ECV access to boarding areas

[PetePanMan]

Hi There,

My wife will be using an ECV for an upcoming trip as she is still rehabilitating from a foot operation. She is able to walk short distances but we are worried about attractions that have long paths to enter boarding areas (e.g. pirates, FoP, space mountain, Soarin, Big Thunder etc.). Will she be able to take ECV right up to boarding area or will she have to walk in from entrance? If ECV’s are not allowed to enter paths, are there wheelchairs available that could be used to go from entrance to boarding area?

Thank you for any info

 

[SueM in MN]

There are some attractions where the queue or the boarding area is not ECV accessible. All attractions are wheelchair accessible to the point of boarding. Those where the queues are not accessible will have a sign at the entrance and an CM there will let you know it’s not ECV accessible. Those will have attraction wheelchairs that can be borrowed for use in the queue; just ask the CM.
This is a link to the WDW website page about mobility. It includes links to lists of attractions by how they are accessible. For the specific ones you mentioned:

Flight of Passage: the queue is ECV accessible until just before the first preshow room. At that point, a CM takes the ECVs and will bring them to the exit of the ride chamber. The preshow rooms and ride chamber are wheelchair accessible. She would need to tell the CM she needs to borrow a wheelchair unless she can stand and walk for about 10 minutes.

Space Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain RR: not ECV accessible; she would need to transfer to a wheelchair at the entrance. BTMRR gives out wheelchair return times - basically a time to come back to an alternate entrance. The time will be roughly equal to the current wait time in the Standby Wait Line

Soarin: ECV accessible to the point of boarding. She can drive it up to the seat and a CM will take it and park it, or she can park it where directed by a CM a short way from her seat and walk to her seat

 

[PetePanMan]

Super helpful, thank you

 

[Mle8308]

Super helpful, thank you

Same for Pirates, she would transfer to a provided WC at the entrance of the queue. No ECV’s in the line.

 

[SueM in MN]

Same for Pirates, she would transfer to a provided WC at the entrance of the queue. No ECV’s in the line.

thanks - forgot Pirates.

 

[R&RsMom]

Last month at Big Thunder, I drove my ECV to an alternate entrance, parked it. I can walk (just not the 10 miles a day at Disney), so I walked a short distance to the loading Area.

 

[SteveMouse]

Remember that the People Mover has no access for wheelchairs or ecvs. If she can stand and go up the electric rsnp, there‘s not much walking.

 

[ttintagel]

I don't know what current staffing levels are like, but traaditionally there's a CM stationed outside each attrction who can tell you what the procedure is.

 

[Debbie Jean]

Remember that the People Mover has no access for wheelchairs or ecvs. If she can stand and go up the electric rsnp, there‘s not much walking.

Although the ramp is electric, it is very steep and not infrequently, broken. For someone with mobility issues… I have bilateral knee replacements… it can be a difficult climb.