Need help,planning!

[tinala1111]

Hello,

I a, going to try to compile a list of the rides that i know ahead of time I cannot do with hubby and the kids. We are doing all four parks over 8 days next month. My knees are shot and I am a 6 foot 2 woman so any ride that will smash my knees I need to avoid. Years ago when we went I just suffered through it if I didn’t fit right but I cannot remember which rides besides Thunder Mountain Railroad. Can y’all help me?

 

[Selket]

There's a post with Leg (knee) flexion in the title a few threads below yours so you may want to take a look at that as people have mentioned rides where it is hard on the knees. For me - I'm also 5'9" and terrible knees - I have trouble with Splash especially. I can do Small World but prefer to sit in the disability access boat where they have some single seats in the front. I have no trouble with other boats - in that I can manage it. It helps if the row is me and one other person so I can turn sideways a bit. Perhaps you can ask for that? Many have trouble with Mine Train but I don't - no idea why. I think that's why you have to perhaps try some of these and perhaps tell the CM that you're going to try to sit and if you cannot you want to get out. Clearly you don't want to do that if you have a young child with you. It's just tough to say "don't do this" because perhaps for you it will be ok. I don't have trouble with Thunder Mountain for example. I've found that if the seat is low and my knees are bent at a certain angle I can't take it - but if the seat is high enough I'm ok - that's my guess.

Astro Orbiter is also very hard to get in and out of as is Space Mountain but I'm ok if I can manage that part.

 

[Evita_W]

Hello,

I a, going to try to compile a list of the rides that i know ahead of time I cannot do with hubby and the kids. We are doing all four parks over 8 days next month. My knees are shot and I am a 6 foot 2 woman so any ride that will smash my knees I need to avoid. Years ago when we went I just suffered through it if I didn’t fit right but I cannot remember which rides besides Thunder Mountain Railroad. Can y’all help me?

From DH:

For Thunder Mountain, the front row of each of the individual cars (basically rows 1, 4, 6, etc. has the most leg room, at 6'2" and with bad knees, those are the only rows I can do if my knees are hurting that day.

I can do small world, but not the disability boat, the seats are lower on it. Alternatively you could ask for a wheelchair to transfer to and use the wheelchair boat.

Splash is ok in the back row.

Spaceship earth, the back row of each car has more leg room.

On most attractions one row will have more leg room than the others, just ask the CMs which row has the most leg room.

Also, something that I have noticed when DH is getting in and out, some of the rides with plexiglass have caused some issues, especially Frozen is hard for both of us actually as they don't want you touching the plexiglass between rows. Jungle Cruise is harder, so you may need to tell them stepping down is harder so they can accommodate that.

 

[bluecruiser]

Jungle Cruise's steps are murder for anyone with bad knees. The steps are (my guess) twice as steep as regular steps. I've heard that many years ago they had a stool that could be placed on the steps to make it easier, but they no longer do that for safety purposes. There is an ECV/wheelchair accessible boat that avoids the steps.