So even though I’m on the ‘.co.uk’ website I’ve got to hide my IP just to access a page? That seems a little extreme! Disney could easily get around that issue but obviously it’s better to put the onus on the user to rectify their problems!
Yes, from outside the US you need a vpn.
One reason for this can be staffing. Wait times are long already, imagine if the entire European continent would be added to this. The new service might still be in a pilot phase for the first year and it will get rolled out to .co.uk later.
Other reason I can think of: they might also do this because of language. I am in the Netherlands and somewhere after 2015 all European traffic is transferred from the .com website to .co.uk. Which results in a lot of people on co.uk who probably do not speak English as their first language.
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DAS request service for the US parks is only available in English.
Even if they had a sign on the website that the service is only available in English, the current set up weeds out any conversations with language issues. As you are not necessarily making day to day conversations about medical issues. It can get more complicated than being able to ask in a second language where the train station is.
Third reason, connected to language.
Disneyland Paris offers a different kind of DAS service available in half a dozen languages and for the most popular country a list of which government issued documents are eligible to get DAS. Most people from mainland Europe will go to Disneyland Paris first before going to WDW. With the services being so different in how you request them, it might cause confusion?
But in the end, it is what it is and your guess is as good as mine.
I used NordVpn which worked well, however the customer service afterwards about my cancellation was not very good.
