Most of the horror stories were from before the changes, but even then, it was quite variable. It depended on whether you were lucky and called at a slow time or unlucky and called when it was busy.
An hour or so is much more reasonable! Maybe they will give it a go.
Well then I supposed that if I wanted the guarantee and had the proper documentation to get that autism card you mention then I would go to the almost all European parks that would fulfill my expectations instead of getting upset at the places that don't. That's just me thought.
We were at DLP in March on days when the park was “full.” We had their equivalent of anytime LLs. DAS riders were separate. I only ever saw a handful. Likewise the number of wheelchair users was dramatically lower (as an aside I was talking to a visitor from
See this is one of the major differences between US and Europe -- the US has no national "card" for autism or any other disability, no registration of disability or disability identification. Such things don't exist. And we don't have a national healthcare system that would allow all individuals to obtain the same type of documentation, some may not even have a primary care doctor. Those types of items are much easier to obtain in Europe, and easy to require of Europeans for accessing accommodations at the European parks. Americans sometimes have trouble providing the required documentation needed for accommodations at non-US destinations.
Considering very few people have actually used the new accommodations, most of us are only sharing information we've gleaned from 1) WDW and DLR websites, 2) other posters here on the disABILITIES Forum, and 3) some from social media (taken with a grain of salt).
I called last Friday evening, waited about 30 minutes (or maybe a tad more)
The best part about that- those venues are required to allow you to bring food because of a case that happened maybe around 10 years ago... so EVERYWHERE is supposed to allow outside food if you have a disability. But it's like anything else - sometimes it depends on who you deal with when you get there. We've found it even less reliable than airline boarding.
The only time it made me REALLY mad was with our Legoland location at the age my allergy kid was obsessed with legos and wanted to watch all the 3D movies- so we could easily be there a solid 6 hours and feel rushed but they couldn't go that long without food.Definitely! I agree that a lot of advice and conjecture needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Hopefully more who have gone through the process will report back.
You were allowed to bring food in with you. Did they allow you to have it reheated or did you have to keep it hot until you were ready to eat it
Unless there are public use microwaves at a location, that would certainly bring up health code issues for people to present their own items for reheating in a food service establishment.
I mean, I can't think of many destinations outside of theme parks where we've had to apply for disability accommodations at all.
. Haven't needed to for NFL games, musical at equivalent of a Broadway theatre, historical sites...we have to do research to see what the accommodations are, and sometimes (for ex, the musical) it requires communication with the venue ahead of time - but it's not been an application process where we have to get someone to approve of the need for the accommodations outside of theme parks. It's just straight up communication of here's what we always have available and/or discussion of what else might we need and how can the venue work with us to meet that need.
This wasn't actually the process we went through with universal.
Universal just revamped their version less than a year ago. I highly doubt they're going to do it again so quickly.
If a bunch of people hit universal for accommodations to try them out over Disney and it's strong enough to impact their operations as deemed so at Disney.....yeah, they'll revamp in a jiffy.
I'm sure they are monitoring their requests, I just don't know that I quite believe it will be in such numbers (meaning number of people who had never been applying for universal at all now suddenly deciding to because of Disney's changes. I think it's more likely there are people who've applied for both consistently who will just stop going to Disney). The accessibility of attractions at universal (O/H) is significantly different than WDW/DLR, which I would expect to play a part in what any of those numbers would look like also. I don't think it'll be a 1:1 shift.
It will be interesting to see. Wdw has a lot of outside visitors compared to DLR. If the outrage being seen at wdw is replicated locally for dlr goers, universal Hollywood will get a significant bump and that's not a big park at all.
This is correct.
