Post your attraction pictures here

[SueM in MN]

It occured to me that the best way to collect attraction photos might be to make a thread to post them to.
I am going to make a thread about different attractions and boarding them. If you have any you are willing to share, please share them here. Make sure to label what it is and if you want to add your comments of how easy it was to transfer into, add that too. I'll compile all the information and make an attraction thread for each park.

 

[Lillypug]

Here are pics of the wheelchair accessible Jungle Cruise boat. Noah's chair was quite small at the time. I don't have the measurements I can measure later. The platform was very large and would definitely fit and adult sized wheelchair, but I am not sure about a large ecv. Maybe someone that has used an ecv on the Jungle Cruise could comment.

 

[slkant]

This is a great idea. As part of the comments given for each attraction, I was thinking that it might be helpful to, when possible, have people give the dimensions of their wheelchairs. This could help people determine whether theirs might fit on the rides where wheelchairs are permitted but ECVs are not.

 

[BillSears]

First of all....Since when did POTC become easy to get on and off of? Why wasn't I told this sometime during the past 30 years? POTC has always been a great ride for me but I've always hated riding it because of how hard it is to get back into my wheelchair, I usually end up dragging myself onto the floor and somehow getting back into the chair since the entrance/exit lane is too narrow for the wheelchair to fit. It seems that almost always I've been down the right hand path and I've always been directed to the first row of the boat. But that is all WRONG!!! This time the CM sent me down the left path and I boarded in the 6th row of the second boat. Here is a shot of that spot:

The lane is easily wide enough to bring my wheelchair right up to the boat. Plus the side of the boat is higher in the back and I can transfer right from the wheelchair to the side of the boat then down into the boat and transfer right back out at the end. IT'S FANTASTIC!!!!! Now why didn't any CM ever mention this in the past 30 years?

I rode POTC twice this week. On the first ride I took my own chair right in and they didn't have a problem with it. However they did something totally new on this ride(besides finally sending me to the right side/boat/row). Instead of folding my chair and having it travel with me they took my chair and had a CM move it to the exit. On the second trip the CM really wanted me to transfer to a WDW wheelchair but I was able to explain the problems I'd have with one and he agreed to let me use my own chair. He did explain to me that POTC was abit short handed that day and that they had already had 2 people show up at the exit before they could get a CM to take the wheelchair from the exit to the entrance. So that explains the mystery of why sometimes they will let you take your own wheelchair up to the POTC boat and why sometimes they want you to use a WDW wheelchair.

Big Thunder Mountain has a new ride car. Or at least new to me. This new ride car has a side door that doesn't swing away instead it folds down to provide a nice transfer seat. This rollercoaster is now the second easiest roller coaster transfer I've found at WDW. Here is a shot of the door folded down:

And now for the easiest roller coaster transfer at WDW... Expedition Everest is the winner!!!! I found EE to be really easy to transfer into. The seat level of the ride is just about the same height as the seat on my wheelchair. The door swings open wide and it's a very easy seat to seat transfer. Here is a picture of the test ride vehicle. It's the same height as the real ride and if you have any doubts try it out.

 

[mbb]

Great idea, Sue

We'll get as many pics as we can at Christmas

The worst ride access we found, was ElRioDelTiempo (spelled right??) There's the long narrow hallway, fairly steep access, and difficult to manoeuver with a manual chair. People are walking up the hallway - it's the exit for the ride, and coming around the corners fairly quick.

Once you're at the ride itself, transfer is okay, though.

Same problem coming back up...narrow, steep, and people bottlenecking behind you.

The easiest was Buzz. The conveyor comes to a complete halt, for getting off and on.

We'll get pics!

 

[MommytoMJM]

I'll make sure to take some pics too.

 

[Annam26]

First of all....Since when did POTC become easy to get on and off of? Why wasn't I told this sometime during the past 30 years? POTC has always been a great ride for me but I've always hated riding it because of how hard it is to get back into my wheelchair, I usually end up dragging myself onto the floor and somehow getting back into the chair since the entrance/exit lane is too narrow for the wheelchair to fit. It seems that almost always I've been down the right hand path and I've always been directed to the first row of the boat. But that is all WRONG!!! This time the CM sent me down the left path and I boarded in the 6th row of the second boat. Here is a shot of that spot:

The lane is easily wide enough to bring my wheelchair right up to the boat. Plus the side of the boat is higher in the back and I can transfer right from the wheelchair to the side of the boat then down into the boat and transfer right back out at the end. IT'S FANTASTIC!!!!! Now why didn't any CM ever mention this in the past 30 years?

Yes, why don't all CMs know about this? This year getting into POTC was so difficult for me that I only rode it once, even though I loved the ride.

I thought the ride had been refurbished and they had made the transfer harder, because last year (my first time at WDW) getting into the ride was much, much easier; but after reading your post I realise that last year I was directed to the correct entrance for wheelchairs. Why can't we always be automatically directed to this entrance? It seems to have been there a long time -I know for a fact that at least it was there in June of last year- why make boarding so difficult when it can be so much easier?

And now for the easiest roller coaster transfer at WDW... Expedition Everest is the winner!!!! I found EE to be really easy to transfer into. The seat level of the ride is just about the same height as the seat on my wheelchair. The door swings open wide and it's a very easy seat to seat transfer. Here is a picture of the test ride vehicle. It's the same height as the real ride and if you have any doubts try it out.

ICAM, Bill! I LOVED, LOVED EE, and the transfer is a big reason why! I wonder if adding a door like this to Spaceship Earth would be so difficult/expensive that it would be impossible? I know that the seats are higher than on EE, but having a door would be a Godsend, it would alliviate figuring a way to get in/out of sich a narrow entrance!

Great pictures, Bill. Thanks for sharing!

 

[BillSears]

Yes, why don't all CMs know about this? This year getting into POTC was so difficult for me that I only rode it once, even though I loved the ride.

I thought the ride had been refurbished and they had made the transfer harder, because last year (my first time at WDW) getting into the ride was much, much easier; but after reading your post I realise that last year I was directed to the correct entrance for wheelchairs. Why can't we always be automatically directed to this entrance? It seems to have been there a long time -I know for a fact that at least it was there in June of last year- why make boarding so difficult when it can be so much easier?



ICAM, Bill! I LOVED, LOVED EE, and the transfer is a big reason why! I wonder if adding a door like this to Spaceship Earth would be so difficult/expensive that it would be impossible? I know that the seats are higher than on EE, but having a door would be a Godsend, it would alliviate figuring a way to get in/out of sich a narrow entrance!

Great pictures, Bill. Thanks for sharing!

Yea that whole POTC thing threw me for a loop. 10 trips over a 30 year period and I don't remember ever being directed to the right loading spot.

If only that opening for Spaceship Earth was about 6 inches wider. It would be so much easier. I did find that getting into the back seat of the car was easier then the front. I could grab hold of the front seats headrest to give myself a few more inches of verticle lift as I lifted myself into the back seat. I allowed me to be abit straighter up and down and barely squeeeze into the back seat.

 

[Annam26]

If only that opening for Spaceship Earth was about 6 inches wider. It would be so much easier. I did find that getting into the back seat of the car was easier then the front. I could grab hold of the front seats headrest to give myself a few more inches of verticle lift as I lifted myself into the back seat. I allowed me to be abit straighter up and down and barely squeeeze into the back seat.

Do you think that if TPTB at WDW received a letter suggesting that they add a door to a cart they would take it into account, or it would be too much of a hassle for them?

I remember one of your posts where you wrote about TOT, how they made changes and the CM told you they had done it to make the ride more accessible to wheelchair users. Perhaps they'd do it for SE?