to get around than any of the restaurants in our home area.

 

[princess mom of 4]

I think I remember that at LTT the table was accessible, but restrooms were up a staircase...good thing DS didn't have to go!

 

[SueM in MN]

I think I remember that at LTT the table was accessible, but restrooms were up a staircase...good thing DS didn't have to go!

I'm not sure what LTT is??? Translation please.
Thank you.

 

[Juliah]

We found the table service restaurant in Mexico in Epcot to be difficult to get through, though not so much so that we didn't go back. The ramp is not very wide (with a half wall on each side). It takes you to the back of the restaurant; from there the aisle was pretty tight to get to where they seated us. We had to ask people to move their chairs up as we went.

As of the last time I was there, all the chairs at the counter service restaurant at Mexico were fixed in place, so my DDs couldn't get up to a table since we couldn't move the chairs out of the way. Perhaps they have changed this?

Our worst experience was at Wolfgang Puck Express in DTD. I was alone with my two DDs in their pediatric power chairs. We went in the first door we came to. After I struggled the two of them in through the non-automatic door, an employee very rudely told me it was the exit (not marked as such) and said that I had to go back out and around to the other door. No one even held the door for us to go out or come back in. Once in again, I found that there were only a handful of tables and only one of these was situated in a way that we could have gotten up to it--and it was occupied, of course. So I got our food and had to make multiple trips to get it and my DDs back out the door to an outside table. I would have just left and gone elsewhere, but at the time, there were very few choices in DTD for counter service (before Earl of Sandwich), and one DD has a metabolic disorder and needed to eat THEN. Nor could I complain to the manager, as he was one of the multiple people who were rude to us.

I should add that this was the exception to the rule, and that at most restaurants, people were very gracious about finding us a table that would work or whatever else we needed.

 

[princess mom of 4]

I'm not sure what LTT is??? Translation please.
Thank you.

Liberty Tree Tavern in MK :>

 

[Chuck S]

LTT will bring wheelchairs in through a side entrance, it is a little tight, but do-able. We've eaten at Chef's with no problems, especially if they seat us in the side sun room (the small glass room that faces the perfume shops) at dinner. For lunch, there was no problem being seated in the main dining area, as it wasn't as crowded. Mom uses a standard adult size manual chair.

 

[Biscuitsmom31]

We have ADR's at Mitsukashi Teppanyaki. How accessible is it? DH uses a jazzy.

 

[Lillypug]

I see they have Plaza as as a tight fit. We have ADR's there for our trip with ds 6 in his wheelchair. Has anyone been there in a chair and what was your experience?

 

[Talking Hands]

I see they have Plaza as as a tight fit. We have ADR's there for our trip with ds 6 in his wheelchair. Has anyone been there in a chair and what was your experience?

We had to wait a bit longer for a table we could access but were able to eat there with little problems. This is true at many places. You may have to wait for a table to open that is accessible. I have also refused tables several times as their idea of accessible was a spot that would trap me against a wall with no way to get out if someone else was seated at the next table.

 

[GroovyWheeler]

My mom/Dan has had problems also, with negociating the table-service restaurant (the narrow aisles between the tables) in Mexico (the one by the El Rio De Tiempo boat ride), pushing me in my 18" wide manual wheelchair. So, now every time we go to eat there, we'd park my wheelchair outside at the place where you first go into the restaurant, in that little area just as you'd enter, and I'd walk in, with Dan hanging onto me. I'd always worry that someone was going to walk off with my wheelchair, being so far away from it. But surprisingly, it was always there waiting for us, at the same spot where we left it, when we finished.

That's the only restaurant where I'd have to get out of my manual wheelchair for. All the rest of them, I've had no problems with, as I'd be wheeled in, and we'd be seated.

Samantha

 

[pugdog]

I have also refused tables several times as their idea of accessible was a spot that would trap me against a wall with no way to get out if someone else was seated at the next table.

Some times you wonder what they were thinking of when they bring you to a table. The best is always when they bring you to a booth and then look at you funny when you say it won't work.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

We have ADR's at Mitsukashi Teppanyaki. How accessible is it? DH uses a jazzy.

It is very accessible. He should have no problem