cccory
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I wanted to post this here, because if you didn't have anyone with a disabilitiy you wouldn't be reading the disability thread.
I know that everyone is not like this, but we encountered quite a few, but I wanted to share some problems we have when traveling with a wheelchair to hopefully make people more aware of what it is like.
We were waiting for the Disney Magical Express to pick us up from the airport and had to wait 1 hr. for a bus with a wheelchair lift. If we could of gotten on a regular bus the wait would of been 30mins.
When using the Disney buses they load the wheelchair first and we heard so many people complaining about this. How it was taking so long and how we got to get on the bus first. What you dont realize is that we had to wait for another bus a few times before, because there is room for only 1 or 2 wheelchairs at a time, so if there is a wheelchair on the bus when it comes we have to wait for the next bus. We cannot just push our way on and stand. And a few times people were getting on the bus and NOT waiting for the wheelchair to be loaded, so by the time the wheelchair was on the bus there was no room for the rest of us. I sent dad with the wheelchair while the rest of us waited for the next bus. So, that meant that dad and child had to wait for us to come when they got to their stop. Then we have to wait until everyone is off the bus before we can get the wheelchair off. So you are on your way into the park even before we are off the bus.
We get to go through the exit and get on the next ride. Well did you ever think how long it took us to get to this ride? We had to dodge people racing to the ride; we had to watch out for all the people who cut right in front of us. It is so tempting to just hit them in the heels. Then when the ride is done, you race to the next ride, while I am getting the child off this ride and putting him back into his wheelchair. You are probably at the next ride before I am finished buckling him back up in his wheelchair.
So the next time you see someone in a wheelchair going to the front of the line, take a deep breathe and be thankful that you can walk and run and are not stuck in a wheelchair.
Thank you for letting me get that out. With that said our trip to Disney was not very magical. It was very stressful. In the past, Disney really took care of us and bent over backwards for you. We did not see that this trip. We had a lot of problems and the employees were not sympathic. Most of the time they said that there was nothing they could do, which is not the Disney we knew.
I know that everyone is not like this, but we encountered quite a few, but I wanted to share some problems we have when traveling with a wheelchair to hopefully make people more aware of what it is like.
We were waiting for the Disney Magical Express to pick us up from the airport and had to wait 1 hr. for a bus with a wheelchair lift. If we could of gotten on a regular bus the wait would of been 30mins.
When using the Disney buses they load the wheelchair first and we heard so many people complaining about this. How it was taking so long and how we got to get on the bus first. What you dont realize is that we had to wait for another bus a few times before, because there is room for only 1 or 2 wheelchairs at a time, so if there is a wheelchair on the bus when it comes we have to wait for the next bus. We cannot just push our way on and stand. And a few times people were getting on the bus and NOT waiting for the wheelchair to be loaded, so by the time the wheelchair was on the bus there was no room for the rest of us. I sent dad with the wheelchair while the rest of us waited for the next bus. So, that meant that dad and child had to wait for us to come when they got to their stop. Then we have to wait until everyone is off the bus before we can get the wheelchair off. So you are on your way into the park even before we are off the bus.
We get to go through the exit and get on the next ride. Well did you ever think how long it took us to get to this ride? We had to dodge people racing to the ride; we had to watch out for all the people who cut right in front of us. It is so tempting to just hit them in the heels. Then when the ride is done, you race to the next ride, while I am getting the child off this ride and putting him back into his wheelchair. You are probably at the next ride before I am finished buckling him back up in his wheelchair.
So the next time you see someone in a wheelchair going to the front of the line, take a deep breathe and be thankful that you can walk and run and are not stuck in a wheelchair.
Thank you for letting me get that out. With that said our trip to Disney was not very magical. It was very stressful. In the past, Disney really took care of us and bent over backwards for you. We did not see that this trip. We had a lot of problems and the employees were not sympathic. Most of the time they said that there was nothing they could do, which is not the Disney we knew.