Depending on your needs, You could get a rollator for $60 -$90 on amazon. Fancier ones will cost more, Probably buying one would be cheaper than renting one. I'm not sure who does rent them, but not disney for sure.
I feel like that would be a fair accomodation to request during the video chat. You're not asking to get anything for free. You're only asking them to accommodate the unpredictability of your disability. If they are serious about customizing DAS to meet guests' needs, then they should be able to do that.
I have seen the rollers at thrift shops often.
Genie+ would be determining the times you could modify to, based on availability left for the day. You wouldn't have control over how far to push it back, as the immediately following slots may be full so the next slot may not be for an hour or more.
A drivers license is not required to rent an ECV as long as you are age 18+. However if you are not familiar with driving and always being alert to those around you it may be smart to practice first or consider other options. ECV and wheelchair rentals are available both on the parks of through a 3rd party vendor.
There’s also a new alternative - WDW is now allowing cane chairs. They still don’t allow camping chairs.
I don't have any issues with what other people think when I'm using a mobility aid. I do have a rollator also, somewhere in the basement, that I used around home after the knee replacement, but right now don't have a need for it on a daily basis. Sometimes in icy weather I'll use a cane, but that's more from a fear of slipping.
We fly on SW and it always flys for free. We gate check it, just in case a wheel chair doesn't show up, DH isn't stranded. We did have one flight where there was no wheelchairs. Had to walk about 10 gates to next flight, it was awful for him.
I worded that loosely — It *will * fly for free — that’s part of the ACA. I will correct it to prevent confusion.
To this point in time, Disney has not asked for, nor has expressed interest in diagnosis or treatment information from physicians. Disney is NOT a HIPAA covered entity. Asking a person about the barrier (or storing the nature of the obstacle ) for which they need an accommodation (eg, no curb cut), is not usually considered medical information (and the person has no legal barrier to telling anyone they choose anything they want to share about their condition).
I’m a younger healthy looking adult who uses an electric wheelchair in places like theme parks and museums. Not once has anyone said anything negative to me. I have started using store ECV’s as needed too instead of powering through and suffering the consequences. If someone were to say something I would just tell them I am chronically ill. The only comment I’ve gotten is someone around my age walking up at lunch to ask a few questions about my chair because he needed a new one.
This is what I used in November and will use again this week. I bought mine from Walmart. The rollators are very stable. The storage in the seat was nice too. While I can't stay hours in the parks, while I am there, it's a wonderful aid. The CMs always have it waiting at the end of a ride.
Absolutely true. Right person, right time, right place.
I saw someone saying they were going to do this earlier this week. Numerous people pointed out why that wasn’t likely to work and they never followed up, so presuming it didn’t happen.
I genuinely can’t imagine tackling WDW as a first-timer these days: my hat is off to all who manage it!Our 93 yo father-in-law used ECV at WDW with us the last trip; and he learned to use that quickly!
Yeah, we never heard of them until DH needed one. So we had one, but then I got tired of dragging the one in and out of the house or up and down stairs. We now have four. One in each car, one for downstairs, one with bigger wheels that lives on porch for backyard and upstairs a standard walker for nighttime travels. And the one that broke, we kept for spare parts.
