gydell
DIS Veteran
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My mom really can walk fine....and actually she reports that she can shop for hours and hours if she has a shopping cart to lean on or can at least sit down from time to time to rest (my father...who is often dragged to these stores and malls for hours on end confirms this as truth!). My mother actually was thinking if she had a cane or a collapsing walker she'd be fine but my father suggested she get a wheelchair because it's "safer" just in case the walking turns out to be more than she can handle AND she likes to carry a large purse with her (which my father is forced to carry often
) so we can just put a bag on the back of the chair like people do with their strollers. Honestly I've never seen my mother use a wheelchair and she gets around on her feet just fine.....she doesn't like to do stairs and slows a bit when she has to, but I think the desire to get a chair is really more of a "better safe than sorry" deal. So we were thyinking of renting a "length of stay" wheelchair in the parks. I read that you can go to guest services or the wheelchair and stroller rental place the first day and pre-pay a slightly reduced rate ($8/day instead of $10) for the whole time you're going to be in the parks then each day you show up at any of the 4 main parks with your receipt and you get a chair. We thought this would work best for us because it alleviates the need to be putting a wheelchair in and out of a rental car or taking it on the Disney buses and boats....and since our primary concern is the days in teh parks. Around the resort and even in downtown disney I think she'll be fine.
I definitely appreciate the feedback, though.....do others who have had to use wheelchairs in teh parks have a sense of what approach might be best? (we are NOT staying in concierge at AKL (although i wish we were but that was just TOO exhorbitant a use of our points!) but I do know that I read that AKL has wheelchairs you can rent for the length of your stay and you leave a large deposit on your room charge that is refunded when you return the chair.....so we could possibly do that but then we'd be responsible for getting the chair to and from parks and aonto and off of trasnportation and all that good stuff.)
Erik
My Dad sounds like your Mother and we got him a motorized wheelchair. It was the best thing that we did! He was able to last longer in the parks and none of us were tired from pushing.
Mine is still in April, barely 
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That really does suck...
I think since Friday we have gotten 14-18 inches at my house. 
and 
Again today they have cancelled the baseball games. It was supposed to be a double header to make up one of the last 2 games. Not sure how they are going to make up 3 games!
). Does anyone know what my best way of doing this would be? Shoudl I call WDW directly? (And what is the number again)? Contact our TA at mousearsvacations.com and have her do it? Call DVC? (do they even do that?) Also does anyone know what hte LATEST Fantasmic meal package seating usually is? My parents arrive in Orlando on Monday, the 7th at 2:30pm and they want to go visit Lake Eola (where they had their first date) and do a drive by of the house my grandmother lived in where they were married (in the back yard)....then we'll head to the parks. Most of the day will be eaten up with their travel and with that offsite siteseeing down memory lane......but we thought we could at least eat dinner and get one of the fireworks shows out of the way that night. So i was thinking if they have a late enough seating we could do the Fantasmic package at Mama Melrose's in MGM (a jason and Erik staple of EVERY WDW trip). If not then we'll probably just head over to Epcot and eat somewhere there and catch illuminations.
