DAS questions

[Firsttimer5901]

Good morning guys this will be my 4th trip with my family. This year my parents are going with us for 4 days to the park. My mother will have handicap sticker and a scooter. She will not ride anything due to vertigo. My father wants to ride but does not want to leave my mother waiting while we wait in line. They are both in mid 70s. My had knee replacement less than a year ago and I’m not sure he can stand in line. So my questions are.
1. Can we get a DAS pass for our party for my father so he doesn’t have to stand for to long?(he refuses to get a scooter)
2. This is separate my 14 year old has a sensory issue with people near him and ADD is this an issue that I should look into a DAS pass for. (I have always told him to deal with it and we never waited in line with him much just used fastpass, but I don’t want to take advantage of the system when people really need it.

thanks for answering these two issues for me

 

[lanejudy]

For your father... he can certainly ask about a DAS but be prepared for WDW to recommend a wheelchair or ECV. DAS is generally not granted for mobility or stamina issues, and it sounds like your father's issue could be accommodated by a mobility device. Maybe he'd be willing to use a rollator, which is a walker with a seat. Or it sounds like you have enough people in your party to split up, some wait with mom while others ride and then swap. Rider Swap isn't typically given for someone who chooses not to ride, so you would be waiting the queue twice.

For your son... DAS is not diagnosis based, so you/he would have to explain his needs related to waiting in a standard queue environment. I suggest you think about past visits and what challenges he faced then.

More info about DAS is in the first post of this thread (pinned near the top of this forum). Just read the first post and you can ignore the rest of the long discussion that followed several years ago. The first post is up-to-date.

 

[DisneyOma]

Good morning guys this will be my 4th trip with my family. This year my parents are going with us for 4 days to the park. My mother will have handicap sticker and a scooter. She will not ride anything due to vertigo. My father wants to ride but does not want to leave my mother waiting while we wait in line. They are both in mid 70s. My had knee replacement less than a year ago and I’m not sure he can stand in line. So my questions are.
1. Can we get a DAS pass for our party for my father so he doesn’t have to stand for to long?(he refuses to get a scooter)
2. This is separate my 14 year old has a sensory issue with people near him and ADD is this an issue that I should look into a DAS pass for. (I have always told him to deal with it and we never waited in line with him much just used fastpass, but I don’t want to take advantage of the system when people really need it.

thanks for answering these two issues for me

Does your dad have the ability to walk over 5 miles a day? I ask this because all the DAS does is give you a virtual place in the queue (without a guaranteed place to rest while you are waiting). DAS only works for attractions, not for waiting for the bus or waiting for your turn to get food and a table. Seating is very limited at WDW right now. Ask him if he'd refuse to use glasses if he couldn't see, or any other tool that would help him help you all have a great trip.

For your son, you would have to explain how being in the queue affects him - they are not looking for a diagnosis (sensory issues are not all the same, ADD doesn't necessarily mean you can't wait your turn, etc). Good thing at WDW right now is that there is still social distancing in the queues, so people will not be around him that much, and without FP the queues go faster.

 

[philharmagic fan]

Part or all of many queues are scooter accessible. Ask the cast member out front if your Mom can go through the line with your party and just exit instead of riding.

 

[GinnyBear's_mom]

Have you thought about using rider switch (aka child swap) for your grandmom? Even if you use a DAS you do not skip the line, you wait in a shorter line (not necessarily short) which could leave your grandmother waiting outside attraction alone for a considerable amount of time. I've been in DAS lines that still took 20-40 minutes plus the actual attraction time (ride cleaning, loading/unloading a wheelchair/ride issues can all increase the line time). The rider swap would allow your grandfather to stay with her while members of your group go through the lines and attraction, then you swap and your grandfather and one or two people can use the fastpass line for the attraction while the rest of the party stars with grandmom. If you happen to get a DAS you can use rider swap along with that.